- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.