| Graphic: | li7500 data comparison
Here is what I think the Li7500 is reporting (I guess they are using g-moles):
H2OD - mmol/m3
convert to mass mixing ratio by:
H2OD (mmol/m3) * 0.001 (mol/mmol) * 18 (g_H2O/mol_H2O) / rho.air (kg_air/m3)
CO2D - umol/m3???
convert to ppmV by:
CO2D (mmol/m3) * 1000 (umol/mmol) * 28.97 (g_air/mol_air) * 0.001 (kg_air/g_air)
/ rho.air (kg_air/m3)
A plot of values converted this way is attached. H2OD is compared to Q and
CO2D is compared to co2mr. Everything seems in the right ballpark.
101: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Thu 27-Dec-2001 18:59:25 MST, New temp variable from snow depth gauge
The cr10 that is sampling the snow depth gauge also outputs
a temperature used in the calculation, which we have not been
parsing (and therefore does not appear in the archive).
At 17:25 MST Dec 26 cosmos was rebooted with a new sio_converter
for channel 201 which parses the temperature.
The new variable was first called Tsnow - which is perhaps a bad
choice since it isn't a snow temperature.
Later the snow depth variables were renamed and covars rerun back
to Dec 10. (In the field version of the netcdf files the original
names will still exist in files up to Dec 28).
depth.snow.main -> Depth.snow
Tsnow.main -> Tdepth.snow
100: Temp_RH, Site all stns, Wed 26-Dec-2001 12:13:04 MST, temperature event?
For a few hours before dawn this morning, the bare and sage temperatures were
several degrees colder than at the main tower. The only quick explanation I
can come up with is that the main tower was in a different air mass than the
other two stations.
99: Radiometers, Site tower, Wed 26-Dec-2001 12:02:22 MST, Rsw.in(main) odd
Rsw.in at the main tower has a lot of extra variation at night compared to sage
and compared to both Rsw.out. This has been going on for a long time -- perhaps
since the beginning. Could its fan be bad?
98: , Site all stns, Wed 26-Dec-2001 11:55:35 MST, temp sensitivities
I now suspect temperature sentivities of several sensors:
- CO2 closed-path
- CO2 open-path
- (ASTER?) Barometer
- Snow depth gauge
All should be characterized in some fashion:
- CO2 closed-path by processing cal gas values
- CO2 open-path by comparison to corrected closed-path???
- Barometer through cal chamber check (post cal)
- Snow depth through "stool" check (also post cal in chamber)
97: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Wed 26-Dec-2001 11:52:13 MST, temp sensitivity
I would guess that the snow depth gauge has a temperature sensitivity, though
perhaps it drifts as well. I just tried:
plot(dat("T")[,"T.1m"]*2.5+2100-dat("depth"),ylim=c(-200,200))
which looks like it removes some drift, but perhaps gives a signal which isn't
correct either.
Add to the list of one-time tasks:
- put stool under snow gauge
- let it sit for a period during which the temperature changes (several hours)
- remove stool
- log "stool" time in logbook
96: Base, Site all stns, Wed 19-Dec-2001 10:54:00 MST, archive size and disk capacity
Archive file sizes (Kbyte = 1024 byte) per day:
marigold: 209396
cosmos: 177885
s2: 36642
s3: 36987
aster: 185
total: 461095
The /data disk is: 11442156 Kbytes, so we can store 24 days on /data.
Backup disk #2 is 16547932 Kbytes, which holds 35 days.
Backup disk #1 is slightly larger than #2, something like 18 Gbytes.
Note that these sizes don't include any photos.
95: Temp_RH, Site stn2, Tue 18-Dec-2001 12:13:43 MST, TRH fan replaced
The TRH fans were swapped out with low-temp silicon oil.
94: Sonics, Site stn3, Tue 18-Dec-2001 12:06:48 MST, Sage site sonic boom angle
Readings looking toward csat:
Theodolite 90.47
KVH#3 mounted on boom (w.o. decl.) 77.3
Hand-Held compass (12 deg. decl.) 91
DataScope (w.o. decl) 75.3
Declination of site 12 - 12.5 degrees per FAA sectional
Add 180 and convert to degrees to get boom azimuth:
270.47 deg
Add 90 to get Vazimuth: 0.47 deg
Sunangle data:
Input TIME window desired:
Starting hour: 12
Number of hours: 2
time interval in minutes: 5
No. of Hours behind Greenwich Time:7
Sun Angle Data
for
earth location....latitude: 40,40,11
longitude: 106,19, 3
on date: 12/18/1901
local time, Z time Grnwich earth local sun position
hour/minute Hour Angle decl. azimuth elev.
----------- ------ ---------- ----- ------------------
12: 0 19.00 105.83 -23.39 179.50 25.94
12: 5 19.08 107.08 -23.39 180.78 25.94
12:10 19.17 108.33 -23.39 182.05 25.92
12:15 19.25 109.58 -23.39 183.33 25.87
12:20 19.33 110.83 -23.39 184.60 25.81
12:25 19.42 112.08 -23.39 185.87 25.72
12:30 19.50 113.33 -23.39 187.14 25.61
12:35 19.58 114.58 -23.39 188.40 25.48
12:40 19.67 115.83 -23.39 189.66 25.34
12:45 19.75 117.08 -23.39 190.91 25.17
12:50 19.83 118.33 -23.39 192.16 24.98
12:55 19.92 119.58 -23.39 193.41 24.77
13: 0 20.00 120.83 -23.39 194.64 24.54
13: 5 20.08 122.08 -23.39 195.87 24.29
13:10 20.17 123.33 -23.39 197.09 24.02
13:15 20.25 124.58 -23.39 198.31 23.73
13:20 20.33 125.82 -23.39 199.51 23.42
13:25 20.42 127.07 -23.39 200.71 23.10
13:30 20.50 128.32 -23.39 201.90 22.75
13:35 20.58 129.57 -23.39 203.08 22.39
13:40 20.67 130.82 -23.39 204.24 22.01
13:45 20.75 132.07 -23.39 205.40 21.61
13:50 20.83 133.32 -23.39 206.55 21.20
13:55 20.92 134.57 -23.39 207.69 20.76
93: Logistics, Site tower, Tue 18-Dec-2001 09:09:49 MST, guy wire tension
Guy wire tensions Updated:
lower middle upper
NE 520 650 550
SE 690 620 480
SW 620 450 670
NW 620 490 630
This was in about 6 m/s winds from the SW.
(The forcast is for very strong winds (50 mph?) today, so I thought I should
check.)
Update: 9 Dec:
NE 510 650 550
SE 670 590 480
SW 560 430 660
NW 600 480 600
(within 20 of the 6 Dec readings). Winds about 4 m/s from the S.
Update: 18 Dec:
L M H
NE 500 600 520
SE 630 550 440
SW 570 400 590
NW 600 475 600
92: Temp_RH, Site tower, Mon 17-Dec-2001 17:31:28 MST, TRH fans replaced
The TRH fans were swapped out with low-temp silicon oil.
91: Radiometers, Site stn2, Mon 17-Dec-2001 17:26:43 MST, 4-Component Radiometer Stn2 moved to Stn3
Q7 installed in place of 4-component.
Soil Sensors remain.
Coefficients for Q7 changed at about 00:20Z 18Dec01
Q7 at 1.97m oriented south on guyed T-post.
90: Eve, Site stn3, Mon 17-Dec-2001 17:24:51 MST, PAM Stn3 / sage site setup
17Dec01
Station Set Up approx. 1km N. of base in Sagebrush.
4-component radiometer system from bare site moved to
this location looking down over a lovely specimin of a sage bush.
Q7 1.96m
CSAT #538 2.35m
Level X(lateral)=-.015 Y(longitudinal)=-.005
per electronic level mounted on boom
Krypton #1395
Serializer #6
Krypton installed on AM of 12/18 ~17z
Soil Sensors installed on AM of 12/18 ~17z
Soil sensors not the best in frozen ground.
Back-fill of ~1/2 of CS615 because unable to
insert 'poker' far enough to match length of probles.
Tsoil installed with minimal angle ending at 5cm.
HFT, CS615 at 5cm.
89: Radiometers, Site all stns, Thu 13-Dec-2001 10:45:06 MST, calibration files for CR10Xs
Below yare the calibration coefficients used in
each CR10X.
NOTE: Before the installation of stn3 at the "sage" site, stn2 at "bare"
had the 4 comp system. This system was moved to stn3.
The soil sensors and the Q7 stayed at stn2 and a new
set of soil sensors and Q7 along with the 4 comp were
installed at stn3. So if you are looking at data for
stn2 before the installation of stn3, you need to use
the 4 comp coefficients listed in stn3.
TOWER
sensor SN location calibration
Q7 Q99258 A+ 00 9.35
A- 01 11.55
PYGIN 26416 02 280.1120448
PYGOUT 29260 03 311.5264798
KZIN 940187 04 100.7049345
KZOUT 940186 05 82.98755187
HFT H983212 06 38.4
PIcase 10 2500
A0 11 0.00335513
A1 12 0.278704
A2 13 1.4317
A3 14 998.718
PIdome 15 2500
A0 16 0.00305339
A1 17 0.268816
A2 18 8.77845
A3 19 -2267.84
POcase 20 2500
A0 21 0.00335427
A1 22 0.279319
A2 23 5.19638
A3 24 -247.625
POdome 25 2500
A1 26 0.00305418
A2 27 0.268098
A3 28 4.06691
A4 29 403.649
Tsoil NCAR002 A0 30 -241.477805
A1 31 231.052081
A2 32 9.262642
level N0383 X, A0 33 0.05750311
A1 34 14.26792000
A2 35 -0.13395810
A3 36 -0.20585990
A4 37 0.0000000
A5 38 0.0000000
Y, A0 39 -0.02092993
A1 40 14.44724000
A2 41 0.12732100
A3 42 -0.39985070
A4 43 0.0000000
A5 44 0.0000000
CS615 12 A0 45 -0.187
A1 46 0.037
A2 47 0.335
ice on/off 1=on, 0=off 50 1
min bat (volts) 51 11
X time (secs) 52 300
outmode 0=a, 1=b 55 0
stn2 at bare site
sensor SN location calibration
Q7 Q97035 A+ 00 9.26
A- 01 11.52
HFT H993563 06 38.9
Tsoil NCAR001 A0 30 -241.6249
A1 31 230.9534
A2 32 9.0362
CS615 13 A0 45 -0.187
A1 46 0.037
A2 47 0.335
stn3 at sage site
sensor SN location calibration (sensors at stn2 before stn3)
Q7 Q94125 A+ 00 8.64
A- 01 10.78
PYGIN 31978 02 280.8594299 *
PYGOUT 31976 03 259.6053998 *
KZIN 940185 04 80.25682183 *
KZOUT 970380 05 86.50519031 *
HFT H993560 06 37.7
PIcase 10 2500 *
A0 11 0.00335405 *
A1 12 0.28145 *
A2 13 3.04961 *
A3 14 289.824 *
PIdome 15 2500 *
A0 16 0.0030332 *
A1 17 0.291681 *
A2 18 -3.4779 *
A3 19 870.025 *
POcase 20 2500 *
A0 21 0.00335116 *
A1 22 0.285883 *
A2 23 0.220836 *
A3 24 756.272 *
POdome 25 2500 *
A1 26 0.00302872 *
A2 27 0.297063 *
A3 28 -5.33875 *
A4 29 1070.53 *
Tsoil NCAR003 A0 30 -242.721555
A1 31 233.953195
A2 32 8.282468
level N2018 X, A0 33 -0.3555644 *
A1 34 11.0103000 *
A2 35 -0.1015489 *
A3 36 -0.4473981 *
A4 37 0.0000000 *
A5 38 0.0000000 *
Y, A0 39 0.5774926 *
A1 40 10.6420400 *
A2 41 0.0040844 *
A3 42 -0.1290564 *
A4 43 0.0000000 *
A5 44 0.0000000 *
CS615 8 A0 45 -0.187
A1 46 0.037
A2 47 0.335
ice on/off 1=on, 0=off 50 0
min bat (volts) 51 0
X time (secs) 52 0
outmode 0=a, 0=b 55 1
88: Power, Site stn2, Wed 12-Dec-2001 08:31:45 MST, Changed Icharge monitor to Iwind/Isolar
Monday, 10Dec01, ~14:30 (20:30Z)
New EVE configuration: fmt0113
Purpose: Change in Battery/Charge Box.
