- 339: TRH, Site 1, Mon 28-Aug-2006 08:31:35 MST, Fan at station 1
When I removed the TRH from site 1 I noticed that the fan blade was not attached
to the motor. This was detected when the TRH position was changed from
horizontal to vertical.
- 338: soil, Site all, Mon 28-Aug-2006 08:25:53 MST, TP01 probes
The TP01 probes, at site 2, 5, and 10, had a fold in the thin film transducer.
I assume during installation that the top of the film caught an edge and
started the fold. This is something nobody would have noticed.
- 337: daily status, Site all, Mon 28-Aug-2006 08:22:17 MST, Station removal
Yesterday was the start of teardown. I went to stations 1,2,5,6,7,8,9, and 10
to remove the TRH, RNET, and soil sensors. The ADAMS were shutdown and the
USBdisks removed. The batteries are now charging via the solar panels. Today
I hope to go back to those sites to continue the removal of sensors and
electronics.
- 336: daily status, Site all, Sat 26-Aug-2006 08:33:21 MST, Daily Status, 26 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 26, 8;45 am
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating abnormally, GOES down, local storage working
Station 04, E: Operating normally,
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally, intermittent noise on logger
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
station visits:
Site 3: Yesterday's visit to 3 was a partial success. We were able to fix the
rain gage and a problem in the logger interface but bad weather stopped us
from diagnosing the GOES problem and lowering the mast to change the prop
bearings. More details in logbook.
- 335: soil, Site 5, Fri 25-Aug-2006 16:10:54 MST, Soil sample at site 5, aug 24
TRIME measurements: 14:05
11.0%
11.3%
11.3%
Soil sample: core sample was sealed and brought back to base, no tupperware
0-3 cm net wet weight in Al foil tray = 110.3 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 103.8 g
3-6 cm net wet weight in A2 foil tray = 126.7 g
net dry weight in A2 foil tray = 118.7 g
6-8 cm net wet weight in A3 foil tray = 82.6 g
net dry weight in A3 foil tray = 77.8 g
- 334: LOG, Site 3, Fri 25-Aug-2006 15:39:05 MST, Station 3, Aug 25
AJ and I went to station 3 to get it back on the air. The station was running
and data was being recorded on the USB. The logger communicaiton was down,here was also a bad cable from the rain gage.
We were able to get all of the problems fixed except for GOES. The weather
turned bad so we had to get out of there. On the ride back we had to wait at
a wash due to flooding.
We were at the site from ~11:00 to 12:30. Any rain tips in this period
should be ignored.
details:
rain - the rain gage cable was cut. This may have been due to the cable
running across some sharp rocks on the ground and somebody may have stepped on
the cable.
logger - the logger output was working fine. The problem was in port 5. It was
a mystery. I tried reversing the TRH and Logger ports. Both sensors worked fine.
When the logger was reconnected to port 5 there was no data transfer. The
problem is either the esrial interface panel or port 5 on the Emerald. In the
end we changed the config file and moved the logger to port 8.
GOES - due to the weather we did not have any time to determine the problem
with GOES. The response from the GOES command gave one the impression it was
communicating but none of the parameters looked correct.
- 333: daily status, Site all, Fri 25-Aug-2006 08:32:49 MST, Daily Status, 25 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 25, 7:30 am
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating abnormally, rain gauge is faulty but that is now
superceeded by a complete GOES outtage, maybe more?
Station 04, E: Operating normally,
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
station visits:
Site 5: We were able to take soil samples and exchange the datadrive to check
for intermittant logger data, which we still believe to be a GOES problem. The
threat of becoming mutants, I mean, being struck by lightning limited our
activities.
- 332: rain, Site 3, Thu 24-Aug-2006 16:03:58 MST, rain at station 3
Based on the rain plot, it appears that the rain gage at station 3 is not
working. There were rain events at 1,2,and 4 and the krypton died
(water on the lens) at 3.
- 331: radiation, Site 5, Thu 24-Aug-2006 15:53:53 MST, XBee test at 5
During the site visit to 5 a test of the XBee radios with the new firmware
was conducted. They were on the air for about 30 minutes. A separate data
file was created for the test. There were no missing characters in the
data stream during the test period. We may install the Xbee on Saturday
to do a 24 hour test.
.
- 329: LOG, Site 5, Thu 24-Aug-2006 15:47:44 MST, Station visit, Site 5, August 24
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived ~11:40 and left at 12:30
Activities:
- were limited because of lightning
- Took TRIME measurements and gravimetric samples
- 328: soil, Site 2, Thu 24-Aug-2006 15:44:30 MST, Soil sample at site 2
TRIME measurements: 14:05
12.6%, TDR=44
12.6%, TDR=44
12.7%, TDR=45
Soil sample: core sample was sealed and brought back to base, no tupperware
used.***Rocks in depth 3-6 cm***
0-3 cm net wet weight in Al foil tray = 107.6 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 102.4 g
3-6 cm net wet weight in A2 foil tray = 104.0 g
net dry weight in A2 foil tray = 92.9 g
6-8 cm net wet weight in A3 foil tray = 35.1 g
net dry weight in A3 foil tray = 30.2 g
- 327: daily status, Site all, Thu 24-Aug-2006 09:13:06 MST, Daily Status, 23 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 24, 9:00 am
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working. Intermittant noise seems to have corrected
itself for the most part.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally, at low speeds the 10m propvane has lower wind speeds than the 7m sonic anemometer indicating a bearing problem.
Station 04, E: Operating normally,
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
station visits:
Site 5: Were able to exchange data drive and replace desiccant in Rnet, but
there was threat of lightining. We didn't feel like getting killed or becoming
mutants. Although, we would have preferred to become mutants.
- 326: LOG, Site 5, Wed 23-Aug-2006 15:13:20 MST, station visit, site 5, August 23
A.J.I. and Steve S. at around 13:00, but were unable to do much because of
lightning.
Actvities:
- Replaced desiccant in the Rnet
- Swapped usb to look for lost data on Ausgust 12th, 2006.
- 325: rain, Site 2, Wed 23-Aug-2006 09:39:15 MST, False rain tips
False rain tips from 13:55-13:59 because gauge got clogged.
- 324: soil, Site 2, Wed 23-Aug-2006 09:37:36 MST, TRIME and gravimetric samples taken
TRIME measurements taken at 13:50:
1. 12.6%, 44
2. 12.6%, 44
3. 12.7%, 45
Gravimetric samples taken ~13:35
- 323: radiation, Site 2, Wed 23-Aug-2006 09:36:54 MST, Cleaned radiometers
Cleaned radiometers at 13:50 MST.
- 322: krypton, Site 2, Wed 23-Aug-2006 09:33:59 MST, Cleaned Kh20
Cleaned kh20 at 13:15, mast lowered from 13:09-13:28, voltage went from .14 to
.22.
- 321: LOG, Site 2, Wed 23-Aug-2006 09:28:21 MST, Station visit, Site 2, August 22
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 13:09 and left 14:05
Activities:
- Mast was lowered from 13:09-13:28
- Cleaned kh20 at ~13:15, voltage went from .14 to .22
- cleaned radiometers at 13:50
- TRIME measurements taken
- All false tips from ~13:55-13:59
- 319: daily status, Site all, Wed 23-Aug-2006 08:23:01 MST, Daily Status, 23 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 23, 8:00 am
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally, at low speeds the 10m propvane has lower wind speeds than the 7m sonic anemometer indicating a bearing problem.
Station 04, E: Operating normally,
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally, intermittent noise on logger
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
station visits:
Site 3: Routine maintainence.
- 318: TRH, Site 4, Tue 22-Aug-2006 09:48:51 MST, Station visit, Site 4, August 21
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 14:11 and left at 14:21
Activities:
- Replaced TRH
- Rnet looked clean
- 317: TRH, Site 4, Tue 22-Aug-2006 09:47:49 MST, TRH replaced
Replaced TRH at 14:25.
- 316: daily status, Site all, Tue 22-Aug-2006 09:45:01 MST, Daily Status, 22 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 22, 9:30 am
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally,
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally, intermittent noise on logger
Station 07, SW: Operating normally, intermittent noise on logger
Station 08, W: Operating normally, intermittent noise on logger
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
station visits:
Site 4: Replaced TRH where A/D converter inflated values higher than the US
debt.
- 315: daily status, Site all, Mon 21-Aug-2006 10:25:23 MST, Daily Status, 21 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 21, 10:00 am
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally, TRH analog/digital converter causing
unrealistic values
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally, intermittent noise on logger
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
station visits:
There were no visits yesterday
Station visits on Saturday, August 19:
Site 10: Went to inspect difference in readings between Tsfc and Tsfc.pyrg, it appears as though the Tsfc is hitting a spot of bare sand causing an inflation of readings while the rest of the area is pretty well vegetated. Steve S. downloaded the datalogger program to modify it for future expeditions. This site is also inhabited by massive amounts of nats that prefer dwelling in your right ear.
Site 1: Routine maintainence, replaced desiccant in the Rnet, changed battery for electric fence.
Site 9: Routine maintainence.
Site 8: Routine maintainence.
- 314: radiation, Site 10, Sun 20-Aug-2006 14:55:58 MST, site visit to 10, cabling for pyg
I went to site 10 to beep out the cabling for the Eppley PYG to the CR10X.
We need to make more cables for METCRAX. I had to disconnect the pyg
instruments for a short period. This event took place around 11:00 to
11:30 local time.
- 313: daily status, Site , Sun 20-Aug-2006 08:05:18 MST, Daily Status, 20 Aug
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 20, 9:00
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally, intermittent logger
Station 07, SW: Operating normally, intermittent logger
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visit:
No site visits planned today. AJ has day off
- 311: rain, Site 8, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:50:20 MST, Rain gauge test tip
1 test tip at 15:44.
- 310: LOG, Site 8, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:48:52 MST, Station visit, site 8, August 19
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 15:40 and left at 15:55
Activities:
- Rnet was clean
- 1 test tip at 15:44
- 309: rain, Site 9, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:48:15 MST, Rain gauge test tip
1 test tip at 14:53.
- 308: radiation, Site 9, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:47:36 MST, Rnet cleaned
Rnet cleaned at 14:51, appeared clean
- 307: LOG, Site 9, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:45:22 MST, station visit, site 9, August 19
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 14:50 and left at 15:10
Activities:
- Cleaned Rnet at 14:51, appeared clean
- 1 test tip at 14:53
- 306: LOG, Site 10, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:40:20 MST, Station visit, site 10, August 19
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived 20:15 and left at ~20:45
Activities:
- went to investigate hightened Tsfc compared Tsfc.pyrg, determined that the
sensor was facing a huge dead spot of sand while the rest of area is pretty
well vegetated. So its seems ok.
- Downloaded program from datalogger which shut operations of logger from 13:21-
13:40
- Re-routed electric fence wire just to the top wire, it appears as though the
bottom wire was shorted due to vegetation growth.
- 305: rain, Site 1, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:39:46 MST, Rain gauge test tip
1 test tip at 11:36.
- 304: radiation, Site 1, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:38:51 MST, Rnet desiccant changed
Changed Rnet desiccant at 11:35 MST.
- 303: LOG, Site 1, Sat 19-Aug-2006 16:35:17 MST, Station visit, Site 1, August 19
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 11:32 and left at ~12:00
Activities:
- Changed battery for electric fence
- Replaced desiccant on the Rnet, appeared clean
- 1 test tip at 11:36
- 302: daily status, Site , Sat 19-Aug-2006 09:35:49 MST, Daily Status, 19 Aug
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 19, 9:30
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally; Tsfc seems to be elevated relative to
Tsfc.pyrg
Station visit:
Site 1: routine visit, replace rnet desiccant
site 10: routine visit, check Tsurface
site 9: routine visit
site 8: routine visit
- 301: soil, Site 3, Fri 18-Aug-2006 17:11:39 MST, Soil sample at site 3
TRIME measurements: 14:05
15.5%, TDR=33
15.2%, TDR=32
15.3%, TDR=32
Soil sample: core sample was sealed and brought back to base, no tupperware
used.****Don't use any for bulk density***
0-3 cm net wet weight in Al foil tray = 57.1 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 47.3 g
3-6 cm net wet weight in A2 foil tray = 77.3 g
net dry weight in A2 foil tray = 62.3 g
6-8 cm net wet weight in A3 foil tray = 66.0 g
net dry weight in A3 foil tray = 53.8 g
- 300: radiation, Site 3, Fri 18-Aug-2006 17:10:52 MST, Radiometers cleaned
Radiometers cleaned at 2:01, seemed cleaned.
- 299: rain, Site 3, Fri 18-Aug-2006 17:09:41 MST, Test tip rain gauge
1 test tip at 1:56.
- 298: krypton, Site 3, Fri 18-Aug-2006 17:04:55 MST, Kh20 cleaned
Cleaned krypton at 1:45.
- 297: LOG, Site 3, Fri 18-Aug-2006 16:42:36 MST, Station visit, Site 3, August 18
A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 1:28 and left at 2:15
Activities:
- Mast down from 1:40-1:53
- Krypton cleaned at 1:45, voltage was at .4
- 1 test tip at 1:56
- Radiometers cleaned at 2:01
- TRIME and gravimetric samples
- 296: daily status, Site , Fri 18-Aug-2006 09:56:16 MST, Daily Status, 18 Aug
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 18, 10:00
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
No station visits
note: intermittent logger informmation seems to have lessened itself.
- 295: radiation, Site 6, Thu 17-Aug-2006 11:56:09 MST, Rnet desiccant
The Rnet desiccant tube was replaced at 00:20 GMT.
- 294: daily status, Site , Thu 17-Aug-2006 11:53:35 MST, Daily Status, 17 Aug
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 17, 12:00
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515), Steve Semmer will arrive this afternoon
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally; logger data intermittent
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally; logger data intermittent
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits;
Site 5: Went to check intermittent data; information on datasystem seems ok, so maybe it is GOES transmission problem?
Site 6: Replaced desiccant tube in the Rnet.
- 293: LOG, Site 10, Wed 16-Aug-2006 09:16:49 MST, Site tour, stn 10 yesterday
Gave a tour of site 10 to Constance Brown (Indiana Univ.), Karyn Sawyer, and
Jose Meitin yseterday. Grabbed the USB data as long as I was there, but no
other service. Everything seemed okay. On site about 11:00-11:40.
- 292: daily status, Site , Wed 16-Aug-2006 07:37:19 MST, Daily Status, 16 Aug
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 16, 07:30
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally; logger data intermittent
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally; logger data intermittent
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits;
Site 10 - Tour for Constance Brown (Indiana Univ.), Karyn Sawyer, Jose Meitin,
Download data
Site 5 - Tried to get to -- Reddington Road closed at end of pavement in town
Site 8 - Tried to get to -- Paved road closed at ford just beyond ranger
station with 18" thick, rapidly flowing mud.
- 291: daily status, Site , Tue 15-Aug-2006 08:14:30 MST, Daily status, 15 August
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 15, 07:50
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working. Rain at all stations last night.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally; Rsw.out negative spike (rain related?)
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally; Krypton voltage low
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits;
Site 6 - Standard service; removed domes to clean condensation inside the dome.
Site 7 - Standard service; got solar panel back online after realizing that
ground cable was "charred."
- 290: rain, Site 7, Mon 14-Aug-2006 14:28:09 MST, Test tip rain guage
There was one test tip performed on the rain guage at 12:53.
- 289: radiation, Site 7, Mon 14-Aug-2006 14:27:34 MST, Rnet cleaned
Rnet was cleaned at 12:50 MST.
- 288: LOG, Site 7, Mon 14-Aug-2006 14:23:57 MST, Station visit, Site 7, August 14
A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 12:29 MST and left at 12:57 MST
Actvities:
- The cable connector going from the solar panel to the charge controller was
charred on the ground side. Steve simply cleaned the connection and that
established continiuity.
- The power was off from 12:29-12:45
- Cleaned Rnet at 12:50 MST
- One test tip was performed on the rain guage at 12:53
- 287: power, Site , Mon 14-Aug-2006 11:32:07 MST, Vbatt spikes
We've known for a while that the small downward spikes on Vbatt are associated
with TP01 sampling. They happen every 3 hours only at the flux sites. They
are in the raw_data files. I think this is simply the real drop caused by
consuming power when heating the soil. I think we put about 1V into a 15ohm
resistor of the probe, which would be 1/15 A. I think the 10V regulator would
see this current, so the power would be 10/15W. At the power voltage of 13V,
this would be 0.05A. If the cable resistence was 0.2 ohm, the resultant
additional voltage drop would be 0.01 V. We see about 0.04 V usually, so
maybe the cable resistence is higher (0.8 ohm?).
I also note that the voltage drop at site 10 is larger. This site uses a
grey PVC cable which might have higher resistence than our normal green
cables (and also may be longer?).
Thus, I'm reasonably satisfied that this is a real drop in power and is not
a concern.
- 286: radiation, Site , Mon 14-Aug-2006 11:28:53 MST, Rlw glitches
Just out of curiosity, we've wondered about the glitches that have sometimes
happened in Rlw (only observed at night). These were at:
Rlw.in, Rlw.out, 7/19, 21:00
Rlw.in: 7/28, 1:00
Rlw.in,Rlw.out: 8/4, 1:00
Rlw.out: 8/10, 16:00
Rlw.in: 8/13, 1:00
Sometimes glitches also occur on T/RH, sonic sample flags, and of course these
sometimes are associated with Tdome spikes.
We find no evidence of these spikes in the local data store raw_data files,
so we think that these can all be ignored.
- 285: daily status, Site , Mon 14-Aug-2006 10:14:15 MST, Daily Status, 14 Aug 2006
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 14, 07:30
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (none, we took the day off)
- 284: rain, Site 6, Mon 14-Aug-2006 10:13:04 MST, Test tip Rain gauge
One test tip was done to the rain gauge at 8:52 MST.
- 283: radiation, Site 6, Mon 14-Aug-2006 10:11:23 MST, Cleaned Rnet
The Rnet dome was cleaned at 8:48, it was then removed from 9:00-9:11 to remove
condensation buildup. The screw were put in through the bottom, put them throughthe top.
- 282: LOG, Site 6, Mon 14-Aug-2006 10:07:37 MST, Station visit, Site 6, August 14
A.J.I and Steve O. arrived at the site at 8:47 MST and left at 9:14
Activities:
- Cleaned Rnet at 8:48 MST
- 1 test tip done at 8:52 MST
- Removed Rnet dome to remove condensation buildup, screw were in through the
bottom, put them through the top. This was done during 9:00-9:11
- 281: daily status, Site , Sun 13-Aug-2006 08:25:21 MST, Daily status, 13 August 2006
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 13, 08:20
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (yesterday):
- Site 10: Standard maintenance.
- Site 1: Replace rain gauge, Standard maintenance
- Site 4: Standard maintenance.
- Site 5: (as long as we were driving by!) Standard maintenance.
- 280: soil, Site 5, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:36:36 MST, Soil sample at site 5
1525 MST, 8/12
Trime: 11.3, 11.3, 11.2
Took soil sample, tub#1 0-3 cm, tub#1 3-6 cm,
and rubbermaid tub labeled "stn1" was used for 6-8cm.
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 141.0 g - 46.2 g = 94.8 g <- use to process
net weight in Al foil tray = 94.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 91.9 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 151.3 g - 46.5 g = 104.8 g <-
net weight in Al foil tray = 104.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 98.4 g
*** spilled a bit of this sample in the field -- don't use for bulk density ***
6-8 cm net weight in tupperware = 124.1 g - 43.1 g = 81.0 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 81.0 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 75.6 g
- 279: soil, Site 10, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:33:15 MST, Soil sample at site 10
0920 MST, 8/12
Trime: 6.7 (stomped a little), 7.8,7.7,7.6% (stomped more)
Took soil sample, tub#2 0-3 cm, tub#2 3-6 cm,
and rubbermaid tub labeled "stn2" was used for 6-8cm.
