t-rex-iss-mapr: Site MAPR Ind town grav pit Messages, 224 Entries..

Daily Report for Sunday April 30

EOP last night to 20 UT today.
Fine, sunny and very warm.  Light northerlies most of the day,
with some variable winds during the afternoon. Little cloud,
except along the mountains.

Soundings this morning from Independence Airport reportedly found
that the northerlies were shallow and that's consistent with the
profilers.

MISS profiler pc has some network problem and so consensus files are
not being transmitted to the data manager.  The raw spectral are
being recorded so the consensus data can be recovered post-project.

Last day of the project.
Sodar-RASS still down so we dismantled that this morning, and then
dismantled the rest of the sodar this afternoon.
Data backups of the various systems is continuing.
The rest of tear-down will start tomorrow.

Brian has arrived and is helping out, and so is Laura.

Daily Report for Saturday April 29.

EOP last night and another EOP tonight.  Soundings from Independence Airport.

Fine and clear with light winds.  Winds were northerly last night and this
morning, and switched to southerly around midday suggesting good conditions
for an EOP.  Small scattered Cu clouds during the afternoon.

All systems working with the exception of the RASS part of the SODAR-RASS
(see below).  Surface met at MAPR showed an interesting 30 deg oscillation
from about 5 to 12 UT last night (period abit over an hour).  Increased
range of MAPR RASS signal as it's getting warm during the day.

SODAR - RASS : RASS RF system failed a couple of nights ago.
Repeated power cycles have not restarted the system.
Tried measuring signal using the spectrum analyzer - RF signal was just 30 dB
above noise level - this is weaker although the antenna cable to the
analyzer was not in good condition so it is not clear whether the problem
is due to weak tranmitted signal or a receiver problem.
The crosstalk meter on the receiver is not registing anything which does
suggest a receiver problem.

Daily Report for Friday April 28

Fine, clear, and warm. Breezy at times, northerlies all day.

EOP planned for tonight and tomorrow night.

Moved MISS back to the base site at Manzanar.
A videographer filmed the move.

Set MISS and ISS2 profilers into 60m mode for tonights EOP.

MAPR still in wind200_rass10_30min mode.
Now running bird algorithm SAM parameter set to 0.8 for all runs.
(Changed 23:19UT Apr 28).

Daily Report for Thursday April 27

IOP 15 ended this morning - last sonde at 17UT.
Mainly cloudy, esp south of around Division Creek and over us.
Cloudy level fairly high, about Sierra peak level.  
Could see some lenicular wave clouds over this area from Big Pine this a.m.
Cloud broke up later in day, mainly clear this evening.
Mainly northerlies apart from some southerlies this afternoon. Breezy.
Occasional very light precip.

There appeared to be some high freq (around 10 minute) oscillations in 
SNR and w this morning so we may have been seeing some wave activity.

ISS2 profiler running okay.  Some persistent updrafts, not clear if due
to a standing wave or up-slope flow.  Perhaps some reverse flow 22UT.

The MISS generator stalled last night - Lou it restarted okay - there was
a break in the SOAP processing, however the data was collected so those
plots can be recovered.  NIMA processing also suggesting persistent
updrafts.

MAPR running well. Doing bird algorithm tests overnight tonight.

Profiler to wind200_rass100_30min mode at 0:30UT (Apr 28)

RASS for the first 5 minutes of each half hour, winds in 200 metre mode.
From 5 to 30 minutes of each hour, running with bird algorithm SAM 
parameter set to the standard 1.0.
From 35 to 60 minutes, SAM parameter set to 0.8 to test if this level
helps to remove more bird echoes.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060427
launch time UTC:1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4310189
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 879.4
Temp C		: 19.1
RH %		: 30.7


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.5
Temp C		: 18.8
RH%		: 32
Wind spd m/s    : 5.9
Wind Dir deg	: 325

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Cloudy (ceilometer says base at 14k and 17k ft ASL) - clearing to north

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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 31.1
Termination Altitude km	: 23.6
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.0
     		Temp C		: 21.9
		RH %		: 24.9
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.6
                Wdir deg        : 351

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060427
launch time UTC:1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4040201
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 877.1
Temp C		: 15.6
RH %		: 40.2


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.6
Temp C		: 15.1
RH%		: 42.0
Wind spd m/s    : 6.9
Wind Dir deg	: 302.9

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
Dark, starry, breezy, still warm

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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 31.1
Termination Altitude km	: 23.6
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: windy, pleasant temp, can't see stars anymore, so there must be clouds

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.0
     		Temp C		: 14.8
		RH %		: 45.2
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.4
                Wdir deg        : 316.5

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Fantastic sounding, the highest I've seen thus far.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060427
launch time UTC:0800
Sonde coef tape #: A4311225
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 876.9
Temp C		: 15.1
RH %		: 39


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.09
Temp C		: 14.811
RH%		: 39.266
Wind spd m/s    : 8.3359
Wind Dir deg	: 322.22

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
Dark, starry, scorpio rising to the south, breezy.

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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 47.2
Termination Altitude km	: 21.0
Reason for Termination	: popped!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.94
     		Temp C		: 14.8
		RH %		: 41.8
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.4
                Wdir deg        : 320.9

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060427
launch time UTC:0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4310238
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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 877.6
Temp C		: 16.0
RH %		: 31.7


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.15
Temp C		: 15.863
RH%		: 32.19
Wind spd m/s    : 5.2015
Wind Dir deg	: 317.42

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Dark, southerly wind lots of stars visible.


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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 44.0
Termination Altitude km	: 21439
Reason for Termination	: ballon poped

Post-Termination Weather Description: Dark, still.  Lots of stars visible.  Calm in the gravel pit.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.15
     		Temp C		: 14.6
		RH %		: 36.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.0
                Wdir deg        : 322

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Daily Report - Wednesday April 26

IOP 15 is underway to study easterly flow.
There's a cut-off low to the south that's producing the easterly flow 
over the valley. 

Weather cool with light variable winds.  Mainly cloudy.

We did see some reverse flow at all three profilers, with westerlies
at low levels with easterlies aloft.  Possible rotors.
These were at MISS at around 16UT, at MAPR around 20UT, and at ISS2 at 23UT.

ISS2 profiler stalled after the wind consensus at 0UT (Apr 27).
Restarted okay.

Put MAPR into 200 meter mode at 3UT (Apr 27), attenuator set back to 4.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060427
launch time UTC:0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4310186
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 875.9
Temp C		: 19.1
RH %		: 23.3


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.27
Temp C		: 19.185
RH%		: 23.531
Wind spd m/s    : 2.7858
Wind Dir deg	: 259.22

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Shallow cu w/base @mtn top level w/ virga to the NE, laminar looking clouds to 
the south over the Sierra.



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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 35
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: dark

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875
     		Temp C		: 17.7
		RH %		: 27.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.3
                Wdir deg        : 350

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MAPR sensitivity seems a little low this afternoon so trying reducing
input attenuator to 3 (was 4) at about 2318UT.