Added new charging current shunt to monitor PV / Wind
separately.
New Base Parameters:
Channel 100 same 'Vbatt'
Channel 101 now 'Iwind' was 'Icharge'
Channel 102 same 'Iload'
Channel 103 new 'Isolar'
Operations Notes:
1) There will be 'noise' on Iload when the wind generator kicks
in, I expect that. The cause appears to be that the shunt is
on the 'ground' line and there are other return paths for the
real charging current, which is through the Iload shunt.
I need to decide how and whether or not to attack that problem
(not too keen on having the shunt on the '+12' side and being
routed to EVE.)
Result: Noise / false reading on Iload when wind generator is going.
Iwind will be lower than the actual charging current.
2) Still no monitor on the charge divert circuit
for when the batteries are full and the juice gets sent to the
dummy load.
EVE Config Declaration:
# WAS....SINGLE CHARGING CURRENT MONITOR....
#ANALOG: Ad .5Hz FASTOUT=100
#Batt-v 0 1 0.026093 0
#Charge-i 1 10 0.0942 0
#Load-i 2 100 0.0047 0
#:
# NOW....
ANALOG: Ad .5Hz FASTOUT=100
Batt-v 0 1 0.026093 0
Charge-i 1 10 0.0942 0
Load-i 2 100 0.0047 0
ChargePV 3 10 0.0942 0
:
87: Base, Site base, Mon 10-Dec-2001 18:24:44 MST, aster rebooted several times
I just rebooted aster several times because I swapped /backup before remembering
to put $ASTER/projects/FLOSS on it (with all the photos that I promised to
various visitors today (The Star reporter and the Walden science teachers.)
I think everything is back to the way it should be now.
We're leaving this lovely place.
Bye bye...
86: Radiometers, Site tower, Mon 10-Dec-2001 13:36:09 MST, Change of sw.out at main
Between 11:50 - 12:10 at the main radiation site the down-looking K&Z was
swapped out
K&Z 940186 and its internal to the housing cable was removed.
K&Z 940181 and its associated cable was installed.
All domes were cleaned, all fans were checked and the Q7 checked for level.
The frost sensors were covered for a few minutes
Ninety minutes later the radiometer data were viewed. The new radiometer shows adata stream comparable to the corresponding data stream at the Bare Eve site.
85: CO2, Site tower, Mon 10-Dec-2001 11:02:03 MST, new licor7500 converter
On Dec 10, 09:36 MST cosmos was rebooted to install a
new sio_converter for the licor 7500 on channel 212.
Up until 09:36 we were using noconv_nl as the sio_converter
for the licor, which does no conversion and passes the
ASCII to the cal routine (licor_7500) to parse.
For efficency sake, were now using this sio_converter:
licor_7500 9 "(Data (Ndx %f)(CO2Raw %f)(CO2D %f)(H2ORaw %f)(H2OD %f)(Temp %f)(Pres
%f)(Aux %f)(Cooler %f))"
The cal routine is then the generic serial_float, though I imagine
we may have to create a special one if we want to convert the
units.
The licor periodically (once a second?) puts out a diagnostic
record, which will be ignored (and not archived). To see
the diagnostic record in real-time use rserial.
84: Base, Site base, Mon 10-Dec-2001 11:01:16 MST, restarting serial_ingest
To effect a new sio_converter for the pam data on stn2 you only
needed to send a HUP signal to the stn2 ingest process:
------------- Ingest tasks -------------
host user pid start exectime process
aster aster 1216 Dec09 ? 00:00:12 stn2 4 /dev/usb/ttyUSB0
kill -HUP 1216
serial_ingest then restarts another ingest on that serial port
immediately.
83: Radiometers, Site tower, Mon 10-Dec-2001 09:31:30 MST, level sensors temperature error
It is obvious that the level sensors at the main site respond inversely to
temperature -- about 1 angle degree to -0.03 C. Both X & Y show this behavior.
The little bit of data that I have from the bare site don't show this effect.
82: Base, Site all stns, Sun 09-Dec-2001 18:26:41 MST, rebooted aster
The reason why Xlevel and Ylevel have been bad is that channel config had too
few values for the logger at the bare site (cr10_13, rather than cr10_18).
Since I don't know how to restart ingest for the PAM sites (I tried
ingest_control -r stn2, but this didn't work) and I couldn't reach Gordon,
I simply restarted aster. This appears to have worked (though I still had
to start cockpit stn2 manually).
Now Xlevel and Ylevel.bare appear to be okay.
The biggest problem with the way we were collecting data is that we dropped
all the Qsoilraw.bare values. Thus, it will be extra work to revise the
calibrations for the Qsoil.bare data taken to date.
81: Radiometers, Site stn2, Sun 09-Dec-2001 17:03:53 MST, rads cleaned?
I attempted to clean the bare site radiometers about 1640 using cotton swabs.
Both pygs had a fair amount of dirt, especially near the base of the dome.
I also cleaned some obvious, though small, streaks on the top psp.
Note: Radiometers should be cleaned in daylight (preferably nearly clear),
so that the effect of cleaning can be quantified. I realized too late that
it would have been better to do this cleaning in more sun.
Also note that it is hard to do clean radiometers (especially psp's) well with
a cotton swab. We should have some clean wipes here.
80: Kryptons, Site stn2, Sun 09-Dec-2001 17:03:17 MST, krypton cleaned
I finally got to the bare site to clean its krypton about 1600.
79: Status, Site all stns, Sun 09-Dec-2001 13:28:38 MST, visitors
Bob Kelly (Univ. of Wyoming) was here for a tour this morning.
Other visitors we've had:
Ed - (the local NWS cooperative observer for the past 25 years) was here for
a tour Friday afternoon.
Todd S- and Pam - from the Wildlife Refuge were here Thursday to teach Larry
and Dean about local plants.
Mark Lanier from the Wildlife Refuge was here Wed? last week to see what we
were up to.
We've (mostly Larry) also fielded reporter phone calls from the Denver Post
and Colorado Springs Gazette last week.
We're expecting a visit by Matt Landis and other local High School teachers
tomorrow afternoon.
78: Radiometers, Site tower, Sun 09-Dec-2001 11:14:41 MST, rads serviced
I opened up Rsw.out to see if I could see a bad connection, but everything
looked okay. It was opened about 9:30 and closed about 11:00 and the ladder
was underneath, so this morning's data are bad.
I also attempted to clean Rsw.out with distilled water, but it immediately
froze. There still was ice on it when I left. The others I simply wiped with
a cotton swab.
77: Kryptons, Site tower, Sun 09-Dec-2001 11:12:03 MST, kryptons cleaned
Larry and I just cleaned all the kryptons, starting at 20m over the last hour.
Of course, we had to pull up the booms at 20 & 10, so sonic data will be bad.
76: Status, Site all stns, Sat 08-Dec-2001 17:29:35 MST, shallow inversion today
We noticed a very shallow inversion this afternoon, where the max temperature
was at 5m. The temperature differences were about 0.2 C from 0.5m to 5m and
back from 5m to 20m. I believe the temperature sensors by now. Later this
evening, it broke down and became completely stable throughout the profile.
75: Thermocouples, Site tower, Sat 08-Dec-2001 16:59:37 MST, replaced last thermocouples
I just put the last 2 good thermocouples in at the lowest 2 levels: 0.20 and
0.35m. I also removed the dead thermocouples from the top down to 8m.
Some were pretty well battered.
74: Logistics, Site stn2, Sat 08-Dec-2001 16:15:42 MST, staked rad cable
I just put the rad cable up on fence posts. I'm now declaring this site
critter-proof. (Ha!)
73: CO2, Site tower, Sat 08-Dec-2001 14:21:45 MST, li7500 up
I mounted OSU's LI-7500 yesterday about 2pm and connected it to cosmos:212.
We are archiving the data in unconverted ASCII until we can figure out a
different format.
I don't like the mounting for the LiCor's box. Currently, I have it just
sitting on a breakout box stand. At the very least, it should be bolted to
this stand....
I also did some CONFUSING cabling for this sensor. I have connected it to
MARIGOLD's Serial/Analog breakout box, to avoid adding another BOB. My
primary reason was to avoid running more DC power cable, since the LiCor takes
2 AMPS. A secondary reason was that we might connect it to marigold later
anyway, if Larry decides to move this sensor to 10m.
We still need to parse the message from this sensor. I've just put a generic
prep.config entry in for this sensor, commented out.
72: Temp_RH, Site all stns, Sat 08-Dec-2001 13:59:34 MST, TRH 703
We now have in the trailer two "spare" T/RHs. One is 704 which I just removed
from the tower at 20m due to temperature readings that were 0.2 C low (the
profile looks MUCH better now).