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 134.7 g - 46.2 g = 88.5 g <- use to process
net weight in Al foil tray = 88.4 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 80.1 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 139.3 g - 45.9 g = 93.4 g <-
net weight in Al foil tray = 93.3 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 88.1 g
6-8 cm net weight in tupperware = 103.3 g - 43.3 g = 60.0 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 60.0 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 56.7 g
- 278: soil, Site 5, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:25:50 MST, TRIME and Gravimetric measurements
TRIME measurements done at 3:20 with following readings:
1st: 11.3%, TDR=53
2nd: 11.3%, TDR=49 (ten minutes later)
3rd: 11.2%, TDR=50
4th: 11.2%, TDR=50
Gravimetric samples taken at 3:25 (Note: 3-6 not good for bulk density)
- 277: krypton, Site 5, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:24:30 MST, Cleaned Kh20
Cleaned Kh20 at 3:07, voltage went .15 to .23
- 276: rain, Site 5, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:23:45 MST, Test tip Rain gauge
1 Test tip on rain gauge done at 3:02.
- 275: radiation, Site 5, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:23:07 MST, Cleaned radiometers
Cleaned radiometers at 2:50.
- 274: LOG, Site 5, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:17:52 MST, Station visit, site 5, August 12
A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 2:50, and left at 3:30
Actvities:
- Cleaned radiometers at 2:50
- 1 test tip of rain gauge at 3:02
- Steve O. on tower from 3:02-3:13
- Cleaned Kh2o at 3:07, voltage went from .15 to .23
- TRIME measurements are as follows taken at 3:20:
1st: 11.3%, TDR=53
2nd: 11.3%, TDR=49 (ten minutes later)
3rd: 11.2%, TDR=50
4th: 11.2%, TDR=50
- Gravimetric samples taken at 3:25 (Note: sample 3-6 not good for bulk density.
- 273: rain, Site 4, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:17:09 MST, Test tip rain gauge
Performed 1 test tip of rain gauge at 13:07.
- 272: radiation, Site 4, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:16:38 MST, Cleaned Rnet
Cleaned Rnet at 1:05.
- 271: LOG, Site 4, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:14:40 MST, Station visit, Site 4, August 12
A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 1:03, and left at 1:11
Activities:
- Cleaned Rnet at 1:05
- 1 test tip at 1:07
- 270: radiation, Site 1, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:13:54 MST, Cleaned Rnet
Cleaned Rnet at 10:32
- 269: rain, Site 1, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:12:40 MST, Replace Rain Gauge
Replaced rain gauge at 10:28 and did 10 test tips at 10:30 and one further one
with water at 10:31.
- 268: LOG, Site 1, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:09:16 MST, Station visit, Site 1, August 12
A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 10:27 MST, and left at 10:48
Activities:
- Replace broken rain gauge at 10:28 MST
- 10 Test tips at 10:30
- 1 test tip with water at 10:31
- No need to replace the TRH fan, it sounds good
- Cleaned Rnet at 10:32
- Grounded the datalogger Box
- 267: radiation, Site 10, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:08:20 MST, Cleaned radiometers
Cleaned radiometer from 9:25-9:32
- 266: soil, Site 10, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:03:12 MST, TRIME and Gravimetric Measurements
TRIME measurement probe in at 9:15, then measurement done at 9:20 and readings
as follows:
1st: 6.7%, TDR=56
2nd: 7.6%, TDR=? (after stomp of soil)
3rd: 7.7%, TDR=55
4th: 7.6%, TDR=55
-Gravimetric measurement at 9:25
- 265: krypton, Site 10, Sat 12-Aug-2006 17:00:34 MST, Cleaned Kh2o
- Cleaned Kh2o at 9:00, voltage went from .02 to .04 (first time), and then up
to .05 after the second cleaning, finished cleaning at 9:03 MST.
- 264: LOG, Site 10, Sat 12-Aug-2006 16:49:45 MST, Station visit. Site 10, August 12
A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 8:40 MST and left at 9:45 MST:
Activities:
- Mast lowered at 8:47-9:09
- Cleaned Kh2o at 9:00, voltage went from .02 to .04 (first time), and then up
to .05 after the second cleaning, finished cleaning at 9:03 MST.
- TRIME measurement probe in at 9:15, then measuremnt done at ~9:20 with
readings as follows:
1st: 6.7%, TDR=56
2nd: 7.6%, TDR=? (After Stomp of soil)
3rd: 7.7%, TDR=55
4th: 7.6%, TDR=55
- Gravimetric measurements at 9:25 MST
- Cleaned radiometers at 9:25-9:32
- 263: radiation, Site 8, Fri 11-Aug-2006 15:24:21 MST, Rnet calibration coefficient
Changed Rnet nighttime calibration coefficient from -10.84 to 10.84 at
2:01 MST.
- 262: rain, Site 1, Fri 11-Aug-2006 15:23:06 MST, Rain gauge not working
Rain guage not working due to electric shock.
- 261: radiation, Site 1, Fri 11-Aug-2006 15:19:55 MST, Rnet hookup
The Rnet was hooked up at 11:34 MST, but was wired backwards for a few minutes
before that. Later entered the calibration coefficient for the new Rnet at
12:24 MST, changed values from 9.66 to 9.00 and 11.81 to 11.18.
- 260: TRH, Site 1, Fri 11-Aug-2006 15:15:06 MST, TRH hookup
Hooked up TRH at 11:00 but logger not hooked up until 11:02. Fan had a peculiar sound with not enough velocity. Dismounted TRH at 11:47 to inspect and the fan
blade came off the mount. Glued back on, but the fan still sounds wimpy. The TRH
was back up at 12:19.
- 259: LOG, Site 8, Fri 11-Aug-2006 15:12:01 MST, station visit, site 8, August 11
A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 2:01 MST at station 8 on August 11,2006
activities:
- Changed Rnet nighttime calibration coefficient from -10.84 to 10.84 at
2:02 MST
- 258: LOG, Site 1, Fri 11-Aug-2006 15:00:40 MST, station visit, site 1, August 11
A.J.I. and Steve Oncley arrived at station 1 at 10:55 on August 11,2006
Activities:
-Datalogger hooked up at 11:02 MST
-Hooked up TRH at 11:00 MST, then dismounted at 11:47 check peculiar fan
sound, put back on at 12:19, but fan still sounds wimpy.
-Rnet was hooked up at 11:34, was wired backwards for a few minutes before that,
the Rnet coefficient was changed from 9.66 to 9.00 and 11.81 to 11.18 for new
sensor at 12:24
-Rain gauge has failed from electric shock
- 255: soil, Site 2, Fri 11-Aug-2006 09:38:47 MST, Soil sample at site 2
1335 MST, 8/9
Trime:
moisure 26.7, 26.8, 29.9
Took soil sample, tub#2 0-3 cm, tub#2 3-6 cm,
and rubbermaid tub labeled "stn2" was used for 6-8cm.
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 124.2 g - 46.1 g = 78.1 g <- use to process
net weight in Al foil tray = 77.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 69.6 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 142.0 g - 46.0 g = 96.0 g <-
net weight in Al foil tray = 95.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 83.1 g
6-8 cm net weight in tupperware = 127.7 g - 43.0 g = 84.7 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 84.4 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 71.5 g
- 254: daily status, Site , Fri 11-Aug-2006 08:58:38 MST, Daily status, 11 Aug
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 11, 08:50
On site: AJ Ideris (512-762-6515) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations working, but some sensor issues at sites 1&8:
Site 1 still has no TRH (to be added today), Rnet or rain (logger bad).
Site 8 has a sign wrong in the coefficients that gives + values at night.
Will fix this today.
Station 01, N: Only winds, pressure working.
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally, wrong Rnet coef gives +values at night
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (yesterday):
- Site 8: Standard maintenance. Failed to fix Rnet coef problem.
- Site 9: Standard maintenance. (Fence was trashed yet again by cows.)
- 253: LOG, Site 9, Thu 10-Aug-2006 23:57:46 MST, Site visit, site 9
visit to site 9 from about 0120-0140Z
Activities:
- swap usb stick
- install new software
- fix electric fence (trashed again!)
- 252: LOG, Site 8, Thu 10-Aug-2006 23:43:03 MST, Site visit, site 8
visited site 8 from about 0000-0050Z
Activities:
- swap usb
- update software (including change of config /ttyS5 -> /ttyS8
- ~0010: change sign of nighttime Rnet coefficient. Apparently failed to do
this. Will try again tomorrow.
- ~0035: Replaced Rnet upper dome. (This one was abraded on the top when I installed
it 2 days ago, but I wasn't able to fix it then.) Unplugged logger during
this operation.
- orientation for AJ
- 251: data-system, Site all, Thu 10-Aug-2006 09:40:39 MST, Entering cal coefficients on CR10
How to change calibration coefficients on CR10.
A basic station has only two coefficients for Rnet
so it is pretty simple. The first value is for positive Rnet,
the second is for negative Rnet, but both values that
you enter are positive numbers. (Following a value by
'C' changes the sign to negative, but both of the Rnet
values should be positive).
rserial /dev/ttyS5 localhost
hit return until you get a "*"
7H
should get a ">" prompt.
*4
should get a MODE prompt.
Hit returns to step through the coefficients.
Because of the way rserial works, when a certain coeficient
is being displayed, the CR10 is reading input for the next
coefficient, so you have to anticipate things and enter
coef # N+1 when it is displaying coef N.
Repeated carriage returns will cycle through the coefficients
so you can double check,
- 250: daily status, Site , Thu 10-Aug-2006 08:08:33 MST, Daily Status, Aug 10
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 10, 07:50
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) [leaving today] and
Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: Recovered from lightning damage, except for stn1. Stn1 now has
only winds and pressure reporting. A spare TRH sensor will arrive today.
Station 01, N: Only winds, pressure working.
Station 02, NE: Operating normally -- replaced GOES xmitter yesterday.
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally, prop head replaced yesterday.
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally, wrong Rnet coef gives +values at night
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (yesterday):
- Site 1: Station hit by lightning. TRH bad (no spare yet); internal logger
wiring problems which we'll diagnose today, but no Rnet or rain for now.
USB stick data lost since previous visit.
- Site 2: Station also hit by lightning, but only GOES xmitter affected.
All data okay and saved on USB stick. Standard servicing done.
- Site 3: Replaced dirty prop head, so winds should be better.
- 249: prop-vane, Site 3, Wed 09-Aug-2006 22:00:32 MST, Station visit, site 3, replace prop head
Arrived around 16:05, Oncley, Maclean
Wind speed at this site has been dropping to exactly zero
for long periods, as if propeller bearings are bad.
Mast down 16:15
Replaced prop vane propeller head. Bearings on old head
were noisy.
Mast up 16:25
Swapped usbdisk.
- 248: LOG, Site 2, Wed 09-Aug-2006 21:43:01 MST, Station visit, site 2, Aug 9
Arrived Aug 9, 13:15, Oncley, Maclean
This station has not been reporting since last night.
System OK, sensors OK, archive disk OK and complete
but statsproc processing not running.
ck_goes could not talk to goes transmitter - timeouts on wakeup.
Swapped in SE 1200 (didn't get serial number. This unit had
been at site 1 earlier in the project).
Installed new software. Swapped USB disk.
13:35 Gravimetric soil samples taken.
13:46 Trime:
vol: 26.7% 26.8% 29.9%
TDR 39 39 40
13:50 cleaned radiometers, all OK.
13:58 mast down to clean krypton
krypton voltage increased from 0.1V to 0.25 V on cleaning.
14:08 mast up.
Left 14:17
- 247: LOG, Site 1, Wed 09-Aug-2006 21:15:57 MST, Station visit, site 1, Aug 9
Arrived Aug 9 10:17 MST, Oncley, Maclean
Station in bad shape after last nights storm.
Net radiometer head blown out from apparent lightning strike.
Blown fuse on charge controller board. Swapped in fuse from
second charge circuit - immediately blew again.
Data box #9 interface panels show electrical arc-ing damage on
ttyS3 (goes) and ttyS5 (logger) ports. Putting power to this box
blows fuses on the charge controller.
Removed box 9, swapped in spare box 8.
Barometer OK. Prop vane OK.
TRH sent bad data for a short period:
TRH08 with a T=39.94, RH=1.05, V=0 (wrong)
then reported the values typical of a A2D lockup:
T=210, RH=257
Eventually would report the following after being plugged in:
TRH System Initialization Complete
A/D not responding
and then nothing. Removed it for repair.
Installed 7.5 A fuse on load circuit of charge controller.
Serial connector on logger box looks fried. Voltmeter
reported shorts between ground and most other pins.
Removed logger for repair.
GOES transceiver not responding. SE 110, SN 1007.
Installed GOES SE 120, SN 3515.
Someone helped themselves to the step ladder which was
left beside the road while Steve drove
to Oracle for fuses and Gordon was at the site.
Station status: station transmitting and archiving,
prop vane OK, barometer OK.
no T, RH, Vbatt, Rnet or Rainr data while sensors are repaired.
Left 12:45.
Later found that the usbdisk from this station is not
readable. The light on the drive does not come on
when it is inserted. The last data from the last
disk swap was Aug 4 22:33, so it looks like data
about 5 days of archive data has been lost from this station.
- 246: LOG, Site 2, Tue 08-Aug-2006 22:38:59 MST, Stations 1&2 died in storm
Tonight was a huge storm over Tucson, with continual lightning from about
8:00-10:30. Apparently, another is on the north side of Mt Lemmon, since
site 2 reported 15mm of rain and site 1 19mm of rain before each died.
Site 2 died about 8:30 and site 1 died about 9:00. Clearly, we are going to
have some serious station visits tomorrow. :(
- 245: rain, Site 8, Tue 08-Aug-2006 15:27:47 MST, Test rain tip
one test rain tip at 13:58
- 244: radiation, Site 8, Tue 08-Aug-2006 15:26:03 MST, Damaged net radiometer
Net radiometer dome was punctured and cracked.
Replaced with Q94125, (cal: +8.75, -10.84) at aboud 13:45, Aug 8.
- 243: LOG, Site 8, Tue 08-Aug-2006 15:22:31 MST, Station visit, site 8, Aug 8
Visited site for routine maintenance. Arrived 13;35,
Oncley, Maclean, Susanne Grossman-Clarke from ASU.
Net radiometer dome is punctured and cracked, looks like a bird peck.
Did not have small phillips to replace dome, so swapped
in spare unit: Q94125, +8.75, -10.84. Entered coefs
into CR10.
Downloaded new software, swapped usb.
Test rain tip at 13:58.
Photos.
Left 14:00
- 242: power, Site 10, Tue 08-Aug-2006 15:10:47 MST, Station visit, site 10, Aug 8
Visited site, giving a tour for Susanne Grossman-Clarke of ASU.
While lifting charge controller out of battery box to inspect,
the load circuit connector was bent up, almost breaking its
connections to the board. Shut down power and pushed connector
back down on the board. Station is operating, but this
controller board should be replaced and inspected.
- 241: radiation, Site 9, Tue 08-Aug-2006 15:09:36 MST, net radiometer cleaned
Clened the net radiometer sometime during the visit today, Aug 8
between 10;45 and 11:15. The unit has a small dimple in the dome.
- 240: rain, Site 9, Tue 08-Aug-2006 15:04:22 MST, Rain gauge tilted, Aug 8
Rain gauge at this site was tilted about 10 to 15 degrees.
Probably nudged by a cow.
There was rain measured at this site yesterday, Aug 7, so
perhaps the tilt was not enough so that water spilled
from the tipper.
Tested gauge with 2 tips, at 11:10, Aug 8.
- 239: LOG, Site 9, Tue 08-Aug-2006 14:56:59 MST, Station visit, site 9, Aug 8
Routine site visit. Arrived 10:45 MST. Oncley, Maclean.
Visitor: Susanne Grossman-Clarke from ASU.
Installed new software, but ntpq was not installed due to script
goofup.
Top wire of electric fence was largely off the posts - cows have
frequented this site, but no damage other than a tilted rain gauge.
Guyed corner posts of fence. Swapped e-fence battery, voltage was
11.7V. New battery: 12.6V.
Cleaned net radiometer. Small dimple in dome.
2 test tips of rain gauge.
Swapped usbdisk.
This is data box #12, goes model 120.
Left 11:15.
- 238: daily status, Site , Tue 08-Aug-2006 07:15:00 MST, Daily Status, Aug 8
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 8, 07:00
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations are working, but the stn3 prop is (still) bad.
We are awaiting spares to be sent from Boulder and received here today (but
might not be installed until Wed). The data system software at Stn 6 crashed
for an unknown reason yesterday afternoon. We did a late-dusk scramble which
revived it.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Bad prop -- expect to fix tomorrow.
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: TRH fixed.
Station 06, S: Down from 17:20 -- 20:10 MST yesterday. Now ok.
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: OK. Isolated gust at 15:00 with odd P spike.
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (yesterday):
- Site 5: Replaced Rad solar panel, swapped TRH, 3 new fuses
- Site 6 (2 visits): Routine service; rebooted later in the day
- 237: data-system, Site 6, Mon 07-Aug-2006 21:46:25 MST, Station reboot, site 6
At 5:23 tonight, station 6 died. We realized this at 7:30 from the Inn, and
did a late-dusk scramble up the hill to check up on it. The data system
processes had stopped for a reason we were not able to determine. We ended
up just rebooting the station and all seemed fine. Perhaps the crash was
due to a different type of 512Mb memory stick? (Though Gordon is sure that
this stick has been used elsewhere.)
A mystery...we'll keep an eye on it.
- 236: rain, Site 6, Mon 07-Aug-2006 13:08:25 MST, test tip
1 test tip at site 6 at 11:40.
- 235: LOG, Site 6, Mon 07-Aug-2006 13:02:59 MST, Station visit, site 6
Just for fun (and to show me for the first time), Gordon and I did a standard
visit to site 6 from about 11:20-11:45 this morning.
Activities:
- swapped usb
- installed new software
- restarted data system -- noted no logger data [stupid me!]
- manually changed logger /ttys5 to /ttys6 in /root/.../cupido.xml
- restarted data system -- now all okay
- poured 1 tip of water into gauge at 11:40
- inspected Rnet domes and decided not to clean
- attached a ground strap to a T-stake at the logger
- took photos
- 234: LOG, Site 5, Mon 07-Aug-2006 12:57:22 MST, Station visit, site 5
I did a solo visit to 5 from about 0840-0940 this morning to fix the TRH.
It ended up being just a blown fuse on /ttyS2, though I found blown fuses also
on (unconnected) /ttyS9 and /ttyS10 (which I was using to test). I replaced
all 3 of these fuses. Since the fuse for /ttyS2 is close to the internal
ethernet connector (which is grounded), I had to shut down power while doing
this.
I went ahead and swapped the TRH (704, I think), with the spare (007), since
704 had one outage earlier in the program and may have a bad fan which caused
the fuse to blow in the first place. We'll check it in the base now that we're
back.
Also, I swapped the 4W solar panel on the rad stand with a 10W, so our logger
power should start getting better.
- 233: daily status, Site , Mon 07-Aug-2006 12:56:16 MST, Daily Status, Aug 7
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 7, 07:30
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations are working, but the stn3 prop is bad. We are awaiting
spares to be sent from Boulder and received here tomorrow. The TRH at stn5
also died yesterday afternoon. We will leave now to replace it.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Bad prop.
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Bad TRH
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits: None yesterday
- 232: prop-vane, Site 3, Sun 06-Aug-2006 11:29:23 MST, More on the s3 prop
Today we finally noticed in the data that the site 3 prop-vane often reads
low (sometimes 0) wind speeds. The first really noticable instance is Jul 31
at 1900, though there are a few drops earlier that day and probably even a
few days earlier.
data_dump shows that the vane signal is just fine, thus this problem most
likely is simply dirty bearings on the propeller shaft. Steve S. reminds us
that the prop is a removable subassembly on this sensor.
We haven't located the spare prop that Chris's inventory shows should exist
somewhere. (We haven't checked our pickup truck yet.) Nor have we located
any spare bearings in the base. Steve S will send us a package tomorrow with
bearings and/or a spare prop head assembly if one can be found in Boulder.
In any case, we aren't too worried, since this station also has sonic, which
seems to be running fine.
- 231: daily status, Site , Sun 06-Aug-2006 11:27:47 MST, DailyStatus, Aug 6
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 6, 09:00
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585)
Summary: All stations are working, however we have realized that the stn3
prop is bad. There was an interesting low cloud passage last night affecting
all Rlw and Rnet measurements.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Prop speed threshold is too high (dirty bearings?) since ~1 Au
g.
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (yesterday):
Site 5:
- Replaced battery on logger -- now much better.
Site 10:
- Complete service visit: data download, rad&krypton cleaning, soil sampling,
rain gauge test, software update
- 230: krypton, Site 10, Sat 05-Aug-2006 19:20:11 MST, krypton klean
krypton cleaned at about 0030Z. Mast down 0024-0034. Voltage increased from
0.07 to 0.19V. (I think this is a record for this sensor??)