Still 100 meter pulse.
Minicom reports porward power went up from 10% of rated to 19%,
and now we're seeing better signal.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060426
launch time UTC:2100
Sonde coef tape #: A4310166

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 877.8
Temp C		: 18.8
RH %		: 26.6


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.6
Temp C		: 18.2
RH%		: 28.7
Wind spd m/s    : 3.5
Wind Dir deg	: 193

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Cloudy, some clear areas on eastern side, tops of still Sierras hidden.



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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 35	
Termination Altitude km	: 23
Reason for Termination	: Popped!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Still cloudy, although lifting (some Sierra tops visible)
increasing clear areas.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.6
     		Temp C		: 20
		RH %		: 21
		Wspd m/s 	: 3 
                Wdir deg        : 298

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Lost first sonde A4310176 to broken temperature sensor.

There seemed to be some interfering signals around our usual frequencies so
we tuned to the sonde to 400.7 (still within the MAPR site allocation).

Good flight.
33 cu ft He.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060426
launch time UTC:1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4310173

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 878.0
Temp C		: 16.9
RH %		: 41.3


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.34
Temp C		: 14.58
RH%		: 49.4
Wind spd m/s    : 1.6
Wind Dir deg	: 23

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
Cloudy, tops of Sierras hidden.  There were light easterlies, but they switched around to north just before launch.



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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 40	
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: Poppe!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Still cloudy, although lifting a little, occasional few drops of rain.


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.7
     		Temp C		: 17
		RH %		: 32
		Wspd m/s 	: 3 
                Wdir deg        : 15

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Good flight, however lost GPS from about 450mb to 250mb (7-10km).
Critical layer up near 200 mb.
33 cu ft He.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060426
launch time UTC:1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4310155

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 876.7
Temp C		: 12.2
RH %		: 61


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.34
Temp C		: 11.4
RH%		: 64.65
Wind spd m/s    : 1.5
Wind Dir deg	: 289

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
cloudy with some very light drizzle, calm, cool, saw lightning flashes



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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 54.9	
Termination Altitude km	: 20.0
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: cool; cloudy, becoming light



For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.4
     		Temp C		: 12.5
		RH %		: 5.1
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.6 
                Wdir deg        : 347

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Had signal problems at the beginning, but became better later.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060426
launch time UTC:0800
Sonde coef tape #: A4310162

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 876.5
Temp C		: 12.4
RH %		: 46


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.4
Temp C		: 12.7
RH%		: 46
Wind spd m/s    : 2.2
Wind Dir deg	: 224

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
cloudy, calm, cool



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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 44.6	
Termination Altitude km	: 21.3
Reason for Termination	: Popped

Post-Termination Weather Description: Dark; cool; cloudy



For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.27
     		Temp C		: 12.4
		RH %		: 49.2
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.16
                Wdir deg        : 215.3

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Daily Report for Monday April 24

Fine - some cloud in afternoon, light winds.
Cloud along the mountains all day.

Moved MISS to Kiersarge Mine site in preparation for IOP 15
which had been due to start tonight, but has been delayed until
tomorrow night.

MAPR down last night due - minicom message was temperature fault
but the weather was cool and the fans were running okay.
(See separate tklog entry).
Jason and Lou cleaned out the filters, although apparently they 
weren't that clogged.  Pressed blanking to fix.

MISS and ISS2 rental generators were serviced this morning.
Lou and Jason also changed the oil on the MISS built-in generator.
 

MAPR transmitter was down from about 1930 UT yesterday.

Minicon terminal "!Temperature Fault!" messages, although yesterday
was fairly cool (about 12C at the time of the fault and a high
of 15C).

RF Ctrl was on. It started transmitting again after pressing the 
Blanking button.

Running okay from 1620UT.
 

Daily Report for Saturday April 22

Clear this morning with increasing clouds and snow showers along the mountains.
Cool, mainly southerlies, breezy at times.

Various maintenance activities, and training Jason on the ISS and sodar.

MAPR stalled during the day and had to do manual restart
(see separate tklog entry), otherwise everything operating normally.

Jason refueled the MISS and ISS2 generators.  
Generator service scheduled for Monday morning.

Next IOP probably Tuesday.

MAPR hung at about 19:15 UT.  
Reason unknown.  No error messages or md-log.
Watchdog did not automatically restart mapr.

Maprdisplay in spectra screen, but linus still responsing.
Quit button did stop maprdisplay.

Rebooted computer to be safe (had been up 21 days).
Started maprdisplay about 21:50 UT.

Daily Report for Friday April 21

IOP 14 started with a sounding at 1am (8Z), the last sounding was at
Independence Airport at 4pm (23Z).

This was a south-westerly flow event, producing strong southerly winds 
in the valley.  There were occasional high wave clouds to the south, and
at times a line of clouds along the western and estern sides of the valley.

There were a few periods of persistent vertical motion on the profilers,
particually MISS which was at it's base to the south.

Soundings went smoothly. The 20Z one showed classic wave critical layer
behaviour above the tropopause so the Leeds crew launched a 350g ballon
from the airport to try and probe to higher levels (we helped them as
that was a little tricky in the high winds).

Rainy weather for the weekend with probably no IOPs until Tuesday.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060421
launch time UTC:2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4310163

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 875.5
Temp C		: 23.4
RH %		: 13


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 873.9
Temp C		: 22.3
RH%		: 14
Wind spd m/s    : 10
Wind Dir deg	: 138

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Windy and cloudy.


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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 30
Termination Altitude km	: 23
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
clearing - high wave cloud to south


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872
     		Temp C		: 23.2
		RH %		: 14
		Wspd m/s 	: 11
                Wdir deg        : 156

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Good flight.  
Classic gravity wave critical level at 22 km 
(reverse shear, increasing wdir oscillation).
35 cu ft He

MAPR - changed mode to 100 meter mode (wind100_rass100) 1910UT

Also during the last RASS run MAPR reported an error message and restarted
(see md-log).  Very brief stoppage - no loss of data.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060421
launch time UTC:1700
Sonde coef tape #: A5010280

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 877.0
Temp C		: 19.9
RH %		: 20


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.4
Temp C		: 19.5
RH%		: 22
Wind spd m/s    : 3.25
Wind Dir deg	: 172

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Light winds, scattered clouds.


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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 46
Termination Altitude km	: 21
Reason for Termination	: BALLOON BURST

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Wind picking up, cloudy

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874
     		Temp C		: 23
		RH %		: 15
		Wspd m/s 	: 11
                Wdir deg        : 150

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Good flight.
30 cu ft He

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060421
launch time UTC:1100
Sonde coef tape #: A501271

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 876.9
Temp C		: 14.3
RH %		: 32.9


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.92
Temp C		: 11.6
RH%		: 35
Wind spd m/s    : 1.8
Wind Dir deg	: 253

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Light winds, pleasant temps, few high clouds.