The other is 703 which Steve had removed from 2m a while back. Steve said that
the fan was bad. I took it apart and found that the ribbon cable was cut. I
spliced in a section of normal cable, but noticed some bare insulation on the
wires directly connected to the fan. I didn't patch these. Thus, 703 should
now be considered a working spare, though it should have a better repair job
sometime.
71: Soil, Site tower, Sat 08-Dec-2001 12:41:46 MST, soil samples
About 11:40 I took another core at the main site. I also took a nearby TRIME
reading of 10.4%. This time, I cleared a bare spot, but there were still a lot
of roots (one ~4mm diam.) in the sample, so most of the sample felt like peat.
The was separated into layers. The top cm was only partly filled, since the
sample was on a small local slope. I estimate the average depth in this as
0.5cm. Also, the bottom wasn't completely filled either. I estimate the depth
as just 2cm.
I simply weighed the total dirt sample (wet) in each of 4 layers to get the
total bulk density, then created alloquots to determine the soil moisture
after drying. The corer diameter is about 5.4cm
Depth Cont. Tare Tare+Samp Samp Ave moist Comp.DryWeight DryDens
0-1.5 - 28.9 53.0 24.1
1.5-4.5 B 26.9 69.6 42.7
4.5-7.5 C 27.0 119.5 92.5
7.5-9.5 D 27.0 95.8 68.8
For the top 4.5 cm, bulk density is g/cm^3
Depth Alloquot Wet Dry Water
0-1.5 A1 13.3 2.9
A2 10.9 2.4
1.5-4.5 B1 27.0 12.2
B2 15.4 9.7
4.5-7.5 C1 47.9 43.1 (slightly spilled before dry weighing.)
C3 33.8 30.5
7.5-9.5 D1 33.8 31.7
A3 34.7 32.8
Since this sample was heavily influenced by the grass, I'll get another
tower sample today.
70: Status, Site all stns, Sat 08-Dec-2001 10:12:55 MST, serial numbers and heights
These are the serial numbers for sensors that I know of:
Main: TRH Prop CSAT KH20 Baro Logger
20 704 0007 0540 1394
15 701 0006
10 201 0003 0537 1393
5 001 0002
2 004 0001 0536
1 702 0004
0.5 005
Bare:
2 007 0539 1392 1002 1
Note that I'm just about to change the TRH at 20m to SN 104. (Done 10:55.)
Here are the heights of these sensors:
TRH
20 20.40+0.31-0.04-0.57 = 20.10
15 16.72-0.72-0.04-0.57 = 15.39
10 11.20-0.67-0.04-0.57 = 9.92
5 5.78+0.31-0.04-0.57 = 5.48
2 2.10+0.46-0.04-0.57 = 1.95
1 2.10-0.55-0.04-0.57 = 0.94
0.5 2.10-1.02-0.04-0.57 = 0.47
Prop
20 20.40-0.84-0.06+0.45 = 19.95
15 14.88-0.01+0.45 = 15.32
10 9.46+0.05-0.06+0.45 = 9.90
5 5.78-0.86-0.06+0.45 = 5.31
2 2.10-0.51-0.06+0.45 = 1.98
1 2.10-1.57-0.06+0.45 = 0.92
CSAT
20 20.40-0.89-0.06+0.05 = 19.50
10 11.20-0.89-0.06+0.05 = 10.30
2 2.10+0.04+0.05 = 2.19
KH20 relative to CSAT: 20cm down, 35cm back
LI6251 inlet frit relative to CSAT: 10cm down, 33cm back
LI7500 center of path relative to CSAT: 40cm down, 67cm back
20.40-0.84-0.06+0.45
69: Temp_RH, Site tower, Sat 08-Dec-2001 10:11:28 MST, T/RH swapped ~11/30
Shortly before he left, either 11/30 or 12/1, Steve Semmer swapped T/RHs at
2m. 004 replaced 703.
68: Soil, Site tower, Sat 08-Dec-2001 09:11:11 MST, soil samples
About 2:00 I took a core at the main site. I also took a nearby TRIME readings
of 5.7% and 6.9%.
I still had trouble unscrewing the corer when I got it back to the trailer, but
eventually got separated it out in layers. However, the top 2cm ended up being
above-ground grass, so the core was not as deep as it should have been. Also,
the first 3cm of ground, and even some of the next 3cm was mostly roots (like
peat).
I simply weighed the total dirt sample (wet) in each of 4 layers to get the
total bulk density, then created alloquots to determine the soil moisture
after drying. The corer diameter is about 5.4cm
Depth Cont. Tare Tare+Samp Samp Ave moist Comp.DryWeight DryDens
0-3 B 26.9 59.7 32.8 (peat) (39%) 23.6 0.34
3-6 C 27.0 116.1 89.1 (clumps) (11%) 80.3 1.17
6-8.7 D 27.0 129.1 102.1 (broken) (8%) 94.5 1.65
For the top 6 cm, bulk density is 0.76 g/cm^3
Depth Alloquot Wet Dry Water
0-3 B1 11.8 8.1 3.7 (31.4%)
B2 12.3 6.6 5.7 (46.3%)
3-6 C1 32.9 29.4 3.5 (10.6%)
C3 32.0 28.1 3.9 (12.2%)
6-8+ D1 40.8 37.7 3.1 (7.6%)
A3 36.1 33.3 2.8 (7.8%) spilled during second weighing, but
I think I recovered most of it)
Since this sample was heavily influenced by the grass, I'll get another
tower sample today.
67: GPS, Site base, Sat 08-Dec-2001 09:09:45 MST, gps died again
The GPS was dead this morning. I'm going to guess that the power supply doesn't
like the cold of the "knee-hole", since it was quite cold last night (-13 now).
I got it going, but will move the power supply out soon.
66: Sonics, Site stn2, Fri 07-Dec-2001 17:52:04 MST, sonic interruptions
I put my mitten in the sonic path for 2 seconds to see if the serializer heater
flag would change (from 256). It didn't. Sorry for the data interruption.
65: CO2, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 16:50:19 MST, flow rates checked
I just did the flow rate checks that Tony suggested. Each cal gas was turned
on for about 30 seconds at about 16:25. Note that I was standing near the
sonic during this period, so all fluxes at 2m are suspect.
nominal flow rate is ~5.5 lpm
flow rate with cylinder 1 is ~-2 lpm
flow rate with cylinder 3 is ~-2.5 lpm
These readings were so close to what Tony intended that I didn't change
anything.
But we still don't know why his gas is being used up relatively fast. I can
think of several possibilities:
- The flow rate out of the pressurized cylinders is more than through the
scintered inlet. I could check this by metering the analyzer outflow.
- There is a leak in the cal gas line. This strikes me as unlikely since both
cylinders are going down at about the same rate.
64: Thermocouples, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 14:50:05 MST, Lower thermocouples: changes to cr21x
The cr21x is now working in high resolution binary mode, as of 14:35 MST,
Dec 6. The cal routine is camp_hr_bin. To process the earlier data,
one would have to use the serial_float routine. If it is important
we will have to create a new ops period.
The binary data mode fixes the problem of the broken records
coming out of the cr21x - it was putting a carriage return after
8 fields in the ASCII output.
63: Soil, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 13:36:51 MST, soil readings
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This page summarizes the TRIME readings:
main bare
time reading time reading
Dec 4 1015 7.1% 1615 4.7%
Dec 5 1230 7.5% 1310 11.4%
Dec 6 1330 8.8% 1030 12.3%
Dec 7 1400 6.3% 1700 6.9%
Dec 8 1140 10.4% 1600 7.3%
Dec 9 1245 8.0% 1630 9.1%
Dec 10 1230 5.6% 1500 9.4,9.7,9.9%
I've plotted these values with the 615 readings. Obviously, the comparison
is pretty bad -- probably this is a spatial sampling issue.
- 62: Soil, Site stn2, Thu 06-Dec-2001 12:34:56 MST, soil samples
About 10:30 I took a core at the bare site. I also took a nearby TRIME reading
of 12.3%.
I had trouble unscrewing the corer when I got it back to the trailer, so I
simply ground dirt out, making the profile sampling a bit crude.
I simply weighed the total dirt sample (wet) in each of 4 layers to get the
total bulk density, then created alloquots to determine the soil moisture
after drying. The corer diameter is about 5.4cm
Depth Cont. Tare Tare+Samp Samp Ave moist Comp.DryWeight DryDens
0-2 - 28.9 78.1 49.2 (damp) 12.7% 43.7 0.95
2-5 B 26.9 139.9 113.0 (wet) 12.3% 100.6 1.46
5-8 C 27.0 125.7 98.7 (wet) 8.1% 91.3 1.33
8-10.7 D 27.0 108.4 81.4 (dry) 8.6% 75.0 1.21
For the top 5 cm, bulk density is 1.26 g/cm^3
Depth Alloquot Wet Dry Water
0-2 A1 18.8 16.5 2.3 (12.2%)
A2 19.6 17.4 2.2 (11.2%)
2-5 B1 23.8 20.8 3.0 (12.6%)
B2 24.7 21.7 3.0 (12.1%)
5-8 C1 34.8 31.7 3.1 (8.9%)
C3 36.4 33.7 2.7 (7.4%)(I added one of the 2 rocks)
8-10+ D1 30.9 28.0 2.9 (9.4%)
A3 30.6 28.2 2.4 (7.8%)
Tomorrow, I'll go for a sample at the tower.
- 61: Soil, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 12:27:02 MST, soil sampling
Procedure for soil samples during FLOSS01
At both sites, somewhere in the vicinity of the radiation stand/soil sensors,
take periodic soil cores for Bulk Density and for Soil Moisture.
Bulk density need only be done a few times at each site, but it would be good to do
soil moisture periodically.
I tried out the soil corer during set-up and found it to be a suitable method
for both Bulk Density and Soil Moisture
After using the corer clean it and wipe the threed with a WD40 tissue.
Note that the barrel need not be screwed in too tightly
Assemble the core with two 1cm sleeves then one 3cm sleeve and then the remaining
sleeves.
This will enable the top 5 cm to be separated from the core.
At the sample location, clean away the snow and loose dead grass.
Using the slide hammer pound the core into the soil until it bottoms out.
Work the corer back and foreward, left and right until it is loose.
Lift the corer out and carry it back to the base.
Use the plastic box in the tool box as a work area.
Unscrew the barrel of the corer and push out the sleeves containing the soil core.
Using the flat bladed tool separate the core at the 5 cm level.
To determine bulk density (and soil moisture):
Place entire 5cm core in one of the larger Al containers.
Weigh, setting the tare with a similar Al container.
Cook for two days in the oven at 110 C.
Reweigh.