- 229: radiation, Site 10, Sat 05-Aug-2006 19:19:22 MST, rads cleaned
Radiometers cleaned 0011-0014Z. There was light dust on pyg.in.
- 228: soil, Site 10, Sat 05-Aug-2006 19:16:37 MST, Soil sample at site 10
1750 MST, 8/5
Trime:
moisure 11.2 (all 3 readings)
Took soil sample, tub#2 0-3 cm, tub#2 3-6 cm,
and rubbermaid tub labeled "stn2" was used for 6-8cm.
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 147.0 g - 46.1 g = 100.9 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 100.9 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 94.3 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 159.8 g - 46.0 g = 113.8 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 113.6 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 106.3 g
6-8 cm net weight in tupperware = 120.6 g - 43.1 g = 77.5 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 77.4 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 72.4 g
- 227: rain, Site 10, Sat 05-Aug-2006 19:15:43 MST, rain gauge test
Did 2 test tips at 0017 Z.
- 226: LOG, Site 10, Sat 05-Aug-2006 19:10:02 MST, Station visit to site 10, 5 Aug
I just came back from a solo visit to 10 from ~1700-1750 (there was time both
before and after hauling stuff up and down the hill).
Actions:
- check fence -- seemed fine
- take photos
- swap USB
- upgrade software
- check "ntpq -p" -- gave -52 offset, 84 jitter for *GPS
- clean radiometers
- test rain gauge
- klean krypton (mast down 1725, up 1734)
- take TRIME and gravimetric sample
- tighten CR10 screws
- 225: rain, Site 5, Sat 05-Aug-2006 12:04:11 MST, False rain tips
While at the site 5 from 1005-1043 this morning, I apparently introduced some
false rain tips while servicing the CR10x power. These should be removed --
it was nice and sunny (though I recall one cloud) while we were there.
Note that there was water on the fence charger lid, confirming the rain last
night.
- 224: LOG, Site 5, Sat 05-Aug-2006 11:59:00 MST, Station visit, site 5, Aug 5
Just visited site 5 from 10:08-10:43 to diagnose rad stand power.
Found that this is using a small solar panel on the rad stand, but didn't
have the spare with us, so left it unchanged. (Should swap panels on next
visit.)
We HAD just purchased a new sealed battery (at the local BatteriesPlus). Since
it was charged, the voltage went up significantly (old ~11.3, new ~12.8V).
It also seems to be being charged. Thus we made no other changes.
Our fallback option was to cable this stand with copper, since we now have
spare data cables (that probably would reach) and the change would only
require flipping one switch in the logger box.
We'll keep an eye on this.
P.S. while there, also labeled the Pocketec drive so it will work automagically
with Gordon's code to download.
- 223: daily status, Site , Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:33:30 MST, Daily Status, Aug 4
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 4, 17:20
[status entered late, since we went directly from motel this morning and
forgot to bring a laptop to the motel last night that could send e-mails.]
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Steve Oncley (303-319-5585) [replacing Tom,
who is now back in Colorado]
Summary: After 4 station visits in the last 24 hours, have fixed all known problems.
All stations reporting and data are satisfactory.
2 fences had obvious damage due to bovines/equines, but no equipment was damaged.
Station 01, N: Rnet WWW plots intermittent, but data being saved locally okay
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Rlw.out dropouts fixed (loose wire in logger)
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: GOES transmissions resumed after GOES transmitter power cycle last night
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits (all also orientation for Steve, who has just arrived):
Site 7 (last night): power cycled GOES transmitter; partial maintenance; upgraded station software
Site 5: routine maintenance; upgraded station software
Site 3: Fixed Rpile.out wiring; routine maintenance; upgraded station software
Site 1: routine maintenance; upgraded station software
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all of the data are above average.
- 222: rain, Site 1, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:32:30 MST, test rain tips
1558 - 3 test rain gauge tips.
- 221: rain, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:31:58 MST, test rain tips
1202 - 1 test rain gauge tip.
- 220: rain, Site 5, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:30:01 MST, test rain tips
~0905 - 1 real tip dumping old water when Gordon opened gauge
0911 - 5 test rain gauge tips.
- 219: krypton, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:29:08 MST, krypton kleaned
krypton kleaned by mast down at 12:15. Voltage 0.08 -> 0.2 V.
Mast back up 12:20.
- 218: krypton, Site 5, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:28:09 MST, krypton kleaned
krypton kleaned by Gordon climbing at 09:21. Voltage 0.07 -> 0.12 V.
- 217: radiation, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:26:40 MST, rad cleaning
Rnet cleaned ~1543 today. was level despite fence post being crooked.
- 216: radiation, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:26:02 MST, rad cleaning
rads cleaned ~1142 today. all okay.
Did notice that dessicant crystals inside housings are now mostly pink.
Do we have more?
- 215: radiation, Site 5, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:25:13 MST, rad cleaning
rads cleaned ~09:21 today. all okay.
- 214: GOES, Site 7, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:22:12 MST, Cycled power on GOES transmitter
As now mentioned 3 other times, we cycled power on the GOES transmitter last
night (~20:15 on 3 Aug), which got rid of "SOH (start-of-header)" error
messages. GOES operation is now okay.
- 213: LOG, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:18:03 MST, Station visit, site 1, Aug 4
Visit to 1, ~15:30-16:00 MST, 4 Aug.
Purpose: Show Steve the site
Actions:
- repair electric fence. cows got inside, but no station damage
- exchanged usb drive
- upgrade software
- clean radiometer
- test rain gauge
- take photos
- 212: LOG, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:08:19 MST, Station visit, site 3, Aug 4
Visit to 3, ~11:20-12:25 MST, 4 Aug.
Purpose: [first visit in a while, due to road closure] fix intermittent
Rpile.out data gaps
Actions:
- repair electric fence. appeared that a horse stepped through site, but
no station damage
- exchanged usb drive
- upgrade software
- fix Rlw connection in logger [blue wire to H1 in block 3 on AM416 was
pretty loose]
- clean radiometers
- test rain gauge
- soil samples
- klean krypton [0.08 -> 0.2V] (requires mast down + ladder)
- take photos
Notes:
- box 4
- GOES 120
- 211: LOG, Site 5, Fri 04-Aug-2006 18:03:33 MST, Station visit, site 5, Aug 4
Visit to 5, ~08:50-09:40 MST, 4 Aug.
Purpose: [first visit in a while, due to road closure] to download data
Actions:
- exchanged pocketec drives with spare I brought from Boulder
- upgrade software
- test rain gauge
- check electric fence (okay)
- clean radiometers
- klean krypton [0.7 -> 1.2V]
- soil samples
- take photos
Notes:
- box 6
- GOES 120
- 210: LOG, Site 7, Fri 04-Aug-2006 17:57:45 MST, Station visit, site 7, Aug 3
Visited site 7 last night, just at sunset ~19:50-20:30 (avoid the rebar spikes!!)
Purpose: determine why no GOES data.
Actions:
- /var/log/messages showed "SOH (start-of-header)" error messages
- swapped USB stick
- upgraded software (now has GOES status messages)
- executed "ck goes" -- still SOH errors
- cycled power on GOES by disconnecting cable at battery box
- executed "ck goes" -- now okay!
- restarted data system
- checked all values (including wind direction) okay
- found new way out: following Catalina (north) => Catalina Shadow
Notes:
- box 13
- GOES 110
- surge supressor tied to ground stake
- 209: soil, Site 3, Fri 04-Aug-2006 17:52:47 MST, Soil sample at site 3
12:07 MST, 8/4
Trime:
moisure 32.0 (all 3 readings)
TDR 11
Took soil sample, tub#2 0-3 cm, tub#2 3-6 cm,
and rubbermaid tub labeled "stn5" was used for 6-8cm.
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 143.0 g - 46.3 g = 96.7 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 96.7 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 78.3 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 131.9 g - 46.3 g = 85.6 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 85.7 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 70.8 g
6-8 cm net weight in tupperware = 108.4 g - 42.9 g = 65.5 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 65.4 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 57.7 g
- 208: soil, Site 5, Fri 04-Aug-2006 17:31:40 MST, Soil sample at site 5
09:30 MST, 8/4
Trime:
moisure 17.6 18.4 17.7
TDR 36 38 35
Took soil sample, tub#1 0-3 cm, tub#1 3-6 cm,
and rubbermaid tub labeled "stn2" was used for 6-8cm.
[NOTE CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS -- the corer doesn't sample to 9cm
-- just 8cm]
Steve got 2 red ant bites :(
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 157.0 g - 46.4 g = 110.6 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 110.6 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 97.0 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 173.5 g - 46.7 g = 126.8 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 126.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 113.4 g
6-8 cm net weight in tupperware = 135.9 g - 43.2 g = 92.7 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 92.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 84.2 g
- 207: rain, Site 4, Thu 03-Aug-2006 15:41:17 MST, Station 4, rain test
Any rain tips from 10:30 to 12:00 MST, Aug 3 were human caused...
- 206: radiation, Site 4, Thu 03-Aug-2006 15:40:04 MST, Station 4, net radiometer
Aug 3, 10:40 MST Cleaned net radiometer
- 205: LOG, Site 4, Thu 03-Aug-2006 15:28:04 MST, Station visit, site 4, fix charger
Battery voltage plot of site 4 has indicated problems in the
charging circuit for the past two days.
Arrived at site, 10:30 MST
Cleaned net radiometer.
Battery voltage 12.4 V
Measured 18 V from solar panel at charge controller.
Eventually pulled controller out of box:
Pro-Star 30, has a digital display:
Batt : 12.5 V
Array 0.0 A
Load 0.3 A
Found a loose (blackened) ground connection to charger board,
and tightened screw:
Batt 12.9 V
Array 3.0 A
Load 0.3 A
Swapped usb disk.
Installed ntpq program. Shows offset 4.376 msec, jitter 88.9 msec
(GPS without PPS)
Installed latest nidas code.
Other info: GOES 110, not grounded.
Data box #14
Shored up electric fence.
Tested rain gauge: 2 tips
Left 12:00
- 204: daily status, Site , Thu 03-Aug-2006 15:17:43 MST, Daily status, Aug 3
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 3, 15:00
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations appear to be recording
pretty good data almost all the time, and we expect this to likely
continue for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Rnet intermittent
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Rlw.out (.pile) dropouts on Aug 2
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Stopped reporting at 1300 Aug 3
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
Station visit to site 4: repaired malfunctioning charge controller;
routine maintenance; upgraded station software.
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all of the data are above average.
- 203: daily status, Site , Wed 02-Aug-2006 08:33:19 MST, Daily status, August 2
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 2, 8:30 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations appear to be recording
pretty good data almost all the time, and we expect this to likely
continue for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Rnet intermittent
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Rlw.out (.pile) dropouts on Aug 1
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
Redington Road closed at end of pavement, August 1.
We don't need no stinking station visits.
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all of the data are above average.
- 202: daily status, Site , Tue 01-Aug-2006 09:09:24 MST, Daily Status, August 1
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, August 1, 9:00 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations appear to be recording
pretty good data almost all the time, and we expect this to likely
continue for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Rnet intermittent
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
Waterfalls visible on hillsides east of Tucson!
Redington Road closed at end of pavement, July 31.
We don't need no stinking station visits.
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all of the data are above average.
- 201: daily status, Site , Mon 31-Jul-2006 12:03:34 MST, Daily status, July 31
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 31, 11:55 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations appear to be recording
pretty good data almost all the time, and we expect this to likely
continue for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Rnet intermittent
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
We don't need no stinking station visits.
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all the data are above average.
- 200: soil, Site 10, Sat 29-Jul-2006 16:47:01 MST, Station visit, site 10: soil moisture
Trime reading at 1457 MST:
21.7% moisture 28.0
22.9% moisture 29.0
23.1% moisture 29.0
23.2% moisture 28.0
22.8% moisture 28.0
23.0% moisture 28.0
23.0% moisture 28.0
23.1% moisture 28.0
23.1% moisture 28.0
23.3% moisture 28.0
23.2% moisture 28.0
23.3% moisture 28.0
23.1% moisture 28.0
Gravimetric sample had voids in soil (4 tries), so samples not good
for bulk density. On second thought, I may have been resampling a
previously disturbed area, so take data with caution.
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 86.0 g - 46.2 g = 39.8 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 39.3 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 164.8 g - 46.5 g = 118.3 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 118.2 g
- 199: rain, Site 10, Sat 29-Jul-2006 16:44:57 MST, Station visit, site 10: rain gauge
Found rain gauge tube clogged; plastic funned filled and dripping into
gauge. Removed plastic tab, cleaned tube and re-assembled.
Tripped rain gauge at 1455 MST
- 198: data-system, Site 10, Sat 29-Jul-2006 16:43:27 MST, Station visit, site 10: USB disk
Swapped USB disk. Checked data from logger, TRH, prop-vane, barometer.
- 197: LOG, Site 10, Sat 29-Jul-2006 16:40:56 MST, Station visit, site 10, July 29
Arrived site 10, 1420 MST, July 29
Upper fence wire off SE stake, repaired; fence tested okay
Swapped USB disk, cleaned rain gauge tube, took soil samples, cleaned
radiometers
Departed 1540
- 196: daily status, Site , Sat 29-Jul-2006 10:27:40 MST, Daily status, July 29
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 29, 10:35 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations appear to probably be
recording pretty good data almost all the time, and we expect this to likely
continue for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
Visited site 6 to fix logger (bad serial port on adam) and GOES (new station
software to enable error recovery) at site 1.
Raining today, so station visits unlikely until stops raining
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all the data are above average.
- 195: soil, Site 2, Fri 28-Jul-2006 20:25:02 MST, Soil sample at site 2
17:25 MST, 7/28
Trime:
moisure 24.5 24.4 24.3 24.1
TDR 24.0 24.0 24.0 24.0
Took soil sample, tub#2 0-3 cm, tub#2 3-6 cm,
and tub labeled "stn1 0-3" was used for 6-9cm.
A walnut sized rock was between 3-6 and 6-9 levels,
so these levels can be used for moisture measurement only.
Tom sat on a prickly pear - yeaoowwww!
0-3 cm net weight in tupperware = 138.4 g - 46.1 g = 92.3 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 92.3 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 72.3 g
3-6 cm net weight in tupperware = 130.9 g - 46.0 g = 84.9 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 84.8 g
net dry weight in Al foil tray = 70.5 g
6-9 cm net weight in tupperware = 111.5 g - 43.0 g = 68.5 g
net weight in Al foil tray = 68.4 g
spilled!
- 194: LOG, Site 2, Fri 28-Jul-2006 20:23:19 MST, Station visit, site 2, soil sample
Arrived 17:25.
Primary purpose: to do a soil sample.
Also installed new nidas software, and swapped usb disk.
Cleaned radiometer domes.
Left 17:50
- 193: LOG, Site 1, Fri 28-Jul-2006 20:14:44 MST, Station visit, site 1, GOES swapped
Arrived 15;40
GOES data recovery at this site has been bad since 02:00 MST, Jul 25.
statsproc running.
This site has a GOES 1200, software installed 10/14/2004 16:08:26.
Also has a surge arrestor.
Installed new nidas software.
Swapped usb disk.
GOES tranmission power measured: 9.8 Watts
Swapped in model 110. Tranmission power 12 Watts.
Plan to install 1200 at a site nearer Tucson, like 7.
Cleaned Rnet.
Left 16:53 MST
- 192: rain, Site 6, Fri 28-Jul-2006 20:12:41 MST, Station 6 rain gauge plugged
See entry 191. The rain gauge at this site was plugged.
Unplugged gauge. Tested gauge with 3 tips.
- 191: LOG, Site 6, Fri 28-Jul-2006 19:57:59 MST, Station visit, site 6 , fix logger
Logger variables (Rnet, rain, Vbatt.rad) have been out since 00:00 MST
7/28 at this site.
Arrived 12:30 MST
More than 1 inch of standing water in rain gauge.
Drain tube was plugged with small piece of blue plastic.
This may have effected all rain data from this site up
to this date.
Logger getting power (14.5 V), multiplexer ticking.
Some water inside logger. Taped over a bulkhead amp
connector that had open holes, with no pins.
Determined that port 0 on the emerald serial card (ttyS5)
was bad. Switched logger to ttyS6.
Considered grounding the logger, but decided
it would create a ground loop between the data system
ground and the logger ground.
Rnet clean - did not wipe.
Swapped USB disk, installed new nidas software (has
GOES status).
Rain test, 3 tips at 13:15.
Left 13:35
- 190: daily status, Site all, Fri 28-Jul-2006 10:08:19 MST, Daily status, July 28
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 28, 9:45 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: GOES spotty at site 1, but data stored locally; fixed at site 8
Station 01, N: GOES transmission spotty
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: CR10X down (rnet, rain)
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
Gordon installed new station software at site 8 to fix GOES
Raining today, so station visits unlikely until stops raining
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all the data are above average.
- 189: GOES, Site 8, Thu 27-Jul-2006 19:48:28 MST, Station 8 GOES
The GOES data recovery from station 8 has been spotty since
the morning of Jul 25.
At 17:00 MST I visited the site and installed
new software, which provides status information
in /var/tmp/goes.log, and does a soft reset
of the transmitter if it is not responding.
This site has a SE model 1200,
software build 10/14/2004 16:08:26.
The GOES GPS is on top of a T post.
RF cable surge arrestor grounded with the solar panel.
Measured 7.5 watts during transmission at 00:48:30Z.
Status file shows a good GOES clock, within 100 msec
of the system clock. Saw no errors during 5 or 6
transmissions.
Did not reboot viper or power cycle the GOES transmitter.
Left 17:58 MST
- 188: GOES, Site all, Thu 27-Jul-2006 19:42:20 MST, NOAA NESDIS down
The script that telnets to NESDIS started failing at
7/27 04:10 MST, with an error:
Remote is disabled or nonexistent
Connection closed by foreign host.
At around 4 pm I called the NESDIS operations center (phone
number is on the white board). They confirmed the
problem and rebooted a bank of modems to get things
going again.
Missing data filled in except for small gap at 16:45 MST 7/27.
- 187: daily status, Site all, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:47:56 MST, Daily status, July 27
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 27, 9:45 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: GOES spotty at sites 1 and 8, but data stored locally
Access to GOES data at NESDIS has been down since 0410 am MST
Station 01, N: GOES transmission spotty
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: GOES transmission spotty
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits:
Routine maintenance (USB disk swap, clean net radiometers, check fence,
duct tape GOES cooler, cleaned KH2O, soil sampled) at site 3 on July 26.
Raining today, so station visits unlikely until stops raining
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all the data are above average.
- 186: soil, Site 3, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:36:17 MST, Station visit, site 3: soil
7/26/06
10:23 MST
Trime: 7.1% TDR 50.0
7.1% TDR 50.0
7.2% TDR 50.0
7.3% TDR 50.0
7.3% TDR 50.0
7.3% TDR 50.0
Gravimetric samples collected at 10:30 am MST
Weighed 7/27 at 9:30 am MST
0-3 cm net tupperware: 147.4 - 46.3 gm = 101.1 gm
net wet foil tray #1 101.2 gm
net dry foil tray 93.8 gm
3-6 cm net tupperware: 131.6 - 46.5 gm = 85.1 gm
net wet foil tray #2 85.1 gm
net dry foil tray 79.2 gm
6-9 cm net tupperware: 116.5 - 44.3 gm = 72.2 gm
net wet foil tray #4 72.1 gm
net dry foil tray 66.9 gm
- 185: GOES, Site 3, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:34:09 MST, Station visit, site 3: GOES
Taped GOES cooler; found one tiny trace of water in bottom
GOES transmitter model 120; no surge arrester
- 184: krypton, Site 3, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:31:46 MST, Station visit, site 3: cleaned KH2O
Cleaned site 3 KH2O
Large tube on top
Took photo to show spatial displacement
Before cleaning 150 mV
After cleaning 115 -> 150 mv
- 183: rain, Site 3, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:30:56 MST, Station visit, site 3, rain tip
Test tip on rain gauge
- 182: radiation, Site 3, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:29:31 MST, Station visit site 3: cleaned radiometers
Cleaned radiometer domes, which already looked clean
- 181: LOG, Site 3, Thu 27-Jul-2006 09:25:43 MST, Station visit, Site 3
Site visit to station 3 on July 26
Arrived 9:56 am MST
Departed 11:14 am MST
Fixed electric fence grounding on prickly pear
Swapped USB disk
Mast down 10:46 am MST
Mast up 11:02 am MST
- 180: rain, Site 9, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:59:21 MDT, Station visit site 9: rain tip
Inspected rain gauge: no varmints
Recorded one tip for test.
