- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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()
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
2 2.25 hr
4 1.5 hr
5
6
7
8
9
10
From 4 to (40 minutes from 4 to Redington Road)
1 1 hr 35 min
2 2 hr 5 min
3 1.5 hr
5
6
7
8
9
10
From 5 to
1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
10
From 6 to
1
2
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
From 7 to
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
From 8 to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
9
10
From 9 to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
From 10 to
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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).
- 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
- 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.