From volume of the core (5cm x pi r^2 cm^2) and dry weight calculate bulk density.
From fresh weight and dry weight calculate the gravimetric water fraction.
(fresh wt - dry wt)/dry wt = gravimetric water fraction.
To determine soil moisture only (but more accurately).
After separating the top 5 cm of the soil core break up the soil mass and
homogenize it.
In three of the small Al containers (labelled A1,A2,A3, B1,B2,B3, C1,C2,C3) load ~
30g of soil.
Weigh, using a similar container as tare.
Cook for one day in the oven set at 110 C.
Reweigh.
From fresh weight and dry weight calculate the gravimetric water fraction.
(fresh wt - dry wt)/dry wt = gravimetric water fraction.
- 60: CO2, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 12:26:23 MST, CO2 installation
The Licor aspirated CO2 system was installed on 30 Nov''01
The configuration is shown in ...../doc/co2licor.idr (to be copied from
~/deploymnets/floss02/co2licor.idr)
lico2.2m cosmos 102
li.2m cosmos 103
Channel 0 Channel 1
Ambient off off
Lo-cal on Off
Hi-cal off on
Sequence of 2 minutes Lo-cal, 2 minutes of Hi-cal, 4 Hr 56 minutes of Ambient,
repeating every 5 hrs
was initiated.
The system was tested on 1 dec''01.
Lo-cal and Hi-cal were activated and a Zero can period was run.
The Flows were checked with a floating ball meter.
5 lpm intake during ambient flow.
Adjusted using bypass valve on pump suction manifold.
~2 lpm backflow during both Lo-cal and Hi-cal periods.
Adjusted using cross handle, very sensitive, for lo-cal
and using knob, for hi-cal
Set a default calibration factor of 180 ppmv/volt to generate an approximately
correct mixing ratio
Keeping track of cal gas usage
- 59: Radiometers, Site all stns, Thu 06-Dec-2001 12:25:28 MST, radiometers and soil sensors
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Radiometers and soil sensors
Radiation stands were set up at the Main site and the Bare site on 28 Dec''01
The radiometers were installed at Bare on 29 Nov''01
The radiometers and snow sensor were installed at Main on 30 Nov''01
The soil sensors were installed at Main on 30 Nov''01
The soil sensors were installed at Bare on 30 Nov''01
The radiometers were leveled and fan function were checked at Main on 01 Dec''01
The radiometers were leveled and fan function were checked at Bareon 01 Dec''01
The complement of sensors is shown in ...../doc/radioms.idr (to be copied from
~/deploymnets/floss02/radioms.idr)
- 58: CO2, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 12:23:08 MST, cal gases
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On 8 Nov''01 six cylinders of synthetic air/CO2 were cross calibrated with a CMDL
standard at CUFF.
Cal1 AK-170118 317 ppmv
Cal2 220K-0017 315 ppm
Cal3 LK58629 484 ppmv
Cal4 LK285067 495 ppmv
Cal5 291120Y 493 ppmv
Cal6 220K-0002 324 ppmv
Cal5 and Cal6 remain at FLAB
Cal1, Cal2 , the Lo-cal cylinders, and Cal3, Cal4. the Hi-cal cylinders are at the
tower base.
Cal1=Lo-cal and Cal3=Hi-cal were connected Sat 01 Dec''01
Cal2=Lo-cal and Cal4=Hi-cal are in reserve, laying next to the active cylinders.
- 57: Power, Site stn2, Thu 06-Dec-2001 12:21:22 MST, changed wind gen pot again
I now have the pot all the way clockwise. This should be the high voltage
setting. The prop was much happier and went from spinning slowly to quite fast.
I note that Icharge went up to 14A! Hopefully, this is a good setting to leave
it at.
- 56: Radiometers, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 09:39:42 MST, checked Rsw.out
We noticed (belatedly) last night that Rsw.out.main has been bad. I reseated
cables this morning about 9:20 and did two tests about 9:30- 20 seconds with
my hand underneath followed by 20 seconds with the guy tension meter wood box
underneath. I'll look at these data soon.
With my hand, the value was 22 W/m2, with the box 18 W/m2, uncovered about
70 W/m2. Thus, it appears to be working now. I hope it stays that way.
- 55: Logistics, Site tower, Thu 06-Dec-2001 09:34:14 MST, guy wire tension
I just measured guy wire tension:
lower middle upper
NE 520 650 550
SE 690 620 480
SW 620 450 670
NW 620 490 630
This was in about 6 m/s winds from the SW.
(The forcast is for very strong winds (50 mph?) today, so I thought I should
check.)
Update: 9 Dec:
NE 510 650 550
SE 670 590 480
SW 560 430 660
NW 600 480 600
(within 20 of the 6 Dec readings). Winds about 4 m/s from the S.
- 54: Thermocouples, Site tower, Wed 05-Dec-2001 13:57:46 MST, TC data from 21X
The data from the 21X is somewhat scrambled. Every other sample from the
thermocouples is 0. For the samples that the thermocouple is 0, the reference
appears to be a real value. The alternate samples appear to be good, with
a slowly varying reference and real thermocouple values.
Either we're not parsing the 21x data properly, or it is being driven too fast.
- 53: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Wed 05-Dec-2001 13:15:50 MST, precip gauge okay
The tips from the rain gauge during my calibration at about 12:35 were:
5, 7, 7, 7, 8, 7, 2 = 43 tips total
This sounds like a reasonable number. The CASES97 logbook says that we would
expect 44!
- 52: Soil, Site stn2, Wed 05-Dec-2001 13:13:29 MST, soil Q
Sampled one location: 11.4%
also shot 3 photos.
Also changed wind gen pot to full counterclockwise.
P.S. There was no charging the following night even with 10 m/s winds, so
this pot adjustment was bad.
- 51: Status, Site tower, Wed 05-Dec-2001 12:54:23 MST, site visit
I spent the last 20 minutes at the main tower for daily stuff:
- dumped water in rain gauge (appeared to work!)
- shot 3 photos
- measured TRIME moisture 6.9 -> 7.4%
Now off to bare site for TRIME stuff and change wind gen pot.
- 50: CO2, Site tower, Wed 05-Dec-2001 12:11:51 MST, co2 calibration
I just looked at the CO2 calibration on 5 Dec 02:00. From an eyeball average
of values from prep, using a default gain of 190 and bias of 0:
cyl #1 - 317 => 334
cyl #3 - 484 => 472
Thus, the gain would be: 190 * (484-317)/(472-334) = 230
and the offset would be: 317 - 334*230/190 = -87
I'll go ahead and put these in, though we expect to generate a time-varying
calibration eventually.
- 49: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 23:16:03 MST, rainr
This afternoon (~4:00), I reseated the connectors for the rain gauge. I had
the idea that it wasn't completely seated at the CR10 side. Now, I see a single
tip which should have been due to the 1/4" of fluffy snow we just had. I might
have been tempted to try another calibration, but I didn't have any water left.
I've refilled it now and will try again tomorrow.
- 48: , Site , Tue 04-Dec-2001 22:31:47 MST, new snow
We had some flurries earlier this evening, but we've just started getting big
flakes now.
- 47: Status, Site base, Tue 04-Dec-2001 21:34:38 MST, second mouse trapped
After seeing it scurrying across the back of the trailer today, I moved the
trap tonight. It was filled 20 minutes later. 10 seconds of silence, everyone.
- 46: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 16:54:01 MST, added stool!
In a further attempt to check the snow depth gauge, I just placed the small
stool underneath it for about 5 minutes. The stool height is 11 7/8".
The change was obvious even in cockpit.
The numbers are:
2056-1764=292 (should be 300)
- 45: Thermocouples, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 16:52:07 MST, 5m thermocouple fixed
I just replaced the 5m thermo., which brought it back to life.
- 44: Barometer, Site all stns, Tue 04-Dec-2001 15:49:34 MST, Pressure error
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I've been puzzled by the pressure difference between main and bare. The height
difference only justifies about 0.3mb (bare lower). (The difference in height
from the topos was about 13' = 4m at ~11m/mb.) So, I just made a difference
plot and noticed that it varied like temperature by 2mb over 15C. A
scatterplot of the pressure difference vs. temperature (see attached) has a
perfect correlation. This sounds like the same problem we saw in OASIS98.
We should get rid of the non-compensated sensor.
- 43: Soil, Site all stns, Tue 04-Dec-2001 14:39:08 MST, soil moisture
I made some hand-held TRIME measurements near the soil probes at the main tower
today. At two sites I got: 7.3% and 6.9%. Note that the first readings were
both 6.9%. The first site showed increasing values over the first minute.
These were done about 10:15 this morning.
Later in the day, (4:15), took readings at bare site: 4.2%, 4.7%, and 5.0%.
I think that the 4.7 was about like the 615 probe.
- 42: Adams, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 14:01:35 MST, marigold down
marigold was down from 19:45 to 22:28 today (when Gordon called me to tell
me it was down!)
This was during the time that Massman was setting up -- perhaps something was
bumped. (He was getting power from the box that the Breezecom is in.)
Sorry for not noticing this...
- 41: Thermocouples, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 12:27:15 MST, Sean's thermocouple comments
Here's my summary of what I did there:
---------------------------------------------------------------
The FLOSS thermocouple setup was between Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2001
near Walden, Colorado.
Layout of the thermocouples on the FLOSS Main Tower.
tc level data logger channel
-------- ----------- ----------
20.0m 23X channel 12
18.5m 23X channel 11
17.0m 23X channel 10
15.5m 23X channel 9
14.0m 23X channel 8
12.5m 23X channel 7
11.0m 23X channel 6
9.5m 23X channel 5
8.0m 23X channel 4
6.5m 23X channel 3
5.0m 23X channel 2
3.5m 23X channel 1
8.0m 21X channel 8
5.75m 21X channel 7
4.25m 21X channel 6
2.75m 21X channel 5
2.0m 21X channel 4
0.5m 21X channel 3
0.35m 21X channel 2
0.2m 21X channel 1
Notes:
1. The 23X data logger is at about 9m.
2. The 21X data logger is on the ground beneath the stairs.
3. The reference temp sensor from the 21X data logger appeared
to be noisy (need to talk to Steve Semmer about this).
4. Borrowed PVC fitting for the 21X Campbell Box from Larry/Dean.
(need to get them a replacement plus some putty-type stuff).
5. Three extra thermocouples are in a wooden red box in the ATD trailer.
6. Stored the following at the ATD trailer: (1) black plastic box
w/ thermocouple wire and 21X/23X manuals; (2) red wooden box with
extra thermocouples in them; (3) plastic tupperware box useful to
transport thermocouples up/down the tower.