- 179: rain, Site 8, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:59:01 MDT, Station visit site 8; rain tip
Inspected rain gauge: no varmints
Recorded one tip for test.
- 178: radiation, Site 9, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:57:43 MDT, Station visit site 9: cleaned net radiometer
Cleaned net radiometer; found domes clean and level
- 177: GOES, Site 9, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:55:12 MDT, Station visit site 9: data system, GOES, fence
Visited station 9 15:20 - 15:33 MST
Swapped USB disk
Taped GOES cooler; no moisture in cooler
Model 120 GOES transmitter
Repaired and tightened fence; charger okay.
- 176: prop-vane, Site 8, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:52:46 MDT, Station visit site 8: wind direction wrong
Gordon found wind direction off by 180 degrees.
Changed BD from 249 to 69 at 14:42 MST
- 175: radiation, Site 8, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:51:20 MDT, Station visit site 8; radiometer not level
Found net radiometer level off by 1/2 bubble to east.
Corrected level and cleaned radiometer.
- 174: GOES, Site 8, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:48:55 MDT, Station visit site 8; data system/GOES
Visited site 8 14:17 - 14:47 MST
Swapped USB disk; taped GOES cooler
Model 1200 GOES transmitter connected to ttyS8
- 173: radiation, Site 7, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:45:38 MDT, Station visit site 7: cleaned net radiometer
Cleaned net radiometer; found level
Shaved 1/8" organic (?) spot off located NW of top of dome
- 172: rain, Site 7, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:44:21 MDT, Station visit site 7; rain tip
Inspected rain gauge: no varmints
Recorded one tip for test.
- 171: GOES, Site 7, Tue 25-Jul-2006 17:42:06 MDT, Station visit site 7; data system/GOES
Visited site 7 13:35 - 13:50 MST
Swapped USB disk; taped GOES cooler lid (no moisture in cooler).
Model 110 GOES transmitter
- 170: daily status, Site , Tue 25-Jul-2006 10:56:10 MDT, Daily status, July 25
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 25, 8:00 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations appear to probably be
recording pretty good data almost all of the time, and we expect this
to likely continue for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine
intervention.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits
Routine maintenance (USB disk swap, clean radiometers, soil samples, check
fence, duct tape GOES cooler) at sites 10, 1,2. Plan to visit site 3 this
morning.
ISFF, where the technicians are strong, the engineers and scientists are good
looking, and all the data are above average.
- 169: soil, Site 2, Tue 25-Jul-2006 07:22:23 MDT, Station 2 soil sample
15:40 MST, station 2
Trime:
moisture TDR
15.0 Vol% 47.0
14.9 47.0
14.8 46
Soil
Some (e.g. large rock) of these samples were lost, so they should not be used
for bulk density, only for gravimetric moisture.
Tub #1 0-3cm 133.4 gm - 46.4 gm = 87.0 gm
in foil tray 95.1 gm - 8.0 gm = 87.1 gm
dry soil = 84.9 gm
Tub #1 3-6cm 135.8 gm - 46.4 gm = 89.4 gm
in foil tray (tared) 89.1 gm
dry soil = 79.9 gm
Stn2, tub B, 6-9cm 85.8 gm - 43.0 gm = 42.8 gm
in foil tray (tared) 42.5 gm
dry soil = 37.9 gm
Left: 15:55 MST
- 168: LOG, Site 10, Tue 25-Jul-2006 07:19:07 MDT, Station 2 site visit
Arrived 15:08 MST
Krypton voltage at 615 mV. Decided a cleaning wasn't necessary.
Radiometers clean and net radiometer level.
Swapped usbdisk.
Taped lid of GOES cooler.
Inspected and tipped rain gauge.
Sampled soil, see next entry.
Left 15:55 MST
- 167: LOG, Site 1, Mon 24-Jul-2006 23:03:20 MDT, Station 1 site visit
Arrived 14:20 MST.
Net radiometer was level and clean.
Inspected rain-gauge by raising cylinder, and
doing a tip, saw tip in logger data.
Top wire of electric fence had been knocked off a post.
Straightened out wire and posts. Hand-tested electric
fence.
Swapped usbdisk.
Left 14:40 MST
- 166: radiation, Site 10, Mon 24-Jul-2006 22:58:25 MDT, Station 10 radiometers
Radiometers looked clean at site 10.
Leveled net radiometer.
Assuming net rad boom was pointing south,
bubble was NE of center, so radiometer
was pointing slightly SW.
- 165: soil, Site 10, Mon 24-Jul-2006 22:58:25 MDT, Station 10 soil sample
Trime was not charged, so no trime sample.
Took 0-3 cm sample, in tub "#2, 0-3". Other samples
failed, soil too loose.
Tupperware lid came loose, so moisture not valid
net "wet" soil = Sample - tupperware = 123.9 - 46.1 = 77.8 gm
net "wet" soil in foil tray = 77.9 gm
net dry soil = 77.3 gm
- 164: krypton, Site 10, Mon 24-Jul-2006 22:55:03 MDT, Station 10 Krypton cleaning
Lower mast at 11:03 MST
Cleaned krypton with distilled water and Qtip:
Krypton voltage:
before cleaning: 130 mV
after cleaning: 95 mV
slowly rose to 100 mV
Voltage dropped after cleaning.
Raised mast: 11:22 MST
- 163: LOG, Site 10, Mon 24-Jul-2006 22:45:01 MDT, Station 10 site visit
Arrived 10:50 MST
Cover was off the electric fencer. Weighted it with rock. Cows nearby.
Taped lid on GOES cooler.
11:15 lowered mast, cleaned krypton (see next entry), raised mast at
11:23 MST.
Radiometers looked clean. Re-leveled Rnet.
Swapped USB disk.
Attempted to take soil sample - soil very loose, only succeeded
in 0-3cm sample, in tub #2.
Trime unit was discharged. Have to some back.
Left 12:30 MST
- 162: daily status, Site , Mon 24-Jul-2006 10:32:45 MDT, Daily status, July 24
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 24, 9:30 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations are probably recording
pretty good data almost all of the time, and we expect this to likely continue
for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits
No shoes, no shirt, no service
Routine maintenance planned today for stations 1,2,3,etc.
- 161: daily status, Site , Sun 23-Jul-2006 13:10:35 MDT, Daily status, July 23
CuPIDO ISFF daily status, July 23, 11:30 am
On site: Gordon Maclean (303-579-6026) and Tom Horst (303-319-5585)
Summary: With few exceptions, most of the stations are probably recording
pretty good data almost all of the time, and we expect this to likely continue
for the forseeable future barring divine or bovine intervention.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
Station visits
July 22
Station 4:
Replaced net radiometer (chewed cable) with repaired original
Replaced USB disk
Station 5:
Replaced 4 GB USB memory stick with 60 Gb USB Pocketec hard disk.
July 23
Station 6 (aka Bitchin' Hill):
Rewired multiplexer bypass in CR10X logger; cleaned radiometer;
duct-taped lid of GOES cooler.
Station 5:
Returned to remove Pocketec from case; found helicopter operations at site.
Replaced USB disk
- 160: weather, Site 5, Sun 23-Jul-2006 13:08:22 MDT, Helicopter training at Station 5
The Sheriff's department was practicing helicopter rescue operations within
a few hundred feet of station 5 from ~9:30 - 11:30 am this morning.
- 159: data-system, Site 5, Sun 23-Jul-2006 13:07:03 MDT, Removed Pocketec from case at Station 5
Returned to station 5 this morning to remove the Pocketec from its case for
better cooling.
- 158: radiation, Site 6, Sun 23-Jul-2006 13:05:34 MDT, Cleaned net radiometer at Station 6
I cleaned the net radiometer domes at station 6 this morning, although they
appeared clean.
- 157: data-system, Site 6, Sun 23-Jul-2006 13:02:17 MDT, Rewired CR10X multiplexer bypass at station 6
Gordon rewired the CR10X multiplexer bypass with 22 gauge wire and amp pins
between the bulkhead connecter and the CR10X patch panel:
Rnet Amp pin
4 clear -> AM16 shield
1 grey -> CR10 differential port 2H
2 green -> CR10 differential port 2L
Kept shield through original cable
I duct-taped the lid of the GOES cooler and swapped the USB disk.
- 156: data-system, Site 5, Sun 23-Jul-2006 13:00:24 MDT, Swapped in Pocketec hard drive at Station 5
gordon replaced the 4 GB USB memory stick at station 4 with the 60 Gb Pocketec
hard disk to increase the service interval at this station.
- 155: radiation, Site 4, Sun 23-Jul-2006 12:53:10 MDT, Replaced net radiometer at stn 4
The net radiometer at station 4 failed at 0100 local time, July 21.
Gordon repaired the cow-chewed net radiometer cable removed on July 20
and I replaced the domes (one had been dented, likely in transit).
We returned it to station 4 at 1500, July 22. The net radiometer on the
station again had a chewed cable, but looked like small incisor damage
rather than molar damage. Electric fence still intact and Gordon tested it
successfully by grabbing both the ground rod and the fence.
We also swapped the USB data drive.
- 154: radiation, Site , Sat 22-Jul-2006 11:21:38 MDT, repaired net radiometer s/n Q94196
Gordon repaired the chewed cable on net radiometer s/n Q94196. One dome was
dented, so I replaced both domes while I was at it.
- 153: LOG, Site 4, Sat 22-Jul-2006 10:20:53 MDT, Station 4 site visit
Station 4 – Web plots down – rebel cattle incursion and destructive activities
Purpose: With the web plots down we sought to bring the station back up
Time: 1445pm arrival 1745 departure.
Upon inspection we noted that cattle had wrought havoc with the electric fence
(taking down about 1/5th of the fencing, had knocked over the GOES transmitter
cooler, and had chewed through the green cable to the logger and the GOES,
as well as the gray cable to the precip and net rad sensors! In addition,
with exposed wires and rains the previous day, the fuses had blown to both
GOES and the logger. John took pictures.
The electric fence was reset on the posts and tightened successfully. Initially
it did not work because the fence wire was touching cactus with good contact.
After eliminating that contact the fence began working rather well and will
hopefully prevent future incursions by the rebel cattle outlaws of Lone Hill.
The only data lost was that from the logger-based rain gauge and net radiation
sensors. We should be able to discern whether the weather or the cattle hit
the system first by looking at the locally archived data.
Fuses were replaced for ttyS5 and ttyS3 (GOES in port 13)
Cables were replaced with spares or mended. The GOES system was moved out from
under the solar panel and duct taped to prevent future water entry
(… duct tape on the remaining coolers at other stations is advised …).
This was done because the replacement green cable was not long enough to reach
the previous position and the spare cabling (left over gray cabling from the
hot-film at T-REX did not have the CTS wire).
The Net Rad sensors was changed out completed with a spare (the cable to the
earlier NRad will need to be fixed).
Q94125 – Cal values entered in logger from plate on sensor –
positive 8.75, neg 10.84.
The old hot-film special cable was used to power the logger (two Bulgins were
taped at their junction to reach).
The precip cable was re-worked to good cable (it had been chewed near the gauge and had enough length to keep using).
On data drive exchange the usb-drive did not properly unmount, or upon reboot
it give errors in mount. However, the data system and data archiving was fine
despite these errors. A future visit might seek to fix this.
- 152: soil, Site 5, Sat 22-Jul-2006 10:19:02 MDT, Station 5 – soil sampling
Station 5 – soil sampling
Soil samples were taken between 1215-1235
TRIME: Mean value 9.3% with 0.2% variation among two readings of two samples.
Gravitmetric samples (uniform soil with few small rocks – required sledge
but was otherwise well sampled due to the previous day’s rain).
This sample sat overnight (condensation of soil moisture into the container is a considerable factor) and was discarded on 21 July.
- 151: krypton, Site 5, Sat 22-Jul-2006 10:17:47 MDT, Station 5 – Krypton cleaned
Station 5 – Krypton cleaned
The krypton hygrometer was cleaned at 1245 with little change noted in the response.
- 150: radiation, Site 5, Sat 22-Jul-2006 10:12:00 MDT, Station 5 radiometer cleaning
Station 5 – Radiation sensors cleaned
The 4-component and net radiation sensors were cleaned between 1210-1215 using
distilled water and kim wipes. Some dirt had splattered up and accumulated
at the apex of the domes during the previous day’s rains.
----
- 149: GOES, Site 5, Sat 22-Jul-2006 10:08:20 MDT, Station 5 visit, July 20
Station 5 – Station web plots down
Station 5 was visited and it was found that the GOES system had become
non-functional. It had gone down during the previous day’s monsoon storms
and not been able to re-synch with the data system, which had continued running
(no notable data losses were found). Water was noted in the bottom of the GOES
container (cooler). The system was restarted successfully with a reboot.
~1200 the data drive was also exchanged station 5. Next exchange prior to
July 30.
- 148: data-system, Site 6, Sat 22-Jul-2006 10:00:10 MDT, Station 6 visit on July 20
st6 Visit: Rnet / logger outage
20jul06 7:40-9:15
Purpose: Bad Rnet since station zapped 2 nights ago.
Logger readings were kaput for the installed rnet as well as the spare, known
good sensor. Upon a power cycle the readings momentarily looked good but
steadily setting into pegged out values.
Rather than change the software (a temporary until power cycle fix) to determine
whether the bad component was the am416 mux or the cr10 adc (batt voltage was
still good), SteveS recommended directly wiring the rnet to the mux input
channel on the cr10. That worked because there is only 1 sensor here.
I had to 'twist wires' together to cobble a jumper to have them long enough
to reach the adc-diff channel 2 input. This worked and the readings began
to appear reasonable however, the security of the connection needs to be
improved to ensure it remains good.
- 147: daily status, Site all, Sat 22-Jul-2006 09:42:16 MDT, Daily status, July 22
Status, July 22, 8:30 am Az local time
On site: Gordon Maclean and Tom Horst
Summary: All sites working, with the exception of the net radiometer at station
4, which stopped around 0100 July 21, local time. We plan to repair the chewed cable on the damaged net radiometer and return to station 4 today.
Station visits, July 20
John Militzer visited site 6 early on July 20 because the multiplexer failed on the CR10X data logger. Since the only analog input is the net radiometer, he
rewired the data logger to bypass the multiplexer.
John, Greg, and Tom visited site 5 around noon on July 20 because the GOES
transmitter stopped. This failure followed a rainstorm and there was moisture
within the cooler housing the GOES transmitter. We moved the cooler further
under the solar panels and restarted the station data system to successfully
restart the GOES transmitter.
We also swapped the USB disk, cleaned the KH2O and radiometers, measured soil
moisture with the TRIME, and took soil samples for gravimetric analysis.
Unfortunately the following visit to site 4 took so long that Gordon and I
threw out the soil samples and took new samples on July 21.
John, Greg, and Tom then visited site 4 because the GOES had stopped. We
discovered that a rough gang of cows had vandalized the site, knocking down the electric fence and chewing several cables on the ground including the GOES
cable, the logger cable, and the net radiometer cable. We repaired the fence
and replaced the cables as best we could with the cables we had with us. We
installed the spare net radiometer.
Station visit, July 21
Gordon and I noted that the TRH data was full scale at station 5. We visited
the station around 1300 Az local time and recycled power on the TRH to get good
data. We also took a Trime reading and new soil samples.
- 146: soil, Site 5, Fri 21-Jul-2006 17:57:34 MDT, Gravimetric measurements from station 5
Total sample weight in tupperware container:
Total Container Net weight
0-3 cm 177.9 gm 46.1 gm 131.8 gm
3-6 cm 154.9 gm 46.0 gm 108.9 gm
6-9 cm 117.9 gm 44.3 gm 73.6 gm
Total sample weight in foil tray
0-3 cm 139.7 gm 8.0 gm 131.7 gm
3-6 cm 117.1 gm 8.0 gm 109.1 gm
6-9 cm 81.7 gm 8.0 gm 73.7 gm
Total dry sample weight in foil tray
0-3 cm 134.0 gm 8.0 gm 126.0 gm
3-6 cm 110.2 gm 8.0 gm 102.2 gm
6-9 cm 77.4 gm 8.0 gm 69.4 gm
- 145: TRH, Site 5, Fri 21-Jul-2006 17:47:22 MDT, Visit to station 5
John, Greg, and I visited station 5 yesterday, July 20, around noon.
John restarted station to revive GOES transmission.
John (or Greg) swapped USB drives
John cleaned KH2O windows
Greg made Trime measurements, took soil samples, and cleaned radiometers.
Note that Greg promised to send a more detailed description of this station
visit.
Gordon and I noted this morning, July 21, that the TRH was pegged full scale
for both temperature and humidity. We visited station, arriving around
12:15 local time. Recycled power on the TRH, which commenced to output
acceptable data. [This serial number is 704, which was one of the 3 that
had the same problem in TREX.]
After visiting station 5 yesterday, we went to station 4 and spent considerable time repairing cow vandalism of the site. As a consequence, the soil samples
from station 5 aged an unacceptable time, so Gordon and I redid the soil
moisture measurements today.
At 13:00 local time, the Trime measured 8.9% soil moisture (TDR 46.0,
Probe P3, number 1)
Took soil samples at 13:10 local time.
- 144: soil, Site all, Fri 21-Jul-2006 17:44:14 MDT, Revised gravimetric procedure
We revised the gravimetric procedure to account for the soil moisture that
collects on the interior of the tupperware container:
1. Weigh tupperware container with wet soil
2. Clean and weigh large aluminum tray
3. Transfer total soil sample to aluminum tray
4. Weigh wet soil and tray (just for fun, not necessary)
5. Clean and weigh tupperware container
6. Bake moisture out of wet soil sample
7. Weigh dry soil sample and aluminum tray
Bulk density = (w.7 - w.2)/volume of sample
where w.n = weight of step n above
volume of sample = h*pi*r^2 = e.g. 3 cm * pi * (2.7 cm)^2
= 68.71 cm^3
Soil moisture (% mass) = ((w.1 - w.5)/(w.7 - w.2) - 1)*100
Fun question: How close is this to
Soil moisture (% mass) = ((w.4 - w.2)/(w.7 - w.2) - 1)*100
I expect the latter soil moisture to be less than the former due to loss of
moisture from the sample that condenses inside the tupperware container.
- 143: data-system, Site 9, Wed 19-Jul-2006 17:03:01 MDT, St 9 Visit: GOES outage
19Jul06 14:10-14:45
Purpose: Station reporting was intermittent and then down last night/today
Upon arrival:
Station power OK
DAQ OK
usbstick OK, data was being archived.
GOES down.
No obvious reason in messages or adam.log
See adam/message logs in:
/data/projects/Cupido/logs/st9_071906_xxx.log
Reinstalled software
Just for giggles.
Did see the 'memory error' that I've seen before when doing this,
even though Gordon reports that shouldn't be a problem.
usbstick swapped
Rebooted: everything went ok and reporting started right up without
any problem, or needing power cycle, etc.
Note: Did observe data_stats 'late message received' error after the
reboot. Perhaps that had something to do with it.
- 142: data-system, Site 6, Wed 19-Jul-2006 12:47:22 MDT, St 6 Visit: Data loss overnight
19Jul06 8:30-9:30
Purpose: Station reporting went down last night during Tstorm.
DAQ down upon arrival although station power and the Viper was up and running.
The usbdisk was 'dead' to the system.
Basically minimal log files since 4z.
Some small amount of water in the bottom of the goes box.
Halted data system and powered down.
Goes pvc elbows installed to improve ventillation.
Booted and everything went ok. Discovered the usbstick data is there but
stopped ~18jul06 21:40, thus we lost data overnight.
Stopped adam, swapped usbstick,
ck_goes was good.
Restart and everything looks ok.
Conclusion:
I believe the station took a lightning surge and 'burped'.
Decided not to reinstall the software just to see if it'd recover
without that even though the 'zap' probably fouled it's dynamic
memory if not other.
Grounding here has always been a concern. We installed 2 rods
roughly 25' away but i'm thinking that the ground strap from the
elec box to mast lug should be removed with a hunch that ground
strokes could be putting a surge on the ground.
Rnet: I tried to clean it although it appeared basically clean.
When doing so, i noticed water vapor condense briefly inside the dome.
Didn't think much of it other than perhaps we need to change dessicant.
However..
when i looked at rserial i thought the values were 350-ish and ok,
but since it's been back online the rnet data has been bad.
returning with spare sensor.....
