Horizon Lines The C-9 class ship Horizon Spirit is a 268-meter
steam powered container ship that will make the Los Angeles to
Hawaii run as part of the Horizon Lines fleet for ARM's MAGIC
campaign. It is an American made ship built in the late 1980s.
Image: Flickr/ARM Climate Research Facility Some new cargo is
officially sailing today between Los Angeles and Honolulu, part
of an atmospheric research expedition to understand how clouds
influence weather patterns around the world. The 892-foot
Spirit, a container ship owned by Horizon Lines, is now home to
a Department of Energy mobile laboratory designed to study the
atmosphere. It is the second time the department is conducting
such an experiment in the hopes of getting better data on clouds
to improve global climate models. "This is going to be the
longest study of its type that's ever been done," said Ernie
Lewis, the principal investigator and an atmospheric scientist
in the environmental sciences department at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. The project,