7. On Saturday Dec 2 installed 4 thermocouples from 14-18.5m. The
following morning 2 of these thermocouples were broken.
8. When I left Sunday afternoon there was one broken thermocouple
(0.35m)...I think all the others were working. The wires breaking
are going to be a problem...possibly due to the low temperatures?
9. These are E-type (Chromel/Constantan) thermocouples with a
diameter of 0.0254 mm (1/1000 of an inch). Perhaps larger diameter
wires would be more tolerable of the cold...though we may lose
some response time.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Also, here's an example of an error I see with the 23X data logger (i
did this while I had the logger here in my office):
104 1 23.934 23.381 22.633 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999
-99999 22.536 22.585
104 1 23.934 23.381 22.649 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999
-99999 22.472 22.574
104 1 23.934 23.386 22.639 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999
-99999 22.483 22553 <---- error here
104 1 23.934 23.391 22.606 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999
-99999 22.52 22.558
104 1 23.934 23.391 22.617 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999
-99999 22.488 22.531
where it listed the channel 13 value as "22553" it should be 22.553.
Also, I should have mentioned in my previous e-mail that the ref temp
of the data loggers is also recorded (in channel "0"). I also forgot
to mention about the open channels on the 21X data logger not
outputting "-99999"...instead they would output some random number
(which could possibly look real).
Is it possible to get a small 1-hz data file with some of the
thermocouple data in it? If this is a lot of trouble don't worry
about it...but I'm curious to see what is happening with the 21X
data...
- 40: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 11:40:19 MST, depth gauge check
I also put some 2x4 boards under the depth gauge from about 10:30-10:40. First,
about 1 min with 2" (1.5") thickness, then about 9 min with 4" (3.5") thickness.
Cockpit didn't show much change -- I'll look at data now.
The data appear to be:
2070 - pre test
1999 - 2x4 thin dh = 71mm (should be 38 + grass bed -- 33?)
1962 - 2x4 thick dh = 37mm = (should be 51)
2062 - post test dh = 100mm = (should be 51 + grass bed)
These aren't quite right. Also, I'm puzzled by the timing, since the "1999" values were before I did anything.
I'll try a slightly different test later.
- 39: Snow_Precip, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 11:38:20 MST, rain gauge cal
About 10:30, I dumped a whole bunch of water into the rain gauge, but didn't
see any response on the cockpit display. I'll look at the raw data to see
if I should have seen it.
I've looked at the data -- there were no non-zero values. Rain gauge data isn't
getting in.
- 38: CO2, Site tower, Tue 04-Dec-2001 11:16:59 MST, cal gas values
calibrations from Niwot Ridge site:
cal 1 317
cal 2 315
cal 3 484
cal 4 495
cal 5 493
cal 6 324 ppmV
We are currently using cylinders 1 and 3.
Bill Massman and John ? are now sniffing these as well.
- 37: Status, Site base, Mon 03-Dec-2001 18:04:08 MST, covars restarted
I just added X&Ylevels to covars and restarted.
- 36: Communications, Site tower, Mon 03-Dec-2001 17:07:03 MST, raised breezecom antenna
Tried raising the antenna a bit more on a round pole and aligned to the base
antenna. Made the number of errors worse -- 47% vs. 42%.
- 35: Power, Site stn2, Mon 03-Dec-2001 16:39:30 MST, wind generator pot turned
I just changed the pot on the wind generator. Hopefully, this will improve the amount of power we get out of it. I the pot was almost completely clockwise, which would have been about 17.8 V. I changed it to the middle, which should be about 15.8 V. We'll see tomorrow if this helped (if the winds cooperate,
they just died).
P.S. winds overnight were 3-4 m/s, and Icharge was 0. I think that this is an
inconclusive test.
- 34: Adams, Site tower, Mon 03-Dec-2001 15:55:08 MST, unknown crash of marigold and cosmos
For some reason, both marigold and cosmos crashed. They both came back up with a "mxreset" apiece. Were Larry & Dean playing with power???
- 33: CO2, Site tower, Mon 03-Dec-2001 13:15:09 MST, cal gas amounts
We'll start to keep track of cal gas amounts here:
Cal 1(Lo) Cal 3(Hi)
01 Dec 20/1750 20/1630
03 Dec ?/1710 ?/1610
04 Dec 22/1610 19/1595 (~10:30; before Massman)
04 Dec 22/1590 20/1480 (~16:30; well after Massman)
06 Dec 22/1400 20/1410
07 Dec 22/1360 20/1400
08 Dec 22/1250 20/1330
09 Dec 22/1200 20/1300
10 Dec 22/1120 20/1290
- 32: , Site all stns, Mon 03-Dec-2001 10:51:29 MST, task list
Here are the tasks I can think of:
Daily:
- check_aster
- daily status to logbook
- snow photograph
- trime soil moisture reading
- read cal gas gauges
End of Walden visits:
- swap backup disk
- 31: Status, Site stn2, Mon 03-Dec-2001 10:12:42 MST, misc
I just measured the sonic height as:
79" + 2.5" + 1.2" = 82.7" = 2.10m
I also took several photos from NW-W-SE at about 10:00
I also just measured power. Solar, battery about 14.16V. Wind generator
by itself (disconnected) about 16.86V. When the wind generator is plugged in,
it runs significantly slower. This doesn't seem right. When the battery is
low (and solar down), would the generator run even slower?
- 30: Thermocouples, Site tower, Mon 03-Dec-2001 09:34:07 MST, last value (20m)
Gordon had noted that if the last 23x thermocouple is missing, that the reported
value is -9, -99, -999, -9999 or -99999, which looked like some characters were
being clipped. This begged the question of whether characters were being
dropped from normal readings.
I've just looked at a few minutes of values using rserial and don't see any
characters being dropped from normal readings.
- 29: Status, Site all stns, Mon 03-Dec-2001 08:46:28 MST, daily status
Daily status:
Weather: almost completely clear (some clouds over mountains), snow disappearing
(10-20% bare?). I'll try to take tower photos today.
cosmos-up
marigold-up (goldenrod hasn't crashed since replaced)
stn2-up
aster-gives RPC error
main site:
props all okay
T/RH something has been weird at 15 and/or 20m. Maybe I'll just swap these.
Tc 5.75m died. Others okay? I'll have to make a daily plot that adds in
the reference. The 21x values appear to be somewhat noisy.
sonics okay, though more spikes than I'd like (20-30 overnight at all levels)
kryptons okay, the 2m sensors have had spikes (large variance) in the data.
I'll clean these soon, though the spikes are probably from blowing snow
licorCO2 okay, cal gases are cycling
rad okay I guess. Haven't looked at daily plots yet.
soil okay I guess. "
icedet no action (which is good)
levels okay
baro okay
precip okay? reading zero. I should do a calibration.
snowdepth okay? may be seeing blowing grasses
power no problems
bare site:
T/RH okay? The fan acted strange last night, perhaps due to power
sonic good. The fewest spikes (perhaps the least blowing snow?)
krypton okay. weird values on cockpit probably from my work last night
heater false high readings. need to investigate this.
rad okay. need to look at daily plots
soil okay. "
levels weird excursions. need to check this
baro okay
gps okay
power mostly only charging during day -- problem with wind generator?
need to rabbit-proof all cables!
- 28: Sonics, Site stn2, Sun 02-Dec-2001 17:39:17 MST, bare sonic moved down
About 1/2 hour ago, I moved the sonic down to just above the T/RH crossarm
level on the bare station. (You should be able to tell when, because I had
to disconnect the krypton.) The height of this sensor will have to be
remeasured.
I also noticed that the T/RH fan went fast/slow/off -- something may be weird
with power.
- 27: Power, Site base, Sun 02-Dec-2001 16:32:07 MST, Controlling UPS
To run UPS program:
su -
cd /usr/lib/powerchute
./xpowerchute
Under Configuration->Event Actions
UPS On Battery
configured to send email to maclean, oncley and semmer
Low Battery Condition
configured to send email to maclean, oncley and semmer
will shut down server after 30 seconds
- 26: Communications, Site all stns, Sun 02-Dec-2001 14:47:55 MST, data network configuration
Data Network
BCAP: Breezecom Access point in base trailer
BCSA: Breezecom Station Adaptors at tower and in OSU box
aster: NCAR base system, Dell Latitude, linux
tiny: OSU linux system
ambra: Windows 486 running Breezecom DS.11 diagnostic software
****************** 192.168.10.0 *************************************
aster -- 5port -- BCAP ---RF--- BCSA --cable-- 5port ----- cosmos
ambra -- hub | tower hub ----- marigold
tiny -- | ----- web cam
RF
|
|-------RF-- BCSA --cable-- 4port ---- cr5000
OSU hub ---- lunch
*********************************************************************
These addresses are assigned on the Data Network:
192.168.10.1 aster
192.168.10.10-20 allocated dynamically by DHCP server on aster
Breezecom radios and Ambra PC
NCAR Data Acq Systems
192.168.10.30 cosmos
192.168.10.31 cosmos-bp
192.168.10.32 goldenrod
192.168.10.33 marigold
192.168.10.34 marigold-bp
192.168.10.35 arnica
OSU PCs
192.168.10.50 lunch
192.168.10.51 cr5000
- 25: Status, Site all stns, Sun 02-Dec-2001 08:33:21 MST, Dec 2 morning status
Weather:
light snow last night, windy. Small 8" drifts on refuge road.
Data system:
up. Marigold/arnica made it through the night!
Sonics:
some non-zero diag values on all sonics. A few values >=16 which
indicate a lost sample.
all sonics also show a few scattered non-zero flags
heater value at bare site always on
Kryptons: OK
TRH: OK
Props: OK
Thermocouples: Sean had 4 deployed last night. 2 of the 4 are no
longer reporting, assumed broken.
Radiation: values appear to be in acceptable range - did not do
a thorough check.
Xlevel.bare and Ylevel.bare show some values around 10.
PAM power system: still some question about whether wind generator
voltage is getting to charging system.
Current values:
Vbatt: 12.4 V
Icharge: 1.5 - 2.6 A (sun through thin clouds, 7 m/s winds)
Iload: 1.7 A
- 24: Sonics, Site tower, Sat 01-Dec-2001 17:47:23 MST, increased sampling rate on 20m sonic
data_stats showed that the 20 meter sonic was reporting at 20hz
instead of 60.