- 141: daily status, Site all, Wed 19-Jul-2006 12:06:23 MDT, New activity: Enter status reports on the CuPIDO field catalog
Greg Stossmeister of CDS, who is operating the CuPIDO field catalog, has asked
us to enter our daily status reports online at:
http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/cupido/forms/isff_status.pl.1
Password: cumulus
It is self explanatory (preview form button, then submit if satisfied).
A link to the website has been placed in an icon at the top of the web browser
on ASTER.
- 140: daily status, Site all, Wed 19-Jul-2006 11:24:34 MDT, Daily status 19 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 19 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: 9 of 10 stations are operating normally. Station 6's web plots went
down completely at 1445LT yesterday (it is back up as of 1100LT today), and
Station 9's web plots became intermittent (this coincided with our first
monsoon rain/wind day in a number of days) - both are being investigated.
Based on experience the latter dropouts are not due to lost data but GOES communication problems. ISFF data can be found at the CuPIDO field catalog (Research Products link) and http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally, some web dropouts
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Web plots down as of 1445LT yesterday, being investigated today.
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Web plots have become intermittent, being investigated today.
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally, krypton hygrometer V is better with recent cleaning
- 139: data-system, Site 6, Wed 19-Jul-2006 11:17:22 MDT, Data lost at Stn 6 ~2145Z 18 July - ~16Z 19 July
The data system went offline, perhaps due to the USB stick going offline) at
2145Z or so 18 July during the day's monsoon
storms. It is unclear if the storms were the cause but grounding issues are
being investigated. The power was up at the system and the aspirator and other
systems were running. The GOES was fine as well (although it had nothing to
send). The system was returned to functionality after the investigation.
- 138: project-info, Site all, Tue 18-Jul-2006 16:17:24 MDT, Mast Tool Use Hints
As a reminder for Tom,Gordon,others....
This is excerpted in the "~aster/isff/projects/CuPIDO/doc/MyCUPIDOosHints.txt"
MAST Tool Use Hints (electric winch version):
---------------------------------------------
To Lower:
- Use a fresh battery
don't use the station battery
I put one for st10 at the site.
- Place Mast Stand
in line with the mast
beyond where the csat is (7m)
- Put Mast Winch on tripod
the quick release pin should be
oriented with the release clip
towards the mast.
- Wrap the strap around the mast
above the crossarm.
avoid pinching data cables
(ie underneath them if possible)
Have the ring end on the side towards
the motor to improve spooling of cable
Clip the winch hook to the strap.
- Make sure mast collar bolts are tight (upper and lower)
- Loosen mast pivot bolt slightly if needed
- Remove 'back' guy wire cable
wrap the loose end around the trh so
it will be out of the way and not dangle.
ALTERNATE: in windy conditions, you can actually
use this guy wire to help stablize the mast as
it is lowered (use gloves when holding it!)
- From the front of the mast arrange the control cable
to avoid pinching or getting caught as you lower
- Unbolt the mast clamp
gently allow the mast to lower until the
strap tightens and holds.
- Lower Mast gently
Make sure the control switch is set to unwind
hold the mast to stabilize it as it lowers.
guide it into the mast stand
IMPORTANT: Avoid jerking and whipping the mast
They have been known to break!
To Raise
- Check that the side guy-wire turn buckles are rotated
to avoid jambing and torquing the mast.
(open end of the bolt on the buckle attached
to the tripod bracket faces up)
- Check all the guy wires and cables
so that they won't bind or trip you
- Begin to Raise the mast
Make sure the mast stand does not hang up
as the mast begins to raise, or
else it'll 'remind' you by falling when you
least expect it!
- Verify that the cable is spooling properly as it goes up.
Ie not folding back upon itself or bunching up.
it should lay in nice spirals.
- Guide and assist the motor by hand.
There is high torque on the motor esp. at the bottom
end.
Observe side guy wires if possible.
- Stop winch before the pulley jambs on the cable
about 6" before the collar.
- Push the mast into the top collar, secure bolts and clamp
- Attach back guy wire
tighten it to straighten the mast
look up the mast to determine plumb
- Cable tie the turnbuckle
- Slightly tighten the pivot bolt.
- Retrieve the mast stand and winch tools.
MAST Tool Use Hints (manual winch version):
-------------------------------------------
The manual winch can be used for non-flux stations (ie light weight)
and in a pinch maybe for a flux tower as well.
The only big difference is the 'battery' (duh), and this:
IMPORTANT: make sure the hand winch is clamped very tightly
to (preferably) the back leg of the tripod or else it could slip,
resulting in some unpleasantry.
It should be obvious how the winch clamps to the tripod legs.
Some versions allow the winch to be placed on any leg.
You may want to use the back guy wire to help stabilize
the mast as it is winched up/down.
- 137: daily status, Site all, Tue 18-Jul-2006 10:55:05 MDT, Daily status 18 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 18 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating normally with 128 meteorological
variables being recorded.ISFF data can be found at:
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/ and the CuPIDO
field catalog.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally
- 136: GOES, Site 8, Tue 18-Jul-2006 10:02:26 MDT, St 8 Visit: goes outage
17jul06 15:45-17:00
Purpose: routine maintenance
GOES pvc elbows installed, raised off ground to help improve ventillation.
Note: this SE1200 s/n 1031, with gps antenna s/n 2537881
took very long to set its clock. After 45 minutes a power cycle
and reboot of the data system did work and the transmitter's
clock was set allowing the dsm to proceed and telemeter data.
Check this unit in Boulder for abberations.
- 135: data-system, Site 8, Tue 18-Jul-2006 10:01:22 MDT, St 8 Visit: rnet cleaned
17jul06 15:45-17:00
Purpose: routine maintenance
rnet cleaned 16:15
appeared clean prior to 'cleaning'
- 134: radiation, Site 10, Tue 18-Jul-2006 09:55:10 MDT, St 10 Visit: radiometers cleaned
17jul06 12:40 - 14:50
Purpose: routine maintenance, logger power
Radiometers Cleaned 14:30
Logger Power re-arranged.
Had to rewire to allow the logger to be powered directly from the
main data system since we turned off the XBEE radios a couple days
ago and disconnected the pv as a result.
This box needs to be rewired anyway.
Retrieved XBEE radios
Removed 20w pv from top of sawhorse; which slightly improved the
shading issue of the ground produced by the sawhorse/logger.
- 133: krypton, Site 10, Tue 18-Jul-2006 09:43:22 MDT, St 10 Visit: krypton cleaning
17jul06 12:40 - 14:50
Purpose: routine maintenance, logger power
Mast Down: 12:52-13:50
Krypton Cleaned: s/n 1101
This *^(^ thing fooled me.
I ended up cleaning it 4 times over and hour period
because when doing data dump prior
to cleaning it i thought i'd seen 200mV. Then after the first
and subsequent cleanings it went to between 100-130mV which made
me think it got worse and been messed up.
Wrong, Greg later informed me the pre-clean values had been ~20mV.
According to Greg's analysis this unit is performing well across
the spectrum to at up to ~14hz, however we may want to swap it
out with the kh2o at 5 where the licor is colocated.
- 132: data-system, Site 7, Mon 17-Jul-2006 16:22:49 MDT, St 7 Visit: routine maintenance
17jul06 17:50-18:30
Purpose: routine maintence
USB Data storage retrieved and swapped
Had trouble with the initial usb stick used
(#13 which has been bad, questionable at several other sites previously
but Greg wanted to try it one last time
....io errors once again
....performed minor sledge-hammer adjustment on this stick at
base later on.)
Installed 4G unit instead of .5 since no other available
...swap it out for flux sites.
GOES pvc elbows installed, raised off ground to help ventillation.
Software upload.
Double checked that the newest software version is installed here
because it does have a SE110, and wanted to confirm the usbstick
errors were not caused by the viper code for some strange reason.
- 131: data-system, Site 8, Mon 17-Jul-2006 16:22:10 MDT, St 8 Visit: routine mainentance
17jul06 15:45-17:00
Purpose: routine maintenance
USB data storage retrieved and swapped
GOES pvc elbows installed, raised off ground to help improve ventillation.
See also rad cleaning, goes note
- 130: project-info, Site 10, Mon 17-Jul-2006 16:21:23 MDT, St 10 Visit: routine maintenance
17jul06 12:40 - 14:50
Purpose: routine maintenance, logger power
Mast Down: 12:52-13:50
USB local data storage swapped/recovered
GOES pvc elbows installed and raised off ground to help ventillation
See also clean kh2o/rad
- 129: soil, Site 10, Mon 17-Jul-2006 16:21:02 MDT, St 10 Visit: Soil sample
17jul06 12:20 - 14:50
Grabbed tub of soil. This completes the tub soiling for Cupido. Now Dr.O
will have plenty of dirt to play with back in Boulder!
- 127: daily status, Site all, Mon 17-Jul-2006 13:14:15 MDT, Daily status 16 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 16 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating normally with 128 meteorological
variables being recorded. Soil samples are being taken at all flux sites.
Fencing has been installed at Stations 1, 2, and 9 to protect from cattle.
Less than an hour of data from Stn 2 were lost during the morning of July 15
during the data system outage.
See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, operating normally
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally (spiky soil heat flux web plot to
be fixed today)
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating normally (Logger battery dropping)
- 126: daily status, Site all, Mon 17-Jul-2006 13:12:04 MDT, Daily status 17 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 17 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating normally with 128 meteorological
variables being recorded. Mobile CuPIDO operations (MGAUS/Wyoming KA) begin
today with meetings at the UA Atmospheric Science department (1400 each day
through mid-August). The first WKA flight will be tomorrow. Tim Lim and the
MGAUS team and the PI, Joe Zehnder are staying at the same hotel as ISFF.
NOTE: The next ISFF team will be in place on 21 Jul (Friday) and is composed
of Tom Horst and Gordon Maclean. ISFF data can be found at:
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/ and the CuPIDO
field catalog.
Station 01, N: Operating normally
Station 02, NE: Operating normally
Station 03, ENE: Operating normally (spiky heat flux and low GOES dB fixed)
Station 04, E: Operating normally
Station 05, SSE: Operating normally
Station 06, S: Operating normally
Station 07, SW: Operating normally
Station 08, W: Operating normally
Station 09, WNW: Operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Operating normally (Logger battery dropping)
- 125: radiation, Site 3, Mon 17-Jul-2006 11:38:17 MDT, St 3 Visit: Radiometers cleaned, Serial#/Coefs confirmed
16Jul06 11:30 - 16:00
Radiometers Cleaned: 12:30
Confirmed Flux Serial Numbers, and coefficients in logger per
spreadsheet SteveS. provided:
Q7 e27035
pspin e16714
pygin 26416
pspout e17877
pygout e29260
hft 993560 (had been swapped from original installed)
tsoil 97001
tp01 200235
Krypton 1391
- 124: krypton, Site 3, Mon 17-Jul-2006 11:37:14 MDT, St 3 Visit: Krypton cleaned
16Jul06 11:30 - 16:00
Krypton Cleaned: 12:00
voltage raised from 350mV to 700mV
s/n 1391
- 123: LOG, Site 3, Sun 16-Jul-2006 12:15:40 MDT, St 3 Visit: Routine Maintenance
16Jul06 11:30 - 16:00
Rain Gauge: checked and had slight level adjustment....very minor.
Electric Fence Checked:
Battery is at 13.1 now so moved PV charging it back onto the
main station array.
The fencer is working but the zap is weak....probably because
this 'soil' has many rocks and not highly conductive plus very
Finally saw a cow 'in the area' roughly 1-2 miles away!
GOES: PVC elbows replaced cable feedthroughs to provide a small amount
of ventillation.
Checked SigStr: 11W; good
With the wattmeter installed the nesdis quality parameters were
good, but disconnected it dropped back to 38ish dbm: too low.
Removed surge supressor from inline to antenna. After waiting
the results from nesdis were back up to 47ish: good.
No spares at this point for the antenna surge arrestor, but will
leave it off. The antenna is close to the ground so hopefully
won't take a hit. The arrestors are a safety precaution we haven't
used before.
Data Uploaded:
Disk was at roughly 30% since 5jul.
Licor Cleaned: 12:00
voltage raised from 350mV to 700mV
Rad Cleaned: 12:30
- 121: soil, Site 3, Sun 16-Jul-2006 12:05:15 MDT, Stn 3 Visit: Soil measurements, sample, HFT 'glitch fix'
16Jul06 11:30 - 16:00
Purpose: TRIME, Gravimetric and soil sample
TRIME measurements:
11.6% vol, 44 TDR level
This was taken just north of the tripod, roughly 12m away from the
installed soil sensors. The spot was the only one nearby that
didn't have so many rocks, and was able to insert the probes after
hammering in the 'fake rods'. There's some question whether the
rods made solid contact in the soil.
Gravimetric: No sample taken
Attempted to collect sample, many times. No luck.
'Soil' either fell out of tube, couldn't insert it all the way, and
finally after using Greg's sledge hammer technique 'yet again',
i couldn't extract the brass rings (and of course meanwhile the
'soil' fell out onced again). It's possible that the tubes are now
slightly out of round, and need fixing... :-(
Recommendation: try taking a sample after a good rain storm, and
consider taking the scale carefully into the field to perform
the measurements immediately; placing the small divided samples
into plastic baggies.
Tub Soil sample collected for later analysis.
HFT Logger Glitch 'fixed'
Directly cabled the logger to viper box, bypassing the XBEE radios.
I had to cludge rewire the logger box to do it.
These boxes need to be rebuilt and improved anyway.
- 120: GOES, Site 5, Sun 16-Jul-2006 12:04:25 MDT, Stn 5: GOES heat holes drilled
16Jul06 9:05-9:40
PVC elbows for cable feedthroughs were installed to help vent heat from
the GOES cooler. Box was raised a bit off the ground
- 119: soil, Site 5, Sun 16-Jul-2006 12:02:46 MDT, Stn 5 Visit: Soil sample
16Jul06 9:05-9:40
A tub of soil from station 5 was gathered. It was placed (along with the other tubs) under the counter against the wall in the back room of the trailer - the wall bordering the front room).
- 118: data-system, Site all, Sun 16-Jul-2006 11:50:24 MDT, Estimated station usb drive fill times - Station 5! 10 days! Suspicious
USB Drive fill times by station type – CUPIDO 16 July 2006
90%
Space Drive Time to
Drive 4hr fl Used Space fill
size size /day Avail USB drive
(Mb) (Mb) (Mb) (Mb) (days)
------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Flux w/LiCor 4000 55.62 333.72 3600 10.79 Stn 5, SSE Basic 512 1.73 10.38 460.8 44.39 Stns 1,4,6,7,8,9
Flux 4000 27.80 166.8 3600 21.58 Stns 2,3 and 10
Since the only difference between St 5 and the other flux stations is the LiCor
it is somewhat surprising that the data volume is doubled. Will ask Gordon.
- 117: data-system, Site 2, Sat 15-Jul-2006 18:12:59 MDT, st2 Visit: Station Plots Outage / brought back up
15Jul06 11:25 - 12:20
Purpose: Station appeared down beginning last night a 9pm after our visit
there.
Data System:
The data files were on the usbdisk but we need to look at them a bit.
GOES and it's stats_proc were down.
Saw many errors in the messages/adam logs including goes length mis-
match, wrong sequence number, stats_proc late messages and many
gps errors of the type "clk_fault". The statsproc for goes had died.
See logs in: /data/projects/CuPIDO/logs/st2_071506_[adam,sys].log
Looked at gps with minicom and daq off....seemed rather unusual with
a lot of 2-5 char appearing short messages and then some normal ones.
Checked software install and it appears OK in comparison with the
source usbdisk; ie the upload last night seemed good.
Just for giggles did a full box power cycle.
Upon rebooting everything came back, goes looked good, etc.
Note that in the ~5 hours since then even the periodic outages we
had been noticing in the goes data (late messages in statsproc)
have gone away for now.
Soil Sample Collected in tupperware for Dr.Oncley's enjoyment back in Boulder.
Moved Electric Fencer.
Based on a hunch, moved fencer away from the solar/goes stand so that
the ground rod is not dual-use with the goes surge arrester....perhaps
that wide-band noise from the pulsing was clobbering the goes-sio.
Better config. now, but must check this later since the new ground
was just twisted tightly around one of the rebar fence posts and that
could oxidize and mess up the fencers ground
- 116: LOG, Site 9, Sat 15-Jul-2006 18:01:11 MDT, St 9: Site maintenance and electric fence install
Site visit: 1432 - 1605
The net radiometer was cleaned between 1433 - and 1438.
PVC was inserted into the GOES cooler box to allow heat to escape.
An electric fence was installed.
The precip gauge was checked.
- 115: project-info, Site 1, Sat 15-Jul-2006 17:59:35 MDT, St 1: Elevation
The GPS elevation of Site 1 was checked. A range of values were used over a period of 15 minutes (4353 ft - 4371 ft). Will utilize 4362 ft.
- 114: LOG, Site 1, Sat 15-Jul-2006 17:55:47 MDT, St 1: Site maintenance data, rad, GOES heat holes
1250-1349.
The data drive was exchanged during this visit.
PVC heat outlet holes were incorporated into the GOES cooler.
The radiometer was cleaned (it had accumulated soil stains visible to the
naked eye).
- 113: project-info, Site 1, Sat 15-Jul-2006 17:54:39 MDT, St 1: Electric fence
An electric fence was installed at St 1 today (operational at 1300).
- 112: daily status, Site all, Sat 15-Jul-2006 10:27:34 MDT, Daily status 15 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 15 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating with questions about 1 of 128 meteorological variables (see below). Station 6's web plots are erratic in NetRad and Rain, while Station 2's web plots went down at 2100LT last night for all variables. Stn 10's radiation stand has been raised and the inbound longwave radiation measurements appears to be improved (to be evaluated in more detail). Fencing has been installed at Stn 2. Fencing will be installed sites 1 and 2 as well. See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, web plots down
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally
Station 06, S: Up, web plots erratic (NetRad/Rain only)
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating normally, Longwave inbound to be evaluated today/tomorrow (it is elevated in value relative to the other 4-component radiation sites). Krypton voltage remains low.
- 111: project-info, Site 10, Fri 14-Jul-2006 20:33:07 MDT, St 10: flux Serial numbers
TP01 200240
Pyr.in ep161945
Pyr.out ep16107
HFT H983213
Tsoil STP94017
Pyg.out ep27907
Pyg.in ep29136
NetRad Q91096
ie radiometers all originally as planned and soils had been swapped from st5.
confirmed coefficients in logger per what SteveS sent
- 110: prop-vane, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 20:32:14 MDT, st2 Visit: boom angle, slight change
14Jul06 14:00 - 17:30
Purpose: Intermittent outages last night / routine maintenance
BD was 044, now set 041 per slight adjustment in tower alignment
- 109: sonic, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 20:28:51 MDT, st2 Visit: sonic angle, slight change
14Jul06 14:00 - 17:30
Purpose: Intermittent outages last night / routine maintenance
CSAT pointing towards 130 degrees now after slight shift in tower alignment
- 108: krypton, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 20:23:58 MDT, st2 Visit: Krypton cleaned
14Jul06 14:00 - 17:30
Purpose: Intermittent outages last night / routine maintenance
14:40 krypton cleaned, kh2o #1385 (must be 1395 and i couldn't read it correctly)
values went from .35 to .6vdc
- 107: radiation, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 20:21:58 MDT, st2 Visit: irad cleaned, tsfc repositions
14Jul06 14:00 - 17:30
Purpose: Intermittent outages last night / routine maintenance
15:05 Radiometers Cleaned.
~15:45 Tsfc re-aimed to be away from the large mesquite bush to a more representative spot on the ground.
- 106: data-system, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 20:19:04 MDT, st2 Visit: install software / upload usb data
14Jul06 14:00 - 17:30
Purpose: Intermittent outages last night / routine maintenance
DAQ was running. USB was at 40% full since 3jul.
Installed new software,
Memory Error: Eep Block 0x002a0000 taken from free block had.. 0x0000064!!"
similar to what was seen at station 6 yesterday. otherwise ok
Uploaded data
NOTE: Tower lowered 14:40 - 15:46 on 2 occassions
during cleaning and repositioning of the tsfc.
Other
Installed electric fence.....horses observed hanging around today.
Installed pvc cable feedthrough (vents) for goes box and raised it.