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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	:34.3
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: BALLOON BURST

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.4
     		Temp C		: 12.1
		RH %		: 43.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.6
                Wdir deg        : 99

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GOOD FLIGHT

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060421
launch time UTC:0800
Sonde coef tape #: A4310175

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 877.4
Temp C		: 16.1
RH %		: 24.0


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.92
Temp C		: 16.234
RH%		: 23.843
Wind spd m/s    : 5.1917
Wind Dir deg	: 203.04

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Light winds, pleasant temps, few high clouds.


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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 42.1
Termination Altitude km	: 21.7
Reason for Termination	: BALLOON BURST

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876
     		Temp C		: 13
		RH %		: 30
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.3
                Wdir deg        : 131

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GOOD FLIGHT

Daily Report for Thursday April 20

Fine, clear, light winds. Some thin high cirrus.

Some soundings were apparently launched from Independence Airport last night
to catch EOP type conditions.

Profilers were still running in 60 m mode from previous nights EOP.
Switched during today to settings for IOP-14 which starts with soundings
from 1am tomorrow morning.

Note that for some reason, the 100 m winds at ISS2 are going into prof915h
rather than prof915l (so the winds data is currently in the high mode plots).
This is not happening at MISS.

Fixed a radiation sensor problem at MISS (see MISS tklog).

Gave a tour of some of the sites (MAPR/MISS/ISFF central tower/Azi lidar)
to Bob Street (Standford) and some of the students.

Mike left today, replaced by Jason.

20:21 Switched from wind200_rass100_30min mode to wind100_rass100

23:02 Switched from wind100_rass100 to wind200_rass100 mode.

Daily Report for Tuesday April 18.

EOP 3 started at 4 pm (PDT) this afternoon.

Fine and clear with light winds.  A little cirrus.

MISS RASS turned back on this morning after Lou's repairs to dishes.

Cleaned out sodar.  Brief interuption to sodar-RASS at around 22:30 UT.

ISS2 Profiler put into 60m mode (MISS was put in 60m mode yesterday).
There seems to be a little less RFI in this mode.
Profiler PC stalled for a couple of hours from 23:30 UT.
Occurred at end of consensus so may have been a hang during data transfer 
to the data manager computer.

Gary's last day in Bishop.  He did some up-grades to the MAPR software
(see separate log entry) and some data backups.

The MAPR and ISS-MAPR systems were backed up to DVD with mondo.  Copies of the
DVDs are in the CD case in the middle drawers.

The latest version of maprdisplay started about 2006-04-18,22:00 UTC.

mapr -version:

URL: http://localhost:8003/svn/mapr/trunk/mapr @ Revision: 741

There were (should have been) no effective changes to the configuration.  SAM
and overlaps still default to being on, and the SAM ratio threshold defaults
to 1.0.  The difference is in correlation processing: SAM is applied to the
receiver spectra before cross-correlations as opposed to being applied to
cross-correlated spectra.

Switched MAPR from wind100_rass100 to wind200_rass100_30min,
ie, 200 meter mode with RASS runs every half hour.

Daily Report - Monday April 17

IOP 13 Ended with the 8 UT sounding at MAPR this early this morning.
Yesterday afternoon and evening there were a lot of short wave length 
waves and/or rolls - MAPR saw strong vertical velocity fluctations 
(period of around 10 minutes).  Some easterlies (eg 23Z-5Z).
Visited REAL and saw the waves and rolls in their RHI scans.

Today mainly fine, clear, and cool with a light southerly breeze.
Some high cirrus.

Moved MISS back to the base site.   Switched MISS to 60m mode for
tomorrow night's EOP.

Lou has arrived and is straightening us out.

BTW See ISS2 tklog for yesterday's daily report.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060417
launch time UTC:0800
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Pressure mb	:873.3 
Temp C		: 13.0
RH %		: 16.0


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 871.3
Temp C		: 12.429
RH%		: 16.733
Wind spd m/s    : 6.0231
Wind Dir deg	: 175.21

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Light winds, cool temps, few high clouds.


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Termination Pressure mb	: 49.7
Termination Altitude km	: 20.6
Reason for Termination	: reached 50 mb and it is time to go

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear, calm,cold


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 870.4
     		Temp C		: 11.7
		RH %		: 15.1
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.8
                Wdir deg        : 240

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060417
launch time UTC:0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4310174

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Pressure mb	: 874.3
Temp C		: 11.1
RH %		: 20.8


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 873.03
Temp C		: 12.952
RH%		: 19.186
Wind spd m/s    : 3.7217
Wind Dir deg	: 129.63

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clear, calm, cold

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Termination Pressure mb	: 35.4
Termination Altitude km	: 22.7
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
clear,calm, cool.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 871.88
     		Temp C		: 11.753
		RH %		: 17.794
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.1521
                Wdir deg        : 355.44

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A4040227 had a bad humidity sensor,again, the last of the box.

MAPR was switched to 200 meter mode at 0356 to get better resolution.
Schedule name wind200_rass100.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060417
launch time UTC:0200
Sonde coef tape #: A5010257

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Pressure mb	: 874.1
Temp C		: 13.4
RH %		: 22.8


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.97
Temp C		: 13.631
RH%		: 23.387
Wind spd m/s    : 1.5527
Wind Dir deg	: 138.0

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Ragged clouds over the Sierras, thin lenticular clouds to the south over the 
valley.


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Termination Pressure mb	: 42.8
Termination Altitude km	: 21.5
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear,calm,cold

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872.41
     		Temp C		: 12.292
		RH %		: 21.741
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.3048
                Wdir deg        : 357.34

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A4020014 had a bad humidity sensor, launched a second sonde using one of the 
LEEDS sondes, 2nd one went up fine.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060416
launch time UTC:2000
Sonde coef tape #: A5010266

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Pressure mb	: 874.0
Temp C		: 22.4
RH %		: 12.6


		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.4
Temp C		: 22.154
RH%		: 14,632
Wind spd m/s    : 8.05
Wind Dir deg	: 158.67

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Very dusty, hazy.  Clouds along western ridge.  Some wind gusts, but mostly
steady winds.  70% clear skies.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 40
Termination Altitude km	: 22000
Reason for Termination	: Gary said so

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

Same as at launch.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872.7
     		Temp C		: 20.83
		RH %		: 15.9
		Wspd m/s 	: 11.13
                Wdir deg        : 217.6

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One bad humidity sensor for first attempt: A4040677
Then switched to a Leeds sonde.  No problems after that.

MAPR was switched to 100 meter mode at 1830 to get better resolution.
Schedule name wind100_rass100.

There appears to been a brief period of NE winds prior to the shift
at around 1815.

The last sounding (17Z) used three radiosonde before a good one was found.

The first 2 sondes both had bad relative humidty sensors and were not launched.
The bad sensors became apparent during ground testing.
The other sensors on the sonde appeared to be working well.

The serial numbers were A4120410 and A4040378 and were next to each
other in the sonde box.