I changed it with rserial at 17:45 MST Dec 1,
using the campbell T and Ae commands:
rserial marigold 201
... hex output
enter "T" to put it in terminal mode
ctrl-D to get out of rserial
Run rserial in ascii mode:
rserial -A marigold 201
?? display status
Ae set it to 60hz
D back in data mode
binary gibberish
ctrl-D
- 23: CO2, Site tower, Sat 01-Dec-2001 17:19:58 MST, licor CO2 cal gas sequence
The co2 calibration is controlled by the ttl program in channel config:
# Tony wants a 2 minute calibration every 5 hours
# 17880 secs = 4 hours, 58 minutes
#
# adam datel_ttl_output unit chan start on off
#
cosmos datel_ttl_output 0 0 00:00:00 120 17880
cosmos datel_ttl_output 0 1 00:02:00 120 17880
TTL channel 0 controls the low cal gas valve, channel 1 controls
the high cal gas valve.
The low cal gas is 317 ppmV CO2, the high is 484 ppmV.
After cosmos is booted, it performs its first calibration at the
next multiple of 5 hours from 00:00 GMT of the current day, which
is at 05:00, 10:00, 15:00, 20:00 GMT or 01:00 the next day.
The sequence then repeats every 5 hours.
So assuming cosmos was booted at 17:00 GMT, the following sequence
would occur:
20:00 low cal gas
20:02 high cal gas
20:04 ambient air until 01:00 next day.
The next day the cal times will be an hour later:
01:00 same cal sequence
06:00
etc
Cosmos was last booted yesterday, Nov 30.
Tony connected the licor this morning, Dec 1.
I verified in the high rate co2mr.2m data that the calibration
sequence was done at 21:00 GMT today.
- 22: Status, Site all stns, Sat 01-Dec-2001 16:23:38 MST, Operational!
All NCAR sensors deployed and reporting data, however quality
checks have been minimal.
Prop angles have been entered, so prop wind directions should be
correct.
Licor co2 is deployed. See other entry about calibration gas sequence.
Sean Burns has installed 4 (out of 20) thermocouples on the tower.
They are at 14, 15.5, 17, and 18.5 meters.
Kurt, SteveS and Tony left at about 3:00 this afternoon. SteveO due
back tomorrow.
- 21: Sonics, Site tower, Sat 01-Dec-2001 12:51:51 MST, Bare site sonic boom angle
Theodolite reading:
90 deg 17 min 35 sec
Add 180 and convert to degrees to get boom azimuth:
270.293 deg
Add 90 to get Vazimuth: 0.293 deg
Sunangle data:
Sun Angle Data
for
earth location....latitude: 40,39,56
longitude: 106,19,11
on date: 12/ 1/2001
local time, Z time Grnwich earth local sun position
hour/minute Hour Angle decl. azimuth elev.
----------- ------ ---------- ----- ------------------
12: 0 19.00 107.70 -21.90 181 26'23" 27 25'12"
12: 5 19.08 108.95 -21.90 182 45' 0" 27 23'24"
12:10 19.17 110.20 -21.90 184 3' 0" 27 19'47"
12:15 19.25 111.45 -21.90 185 20'59" 27 15' 0"
12:20 19.33 112.70 -21.90 186 39' 0" 27 8'59"
12:25 19.42 113.95 -21.90 187 56'59" 27 1'48"
12:30 19.50 115.20 -21.90 189 14'24" 26 53'24"
12:35 19.58 116.45 -21.90 190 31'48" 26 43'11"
12:40 19.67 117.70 -21.91 191 48'36" 26 32'23"
12:45 19.75 118.95 -21.91 193 4'48" 26 20'23"
12:50 19.83 120.20 -21.91 194 20'59" 26 6'35"
12:55 19.92 121.45 -21.91 195 36'36" 25 51'35"
13: 0 20.00 122.70 -21.91 196 51'36" 25 36' 0"
13: 5 20.08 123.95 -21.91 198 6'36" 25 18'35"
13:10 20.17 125.20 -21.91 199 20'24" 25 0'36"
13:15 20.25 126.45 -21.91 200 34'11" 24 40'47"
13:20 20.33 127.70 -21.91 201 47'23" 24 20'23"
13:25 20.42 128.95 -21.91 202 59'24" 23 58'48"
13:30 20.50 130.19 -21.91 204 11'23" 23 36' 0"
13:35 20.58 131.44 -21.91 205 22'47" 23 11'59"
13:40 20.67 132.69 -21.91 206 33' 0" 22 47'23"
13:45 20.75 133.94 -21.91 207 43'11" 22 21' 0"
13:50 20.83 135.19 -21.91 208 52'12" 21 53'59"
13:55 20.92 136.44 -21.91 210 0'35" 21 26'24"
14: 0 21.00 137.69 -21.91 211 8'23" 20 57'36"
14: 5 21.08 138.94 -21.91 212 15'35" 20 27'36"
14:10 21.17 140.19 -21.91 213 22'12" 19 56'24"
14:15 21.25 141.44 -21.92 214 28'11" 19 24'36"
14:20 21.33 142.69 -21.92 215 33' 0" 18 52'12"
14:25 21.42 143.94 -21.92 216 37'12" 18 18'35"
14:30 21.50 145.19 -21.92 217 40'48" 17 44'23"
14:35 21.58 146.44 -21.92 218 43'47" 17 8'59"
14:40 21.67 147.69 -21.92 219 46'12" 16 33' 0"
14:45 21.75 148.94 -21.92 220 47'23" 15 56'23"
14:50 21.83 150.19 -21.92 221 48' 0" 15 18'36"
14:55 21.92 151.44 -21.92 222 48'36" 14 40'11"
- 20: PropVanes, Site tower, Sat 01-Dec-2001 12:10:21 MST, Prop boom angles
Theodolite readings:
1m 357 deg 29 min 50 sec
2m 357 deg 29 min 10 sec
5m 357 deg 29 min 40 sec
10m 357 deg 29 min 15 sec
15m 357 deg 28 min 40 sec
20m 357 deg 28 min 40 sec
Add 180 and convert to degrees to get boom azimuths:
1m 177.497 deg
2m 177.486 deg
5m 177.494 deg
10m 177.488 deg
15m 177.478 deg
20m 177.478 deg
************************************************
Setting boom angle for 1m prop:
rserial cosmos 204
W:0004 560 73 409 50 00d\n\r
W:0004 575 75 396 50 00W\n\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 502 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 0.0 degrees\n\r
True North = 502 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 307 mm/rev\n\r
\n\rd1775\r
D1775\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 502 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 177.5 degrees\n\r
True North = 250 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 307 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
******************************************
2m prop:
rserial cosmos 206
(didn't do Q command before changing boom angle)
W:0001 00589 0077 0363 050 00Y\n\r
W:0001 00596 0078 0365 050 00X\n\r
W:0001 00612 0080 0364 050 00k\n\r
\n\r
d1775\r
D1775\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 148 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 177.5 degrees\n\r
True North = 2224 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 306 mm/rev\n\r
Direction Device = RESOLVER\n\r
\n\r
\r
\r
\n\r
W:0001 00650 0085 2275 050 40]\n\r
W:0001 00634 0083 2219 050 40_\n\r
W:0001 00657 0086 2188 050 40R\n\r
***********************************************
5m prop:
rserial cosmos 209
*** use ^d or ^c to terminate rserial
send socket open to goldenrod
recv socket open to goldenrod
86 50 00w\n\r
W:0002 686 90 114 50 00e\n\r
W:0002 648 85 169 50 00Y\n\r
W:0002 648 85 170 50 00a\n\r
W:0002 632 83 157 50 00e\n\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 402 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 0.0 degrees\n\r
True North = 402 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 305 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
d1775\r
D1775\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 402 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 177.5 degrees\n\r
True North = 150 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 305 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
\r
\r
\n\r
W:0002 922 121 1968 50 00\0x7f\n\r
W:0002 953 125 1896 50 00w\n\r
W:0002 937 123 1893 50 00z\n\r
W:0002 922 121 1859 50 00@\n\r
***********************************
10m prop
rserial marigold 203
*** use ^d or ^c to terminate rserial
send socket open to arnica
recv socket open to arnica
W:0003 808 105 203 50 00\\n\r
W:0003 800 104 215 50 00b\n\r
W:0003 777 101 246 50 00T\n\r
W:0003 739 96 246 50 00Y\n\r
W:0003 716 93 225 50 00d\n\r
W:0003 693 90 224 50 00d\n\r
W:0003 662 86 220 50 00g\n\r
W:0003 662 86 204 50 00e\n\r
W:0003 662 86 206 50 00c\n\r
W:0003 646 84 219 50 00_\n\r
W:0003 639 83 244 50 00`\n\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 496 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 0.0 degrees\n\r
True North = 496 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 308 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
d 1775\r
D 1775\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 496 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 177.5 degrees\n\r
True North = 244 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 308 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
\r
\r
\n\r
W:0003 708 92 1991 50 00I\n\r
W:0003 669 87 1885 50 00}\n\r
W:0003 639 83 1754 50 00I\n\r
W:0003 654 85 1787 50 00D\n\r
************************************************
15m prop
rserial marigold 205
*** use ^d or ^c to terminate rserial
send socket open to arnica
recv socket open to arnica
71 141 282 50 00I\n\r
W:0006 1071 141 288 50 00C\n\r
W:0006 1056 139 268 50 00{\n\r
W:0006 1056 139 264 50 00\0x7f\n\r
W:0006 1071 141 265 50 00H\n\r
W:0006 1079 142 273 50 00@\n\r
W:0006 1064 140 274 50 00G\n\r
W:0006 1064 140 257 50 00F\n\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 253 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 0.0 degrees\n\r
True North = 253 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 304 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
d1775\r
D1775\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 253 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 177.5 degrees\n\r
True North = 001 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 304 mm/rev\n\r
\n\r
\r
\r
\n\r
W:0006 934 123 2060 50 00F\n\r
W:0006 988 130 2044 50 00}\n\r
W:0006 1026 135 2062 50 00x\n\r
W:0006 1026 135 2049 50 00s\n\r
W:0006 1018 134 2033 50 00z\n\r
*****************************************
20m prop
rserial marigold 207
*** use ^d or ^c to terminate rserial
send socket open to arnica
recv socket open to arnica
W:0007 00826 0108 0311 050 40a\n\r
W:0007 00818 0107 0328 050 40Y\n\r
W:0007 00826 0108 0342 050 00a\n\r
W:0007 00833 0109 0351 050 00b\n\r
W:0007 00826 0108 0359 050 00Y\n\r
W:0007 00810 0106 0357 050 00d\n\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 2943 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 0.0 degrees\n\r
True North = 2943 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 306 mm/rev\n\r
Direction Device = RESOLVER\n\r
\n\r
d1775\r
D1775\r
\n\r
q\r
Q\r
\n\r
Parameters \n\r
Sample rate = 250 Hz\n\r
Xmit rate = 0050 samples\n\r
Boom align = 2943 counts\n\r
Boom angle = 177.5 degrees\n\r
True North = 923 counts\n\r
Prop Pitch = 306 mm/rev\n\r
Direction Device = RESOLVER\n\r
\n\r
\r
\r
\n\r
W:0007 00627 0082 1927 050 40S\n\r
W:0007 00650 0085 1935 050 40U\n\r
W:0007 00665 0087 1948 050 00M\n\r
W:0007 00665 0087 1960 050 40O\n\r
- 19: Sonics, Site tower, Sat 01-Dec-2001 11:49:05 MST, Tower sonic boom angles
Theodolite readings:
2m 87 deg 51 min 20 sec
10m 87 deg 51 min 15 sec
20m 87 deg 51 min 15 sec
Add 180 and convert to degrees to get boom azimuths:
2m: 267.855 deg
10m: 267.854 deg
20m: 267.854 deg
Add 90 to get Vazimuth: 357.855 deg
Here is the sunangle data used:
Sun Angle Data for
earth location....latitude: 40,39,32
longitude: 106,19,26
on date: 12/ 1/2001
local time, Z time Grnwich earth local sun position
hour/minute Hour Angle decl. azimuth elev.