Antenna alignment very good. SE110 1007
- 105: soil, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 19:53:55 MDT, St 2: Soil measurements
Trime measurements were highly variable (the following are means of multiple
samples at 6 individual locations near the current sensors:
Site 1: 16.2%
Site 2: 7.0
Site 3: 14.0
Site 4: 9.2
Site 5: 9.3
Site 6: 14.1
Gravimetric sample (this sample was relatively easy).
Gravimetric results (g):
Layer Sample Weight
cntnr wt in cntnr
0-3cm 25.2 92.9 (not a good sample due to rocks that fell out)
3-6cm 41.5 148.7
6-7.8cm 5.3 69.9 (bag) (Estimate of lost volume 2 mm)
To the oven
All tin weights were 1.5g and are included in the weights
0-3cm by tin (D1-D3)
Before After
Cookng Cooking Difference
D1 20.5 19.7 -0.8
D2 20.6 19.7 -0.9
D3 24.5 23.5 -1.0
3-6cm by tin (E1-E3)
E1 30.7 26.3 -4.4
E2 42.0 35.7 -6.3
E3 31.0 27.0 -4.0
6-7.8cm by tin (B1 and B2)
B1 25.2 21.8 -3.4
B2 30.6 25.9 -4.7
- 104: project-info, Site 2, Fri 14-Jul-2006 19:51:33 MDT, St 2: Serial numbers
At 1445LT we noted the following serial numbers:
TP01 200242
Pyr.in 970378
Pyr.out 940187
HFT H993562
Tsoil STP97003
Pyg.out EP31978
Pyg.in EPP31976
NetRad Q99258
- 103: radiation, Site 10, Fri 14-Jul-2006 19:47:01 MDT, St 10: Radiation stand raised to full extension (~3m)
The radiation stand was raised between 1105 and 1150 LT.
The purpose of this was to eliminate some potential impacts of radiation from
bushes above the height of the LW.in sensor.
Initial impressions are that this had little effect. The hillside/valley location to the west may be the culprit, as may be a scratch on the sensor dome.
Greg
- 102: soil, Site 10, Fri 14-Jul-2006 19:44:03 MDT, St 10 Soil samples/info
time: 1105-1239pm
TRIME measurement 9.7%
Gravimetric measurements for 0-3cm and 3-6cm (it took 20 tries and 3 insertions
to get the two samples because of rocks and soil falling out of the core.
Gravimetric results (g):
Layer Sample Weight
Cntr wt in cntr
0-3cm 43.0 150.5
3-6cm 44.3 172.3
To the oven
All tin weights were 1.5g and are NOT included (tared)
0-3cm by tin
Before After
Cookng Cooking Difference
C1 32.9 32.7 -0.2
C2 36.6 36.3 -0.3
F2 35.3 35.0 -0.3
3-6cm by tin (E1-E3)
F3 35.5 34.7 -0.8
A2 25.5 24.9 -0.6
A3 40.9 40.0 -0.9
- 101: daily status, Site all, Fri 14-Jul-2006 19:30:01 MDT, Daily status 14 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 14 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Special note: The data at Station 5 accumulates more rapidly than all other
sites due to the LiCor. Please keep a strict download regimen for it per
the status board (no more than 10 day intervals).
Summary: All 10 stations are operating with questions about 1 of 128
meteorological variables (see below). The spiky web plot of soil heat flux at
Stn 10 has been solved by using direct cabling rather than radio data transfer.
The same will be done at Station 3 (or a different radio will be used).
Station 4 and 6's web plots are erratic in NetRad and Rain, while Station 2's
web plots are erratic for all variables. Fencing will be installed at 3 sites
over the next few days to protect from cattle (Sites 1, 2 and 9). See
(http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, erratic web plots
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, web plots erratic (NetRad/Rain only)
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally
Station 06, S: Up, web plots erratic (NetRad/Rain only)
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating normally, Longwave inbound to be evaluated
today/tomorrow (it is elevated in value relative to the other 4-component
radiation sites).
- 100: radiation, Site 5, Fri 14-Jul-2006 09:54:54 MDT, St 5: Radiation cleaned
13Jul06 15:15-17:30
DAQ was running upon arrival. A couple days ago it's plots were intermittent.
Decided to reinstall new software (uncertain which version it had)
NOTE: during this process got a MEMORY ERROR during install....!
"Eep Block 0x002a0000 taken from Free_List Bad Free_Size of 0x00000064!!"
NOTE: data stick was 91% full in 10days.
- 99: daily status, Site all, Thu 13-Jul-2006 20:33:15 MDT, Daily status 13 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 13 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating with questions about 1 of 128
meteorological variables (see below). Station 6's web plots started the day
down and have been fixed. The T/RH at Stn 5 has been replaced to evaluate the
data taken prior to today.
See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, operating normally
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally (spiky heat flux on web plot - data OK)
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally
Station 06, S: Up, operating with web plots down
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating near normal (spiky heat flux on web plot test
is underway. The radiation stand is to be raised tomorrow to get above
nearby vegetation. The krypton has been evaluated and apparently satisfactory
10Hz or better data is being collected. It is less likely that it will now be
replaced.
- 98: soil, Site 5, Thu 13-Jul-2006 20:15:18 MDT, St 5: Soil measurements TRIME/Gravimetric
Stn 5 soil samples were taken at 1730 13 July (grav) and 1630 (TRIME). The
soil is very hard and requires leaving the cap loose because a hammer or small
sledge is required to insert the soil tool. A sealable plastic bag was used
to hold the soil samples.
TRIME results (John):
9.4% Volume TDR level 51.0
Note I did have to hammer in the fake-rods prior to inserting the actual
probes. This left me a bit concerned about how well they were coupled to
the ground. This ground is very hard and somewhat brittle. I tried to
'pack' the stuff a little bit before taking the readings all of which
produced the same reading above
Gravimetric results (g):
Layer Sample Weight
Bag wt in bag
0-3cm 4.0 130.3
3-6cm 5.1 122.1
6-8cm 4.4 77.7
To the oven
All tin weights were 1.5g and are included in the weights
0-3cm by tin (D1-D3)
Before After
Cookng Cooking Difference
D1 33.9 33.5 -.4
D2 36.7 36.2 -.5
D3 36.0 35.6 -.4
3-6cm by tin (E1-E3)
E1 36.9 35.4 -1.5
E2 33.6 32.1 -1.5
E3 36.7 35.2 -1.5
6-8cm by tin (B1 and B2)
B1 38.9 36.9 -2.
B2 35.6 33.8 -1.8
- 97: sonic, Site 5, Thu 13-Jul-2006 16:34:39 MDT, St 5: Sonic electronics box remounted
13Jul06 15:15-17:30
The sonic anemometer electronics box was moved from resting on top of the
cross-arm and mounted on a face plate positioned under the krypton electronics
box. This will allow the crossarm to be raised as it was designed, however
i did clean the krypton using the wand instead of raising it (a shorter
person won't be able to 'wand-it' very easily though)
- 96: krypton, Site 5, Thu 13-Jul-2006 16:33:26 MDT, St 5: Krypton cleaned
13Jul06 15:15-17:30
~17:00 The krypton hygrometer was cleaned.
Voltage rose by 150mV which is about the same as it had deteriorated
since the last cleaning cycle on the 2nd.
- 95: radiation, Site 5, Thu 13-Jul-2006 16:31:05 MDT, St 5: Radiation cleaned
13Jul06 15:15-17:30
15:27 Cleaned Radiometers. All appeared good prior to cleaning.
- 94: licor-co2, Site 5, Thu 13-Jul-2006 16:20:29 MDT, St 5: NaNs in LiCor data
During a brief set of data analysis we noted the existance of Nans in the LiCor raw data at regular intervals. This will be investigated further soon.
- 93: data-system, Site 6, Thu 13-Jul-2006 16:19:17 MDT, St 6: Visit: new software, retrieve data
13Jul06 13:10-14:15
Purpose: Station plots had been down...ie goes down.
DAQ on arrival was ok, still recording.
This site still had the old version software, so suspecting that being the
usual 'slow sensor into stats-proc problem' and just for giggles i rebooted
and watched the logs. 1st xmit ok, 2nd/3rd missing and no indication in
either log file. as expected.
Installed new software. Retrieved local storage
Reboot.
everything ok with continuous goes 10W messages
This time with Gordon's new code it did provide an expected error message:
"statsproc Late Message TimeTag 20:47:30 expected"
and later looking at the data plots we are seeing holes in the 'slow logger'
values occassionally. The logger messages were coming in nevertheless to
local storage.
Footnote: Rnet was clean and level, RainGauge ditto.
- 92: radiation, Site 10, Thu 13-Jul-2006 16:00:43 MDT, St 10: Radiation - elevated values of LW.in
Site 10 LW.in has seemed elevated relative to the other stations (~20 W/m2 most
of the day). There appears to be two main possible reasons.
1. The 4-component radiation stand is within 3 m of some vegetation (bushes)
that project somewhat into the hemisphere.
2. There is a 1 cm long and < 1mm wide scratch on the dome.
Tomorrow morning we will test #1 by elevating the radiation sensor another
meter (max height) and observing the resulting changes in the radiation
measurements.
Pictures were taken of its current configuration and of the scratch.
Measurements can be considered disturbed (radiation primarily) 0938-1030LT.
There was a false rain spike during the visit.
HFT,jm: added direct cabling bypassing the Xbee Radios.....next morning no more
glitches in the data plots.
Thus confirmation that the XBEE radios are vulnerable to the dropped
characters as we knew and expected. Find reason later.....
- 91: soil, Site 10, Thu 13-Jul-2006 12:29:39 MDT, st10 Visit: Logger Cabled Directly to Viper
13Jul06 9:30-10:30
Purpose: Swap logger to direct cabling to see if that will eliminate
the HFT glitches produced by character loss in the data
message.....done.
Note: This 'rf logger box' is wired such that the +v input can only go
through the solar charger. This means it must run off the internal
battery and that battery must now be charged through the viper front
panel...this could be an issue for 'blowing it's fuse' and it'll be
interesting to find out.
Goes: box elevated slightly off ground. This box needs to be
redrilled for drain holes since it wasn't correct.
- 90: GOES, Site 4, Thu 13-Jul-2006 09:34:52 MDT, st4 Visit 7/12...Data System Software/Notes....Goess
12Jul06, 14:15-18:40
Purpose: Station Reporting has been down / internittent
Data System:
Data was still being collected locally: swapped usbdisks
Stored log files in:
/data/projects/CuPIDO/logs/
e_adamlog_071206.txt and e_sysmessages_071206.txt
These were actually grabbed before doing much of the following,
however should be examined.
Goes: Observed 1 transmit then 2 missed per wattmeter!
Rebooted data system while recovering local storage (and logs);
then
Observed 1 transmit then 2 missed per wattmeter; same!
did notice some IO exceptions in logs
Swapped transmitters:
SE110 1005
SE110 1006 in (same unit from st7 previously)
Observed 1 transmit then 2 missed per wattmeter; same!
did notice some IO exceptions in logs
Installed newest software / rebooted:
Observed continuous transmissions.
Implication: is that the newest (test SE110 model with 242 bytelen)
may be the solution but not the prev. (test SE110 model with 244
bytelen). Both version of this software include Gordon's 'late
message into statsproc fix.'
Recommendation:
add more log messages that indicate 'goes xmit handshake is ok'
or otherwise.x
Antenna: Was loose and ~10-15deg off in both az/el....ie bad.
Had a fair challenge getting this re-aimed correctly and locked down.
Goes Box Drilled:
Speculation that transmitters are getting too hot in the very
recent 105+ weather, I widened the holes in the cooler and glued
in 2" pvc elbows which made nice cable feed throughs. They may
still allow some rain to splash in but shouldn't be very much,
while allowing a small amount of ventillation.
Raised box 1-2" above ground.
Rnet: Cleaned
- 89: krypton, Site 10, Wed 12-Jul-2006 18:47:01 MDT, Low voltage krypton at Stn 10 versus Stn 3 spectra
The spectra were created via data_dump, scan etc.. We find that the spectra look close to -5/3 to 15Hz at Site 10 and all the way to 30Hz at Site 3 (operating at 60Hz). As a result we believe the low V krypton data is OK at Site 10, subject to further analysis.
- 88: daily status, Site all, Wed 12-Jul-2006 18:45:18 MDT, Daily status 11 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 11 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
/*Summary: */All 10 stations are operating with questions about 2 of 128
meteorological variables (see below). Station 5's web plots are
experiencing occasional plot outages. The source of the spiky nature of
the plots at Sites 3 and 10 has been investigated. We found that
occasional large values (1-4 per 60 samples) are contaminating the 5
mintue averages in soil heat flux. By eliminating these easily removed
values the remainder of the data set is fine (we are in the midst of the
investigation of the source [electronic/comms] of these spikes). A spare
krypton hygrometer will be installed at Site 10 (NNW) later this week.
See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, operating near normal (spiky heat flux plots to be
corrected)
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally, a few web plot values missing
overnight
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating near normal (spiky heat flux plots to be
corrected), Longwave inbound to be evaluated more closely
- 87: daily status, Site all, Wed 12-Jul-2006 18:32:31 MDT, Daily status 12 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 12 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
/*Summary: */All 10 stations are operating with questions about 2 of 128
meteorological variables (see below). Station 4 and 5's web plots, which
are dropping out for significant periods, will be investigated today.
See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, operating near normal (spiky heat flux plots to be
corrected)
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, web plots erratic and down as of 06LT
Station 05,SSE: Up, web plots erratic
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating near normal (spiky heat flux plots to be
corrected), Longwave inbound to be evaluated more closely, krypton with
low V to be evaluated
- 86: project-info, Site all, Wed 12-Jul-2006 18:23:12 MDT, data_dump guidance - scan and plot
This entry is from datadumpexample.txt from ~ on Aster and from Gordon's 'stuff' file on Aster
data_dump -d 3 -s 60 -A ene_20060709_080000.dat > /dir-you-want/file_dump.txt
With the 'dat' function non-functional right now a work around is to use
the S+ scan function
At the S+ prompt >
type:
(this example is for -s 60 [logger box] and the fields in the list indicate
how you are parsing the file in to categories
>x<-scan(file="/dir-you-want/file_dump.txt",skip=1,flush=T,sep=",",
what=list(dt="",0,vb=0,rain=0,rnet=0,tsurf=0,
rpile.in=0,rpile.out=0,rsw.i=0,rsw.o=0,tci=0,tdi=0,tco=0,tdo=0,tsoil=0,hft=0))
Then, the following will plot the variables you've defined in array 'x',
in this example 'hft' or soil heat flux as defined above
>plot(x$hft, type="l")
Use S-plus commands to look at the array as you see fit (variables(x),
page(x) to list) the following will plot the variables you've defined in array 'x'
First - do the data_dump -d XX -s ID -p or -A path/filename.dat
Then look at the file and note where the column of data of interest is so
that you can set the 'cols' value in readdd below appropriately.
Check the matrix created to be sure you have the data you need, e.g.
>x[1:10,]
to list the first ten values of
x and confirm.
Greg,
I wrote a function readdd to read data_dumps:
# Read 2nd data column
x = readdd(file="/home/aster/hey10",cols=2)
plot(x)
px = specsmooth(pspectra(fftw(window(x))))
plot(px)
# You can read multiple columns
x = readdd(file="/home/aster/hey10",cols=1:2)
# the basic scan
x3=scan(file="/home/aster/hey3",skip=1,flush=T,what=list(yr="",mo="",dd="",time="",n="",bytes=0,v=0,q=0))
#
To make png files once you have a plot onscreen that you like
> open.png(file="Stn10.test.png",horizontal="T")
> plot(px,type="l")
> close.png()
- 85: soil, Site 10, Mon 10-Jul-2006 20:09:46 MDT, st10 Visit: HFT swapped back: Boost XBEE radio power
10Jul06 16:00-17:30
Purpose: HFT has been glitching at night despite swapping in a replacement
yesterday.
Examination of data revealed that the data messages from the logger are
being messed up by having characters dropped around the hft values.
This results in erroneous data being calculated in the averages.
Speculation that the maxstream radios may be 'burping' at night in
different radio propagation conditions, or lower batt voltage...hmmm.
1) Xbee radios here. Cabling looks good. But there are significant
bushes between the radio and receiver on the mast, plus that radio is in
the middle of the tripod with some 'shading' or reflective surfaces
from the tubing of the tower.
2) Boosted transmit power level from 'medium' (2), to 'highest' (4)
for the 2.4 radios
- 84: project-info, Site all, Mon 10-Jul-2006 10:56:13 MDT, Regular Duties at CuPIDO
On a regular basis we are doing the following duties:
We have a status table on the white board in the base.
Clean radiation sensors at any site as soon as reasonably possible after
intense rainfalls (e.g. 25 mm/hr or greater - definetly at 50 mm/hr).
Exchange data drives at each site every 10-14 days and download to ASTER.
Clean kryptons every 10-14 days or per voltage decreases after heavy rainfalls
that loft particles in strong wind
TRIME soil moisture at the flux sites (please take an average of 6 readings - 3 from two different location) every 10-14 days.
- 83: daily status, Site all, Mon 10-Jul-2006 10:53:14 MDT, Daily status 10 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 10 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating with remaining questions about 3 of 128
meteorological variables (see below). Station 7's web plots have been fixed
and there are occasional outages at Station 10 (soil and rad variables only).
The monsoon rains have abated for the last few days with skin temperatures
exceeding 50C. New soil heat flux sensors were installed at Sites 3 (ENE)
and 10 (NNW) yesterday and yet the spiky data in the web plots remains (this
has been tracked to an occasional communication glitch being averaged into the
data - the vast majority of soil heat flux data is fine). A
spare krypton hygrometer will be installed at Site 10 (NNW) later this week.
See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, erratic soil heat flux web plots at night (checking software)
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, erratic soil heat flux web plots at night, low krypton voltage (to be
replaced)
- 82: soil, Site 3, Mon 9-Jul-2006 20:12:27 MDT, st3 Visit: HFT swapped, New Softw, Data Download
9Jul06 14:30-16:30
Purpose: HFT has been glitching at night
1) HFT Swapped
New sensors received from Boulder last night.
Disconnected, but left installed in soil: H013390
Installed H993560
Verified via rserial data consistency.
2) New Software installed and swapped data usbdisk
38% full since 1Jul
3) Cleaned Radiometers, 14:40
Note that they were very clean in appearance and did
not have any of the splattered dirt that we've noticed
elsewhere.
4) Electric Fence
No zapping. (Red snapper here)
Tried 'old spare' unit same problems.
Battery voltage low: 12.3
Setup crew had put one of the more discharged batteries here
is my guess and didn't put it on a pv (same as other sites).
I took one of the older panels and put it directly on this
battery without a charger and hope that boosts it enough.
Reinstalled original zapper.
Still no light on the charger and the fence is dead to touch,
but the pulser is making noise and I saw voltage pulsing on the
terminals. This unit appeared to work from the good, 13.5v
system battery as a test.
BVoltage should rise enough to do some good by tomorrow.
Basic problem is poor ground / conductivity / and rubber sole
shoes.
Saw 4 horses near the station.
5) Goes check
We've had low sigstr for many days, but no data loss.
Wattmeter connected and showed 10W forward 0 refl.
ie good.
Noticed in data later that while the meter was inline
the reported SigStr was good but after removing it,
the SigStr dropped back to mid-30's.....very strange.
Perhaps a wierd connector problem on cable/antenna but
i couldn't see anything unusual.
Also note that this has one of the old surge arresters
which had been a problem at 7...coincidence perhaps.
- 81: soil, Site 10, Mon 9-Jul-2006 20:03:55 MDT, st10 Visit: HFT swapped
9Jul06 11:45-12:15
Purpose: HFT has been glitching at night
New sensors received from Boulder last night.
Disconnected, but left installed in soil: H983213
Installed H983211
Verified via rserial data consistency.
- 80: GOES, Site 7, Mon 9-Jul-2006 20:26:36 MDT, st7 Visit: GOES swapped / fixed
9Jul06, 9:30-10:30
Purpose: Station reporting over goes still down.
1) Still no goes output upon arrival.
Adam was working, but saw some goes related errors in log messages.
The spare from Boulder arrived last night, so
Decided to swap transmitters:
Removed SE110 -
Installed SE110 - 1005 (unit sent from Boulder)
2) Bad Surge Arrester / Replaced
Initially saw 2w - ish output (as from SE120 yesterday)...yuk.
Removed old version surge arrester and determined it was the culprit.
recalling that the stud on it had been loose and it appears that
when i tightened it up yesterday that caused a signal loss problem.