The third (sucessful) sonde was taken from the Leeds batch and launched at 1715.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060416
launch time UTC:1715
Sonde coef tape #: A5010270

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Pressure mb	: 875.5
Temp C		: 16.5
RH %		: 21.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.4
Temp C		: 15.8
RH%		: 25
Wind spd m/s    : 5.4
Wind Dir deg	: 155

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Waves clouds on crest north of Kersage Pass.  Few cumulus clouds over crest sould of Mt. Willhamson.  Lots of blowing snow from Sierra Crest.  Calm winds in the valley.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 48
Termination Altitude km	: 21
Reason for Termination	: flight over

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Wind picking up, scattered clouds coming off the Sierras, haze and dust

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 873
     		Temp C		: 21
		RH %		: 15
		Wspd m/s 	: 6
                Wdir deg        : 140

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Fisrt Attempt: 2 Bad RH sensors (A4120410)
Second Attempt: Bad RH (A40400378)
Third Attempt: Use Leeds Sonde.  No Problems with launch.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060416
launch time UTC:1100
Sonde coef tape #: A3290851

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Pressure mb	: 874.9
Temp C		: 3.5
RH %		: 62.9



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 873.75
Temp C		: 4.5
RH%		: 59
Wind spd m/s    : 3.0
Wind Dir deg	: 211

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no clouds, hazy/dusty atmosphere.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 46.4
Termination Altitude km	: 21.16
Reason for Termination	: popped!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
clear,calm,cold
doesn't seem as dusty as at launch

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 873.5
     		Temp C		: 3.6
		RH %		: 63
		Wspd m/s 	: 3
                Wdir deg        : 200

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No GPS info at first, needed to cycle power on rack to fix problem.  Launch at exactly 1100 UTC!

Dropped a little in a doowndraft at ridge top (approx 10 km NE of site).

Changed to 200m wind mode over night.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060416
launch time UTC:0800
Sonde coef tape #: A5010300

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Pressure mb	: 876.4
Temp C		: 7.0
RH %		: 46.7



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.5
Temp C		: 9.7
RH%		: 36.7
Wind spd m/s    : 0.98
Wind Dir deg	: 104.9

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clear, cold, starry night, calm

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Termination Pressure mb	: 50.0
Termination Altitude km	: 20.5
Reason for Termination	: reached 50 mb

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
clear,calm,cold


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 873.9
     		Temp C		: 6.0
		RH %		: 49.6
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.4
                Wdir deg        : 230.5

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Used another LEED sonde. Will leave a note to Bill Brown about the other batch of sondes.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060416
launch time UTC:0500
Sonde coef tape #: A5010286

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Pressure mb	: 875.9
Temp C		: 11.6
RH %		: 12.1



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.2
Temp C		: 12.5
RH%		: 32
Wind spd m/s    : 3.8
Wind Dir deg	: 207.4

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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clear, cool, starry night, calm

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Termination Pressure mb	: 41.6
Termination Altitude km	: 21.7
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
clear,calm,cool


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.24
     		Temp C		: 11.279
		RH %		: 33.341
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.8516
                Wdir deg        : 256.6

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First sonde (A4031379) has a bad humidity sensor. Trying a second one. Second sonde (A4030538) has a bad humidity sensor. Trying a third sonde that is not from the same box. Third one worked!!!

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060416
launch time UTC:0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4530333

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Pressure mb	: 874.0
Temp C		: 19.2
RH %		: 20.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.97
Temp C		: 18.999
RH%		: 22.153
Wind spd m/s    : 4.7458
Wind Dir deg	: 264.07

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Warm and pleasant, light and variable southerly winds, few high cirrus to 
the east, few alto cumulus to the west.


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Termination Pressure mb	: 37.5
Termination Altitude km	: 22.3
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear, calm, and cool



For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 873.74
     		Temp C		: 16.1
		RH %		: 26.0
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.5
                Wdir deg        : 194.5

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060415
launch time UTC:2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4530360

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Pressure mb	: 877.2
Temp C		: 19.9
RH %		: 27



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.9
Temp C		: 22.1
RH%		: 26.2
Wind spd m/s    : 8.3
Wind Dir deg	: 144.0

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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90% clear skies.  Calm.  Beautiful day.  Some small wisps of clouds along
west ridge tops.  Cirrus visible far away north up the valley.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 50
Termination Altitude km	: 20
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

Still mostly clear, a few more cumulus coming off the west ridge.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.9
     		Temp C		: 24.2
		RH %		: 23.7
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.4
                Wdir deg        : 130.0

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No comments.

Daily Report - Friday April 14

Cloudy with southerly breeze.
Perhaps some wave clouds along the mountains.

Moved MISS from the base site to OV2 (1.7 miles up Onion Valley Rd).
Profiler started there around 23:55 UT.

A hint of RFI at MAPR (eg 0 - 1 UT Apr 15) however minor and not
enough to cause any problems.

IOP-13 starts tomorrow afternoon (20UT).

Daily Report - Wednesday April 12

IOP 12 Ended Early yesterday evening as the event weakened.
The profilers all worked well - with all profilers measuring winds 
(mainly westerlies) up to 3.5 - 4 km during the day yesterday.
Mainly downward motion at ISS2 and MAPR, and upward at MISS.

Today was clear with a strong southerly breeze.

MISS was moved from the Kersage Mine site back to it's base at Manazanar
(see the ISS1 tklog entry). 

MAPR changed to 200 meter mode this evening (around 2:25UT Apr 13).

Hal left yesterday, and I (Bill) arrived to see out the rest of the project.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060411
launch time UTC:2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4530328

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Pressure mb	: 878.8
Temp C		: 16.2
RH %		: 30.1



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 877.07
Temp C		: 18.3
RH%		: 28.2
Wind spd m/s    : 10.2
Wind Dir deg	: 166.6

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Mostly cloudy.  Low cloud layer along western peaks.  Breezy.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 40
Termination Altitude km	: I forgot to look.
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

Almost completely cloudy and a little windier.  Clouds hiding all of the
western slope from north to south.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.84
     		Temp C		: 17.2
		RH %		: 31.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.98
                Wdir deg        : 160.2

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The humidity dropped to near zero around 500 mb and never changed far from
that.  Not sure if that indicates a problem or not.  Otherwise everything
seemed to work smoothly.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060411
launch time UTC:1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4440933

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Pressure mb	:878.0
Temp C		: 11.2
RH %		: 41



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.62
Temp C		: 12.14
RH%		: 47
Wind spd m/s    : 4.8
Wind Dir deg	: 151

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Foehn wall over the entire length of the Sierra range. A continuous line of stratus is visble to the west about half-way up the Sierra's east slope extending north-south parallel to the crest. This appears to be produced by warming of the slope by the sun and consequent upslope flow. The continuous line is about 5 miles in length. A 'waterfall cloud' is spilling ovr into the Owens Valley across the Inyo-White crest through the lowest pass (approx. 5 mi wide) centered on the Winnedumah Paiute Monument. This indicates an eastery flow of moist air is entering the Owens Valley through the pass. There must be a lower cloud deck on the eastern side of the Inyos.The sky overhead is thin broken cirrus clouds with a base at about 15000 ft. The sky to the north has just a few cirrus while there is much cirrus building to the S.
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Termination Pressure mb	: 49.3
Termination Altitude km	: 20.7
Reason for Termination	: KILL!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

Wave cloud extending both north and south of MAPR.  