----------- ------ ---------- ----- ------------------
9: 0 16.00 62.71 -21.88 138 22'47" 15 28'48"
9: 5 16.08 63.96 -21.88 139 24' 0" 16 6' 0"
9:10 16.17 65.21 -21.88 140 25'48" 16 42'36"
9:15 16.25 66.46 -21.88 141 28'11" 17 18'35"
9:20 16.33 67.71 -21.88 142 31'12" 17 53'24"
9:25 16.42 68.96 -21.88 143 34'48" 18 27'36"
9:30 16.50 70.21 -21.89 144 39'35" 19 0'36"
9:35 16.58 71.46 -21.89 145 44'24" 19 33'35"
9:40 16.67 72.71 -21.89 146 50'24" 20 4'47"
9:45 16.75 73.96 -21.89 147 56'59" 20 35'23"
9:50 16.83 75.21 -21.89 149 4'48" 21 5'23"
9:55 16.92 76.46 -21.89 150 12'36" 21 33'35"
10: 0 17.00 77.71 -21.89 151 20'59" 22 1'48"
10: 5 17.08 78.96 -21.89 152 30'35" 22 28'11"
10:10 17.17 80.21 -21.89 153 40'48" 22 53'59"
10:15 17.25 81.46 -21.89 154 51'36" 23 18'35"
10:20 17.33 82.71 -21.89 156 3' 0" 23 42'36"
10:25 17.42 83.96 -21.89 157 15' 0" 24 4'47"
10:30 17.50 85.21 -21.89 158 27'36" 24 26'24"
10:35 17.58 86.46 -21.89 159 40'48" 24 46'48"
10:40 17.67 87.71 -21.89 160 54'35" 25 5'23"
10:45 17.75 88.96 -21.89 162 8'23" 25 23'24"
10:50 17.83 90.21 -21.89 163 23'23" 25 40'12"
10:55 17.92 91.45 -21.89 164 39' 0" 25 56'24"
11: 0 18.00 92.70 -21.89 165 54'35" 26 10'47"
11: 5 18.08 93.95 -21.90 167 10'48" 26 23'59"
11:10 18.17 95.20 -21.90 168 27'36" 26 36' 0"
11:15 18.25 96.45 -21.90 169 44'24" 26 46'11"
11:20 18.33 97.70 -21.90 171 1'48" 26 55'47"
11:25 18.42 98.95 -21.90 172 19'11" 27 4'12"
11:30 18.50 100.20 -21.90 173 36'36" 27 10'47"
11:35 18.58 101.45 -21.90 174 54'35" 27 16'48"
11:40 18.67 102.70 -21.90 176 13'11" 27 21' 0"
11:45 18.75 103.95 -21.90 177 31'12" 27 23'59"
11:50 18.83 105.20 -21.90 178 49'48" 27 25'47"
11:55 18.92 106.45 -21.90 180 7'47" 27 26'24"
- 18: Adams, Site tower, Sat 01-Dec-2001 10:18:24 MST, Swapped ironics card in marigold
Arnica, the ironics card in marigold died last night.
This morning at about 10:00 MST the spare ironics (SN 422016)
was swapped in.
- 16: Sonics, Site stn2, Fri 30-Nov-2001 18:04:24 MST, bare stuff
sonic height now 2.97m. We will change it back down to 2m later.
sonic azimuth 271 (handheld compass, decl=12E); 270 (KVH #3)
- 15: soil, Site all stns, Sat 05-Aug-2000 08:53:54 PDT, Soil water gravimetric data
FLOSS01 Soil Gravimetric water fraction.
All the soil moisture data is to be entered in this logbook file
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
62 SO 06 Dec 01 Bare 0-2 A1 18.8 16.5 2.3 0.14
A2 19.6 17.4 2.2 0.13 = 0.14
2-5 B1 23.8 20.8 3.0 0.14
B2 24.7 21.7 3.0 0.14 = 0.14
5-8 C1 34.8 31.7 3.1 0.10
C3 36.4 33.7 2.7 0.08 = 0.09
8-10+ D1 30.9 28.0 2.9 0.10
A3 30.6 28.2 2.4 0.09 = 0.10
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
68 SO 08 Dec 01 tower 0-3 B1 11.8 8.1 3.7 0.05
B2 12.3 6.6 5.7 0.86 = ?
3-6 C1 32.9 29.4 3.5 0.12
C3 32.0 28.1 3.9 0.14 = 0.13
6-8+ D1 40.8 37.7 3.1 0.08
A3 36.1 33.3 2.8 0.08 = 0.08
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
71 SO 08 Dec 01 tower 0-1.5 A1 13.3 2.9 10.4 3.6
A2 10.9 2.4 8.5 3.5 = 3.6
1.5-4.5 B1 27.0 12.2 14.8 1.2
B2 15.4 9.7 5.7 0.59 = 0.90
4.5-7.5 C1 47.9 43.1 4.8 0.11
C3 33.8 30.5 3.3 0.11 = 0.11
7.5-9.5 D1 33.8 31.7 2.1 0.07
A3 34.7 32.8 1.9 0.06 = 0.07
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
118 SS 17 Jan 02 tower 0-5 A1 14.3 15.9
A2 16.3 17.4 ?
A3 16.3 18.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
118 SS 17 Jan 02 sage 0-5 B1 29.7 25.7 4.0 0.16
B2 31.0 26.4 4.6 0.17 = 0.16
B3 31.3 27.0 4.3 0.16
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
141 SO 18 Feb 02 tower 0-9.5 A1 36.3 33.3 3.0 0.09
A2 26.7 24.3 2.4 0.10 = 0.11
A3 28.8 25.4 3.4 0.13
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
146 TD 20 Feb 02 sage 0-5 A1 19.4 16.5 2.9 0.18
A2 20.4 17.4 3.0 0.17 = 0.18
A3 23.4 19.7 3.7 0.19
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
146 TD 20 Feb 02 bare 0-5 B1 19.6 16.7 2.9 0.17
B2 23.9 20.1 3.8 0.19 = 0.18
B3 27.1 22.7 4.4 0.19
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
146 TD 20 Feb 02 tower 0-5 C1 17.6 13.2 4.4 0.33
C2 17.0 12.7 4.3 0.34 = 0.35
C3 16.6 12.0 4.6 0.38
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
147 TD 22 Feb 02 tower 0-2 D1 5.8 3.6 2.2 0.61
D2 4.7 2.8 1.9 0.68 = 0.64
D3 5.9 3.6 2.3 0.64
2-4 E1 14.9 11.9 3.0 0.25
E2 17.3 13.7 3.6 0.26 = 0.25
E3 19.0 15.2 3.8 0.25
4-8 F1 19.2 17.1 2.1 0.12
F2 18.7 16.7 2.0 0.12 = 0.12
F3 20.4 18.3 2.1 0.11
8-16 G1 26.3 24.9 1.4 0.06
G2 23.0 21.8 1.2 0.06 = 0.06
G3 29.0 27.4 1.6 0.06
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
157 TD 27 Feb 02 Sage 0-2 A1 22.1 18.1
A2 25.9 21.2
A3 26.1 21.5
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
157 TD 27 Feb 02 Sage 2-5 B1 23.8 21.5
B2 21.9 19.8
B3 26.1 20.6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
157 TD 27 Feb 02 Sage 5-10 C1 30.7 27.9
C2 29.6 26.8
C3 22.9 20.6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
157 TD 27 Feb 02 Bare 0-2 D1 11.3 9.5
D2 8.9 7.6
D3 11.0 9.3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
157 TD 27 Feb 02 Bare 2-5 E1 21.7 18.6
E2 19.9 16.8
E3 19.8 16.9
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
157 TD 27 Feb 02 Bare 5-10 F1 24.2 21.4
F2 24.7 21.8
F3 24.5 21.7
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
162 TD 28 Feb Tower 0-2 A1 3.9 2.0
A2 5.1 2.5
A3 3.9 1.9
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
162 TD 28 Feb Tower 2-5 B1 7.0 5.7
B2 9.1 7.6
B3 7.2 6.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
162 TD 28 Feb Tower 5-10 C1 24.5 23.2
C2 27.9 26.3
C3 27.6 26.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
171 13 Mar Tower 0-2 IA 9.2 3.5
IB 9.6 3.6
2-5 IIA 24.6 16.9
IIB 31.6 23.2
5-10 IIIA 40.2 36.7
IIIB 39.2 35.9
Oven-dried aliquots weighed on 26 Mar 02. See note in 171
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lgbk # date Site Depth Fresh Dry Diff Grav.Frac.
177 TD 26 Mar Tower 0-2 IA 8.7 4.2
IB 10.0 4.6
IC 11.0 4.9
2-5 IIA 29.3 22.9
IIB 35.1 27.2
IIC 31.8 23.9
5-10 IIIA 30.2 25.2
IIIB 36.6 29.5
IIIC 34.1 28.1
Oven-dried aliquots weighed on April 2. GDM
- 14: Status, Site all stns, Thu 29-Nov-2001 17:49:08 MST, status
Today's work:
- installed all T/RHs on main
- intalled all props on main
- installed 2m CSAT & KH20 on main
- set up rad stand (but not installed in final position)
- set up bare site infrastructure and some sensors
Other:
- Larry Mahrt and Dean Vickers arrived, staked out their sites and organized their equipment
- Sean Burns arrived, will set up tomorrow
- Mark Lanier stopped by for a visit
- 13: Base, Site base, Thu 29-Nov-2001 14:28:14 MST, hourly.csh, daily.csh, and SSH
Crontab executes these scripts on $ASTER/projects/FLOSS01/scripts:
hourly.csh: executed at XX:15 every hour from 06:00 to 22:00.
daily.csh: executed every morning at 06:20 MST
Add commands to these scripts do periodic tasks.