Replaced it with the last of the 'newer' units.
Observed 12W output,min. refl.
2) Corrected the antenna angle
It had been slightly off and a bit loose.
Took quite a bit of fiddling to get it fixed.
Still need a better mounting scheme!!
- 79: project-info, Site 7, Sat 08-Jul-2006 17:26:11 MDT, st 7: GPS altitude and logger
Some minor items were taken care of at 2pm local time at Station 7.
The logger was elevated off the ground and the GPS altitude was taken as an average of 6 values as 2805 ft. This result was sensible given an intercomparison of pressure readings at different sites (e.g. compared with Site 8).
- 78: data-system, Site 10, Sat 08-Jul-2006 17:21:36 MDT, st 10 NNW: Data drive exchanged
The data USB drive was exchanged at NNW (10) this morning at approximately 1130am LT.
- 77: GOES, Site 7, Sat 08-Jul-2006 16:36:42 MDT, st7 Visit: GOES work
8Jul06, 13:15-14:20;
Purpose: Intermittent communications since yesterday/rain(maybe), and
low rf output since my last visit.
Discovered a few problems:
1) No goes output upon arrival.
The cooler had some water in the bottom and the connectors for
the sio and power were 'on the bottom'....possibly the root
cause. Raised the connectors, and transmitter, tightened
loose surge supressor ground strap, added lug to the ground
strap/rod.
A simple power cycle didn't get goes working again. There
were several 'wrong id' messages in the syslog file but the
ck_goes kept looking good. Thought that after cycling the
goes a reboot was prudent and that appeared to work, getting
7-Watts out of the transmitter per the wattmeter a couple of
times. ....however,
upon arriving at the base 1-hour later still no messages....
2) Adam was working, but many gps NMEA errors in the log off and on
beginning on the 6th, but especially since the rain yesterday.
Second visit: 16:30-18:15
More errors in log including 'wrong id'....wondering if errors
of this type never truly get cleared. evidence to that effect
is that a reboot recovered goes and obsevered 7w out.
- Decided to try a different transmitter...the questionable
one from st8: SE120-3515. after doing that and getting
things running, saw only 2w output; yuk!
Put the other SE110 back in and saw 7W output again.
- Swapped microStrip out
- Installed yaggi in
Things appeared working when i left..but it didn't last long...
- 76: radiation, Site 9, Sat 08-Jul-2006 16:22:29 MDT, st9 Visit: Rnet leveled
8Jul06, 12:10-12:20
Purpose: Show Greg where it is,
Leveled Rnet, lifted the logger box off the ground (it was not hot because it is painted white). We also lifted the GOES xmitter off the bottom of the cooler.
Cows here now!!!
Yet another site that should have been fenced but the 'authorities'
hadn't told us. Later. I'm still thinking the risk is mostly to
the rain gauge because otherwise there is plenty of vegetation in the
area for cows to use for scratching. Same situation at 1 and 2
- 75: GOES, Site 7, Sat 08-Jul-2006 16:07:13 MDT, st10 Visit: Rlw.out fixed
8Jul06, 10:20 - 11:30
Purpose: Rlw.out and derived Tsfc was erroneously high since heavy rain event
on the 5th.
Discovered a few problems:
1) Rlw.in
Scratch on the dome, but shouldn't be a problem. A picture was taken.
Split in the cable insulation probably allowed water to
penetrate in. Fortunately the 'drip loop' prevented the water
from flowing all the way to the connector. No water in it now
that we could tell. Taped it and the main connector because
of....
2) Rlw.out
This is it: considerable water in the Amp-9 connector.
It appears that the rain was forced in through the back side
of the connector under the heat shrink tubing which protruded
into the shell and no doubt past the RTV. Also, these units
don't have the plenum and the connectors are just free
hanging, perhaps a bit vulnerable. Taped the connector, cleaned the corrosive accumulation with Q-tips and dried it all out.
Uploaded USB disk: 58% full for 19Jun - 8Jul
Neighbor visited:
Giovanni Panza 818-2815, nice guy and very interested in project.
- 74: daily status, Site all, Sat 08-Jul-2006 10:19:27 MDT, Daily status 8 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 8 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating and 5 of 128 meteorological variables (see below)
are being investigated. . Station 7's web plots became erratic overnight and will be
investigated today. See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, erratic soil heat flux at night
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally (krypton V low)
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, erratic web plot data
Station 08, W: operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, erratic soil heat flux at night, longwave component radiation
elevated after heavy precip
- 73: base, Site all, Sat 08-Jul-2006 09:57:01 MDT, Iridium Phone Instructions
See PDF file located in:
/usr/local/isff/projects/CuPIDO/doc.
To dial a pbx number from an Iridium phone:
001-3034978802
To dial into an Iridium phone:
011-881631547000
To dial from an Iridium phone to another Iridium Phone
00-881631547000
or 0+ key 881631547000
Still having trouble dialing to an Iridium phone via cell phone,
probably because of calling restrictions.
- 72: radiation, Site 10, Fri 07-Jul-2006 15:46:14 MDT, st10 Visit: domes cleaned, descrepancy between Tsfc temps
7Jul06 12:05-12:40
Purpose: Cleaned radiometer domes with distilled h2o. There were some
dirt splatters on the downward looking domes. We did this because of
unusual discrepancies between the long-wave radiometer calculated surface temp. and the directly measured Tsfc values. We had observed positive effects of cleaning the 'splattered' rnet dome at st7,st8.
This discrepancy began with the big rain event on the 6th, 0Z. That
event left roughly 2' of silt in the wash near st8 and may have
included hail. It's possible water got into the sensor/cabling,
thermister damage, dirt on the domes, etc.
We're continuing to investigating this issue.
- 71: data-system, Site 10, Fri 07-Jul-2006 15:44:47 MDT, st10 Visit: new software
7Jul06 12:05-12:40
Purpose: installed new software
see next log entry
- 70: radiation, Site 10, Fri 07-Jul-2006 09:55:03 MDT, Radiation in question at Station 10, NNW
The long, short and net radiation sensors at Site 10 have begun to deviate from their behavior previously. Specifically, the value of LW radiation (in, out) is large and the range of Tsfc is muted. Less noticeable, SW radiation is reduced. We have noted that during heavy monsoon rains that dirt can splatter the domes, preferentially the lower dome.
- 69: daily status, Site all, Fri 07-Jul-2006 09:53:22 MDT, Daily status 7 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 7 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations and sensors are operating with 7 of 128 meteorological variables
(soil heat flux at Sites 2, NE and 10, NNW and radiation parameters at 10) spares) being
evaluated.
All web plots are available at (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, erratic soil heat flux at night
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally, krypton V low, to be replaced w/ spare
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, erratic soil heat flux at night, Net, LW and SW rad in question
- 67: radiation, Site 8, Thu 06-Jul-2006 18:31:26 MDT, st8 visit: rnet cleaned
6jul06 12:20-15:45
Rnet cleaned at 13:00 and leveled.
There had been a few residue spots on the bottom dome.
- 66: GOES, Site 8, Thu 06-Jul-2006 18:12:33 MDT, st8 visit: data system / goes transmitter swapped
6jul06 12:20-15:45
Purpose: station was not reporting for most of last night and today.
Upon arrival the data system was still running, collecting and
archiving the data. However there were indications of continuing
system problems on both the goes and the USB drive. In addition the
/var/log/messages indicated some 'ttyS5 opened' despite the logger now
being on ttyS8.
GOES: ck_goes showed the 'wrong channel' problem. Due to consistency
of problems over the last few days, decided to swap the transmitter
and put in the spare unit: SE1200-1031. This continued to show other
problems despite rebooting the daq. Errors included 'wrong goes-id'
and the normal clock not yet set. Tried using the wattmeter and never
saw a message go out even when the ck_goes appeared normal beyond 1/2
hour and more when the gps should have locked.
Footnote: I tried using my pc test software version to both
transmitters directly and had problems. Neither completely worked for
setting the id, and clock for the se120. I hadn't tried it on this
particular portable previously and am not sure which version of the
code was on it, however it should have worked.
Ultimately after trying both transmitters again, I left the SE1200
running and rebooted the system a few times in the process including
full box power cycling. USB problems continued intermittently. I had
intended to take the old transmitter to st9 and put it there,
retrieving the other working goes unit to put in st8, however, Greg
reported that st8 began reporting while on the way so we decided to
let it run and see what happens overnight.
This station may have been zapped by a storm discharge (it is very
close to a modest sized water tank of the park), and/or it has box
wiring or other hardware problems.
- 65: daily status, Site all, Thu 06-Jul-2006 12:01:32 MDT, Daily status 2 July
ISFF status report 2 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: Web plots are down for Stations 1, 3 and 8 (actual data status for down periods
and GOES to be evaluated today).
Station 1, N: Web plots down as of 1800 1 July.
Station 2, NE: Up, operating normally.
Station 3, ENE: Web plots down as of 1100 1 July. Soil heat flux erratic at night.
Station 4, E: Up, operating normally
Station 5, SSE: Up, CO2 not in web plots yet, spikes every three hours in radiation and
soil variables to be corrected, voltage of Krypton low
Station 6, S: Up, operating normally
Station 7, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 8, W: Web plots down as of 2100 1 July.
Station 9, WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Up, soil moisutre noted as high, Krypton voltage noted as low, soil heat
flux noted as erratic at night
- 64: daily status, Site all, Thu 06-Jul-2006 11:44:04 MDT, Daily status 3 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 3 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: Sites 1-4 and 7-10 are operating with minor problems. Web plots are down for a)
Station 5 due to a software error that will be addressed today and, b) for Station 6,
perhaps due to a weakening battery, will be addressed today.
Station 1, N: Up, operating normally
Station 2, NE: Up, operating normally
Station 3, ENE: Up. Soil heat flux erratic at night
Station 4, E: Up, operating normally. Infrequent wind outages on web plots
Station 5, SSE: Down due to software error (to be addressed today)
Station 6, S: Down, situation unclear but perhaps due to battery voltage dropping
excessively
Station 7, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 8, W: Up, operating normally
Station 9, WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10, NNW: Up, Soil heat flux noted as erratic at night
- 63: daily status, Site all, Thu 06-Jul-2006 11:42:20 MDT, Daily status 4 July
uPIDO ISFF status report 4 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
(new recipients Geerts, Ideris)
Summary: All stations are operating with minor problems. 128 of 128 meteorological
variables are being recorded, with data quality concerns in three of those variables per
below. ISFF data is now being displayed on the CuPIDO field catalog under 'Research
Products' at http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/cupido as well as at the ISFF main site under
'Data Tables and Plots' (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, operating normally
Station 03,ENE: Up, Soil heat flux erratic at night
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, CO2, various radiation parameters not on web plots (software mod to
be addressed today). Battery system to be enhanced with LiCor now running for CO2.
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Up, operating normally
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, Soil heat flux noted as erratic at night, fast response q (krypton)
low voltage to be evaluated today
- 62: daily status, Site all, Thu 06-Jul-2006 11:39:09 MDT, Daily status 5 July
CuPIDO ISFF status report 5 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All stations are operating with minor problems. Station 8's web plots went down
at 1am local and it will be visited today. Heavy rain overnight has left water droplets
on all 4 krypton anemometers eliminating their measurement temporarily. Overnight soil
heat flux measurements were more steady (the rain impacted all soil measurements
significantly). See (http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/). The web
plot of CO2 and H20 from the LiCor is now available from Station 5.
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, operating normally, krypton water droplets
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally, krypton water droplets
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally, krypton water droplets
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Web plots down at 1am local, to be addressed today
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, operating normally, krypton water droplets
- 61: daily status, Site all, Thu 06-Jul-2006 11:21:43 MDT, Daily status 6 July
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 6 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Summary: All 10 stations are operating and 2 of 128 meteorological variables (soil heat
flux at Sites 2, NE and 10, NNW being erratic at night - those sensors to be tested with
spares) are being investigated. Station 8's web plots are intermittent due to a
problematic GOES system; local data is being stored. See
(http://www.atd.ucar.edu/isf/projects/CUPIDO06/isff/qcdata/).
Station 01, N: Up, operating normally
Station 02, NE: Up, erratic soil heat flux at night
Station 03,ENE: Up, operating normally
Station 04, E: Up, operating normally
Station 05,SSE: Up, operating normally, krypton V low, to be replaced w/ spare
Station 06, S: Up, operating normally
Station 07, SW: Up, operating normally
Station 08, W: Web plots erratic, local data storage fine
Station 09,WNW: Up, operating normally
Station 10,NNW: Up, erratic soil heat flux at night
- 60: radiation, Site 1, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:56:08 MDT, st 1, N: Net radiation leveled
Net radiation was leveled at 1635 - 1640 LT.
The logger was manually elevated (on cactus husks) during this visit.
- 59: data-system, Site 1, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:54:36 MDT, st 1, N: Software installed
The latest software (.xml and GOES alts) was installed at ~ 1725.
- 58: GOES, Site 2, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:53:24 MDT, st 2, NE: GOES set-up in cooler
The GOES Xmitter was elevated off the bottom of the cooler, and holes were drilled in the cooler.
- 57: data-system, Site 2, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:51:28 MDT, st 2, NE: Software update and data download/USB swap
The latest software was installed and the USB stick (data download) was exchanged. The data was copied to Aster this evening.
Weepholes were drilled in the lower plate of the electronics box as well.
- 56: sonic, Site 2, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:49:53 MDT, st 2, NE - Boom angles
RMY at 046 (the value of 044 in the system was left unchanged)
CSAT at 133
- 55: project-info, Site 1, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:37:16 MDT, Cattle where no fence is: site 1 and site 2
Poulos observed cattle at Sites 1 and 2. We do not have fences at these sites.
- 54: project-info, Site all, Wed 05-Jul-2006 20:10:14 MDT, Site duty summary table, boom angles etc.
Enter the date that the task was completed
Site/Task
Logger GOES Level Boom Latest Weep
Elev'd Cooler NetRd Angls SftWr Holes
Manual Holes again? all Instld Drlld?
1 Y Y Y Y Y Y
7/1 7/1 7/5 7/1 7/5 7/1 GOES ant stiffened 7/1
RMY172 RMY 172 entered ~ 1745, 7/1
2 Y Y Y Y Y Y
N/A 7/5 7/5 7/5 7/5 7/5
RMY046 RMY at 044, not changed on 7/5
CST133
3 Y Y Y Y N Y
N/A RMY279
CST177
4 Y Y Y Y Y Y
7/5 7/5 7/5 7/5 7/5 7/5
RMY078 RMY at 074 until 1200LT 7/5
5 Y Y Y Y Y Y
N/A 7/2 7/2 7/2 7/4 7/2
RMY183 RMY at 186 until 1045LT 7/2
CST181
6 N Y Y Y N Y
RMY315
7 N Y Y Y Y Y
8 Y Y N Y Y Y
7/1 7/1 7/2 7/5 7/5
RMY249 RMY at 108 until 1655LT 7/2
9 N N N Y Y N
RMY355
10 Y Y Y Y N Y
N/A 7/5 7/5 7/5
RMY300
CST208
- 53: project-info, Site all, Wed 05-Jul-2006 19:50:30 MDT, Transit times and distances for sites, CuPIDO travel logistics
The logistics of travel at CuPIDO are significant. The most sites we have visited and worked on in one day is 4. On the city side of Mt. Lemmon 5 could be visited in one long day if, for example, only data downloads were being executed. On the open country side of Mt. Lemmon Sites 2-5 (Site 1 being relatively easy), access times are longer. Site 6 and Site 10 have short uphill hikes so bring everything you need.
Travelers to Sites 2-5 will not have cell phone access.
From the Residence Inn to
01 1hr 10 min
02 1hr 40 min
03 2.25 hr south route (1 hr 20 min to the turn off Redington), 3 hr north route
04 2 hr south route, (1 hr 20 min to the turn off Redington), 2.75 hr north route
05 45 min
06
07
08
09
10
From Base to
1 55 min
2 1 hr 25 min
3 2.5 hr south route, 2.75 hr north route
4 2.25 hr south route, 2.5 hr north route
5
6
7
8
9
10
From 1 to
2 30 min
3
4
5
6
7 55 min
8 50 min
9 40 min
10 40 min
From 2 to
1 30 min
3
4
5
6
7 1 hr 25 min
8 1 hr 20 min
9 1 hr 10 min
10 1 hr 10 min
From 3 to
1 1.75 hr
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- 52: project-info, Site all, Wed 05-Jul-2006 19:48:19 MDT, Pictures of sites: status
Pictures are needed of all 10 sites
Site Pictures taken? Other information ...
1 Yes, 5 Jul
2 Yes, 5 Jul
3
4 Yes, 5 Jul
5
6
7
8
9
10
Base Yes, 5 Jul
- 51: data-system, Site 4, Wed 05-Jul-2006 19:44:50 MDT, st 4, E: New software and data download
Gordon's new software was installed and the 512Mb USB was exchanged (first exchange at st 4 of the experiment) - at approximately 1145 LT. This data was synched on Aster this evening.
2 weep holes were drilled in the lower plate corners of the electronics box.
- 50: radiation, Site 4, Wed 05-Jul-2006 19:43:37 MDT, st 4, E: Leveled net radiation
Net rad sensor was leveled (it was not too far off).
- 49: GOES, Site 4, Wed 05-Jul-2006 19:34:03 MDT, st 4, E: GOES set-up
The GOES set up was checked at Station 4, where strange behaviour had been noted before operations. There was between 5 and 10 mm of water in the cooler but because the cooler was tilted the transmitter was mostly dry. It appears that water, via capillary action, curls under the lid and accumulates in these coolers (all sites now have holes drilled, except Site 9.
Holes were drilled in the cooler to drain it and the xmitter was elevated on some flat rocks. A rock was placed on top as well.
This site has an SE110 xmitter (Serial# 1007) and antenna #8 (square).
- 48: prop-vane, Site 4, Wed 05-Jul-2006 19:31:12 MDT, st 4, E: New boom angle entry
At 1200 LT the a new boom angle (78 degrees) was entered into the RMY. This replaced the previous value of 74.
- 47: GOES, Site 7, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:29:36 MDT, st7 visit: goes adjustment
5jul06 13:15-14:30
SE110-1002, microStrip 5
Forward power low at 6W.
Attached ground strap, bit didn't have a proper screw terminal so just cable tied it as best i could.
moved antenna down from top of t-post and adjusted the angle. The u-bolts are stripped and will need to be replaced if there is any more adjustments made.
- 46: radiation, Site 7, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:28:13 MDT, st7 visit: rnet cleaned
5jul06 13:15-14:30
There was some splashed on dirt residue on the rnet dome esp. on the bottom. Cleaned at 14:00 local
- 45: prop-vane, Site 7, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:27:05 MDT, st7 visit: boom angle
5jul06 13:15-14:30
Checked boom angle:
my compass = 356
rmy 'BD' = 355
i did not change the internal rmy value
- 44: data-system, Site 7, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:26:11 MDT, st7 visit: new software
5jul06 13:15
Purpose: install new software
Data system was still running and collecting data.
Data uploaded to aster.
New software installed and the xml also
- 43: data-system, Site 9, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:19:53 MDT, st9 visit: goes power level
5jul06 11:30-12:30
GOES Notes:
box here also had a bit of water in it despite being under the pv array.
SE120-3513, microstrip 9
However: measured 15W forward power!
- 42: prop-vane, Site 9, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:18:08 MDT, st9 visit: boom angle
5jul06 11:30-12:30
Checked boom angle:
my compass = 251
rmy 'BD' = 249
i did not change the internal rmy value
- 41: data-system, Site 9, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:14:20 MDT, st9 visit: new software
5jul06 13:15
Purpose: install new software
Data system was still running and collecting data.
Data uploaded to aster.
New software installed and the xml also
- 40: data-system, Site 8, Wed 05-Jul-2006 18:08:29 MDT, st8 visit: goes back on air, new software
5jul06 9:25-10:30
Purpose: station was down since last night 8gmt when a thunderstorm was in the area and rain.
Data system was still running and collecting data.
GOES was not responding to the dsm queries. A power cycle got things going again.
Note: some water in the goes cooler box despite being under the pv array makes me concerned that this could be an issue so i taped the sio connector which was on the bottom of the box.
Data uploaded to aster.
New software installed but not the xml due to it's unique 'ttyS8' for logger.