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 877.31
     		Temp C		: 16.5	
		RH %		: 30
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.5
                Wdir deg        : 173

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The sun is up.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060409
launch time UTC:0200
Sonde coef tape #: A3930167

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Pressure mb	:878.2 
Temp C		: 18.0
RH %		: 16.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.73
Temp C		: 18.708
RH%		: 15.949
Wind spd m/s    : 5.7307
Wind Dir deg	: 174.42

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Clear, warm, light and variable winds, too nice to be working.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 39.3
Termination Altitude km	: 22.1
Reason for Termination	: KILL!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

Wave cloud extending both north and south of MAPR.  

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.41
     		Temp C		: 2.052	
		RH %		: 83
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.9
                Wdir deg        : 179

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The sun is rising.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060409
launch time UTC:0200
Sonde coef tape #: A3930167

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Pressure mb	:878.2 
Temp C		: 18.0
RH %		: 16.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.73
Temp C		: 18.708
RH%		: 15.949
Wind spd m/s    : 5.7307
Wind Dir deg	: 174.42

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, warm, light and variable winds, too nice to be working.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 38.78
Termination Altitude km	: 22.1
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

Lovely moonlit night, clear skies, light winds, cool temps.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 877.59
     		Temp C		: 15.304	
		RH %		: 18.184
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.6033
                Wdir deg        : 190.15

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Great sounding- the A-team Rocks!!

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060408
launch time UTC:2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4130043

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Pressure mb	: 880.8
Temp C		: 20.2
RH %		: 22



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.79
Temp C		: 20.4
RH%		: 20.2
Wind spd m/s    : 3.7
Wind Dir deg	: 185.5

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Thin cirrus mostly over head. Few wave clouds near mountain tops.  

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Termination Pressure mb	: 50
Termination Altitude km	: 20.651
Reason for Termination	: Manual stop to assist in IOP planning

Post-Termination Weather Description: light winds, clear, warm


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 878.8
     		Temp C		: 21.629	
		RH %		: 22.435
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.06
                Wdir deg        : 183.39

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No Problems, sonde launch was smooth.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060408
launch time UTC:1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4110604

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Pressure mb	: 880.7
Temp C		: 14.2
RH %		: 30.0



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.58
Temp C		: 15.7
RH%		: 30.3
Wind spd m/s    : 3.9
Wind Dir deg	: 131

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Thin cirrus mostly over head. Snow blowing off higher ridges.  

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Termination Pressure mb	: 38.1
Termination Altitude km	: 22.23
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: light winds, clear, warm


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 879.95
     		Temp C		: 18.37
		RH %		: 24.7
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.2
                Wdir deg        : 166

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No Problems, sonde launch was smooth.

Daily Report - SA April 8
We're in IOP 10, seems so far like more of an EOP. Currently winds are 
from the north and west at the surface of MAPR site. 

We moved MISS yesterday to Division Creek site. There was a lot of ground
clutter and RFI... We rotated the trailer trying to correct for these problems
by pulling the truck in sideways and turning the trailer 25 degrees to ~240
on the compass. This did help some, but looking at the SOAP plots I see a lot
of high level SNR, which looks like non-atmospheric signal. The plots created
NIMA seem to have cleaned up the crapola!

Instrumentation:

Had to adjust the attentuator because of VSWR faults earlier last night.

Changed from wind200_rass100 to wind100_rass100 at 1517 4_8_06 UTC.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060408
launch time UTC:1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4470515

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Pressure mb	: 877.3
Temp C		: 9.6
RH %		: 44.2



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.06
Temp C		: 9.4
RH%		: 43.4
Wind spd m/s    : 4.2
Wind Dir deg	: 213

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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clear starry skies, but with thin cirrus mostly over mountains to west and east. Winds light at trailer,but stronger on nearby higher terrain.Warm

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Termination Pressure mb	: 48
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: Manual Termination

Post-Termination Weather Description: light winds, clear, warm


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.5	
     		Temp C		: 9.1
		RH %		: 43
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.6
                Wdir deg        : 186

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No Problems, sonde launch was smooth.

It's nighttime, and MAPR does not appear to be seeing much, so I thought
I should change to 200m gates.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060408
launch time UTC:0800
Sonde coef tape #: A4511111

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Pressure mb	: 877.1
Temp C		: 10.8
RH %		: 32.9



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.5
Temp C		: 11.5
RH%		: 31.2
Wind spd m/s    : 4.9
Wind Dir deg	: 184.6

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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clear starry skies, cool, clouds over the Sierra Nevada, light winds

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Termination Pressure mb	: 43.7
Termination Altitude km	: 21.4
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: light winds, clear, clouds over Sierra Nevada, cool


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.57	
     		Temp C		: 10.7
		RH %		: 36.8
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.99
                Wdir deg        : 199.2

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Battery problems after being charged for 10 minutes. Battery was soaked in water again for it to work.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060408
launch time UTC:0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4511004

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Pressure mb	: 877.0
Temp C		: 16.6
RH %		: 18.5



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.65
Temp C		: 13.817
RH%		: 19.689
Wind spd m/s    : 10.02
Wind Dir deg	: 145.23

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

breezy, mostly clear starry skies, cool, clouds over the Sierra Nevada

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Termination Pressure mb	: 35.79
Termination Altitude km	: 22.8
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Clear,light winds,cool,cloud bank over the Sierras, no clouds observed overhead.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.81	
     		Temp C		: 12.156
		RH %		: 24.388
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.9157
                Wdir deg        : 184.1

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Launch Time   Status (IND - Launched at Aiport, OK - good MAPR sounding, other)

April 2  1100 MAPR Lost GPS
         1149 MAPR OK
         1400 IND OK
         1700 MAPR ?
         2000 MAPR ?
         2300 IND ?
         0200 MAPR ?
         0500 MAPR ?
April 3  0800 MAPR ?
         1100 MAPR ?
         1400 IND ?
         1700 MAPR ?
         2000 MAPR ?
         
        


MAPR good sondes =       MAPR fails = 1@11utc(two were launched - had ok T,RH) 
IND good sondes = ?