One script that is executed from hourly is update_ip_addr:
update_ip_addr: does an ssh to maclean@linus and copies the current
IP address to /net/aster/projects/FLOSS01/floss_ip_addr
- 12: Communications, Site base, Thu 29-Nov-2001 13:53:20 MST, ISP and LAN-modem
The 3com LAN-modem has been configured to dial-up the Earthlink
ISP in Steamboat Springs.
To configure the modem from a system connected to it,
go to this URL with a browser:
http://3com.oc.lanmodem
I've added it as "Lan-modem" to aster's personal toolbar in netscape, so
you can just click on that.
The administrator password is the same as the root password on aster.
ISP info:
steamboat phone number: 871-2640
username: see gordon
password: see gordon
We've set the call duration to 15 minutes.
- 11: Adams, Site tower, Thu 29-Nov-2001 03:47:18 GMT, Ironics failures & light bulb heaters
The Ironics cards, both arnica and goldenrod, have been dying. They
stay up for a while, maybe 15 minutes or 2 hours, and then die.
Once goldenrod rebooted itself, but the adam code does not support
an ironics-only reboot, and so the serial data will not
get through.
One change from the testing at FLAB is the drop in the
internal adam temperature.
This afternoon we added some serial sensors to cosmos, so now
we can detect in the netcdf file if the ironics is running.
This evening after sunset Tbox.cosmos was dropping from 5.9 C.
At 3.6 C the ironics rebooted.
At 11/28 8:35 pm MST we placed a 40Watt bulb in the VME cage, between
the Datel and the filter board. Overnight Tbox.cosmos got up to
24C, with an outside temp of around -10C. The Ironics stayed up
all night!
At 10:00 am MST, 11/29, replaced the 40W bulb with a 7.5 W, and put
a 7.5W buld in marigold. were placed in both adams.
- 10: Status, Site tower, Thu 29-Nov-2001 02:25:48 GMT, Tower heights
I crudely set heights of booms today. Here is what I did (NOTE THE FUTURE WORK LISTED IN 7-9):
1. The wood beams for the tower base are 10cm high
2. The metal plates under the jacks are ~1.5cm thick (probably 1/2")
3. The height of the top of the tube at the top of the first ladder above the metal plates for each of the 4 legs were: 199, 196, 197, & 202 cm
4. I average the values in 3. and add to the values of 1. and 2. to get a nominal height above ground of the top of the first ladder of 210 cm
5. We measured the height of one section as 184cm
6. Thus, I get the following heights above ground of the top of the tube at the top of each of the ladder sections (in cm):
210
394
578
762
946
1120
1304
1488
1672
1856
2040
2224
2408
These are labeled using duct tape on the tubes.
7. We then attempted to position each of the sensors as close as possible to the specified sensor heights, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, & 20m. For the sensors up to 2m, we got to within 10cm by special clamping (still not perfect due to conflicts with brackets, etc. For the sensors above 2m, we should be within 50cm. We assumed that the sonics were 5cm above the boom, the props 50cm above the boom, and the T/RHs 50cm below the boom. Also, anemomber yokes make the boom height ~6cm lower than the tube it is clamped to and T/RH yokes (vertical) set the boom ~7cm from the bottom (or top) edge. Note that CSATs end up with the array almost perfectly aligned with the center of the tube that the yoke is clamped to. All these relative heights should be checked as well.
8. I'll have to measure the exact positions (still relative to the duct-tape labels) later.
9. Overall, I am reasonably comfortable with this approach. However, the 2m sonic will end up closer to 2.5m due to the tube available to clamp to. Also, the terrain to the south and west slope up a bit, so the sensors at the end of 3 and 4m long booms may be 10-15cm closer to the local surface. I'll try to determine this as well at a later time.
- 9: Status, Site tower, Wed 28-Nov-2001 23:56:08 GMT, status
Stuff done Monday:
trailer didn't get here until 4:30. powered up and porch set-up by 5:45.
(overcast, flurries, cold)
Stuff done Tuesday:
- power to tower
- phone connected
- base computers installed
- adams up and transmitting Tbox by ~5:00
(overcast, flurries, cold)
Stuff done today:
- hung all booms on tower
- connected T/RH at 0.5 and 1.0m
- rad stand erected near tower base, rads attached
John and Tony show up ~2:00
(clear, very cold -- -30 last night -- wind started up about 12:30)
- 8: Adams, Site all stns, Tue 20-Nov-2001 16:15:06 GMT, manual control note
The ttl manual control is reverse logic.
So ttl_on turns power off and ttl_off turns power on.
I confirmed this on marigold. I assume it is the same
for cosmos.
- 7: Adams, Site tower, Thu 15-Nov-2001 06:06:52 GMT, manual control of TTL ports
Three programs provide for manual control of the ttl ports on an adam.
The manual settings override what ever ttl program is running
on the adam (as specified in channel_config).
To return a ttl port to the control of the ttl program, use ttl_reset.
ttl_on adam ports... # Turns on one or more ports, numbered from 0-2
ttl_off adam ports...
ttl_reset adam ports # returns one or more ports to the normal
control of the ttl program.
Example:
ttl_on marigold 0 2 # turn on ports 0 and 2
ttl_off marigold 0 # turn off port 0
ttl_reset marigold 2 # put port 2 back under control of the adam
- 6: Power, Site base, Thu 15-Nov-2001 05:59:36 GMT, UPS software
The black cable with DB9 connectors should be connected between
the UPS and the serial port connection on the back of the dell.
The UPS monitor software runs automatically on bootup.
I have tested it with the Smart-UPS 620. I don't know if the
software needs to be reconfigured to use with the bigger UPS.
The software and log files are in /usr/lib/powerchute.
For display, run: /usr/lib/powerchute/xpowerchute
To reconfigure (if you switch to a bigger ups): Config.sh
The log files are:
powerchute.log # power events
powerchute.dat # time series of voltage, etc - potentially useful!
- 5: Communications, Site all stns, Sat 10-Nov-2001 23:44:39 GMT, Breezecom settings
AP: Access point, this will be the radio at the base, in the trailer
SA: Station adaptor, this is the radio out at the tower.
Community strings:
read: ncar/atds
write: (see gordon)
WLAN parameters -> ESS ID: see gordon
WLAN parameters -> fixed channel, #11
For testing in the building, I have 2 little dipole antennals
on each radio:
WLAN parameters -> Transmit Diversity -> both antennas
Security:
Default key ID: First
WEP Keys: see gordon
1st:
2nd:
3rd:
4th:
Breezecoms were showing a high FCS error rate. According to the
DS11 manual this is a CRC error statistic. The adams seemed to
be suffering, losing data, and crashing.
Tried various things, which didn't work, including 1/2 meter dipole antenna
on AP, moving radios further apart, resetting to factory defaults.
What did help was changing the channel number from 6 to 11. It appears
that another wireless ethernet in the building is using channel 6.
According to the breezecom manual (Appendix, page B-2), only channels
1,6 and 11 are non-overlapping.
Settings:
SA: WLAN Parameters -> Channel Settings -> Fixed Channel, #11
AP: WLAN Parameters -> Channel 11
To view the FCS statistic, select the SA, click on the "Counters" tab.
A useful tool is to click on the FCS number and drag it to the
graph image. Once the graph appears, click on scale to change
the scale to 0-10 counts. Currently we're seeing an FCS error
rate of 5%, with one or two errors every 5 seconds. This
seems to be acceptable.
- 4: Communications, Site all stns, Sat 10-Nov-2001 22:44:47 GMT, Adam/network testing
The adams have been transmitting via the breezecoms since yesterday
(fri Nov 9) afternoon. The security was set to "secured key",
which SCD recommends.
The network has not been working well since then.
The adams would start reporting lost samples
and crashed several times.
The radios are set up with the indoor dipole antennas. Until now
I had both antennas connected. The DS11 program was showing a bunch
of errors. The FCS Error rate was about 75%.
According to the DS11 manual, only antenna #1 should be connected.
After making that change, things have improved. We'll see how it goes.
The breezecoms are about 8 feet apart in the staging area.
Current error status shown on DS11 program,
SA showing 80-85 % signal quality, RSSI -27dBm (62)
FCS Error 11%
AP: FCS Error 11%
It looks like the FCS error rate is a critical number.
- 3: Adams, Site base, Sat 10-Nov-2001 21:59:05 GMT, Adam VME serial numbers
cosmos:
backplane #3
matrix: SN 9013
ironics iv3234: SN129043
datel: 320689
marigold
backplane: #4
matrix: SN 940211101
ironics iv3234: SN 821003
datel: SN 320589
On 12/1 the Ironics in marigold was replaced with SN: 422016
(which is the card we got from MIT).
- 2: Base, Site base, Fri 09-Nov-2001 08:15:22 MST, Archive size and scheme
With the 3 sonics on the adams at 60hz the archive sizes are
marigold 67 Mbyte/8 hr = 201 Mbyte/day
cosmos 40 Mbyte/8 hr = 120 Mbyte /day
(no thermocouples on cosmos, and prop vanes at 1 Hz)
SteveO says the thermocouples will run at about 5 Hz and would like
to increase the prop vanes to 5 Hz.
12 thermocouples at 5 hz would be additional 23 Mbyte/day.
The additional prop data is about 25 Mbyte/day.
Eve, one campbell at 20 hz (no krypton/heater yet):
stn2 8.8 Mbyte/ 7.3 hr = 30 Mbyte/day
So the archive will be about 400 Mbyte/day.
This does not include camera images or more than 12 thermocouples.
We will have about 11 Gbyte available on the base system HD,
and 18 Gbyte on the removable HD.
11 Gbyte gives us about 20-25 days archive. So we can keep a second
copy of the files on the removeable HD, and about every 2-3 weeks
someone could swap in another removeable HD, and bring the
other back to Boulder. Hopefully we wouldn't delete any files
on the base until they have been copied to the mass store.
To do this we will need to buy an another 18 Gb HD and its
plastic holder for the Dell latitude module bay.
- 1: LOG, Site none, Fri 09-Nov-2001 08:10:41 MST, Logbook created
initial log file /net/aster/projects/FLOSS01/logbook/tklog.log created by USER maclean
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