- 39: base, Site all, Wed 05-Jul-2006 16:52:58 MDT, Base Networking Addresses
Static IP address for aster:
128.196.12.76
Gateway: (chester)
128.196.12.1
DNS's
128.196.11.233
128.196.11.234
128.196.11.235
hostname: aster
Old:
DNS search path: atd.ucar.edu
- 38: soil, Site 10, Tue 04-Jul-2006 22:05:07 MDT, st10 HFT, gsoil
4jul06 14:00
Examined hft, nothing unusual in wiring that i can tell although resistor inside cable could be issue. Symptom is glitching at night when the flux goes positive....Still happening.
May need to replace the hft.
- 37: krypton, Site 10, Tue 04-Jul-2006 22:01:37 MDT, st10 Visit: krypton, mast down
4jul06 14:00
Mast Down 14:30 - 16:00
Tried to find cause of low kh20 voltages but really didn't. Actual voltage going into serializer was 40mV....yuk. Need to return with a different krypton and a better way to test the voltage output. Power to the krypton was good.
Cleaned krypton and got some improvement.
Path length appears roughly 10mm....perhaps too wide given the moist for Arizona conditions?
- 36: data-system, Site 5, Tue 04-Jul-2006 21:58:16 MDT, Site 5 new software/xml
4Jul06 10:00
Installed new code per my edit of Gordon's edit. He crafted edit to improve situation when a 'slow' sensor's late message causes no goes output. I changed the size limit on the data message to allow up to a full message (ie from st5 including licor) to get sent without dropping the packet.
- 35: power, Site 5, Tue 04-Jul-2006 21:41:24 MDT, Site 5 power issue/shading
At Site 5 the solar panels are in shade in the morning (~730am - 10 am) in their west-of-tower location. This appears to be responsible for the steadily lowering battery voltage with time (in addition to operating the LiCor there). This is particularly difficult because in the afternoon solar radiation is often obscured by monsoon rain and cloud. We will move the system to the northeast of the tower tomorrow or the following day.
- 34: radiation, Site 3, Tue 04-Jul-2006 21:39:55 MDT, Site 3 level net rad
Net radiation was re-leveled at Site 3.
- 33: soil, Site 3, Tue 04-Jul-2006 21:37:08 MDT, st 3, ENE- soils reseated
Site 3 (ENE)
The soil moisture probe and soil properties probe were turned to a vertical orientation. The soil heat flux probe was reseated as a test towards the elimiation of the erratic nighttime behavior of unknown origin.
- 32: soil, Site 5, Mon 03-Jul-2006 21:10:16 MDT, st5 Visit: TP01 should be back up
3Jul06 14:50 - 15:50
Purpose: station was 'down'
Put a new TP01 connector in the logger: should be working now.
- 31: data-system, Site 5, Mon 03-Jul-2006 19:53:05 MDT, st5 Visit: Up
3Jul06 14:50 - 15:50
Purpose: station was 'down'
In reality the station was still recording data but the goes transmitter was note getting data from the Viper.
The problem was the new xml file. It had '244' characters to be sent and the viper code disallowed it via an exception condition:
"statsproc: SampleOutputBase: /dev/ttyS3 IOExeception /dev/ttyS3: send message too long 244 bytes"
Replaced the cupido.xml with the old version that doesn't send the Licor data and everything is working.
- 30: project-info, Site , Mon 03-Jul-2006 16:13:25 MDT, Wireless internet active in the base
John worked with John Bauer of U. Ariz to find that one of the UA cables was bad. This enabled internet to the base and a wireless router was installed. Poulos confirmed wireless on his windows laptop but Aster remains non-functional with wired or wireless.
A wireless card will be utilized shortly for Aster.
- 29: licor-co2, Site 5, Mon 03-Jul-2006 16:05:22 MDT, Station 5 LiCor
The LiCor at Station 5 was found to be offline when the system was restarted during the 3 July station visit. data_stats showed no ttyS7, rserial confirmed no ooutput.
With that a power cycle was initiated to no avail.
Voltage at one end of the port 7 fuse was found to be near nil (blown fuse) and the LiCor began recording when a 3A new fuse was installed that was large enough to handle the startup current.
We believe that no CO2 data has been collected until this visit ~ 11am 3 July.
- 28: data-system, Site 5, Mon 03-Jul-2006 16:02:28 MDT, Station 5 software update - failed to bring up station
New GOES software was installed using the 'install' script. This installation failed to bring up the GOES transmission (data was being collected however, see next entry regarding LiCor). We will try again this afternoon because the USB software stick used in the failed attempt had some bad memory and needs to be reformatted.
- 27: project-info, Site 6, Mon 03-Jul-2006 15:58:36 MDT, Station 6 tasks - rain guage, and erroneous tips net rad, boom angle confirmation
The rain guage was found to be tilted approximately 25 degrees due to a loose ball joint. It was leveled and reset. This resulted in some false tips during the hour of 1300-1400 3 July. These should be eliminated from the record.
The RMY boom angle was confirmed at 4 degrees. This value has been in the system since the previous visit.June 27.
The net radiation sensor was leveled further during this visit. Leveling should be checked at all sites.
- 26: GOES, Site 6, Mon 03-Jul-2006 14:48:50 MDT, st6 Visit: Up
3Jul06 11:50 -
Purpose: station was 'down'
In reality the station was still recording data but the goes transmitter was
locked up. The adam.log showed that it had stopped transmittion at 0530UTC (consistent with the 1030pm web plot stoppage).
GOES came back up when power cycled.
Surge protection was added to the system to protect against this potential cause of the disruption.
The 512 Mb Cruzer usbstick (unnumbered) was replaced with 512Mb Cruzer #2 and data was uploaded to aster.
- 25: base, Site all, Mon 03-Jul-2006 07:29:17 MDT, Gordon's instructions on rebuilding software, vis GOESOutput.cc
/Gordon's instruction
Here's a new version of GOESOutput.cc.
I know I said I was confident about the last change - but you
shouldn't have believed me :-)
I've actually tested these mods in my dsm simulator and now
have some "real" confidence in this new code.
From admin account:
Copy it to /usr/local/nidas/src/nidas/dynld/isff
cd /usr/local/nidas/src
scons install
Insert isff_sw disk, wait for popup, click OK.
From root account:
cd /usr/local/projects/CuPIDO/ISFF/scripts
./update_sw.sh
- 24: GOES, Site 8, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:23:06 MDT, GOES transmitter power cycled/reboot
The GOES system had stopped transmitting on Site 8, resulting in no web plots. It was confirmed that the system had written local data during the outage. The GOES system responded after power cycling the GOES and rebooting the Viper. This same procedure lasted only 8 hours or so the previous night and so bears watching.
The pathology is not evident using ck_goes because you get the same error when GOES is up as when it is down at this site. That is, the test signal provides an error message that includes 'invalid channel' (it takes one GOES cycle for this particular error to appear after a reboot because the GOES transmitter hasn't received clock information - resulting in a different error). This is a false indication of an error and so other methods of verifying GOES x-mission should be used.
- 23: prop-vane, Site 8, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:21:43 MDT, Boom angle Site 8 entered
RMY boom angle is 249.
This value replaced the previously existing value of 108 at 1655 2 July.
- 22: data-system, Site 10, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:19:45 MDT, cupido.xml updated, Site 10
The most recent version of cupido.xml was copied to the Viper at Site 10. The new C++ GOES code will be inserted during the next visit.
- 21: krypton, Site 10, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:17:44 MDT, Krypton cleaning Site 10 - very low voltage values
This krypton is reading very low voltages (under 0.1 V). Thus it was cleaned and voltage values were not improved. This sensor may be fading.
- 20: soil, Site 10, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:14:29 MDT, TRIME soil moisture Site 10
A six-point average of TRIME soil moisture at Site indicated 8.7%. The station is reading about 12% from the echo probe, which is about 4-5 times higher than the other three flux sites. Thus, this measurement corroborates a relatively high value. No other TRIME measurements have been taken.
- 19: data-system, Site 10, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:13:23 MDT, Site 10 weepholes drilled
Weepholes were drilled today (corners of bottom plate).
- 18: sonic, Site 10, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:04:28 MDT, Site 10 (NNW) boom angles
RM Young boom angle: 300 degrees
Sonic boom angle = 208 degrees
- 17: data-system, Site 5, Sun 02-Jul-2006 22:01:49 MDT, Weep holes
Weep holes were drilled (two corners in bottom plate) in the electronics box as part of that ongoing effort.
- 16: project-info, Site all, Sun 02-Jul-2006 21:58:45 MDT, Site to site travel times
The time from Site 5 (SSE) to Site 10 (NNW) is 1 hour and 45 mintues going clockwise around Mt. Lemmon. Going counter-clockwise it is estimated at 2.5 hours due to the dirt roads much of the way.
- 15: project-info, Site all, Sun 02-Jul-2006 21:53:28 MDT, Use the satellite phones
The satellite phone in the pick-up is:881631547151 (with two persons on-site this truck is secondary - only used during single person trips) and is portable. Be sure it is charged.
The sat phone in the Tahoe is: 881631547000 and is connected to a car charger.
During single person operations on the East side of Mt. Lemmon (sites 2-5) these phones should be used to keep in contact at regular intervals. Please make yourself aware of how to dial sat phone-sat phone and generally to other phones (the latter is 001-area code-phone number).
- 14: sonic, Site 5, Sun 02-Jul-2006 21:47:40 MDT, Site 5 Boom angles
Using Datascope, compass and GPS the orientation of the wind sensors was:
Sonic: 181 degrees
RM Young: 183 degrees (this value was entered into the calibration at 1045am) 2 July.
- 13: project-info, Site 5, Sun 02-Jul-2006 21:37:43 MDT, Helicopter operations at Site 5, SSE, Bellota
During a site visit on July 1 a helicopter landed adjacent to Site 5. It turns out that unbeknownst to us or the folks leasing the site or our landlords Site 5 is also regularly used for helicopter training by the local Dept of Safety and also Search and Rescue. They have spread the word amongst their teams that we are there and will endeavor to avoid landing within 100 yards of the site. The frequency of these helicopter landings seems to be 1-2 times per week (summer is their training period).
Thus we should watch for unusual turbulence events (can they be distinguished from virga/microburst activity and other intermittent turbulence?) and also the potential for accumulation on the optical sensors from rotor downwash driven dust.
- 12: data-system, Site 1, Sun 02-Jul-2006 20:40:10 MDT, st1 Visit: data system / goes
2Jul06, 12:50-14:50 MST
Purpose: station down
Data System:
A USB failure caused the station to go down, not goes.
Yesterday, a new xml was installed but the station has been down since our visit.
Data system reported that the new usb disk was "Write Protected" and could not write to it: Lexar #12.
Checked it back at aster: nothing unusual with file protections EXCEPT:
I had put a copy of the new cupido.xml on it via root account.....doubt that
would be a problem and there were a couple of data files on it.
Swapped in Cruzer #1 and removed Lexar #12.
Rebooted and everything fine.
GOES:
Still need to reposition the antenna and pv's more, but there was a
good 10W output per the wattmeter and the angle looks close enough.
- 11: prop-vane, Site 3, Sun 02-Jul-2006 20:38:57 MDT, st3 Reset boom angle in rmy
2Jul06, 12:50-14:50 MST
Purpose: station down, shoot boom angle, install new xml
RMY Boom Direction:
Shot boom angle and put it into the rmy: 277.
Verified consistency with observed conditions.
Also put these numbers in entry 6
CSAT pointing towards 179
- 10: data-system, Site 3, Sun 02-Jul-2006 20:29:20 MDT, st3 Visit: data system / goes
2Jul06, 12:50-14:50 MST
Purpose: station down, shoot boom angle, install new xml
Data System:
A USB failure caused the station to go down, not goes despite low sig-strength.
The USB indicated 'read-only' and the log file shows that it ran for awhile but died at 18Z on 1Jul06.
Most likely due to heat not the storms that occurred later.
Cruzer 4g-3 had been in the drive.
Several mount, boot, different usb attempts later finally got things working.
Also was able to upload the new xml.
When it worked, I installed the disks in the lower connector and maybe things had cooled and/or the 'reconnecting and fiddling' with the cables re-established conductivity perhaps.
IE. this station may go down for the same reason again.
GOES:
10W output just fine after restarting nidas.
Re-configured the arrangement a bit:
lowered antenna so it wouldn't wobble in the wind, and
secured the flimsey cabling inside the funky cooler box by cable tying the
surge arrestor to the body of the transmitter.
SE120 - microStrip3
everything appears good.
RMY Boom Direction:
Shot boom angle and put it into the rmy: 277.
Verified consistency with observed conditions
CSAT pointing towards 179
- 9: soil, Site 5, Sun 02-Jul-2006 20:27:08 MDT, TP01 disconnected
2Jul06, 9:30-10:30 MST
TP01 glitch problem appears to be a broken ground pin between the 10v regulator and the amp connecotr.
THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM AS WHAT CAUSED SO MUCH GRIEF AT 'WEST' IN TREX....IMPROVE/FIX ALL OF THEM FOR NEXT TIME!
- 8: krypton, Site 5, Sun 02-Jul-2006 20:24:17 MDT, st5 kh2o cleaned
2Jul06, 9:30-10:30 MST
Distilled water used to clean krypton.
Opened csat elec box to check voltages: .08 before, .25 after (but may have still been wet).
Note: decided against pivoting the xarm up because of 2 things: electronics box is mounted on top of the xarm right next to the tower and the cables to the rmy, irt are too tight.
Used 'stick-with-wick' method on the rohn tower.
- 7: data-system, Site 5, Sun 02-Jul-2006 20:19:59 MDT, st5 Visit: new softw.
2Jul06, 9:30-10:30 MST
Swapped and uploaded data:
out Cruzer 4g-4, in MiniCruzer
New Software installed per edit / build this morning after talking with Gordon.
This attempt was to overcome possible goes/station lock by late statistics processing.
Oops! This install was later determined to be the wrong code which caused the station to go down....remains to be seen if data loss....
- 6: prop-vane, Site all, Sat 01-Jul-2006 22:13:01 MDT, Boom Angles
Stn RMY Boom-Angle CSAT angle
1 172
2
3 277 179 (away from sonic)
4
5
6
7
8 249
9
10
- 5: TRH, Site 1, Sat 01-Jul-2006 22:07:17 MDT, st1 Visit: TRH / new xml
7/1/06 13:30-15:35 local
Purpose: TRH down, intermittent goes, new xml file
Data System:
- Initial checkout: showed data was being collected but the trh was once again in a strange mode.
Swapped TRH and also DISCOVERED A BAD SERIAL CABLE to the TRH.
goes
- ck_goes: ok. Greg repositioned the antenna and stabilized it in hopes of improving the spotty reception. Instead the station went down shortly afterwards.
Note: wildfire a couple of miles on a ridge to the south towards 2/3.
- installed new xml file:
- swapped usb: cruzer #512-2 out; lexar #512-12 in
- bootup OK
- data_stats: OK
- weep hole added
ToDo:
Elec. Fence: Cows in area and no fence. However they already have much
to rub up against so hopefully they won't bother the
station, and haven't so far.
- 4: data-system, Site 8, Sat 01-Jul-2006 21:40:00 MDT, st8 Visit: DataSystem / Goes / Logger
7/1/06 13:30-15:35 local
Purpose: Station had been down, Rnet odd
Data System:
- Initial checkout: showed data was being collected but many 'stats_proc' errors of bad time tag in the log. I copied the log to the bison pc.
Aside, procomm connect to the adam had garbage characters instead of printable. Restarted procomm 3 times before it was normal...may have been port?
ck_goes showed the se120 was not responding. A power cycle fixed that except the next ck_goes had errors such as 'clock not loaded.' Nevertheless, i watched at least 2 more cycles and there was no transmit. A third ck_goes also failed.
At this point I rebooted the viper and after that the goes did work.
- installed new xml file:
- swapped usb: cruzer #512-1 out; lexar #512-11 in
- installed new xml loaded
- bootup OK
- goes seems OK
- Logger down.
Logger Problems:
Initially we thought we'd seen the logger reporting in a data_stats, however after the new xml was loaded, it was not responding. Tests revealed it was working on ttyS2, ttyS6, ttyS8 and the trh for the most part was working on ttyS5 although not every time. Determined ttyS5 (cable/board?) is bad and moved the logger to ttyS8 and it worked. This mean't editing the xml file:
NOTE NOTE NOTE: st1 has a unique xml file locally that puts the logger on ttyS8 insteal of ttyS5 !!
Note: Gordon said that the 'stats_proc' timetag errors were probably from a slow responding sensor not getting the values transferred in time. This may also have caused the goes lock-up. So it is possible that the logger on a bad port may have been the root problem. Perhaps even the wierdness on the rnet....we'll keep watching.
- 3: daily status, Site all, Sat 01-Jul-2006 07:53:22 MDT, Daily Status 1 July: First Day of Project
CuPIDO
ISFF status report 1 July 2006
Staff onsite: Poulos, Militzer
Ops began at 0Z
All stations started operations up and running with a few individual problems by 03Z.
Station 8 went down at 1 am LT 1 July and has an issue with net radiation that will be checked (data quality).
Station 1 T/RH went down again at ~ 10 pm LT 30 June.
The website is down due to EOL system admin maintenance today.
Base.
- We're not yet on the net at UA ag site. Very busy getting stations running. Presently in hotel but with no net connection for John other than wireless (or hotel business office) and without a board. Greg is online at the hotel via his windows Laptop.
120 of 128 total met vars are up to the best of our knowledge.
4 sensors of 128 total meteorological variables are currently down.
Another 4 sensors of 128 total meteorological variables are suspect.
Station Note:
1: T/RH to be replaced. Has been intermittent GOES (will stabilize or spare out), may need a 2nd battery, weephole needed, updated .xml
2: OK
3: RMY dir is off by 180, GOES low @ 38dB, soil moisture to be turned vertical, spiky nighttime heat flux of unknown origin
4: Internittent comm problems and we need to visit to check status - perhaps became wet.
5: V.kh2o is low per web plots. CO2 on web is not up, will update .xml to fix. TP01 is causing 3 hrly spikes in all logger sensors/batt. Will check.
6: OK
7: OK
8: Down as of 1 am LT (unknown source). Rnet data suspect.
9: OK
10: V.kh2o is low per web plots. Soil HF is spiky at night - unknown origin. Soil moisture differs from other sites, will TRIME regularly.
Regular tasks at all sites
--------------------------
a. System checks
b. USB exchanges every 2 weeks
c. Solidify GOES system by lowering on T-post, moving cooler under solar panels and keeping xmitter off bottom of cooler for water
d. Update all .xml
e. Check for and/or put in Ebox weepholes
f. Confirm boom angles for RMY and sonics with true North.
As emailed 1 July 9pm
Overall, the sensors are working well with 122 of 128 met variables looking good at this time (to the best of our ability to review them, this is based on our visits to the sites and web plots). We are having some online outages when GOES comms are flaky that limit somewhat our ability to work on/understand data quality.
** Notables as of 9pm, 1 July
- No significant issues at Sites 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
- The base is not online yet and so the Residence Inn is the acting base.
- Down: GOES comms issues at Site 1 (N, Campo Bonito) and Site 3 (ENE, Davis Mesa) so all web plots are down.
- We exchanged USBs successfully for the first time at Site 1 and Site 8 (W, Catalina St Park)
- Notable nighttime soil heat flux aberrations at 3 and 10 (NNW, Rancho Solano)
- Notably low V.kh2o at 5 (SSE, Bellota) and 10.
- Site 10 is a frequent landing/training site for helicopters (S&R and Ariz. Dept. of safety, including night ops) - literally their favorite at the corner of our cow fence. We've met 4 of the helo folks and had a landing during maintenance.
- The monsoon officially started June 28 and so starting early in the morning may become even more important.
- We used our only spare T/RH at Site 1 today (then comms seem to have gone out)
- SPARES: Spares status is under evaluation.
- 2: base, Site all, Sat 24-Jun-2006 11:37:53 MDT, How to copy data files from usb pen drive
How to copy data from a usb pen-drive onto aster's hard drive:
From the aster account on aster:
insert pen-drive
wait for popup window about new medium
click OK
run this command:
copy_usbdisk.sh
That command will copy all files from /media/usbdisk/projects/CuPIDO
to /data/projects/CuPIDO.
It will delete the files from the pen-drive, unmount it, and
to a file system check.
- 1: LOG, Site none, Sat 24-Jun-2006 08:34:11 MDT, Logbook created
initial log file /usr/local/isff/aster/projects/CuPIDO/logbook/tklog.log created by USER aster