MAPR totals remaining : 

22 left from NCAR + 60 sondes left from Leeds =  82 total remaining

47 balloons left

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060403
launch time UTC:0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4470922

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Pressure mb	: 881.4
Temp C		: 14.2
RH %		: 35.1



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 880.17
Temp C		: 14.558
RH%		: 33.998
Wind spd m/s    : 9.6687
Wind Dir deg	: 157.86

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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breezy, mostly clear, cool

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Termination Pressure mb	: 49.8
Termination Altitude km	: 20.5
Reason for Termination	: Reached 50 mb

Post-Termination Weather Description: breezy, cool, scattered clouds

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 879.7
     		Temp C		: 12.95
		RH %		: 41.79
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.376
		Wdir deg	: 188.58

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060403
launch time UTC:0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4510867

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Pressure mb	: 880.5
Temp C		: 14.8
RH %		: 27.2



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.5
Temp C		: 15.2
RH%		: 27.4
Wind Spd m/s 	: 3.4
Wind Dir deg	: 184.4

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Scattered high cirrus and mid-level clouds, light and variable winds, warm

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Termination Pressure mb	: 35.8
Termination Altitude km	: 22.6
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear starry skies, calm, pleasant temperature

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 879.7
     		Temp C		: 12.75
		RH %		: 32.38
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.96
		Wdir deg	: 194.13

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First sonde, A4410171, had a problem with one of the humidity sensors. Therefore a second sonde was used.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060402
launch time UTC:2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4460663

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Pressure mb	: 882.3
Temp C		: 19.2
RH %		: 16.7



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 881.21
Temp C		: 18.934
RH%		: 18.286
Wind Spd m/s 	: 8.52
Wind Dir deg	: 135.95

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Hi cirus overcast

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Termination Pressure mb	: 31.2
Termination Altitude km	: 23.46
Reason for Termination	: Burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear in the valley. The sun is starting to break. There are light clouds high over the western side and high sirrus over the valley. More lenticulars forming to the west.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 880.04
     		Temp C		: 20.88
		RH %		: 18.16
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.2
		Wdir deg	: 160

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This is a good sounding.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060402
launch time UTC: 1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4470577

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Pressure mb	: 883.5
Temp C		: 11.0
RH %		: 32.5



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 882.5
Temp C		: 13.1
RH%		: 32.3
Wind Spd m/s 	: 2.4
Wind Dir deg	: 163

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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FEW Ci over vally; Ac along ridge top

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Termination Pressure mb	: 29
Termination Altitude km	: 23.807
Reason for Termination	: Burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear in the valley. The sun is starting to break. There are light clouds high over the western side and high sirrus over the valley. More lenticulars forming to the west.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 881.8
     		Temp C		: 16.3
		RH %		: 24.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.7
		Wdir deg	: 141

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This is a good sounding.

Launch Time   Status (IND - Launched at Aiport, OK - good MAPR sounding, other)

April 2  1100 MAPR Lost GPS
         1149 MAPR OK
         1400 IND OK
         1700 MAPR ?
         2000 MAPR ?
         2300 IND ?
         0200 MAPR ?
         0500 MAPR ?
April 3  0800 MAPR ?
         1100 MAPR ?
         1400 IND ?
         1700 MAPR ?
         2000 MAPR ?
         
        


MAPR good sondes =        MAPR fails = 1@11utc(two were launched - had ok T,RH) 
IND good sondes = ?

MAPR totals remaining : 

? left from NCAR +  ? sondes left from Leeds =  ? total remaining

The data for all 3 sites stops at midnight last night UTC. Gary or someone needs to help us!

The guys at the ops center found it was an FTP problem at NCAR and have it corrected.

Not much coming through so I changed the mode to 200m pulses. Doing this the VSWR fault light turned on so I increased the attenuation. As daylight comes up I'll go back to 100m mode. 

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060402
launch time UTC: 1145
Sonde coef tape #: A4450317

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Pressure mb	: 882.5
Temp C		: 1.3
RH %		: 70.3



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 881.0
Temp C		: 3.7
RH%		: 59.8
Wind Spd m/s 	: .60
Wind Dir deg	: 195

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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SCTD CI, CAN SEE STARS CLEARLY OVHD, BUT FEWER STARS TO N AND OVER RIDGELINE E. MANY FEWER STARS OVR RDGLINE W.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 48
Termination Altitude km	: 21
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear in the valley. The sun is starting to break. There are light clouds high over the western side and high sirrus over the valley. 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 880.8
     		Temp C		: 1.4
		RH %		: 70
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.3
		Wdir deg	: 246

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This is a good sounding.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060402
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4510879

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Pressure mb	: 882.2
Temp C		: 2.1
RH %		: 67



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 880.71
Temp C		: 3.9
RH%		: 60.4
Wind Spd m/s 	: 2.3
Wind Dir deg	: 176

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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SCTD CI, CAN SEE STARS CLEARLY OVHD, BUT FEWER STARS TO N AND OVER RIDGELINE E. MANY FEWER STARS OVR RDGLINE W.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 499 mb
Termination Altitude km	: 5.5
Reason for Termination:  GPS wind failure at ridgetop level

Post-Termination Weather Description: SCTD CIRRUS

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 880
     		Temp C		: 3.
		RH %		: 65
		Wspd m/s 	: 0.6
		Wdir deg	: 200

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GPS wind failure at just above ridgetop level, so we will launch another sonde.

peaks clear, valley clear, light winds, currently from the NE. 

Swapped out the antenna to frontend cables and turned on blanking during this period, but left MAPR running.

back to 100m gates at 1910utc

Today I'm going to change the antenna to front end cables. These should have less loss and be more durable. 

The red channel seems to have come back come. It is still low, but nothing like yesterday. 

I spoke too soon, now it is down again within 15 minutes.. 

I've changed cables at the antenna and that didn't fix it. 

I've plugged and unplugged in case there was some corrosion, knocked off glue-then tightened and cleaned the SMA connectors. Right now it is tracking much closer. Not certain why, but the red channel is much better. 

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060401
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A44510877

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Pressure mb	: 876.6
Temp C		: 8.2
RH %		: 48



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.1
Temp C		: 8.3
RH%		: 51
Wind Spd m/s 	: 5.2
Wind Dir deg	: 182

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Termination Pressure mb	: 34.9
Termination Altitude km	: 22.7
Reason for Termination	: Balloon Burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: Partly cloudy

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.3
     		Temp C		: 8.0
		RH %		: 56
		Wspd m/s 	: 0.6
		Wdir deg	: 218

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bad sonde A44510874, bad temperature sensor

possible interferences at 402.8, thus set frequency to 403.8

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060401
launch time UTC: 0800
Sonde coef tape #: A4470858

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Pressure mb	: 876.5
Temp C		: 9.3
RH %		: 44.5



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.75
Temp C		: 9.3
RH%		: 43.8
Wind Spd m/s 	: 8.4
Wind Dir deg	: 177

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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cool, clear starry skies, breezy 

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Termination Pressure mb	: 35.5
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: reached passed 50 mb

Post-Termination Weather Description: clear, cool, nice

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.87
     		Temp C		: 8.3
		RH %		: 46.878
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.2
		Wdir deg	: 213

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Battery problems: battery was charged for 10 minutes, and the sonde worked
fine in the ground unit, but the sonde did not transmit when the
battery was plugged in.  I checked the battery voltage, and at first I could
not read any voltage, then eventually I saw around 10 V.  Plugging the
battery back into the sonde, the sonde still did not transmit.  I tried 
bending the contacts in the sonde to make better contact in the battery
plug, but no difference.  After many attempts to plug in the battery, the
sonde finally started transmitting.

A similar incident happened on the previous sonde, but it did not take as
long to get it working so it did not seem noteworthy.  This is the second
sonde for which the battery plug contacts were problematic, assuming the
problem was caused by a poor contact.

Per Bill's request, I switched the mapr schedule to wind200_rass100
at 4/1/06 06:30 UTC.

At the same time, I installed the following code changes to see if they help
with the overrun of time series buffers:

 SAM is automatically disabled for RASS mode.

 The number of time series buffers has been increased to twice nspec.

As of an hour later, I'm not noticing any adverse affects.
No VSWR messages in the amplifier console.
The latest RASS IDL plots for 7z look fine.

During the last RASS mode there were no messages about 0 buffers available.
Only time will tell though if this fixes the crashing.

I have no explanation for the freeze/lock-up of the mapr computer that Mike 
reported earlier tonight.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060401
launch time UTC: 0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4470858

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 876.8
Temp C		: 9.6
RH %		: 34.7



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.28
Temp C		: 9.6
RH%		: 34.5
Wind Spd m/s 	: 4.8
Wind Dir deg	: 183.3

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

cool, clear, breezy

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Termination Pressure mb	: 36
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: variable winds, cool, clear

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.2
     		Temp C		: 9.3
		RH %		: 36.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.5
		Wdir deg	: 217.4

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060401
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4510449

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Pressure mb	: 875
Temp C		: 11
RH %		: 35



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.2
Temp C		: 11.95
RH%		: 37.12
Wind Spd m/s 	: 6.77
Wind Dir deg	: 171.36

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

high clouds, breezy, partly sunny

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Termination Pressure mb	: 40.3
Termination Altitude km	: 21
Reason for Termination	: manual termination, reached 50mb

Post-Termination Weather Description: breezy, cool, scattered mid-level clouds


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.9
     		Temp C		: 10.48
		RH %		: 33.9
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.6
		Wdir deg	: 178.2

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This morning the valley was cloud covered from north at bishop down to independence, but about 10am it started clearing in the center from Bishop slowly to independence. It was cleared by noon even south of Indy. 

Checked the surf tower and didn't see any obvious problems. 

Barb and _ helped me do the morning sounding. Something happened to the TKLOG entry for the sounding. The weather description changed. I left them to finish it while I fueled up MISS. 

MISS seems fine. Used about 1/2 tank of fuel or approx 20 gallons. I also filled the tank in the back of the green truck with 40 gallons, about 1/2 a tank.

I changed the mode so the RASS runs only 1 hourly. Mode now wind100_rass100

I knocked the dust out of the final of which there was a substantial amount. 

Something is really screwy about the red channel now. It looks like RFI in the background and is marching through in frequency from one end of the doppler shift to the other. When I get a chance I'm going to crawl under the antenna and see if a cable has rattled loose. Bi8ll says he thinks the red channel has dropped in SNR for a couple of weeks now. 

A closer visual inspection of the red channel antenna related cables shows no problems. Inspection of the rechannel into the white box/computer also shows no problems.

I can't get the mouse to move now at 2356. I think I'm going to reboot the computer. The full reboot and power down did nothing to correct the red channel lack of SNR. 

The MAPR system very interestingly also bogs down and sits for a while until something quits and then several dwells flash through. 

Do to too much processing required and never getting 1.3 km of RASS data the number of RASS gates is now reduced from 12 to 9 gates.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060331
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4510440

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Pressure mb	: 876.4
Temp C		: 12.0
RH %		: 47



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.87
Temp C		: 11.593
RH%		: 46.82
Wind Spd m/s 	: 9.36
Wind Dir deg	: 158.12

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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overcast

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Termination Pressure mb	: 50.2
Termination Altitude km	: 20.465
Reason for Termination	: manual termination

Post-Termination Weather Description: scattered clouds; similar to laubch; cloud base slightly lowered.


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.05
     		Temp C		: 17.2
		RH %		: 34
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.9
		Wdir deg	: 170

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probabely one bad humidity sensor

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date yymmdd: 060331
launch time UTC: 1400
Sonde coef tape #: A4510425

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Pressure mb	: 876.4
Temp C		: 12.0
RH %		: 47



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.87
Temp C		: 11.593
RH%		: 46.82
Wind Spd m/s 	: 9.36
Wind Dir deg	: 158.12

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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overcast

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Termination Pressure mb	: 45.7
Termination Altitude km	: 21.1
Reason for Termination	: manual termination

Post-Termination Weather Description: overcast


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.8
     		Temp C		: 12.6
		RH %		: 46
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.5
		Wdir deg	: 150

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probabely one bad humidity sensor

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date yymmdd: 060331
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4460278

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Pressure mb	: 876.0
Temp C		: 7.2
RH %		: 63



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.4
Temp C		: 8.6
RH%		: 59
Wind Spd m/s 	: 1.0
Wind Dir deg	: 317

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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overcast

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Termination Pressure mb	: 39.7
Termination Altitude km	: 21.8
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: overcast


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.1
     		Temp C		: 7.4
		RH %		: 66
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.3
		Wdir deg	: 90

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switched to wind200_rass100_30min at 0020 UTC 30 March
 to get more RASS profiled during EOP

backed up data at MAPR at 22 UTC march 29th

Daily Report - Mon March 27

Very nice calm day with pretty good coverage of high clouds.

We (Brian P, Brian B and I) moved MISS from Site 'D' to Manzanar 
base site. We are awaiting package from Lou. Brian pieced back the
rest of the tower.

IOP 7 is scheduleds to begin at 11 UTC Tues March 28th.

Please note that IOP7 soundings were incorrectly labelled IOP6.

Also, there is was an altitude offset in the pressure altitude
in the realtime plot window, for some reason the station
elevation was not added to the pressure altitudes.

Daily Report - Wed March 29

Weather: Post frontal with convective showers over the Sierras, some
showers passing across the valley. Light winds.

EOP#3 scheduled to start at 3 PM today with soundings launched from
IND airport every 1.5 hours.


Instrumentation:

RASS profiles at MAPR look better.

MAPR still operating at wind200_rass100 mode, will switch to 
wind200_rass100_30min for EOP.

Trh from MISS back on track after loose connection on campbell logger 
was found and battery recharged.

MISS anemometer being repaired today.

Launch Time   Status (IND - Launched at Aiport, OK - good MAPR sounding, other)

March 28 1100 ok
         1400 IND
         1700 OK


MAPR good sondes = 2           MAPR failures = 0 
IND good sondes = ?

MAPR totals remaining : 

34 left from NCAR + 60 sondes left from Leeds = 94 total remaining

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060328
launch time UTC: 1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4460279

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Pressure mb	: 874.1
Temp C		: 14.3
RH %		: 40



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.6
Temp C		: 15.4
RH%		: 40
Wind Spd m/s 	: 7.0
Wind Dir deg	: 177

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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mostly cloudy

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Termination Pressure mb	: 28.1
Termination Altitude km	: 22.9
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: overcast and very light rain


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 871.7
     		Temp C		: 14.0
		RH %		: 48
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.5
		Wdir deg	: 177

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geopotential altitude is wrong

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date yymmdd: 060328
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4460258

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Pressure mb	: 874.1
Temp C		: 8.7
RH %		: 61



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 873.0
Temp C		: 9.6
RH%		: 58.4
Wind Spd m/s 	: 2.9
Wind Dir deg	: 158

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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partly cloudy, some stars visible

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Termination Pressure mb	: 29.6
Termination Altitude km	: 23.5 (estimated, geopotential alt is wrong)
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: overcast


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872.9
     		Temp C		: 8.6
		RH %		: 61.0
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.2
		Wdir deg	: 314

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1km difference between geopotential and GPS altitude,
surface is at zero geopotential meters

These are the changes made on mapr to install a watchdog mechanism.

The flower icon which starts maprdisplay now runs a script called 'md' instead.  md starts maprdisplay in the background and logs the output to a dated directory under /home/iss/md-logs.  Try 'md log' to see the output from the currently running mapr session.  The flower icon automatically starts maprdisplay with the wind200_rass100 schedule.  So if you want to run with a different schedule, you must use the 'Restart' menu button in the upper left.

The md script also registers a cron task which checks every 15 minutes that mapr is running, unless mapr was last shut down normally.  If maprdisplay must be restarted, md restarts it with the schedule it was last running, then sends an email to me.

The md script cannot tell if maprdisplay is hung, only if it is still running or not.  I've changed maprdisplay to use an alarm() call if it fails to finish processing a time series within 60 seconds.  In other words, if maprdisplay hangs, the system sends it a signal after 60 seconds, and the signal causes the program to abort.  At the next 15-minute watchdog check, md should detect the missing maprdisplay and restart it.  The alarm() technique has not been tested yet.  It does not appear to cause any harm, but it will be hard to demonstrate that it works for the particular kinds of hangs that have been happening.  For the moment, it seemed the safest, most expedient, and most likely technique to succeed in recovering from hangs.

As reported by James, satellite internet was slow, still working but very slow, causing data transfers to fail.  I noticed the motosat D2 was not answering at http://192.168.1.250 like it should, and the Ready light on the D2 was off.  The DW6000 status page (http://192.168.0.1) showed both RX and TX operational, but it also showed a large count of failed transmissions.

Here's what I did:

I stowed the dish from the D2 Stow button.

I turned off the linksys router, D2, and DW6000.

I turned them back on in this order: DW6000, D2, linksys.

The D2 still did not answer at 192.168.1.250, so I cycled the power on it a second time.  Then I finally could browse to its web page.

Started a search with the D2 Search button.

The search finished in a few minutes, the Ready light came back on, and Internet traffic seemed normal again.  The signal strength on the D2 looks low (as in, the blue bar is short), but all other status messages on the D2 and DW6000 indicate things are operational.

I ran two manual transfers, including one of the last 10 hours of data.  For ncfca, I only transferred the last two hours.

Launch Time   Status (IND - Launched at Aiport, OK - good MAPR sounding, other)

March 24 2000 IND
         2300 IND
March 25 0200 OK
         0500 trh broken (not launched)
         0800 OK
         1100 rh bad (not launched)
         1130 OK
         1400 IND
         1700 OK
         2000 OK
         2300 IND
March    0200 no GPS (launched)
         0230 no GPS (launched)
         0300 OK
         0500 OK


MAPR good sondes = 7           MAPR fails = 4  (two were launched - had ok T,RH) 
IND good sondes = 3

MAPR totals remaining : 

36 left from NCAR + 60 sondes left from Leeds = 96 total remaining

changed MAPR mode to wind200_rass100 at 0145 UTC march 28 for iop,
had to increase resistance to 5 because VSWR light came
on flashing.

Daily Report - Tues March 28

Weather: Very cloudy today with low clouds even in the valley. Numerous 
rain showers throughout the day increasing in coverage by late afternoon.

IOP#7 was cancelled at 16 UTC due to excessive cloud cover. Soundings were
launched at 11, 14, and 17 UTC (14 UTC at MAPR).

Spent several hours with Hal Cole going over the systems and visiting the
potential MISS sites.


Instrumentation:

RASS profiles at MAPR of questionable quality.

MISS tower inoperable throughout much of day.

Daily Report - Sun March 26

IOP6 ended with a bang with very strong winds buffeting the region.
Locals in Independence claim they were the strongest winds in
town in 15 years. Some moderate damage due to falling limbs was
reported.

We are licking our wounds after the ferocious winds. Lou will
send new RM YOUNG prop vane to replace the one damaged when the
tower fell. Brian will try to put the rest of the tower back together.

Mild calm day today with high overcast.

Instrumentation:

Performing some tests with MAPR

Changed from wind200_rass200 to wind100_rass100 at 2015 - winds became noisey
Reduced attenuation back down to 4, noise removed

changed MAPR mode to wind100_rass100 min at 2015 UTC - data looked
noisey

changed attentuation back down to 4 (counter clockwise one click) at 2120 UTC

Two sondes were launched during peak of winds yesterday, but were unable 
to lock onto GPS. We found you MUST make sure GPS is locked in before launch
especially during high winds.

After power failures and trying to reset the transmitter I noticed the
VSWR light was blinking, Bill recommeded increasing the attentuation ~ 0400 UTC
march 26 (turned the dial one notch in the clockwise direction from (4 to 5
lined up with the lead into the dial).

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060326
launch time UTC: 0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4110715

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 877
Temp C		:  9.9
RH %		:   17.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	:  875.2
Temp C		:  10.3
RH%		:   19.7
Wind Spd m/s  	:  9.5  
Wind Dir deg	:   325.6

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Termination Pressure mb	:  ~ 200 mb
Termination Altitude km	:   
Reason for Termination	:  lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	:  875.8
     		Temp C		:   9.1
		RH %		:    14.5
		Wspd m/s 	:    9.0
		Wdir deg	:   1.8
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Very Strong surface winds (> 20 m s-1) lead to another power failure 
at the MAPR trailer. This one lasted about 5 min.

I shutdown MAPR as before (quit maprdisplay and switched off transmitter).

Waited for winds to die down before I restarted.

Seems to have come up ok, but will wait around to make sure.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060326
launch time UTC: 0300
Sonde coef tape #: A4530342

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 873.7
Temp C		:  13.5
RH %		:   23.2



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	:  872.1
Temp C		:  13.6
RH%		:  23.4
Wind Spd m/s 	:  10.9 
Wind Dir deg	:   3.2

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Winds have weakened & shifted...now out of the N/NNE...Rotor/intense mtn wave??  Also note the drop in RH over the last 3 launches (1 hour time frame).

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Termination Pressure mb	:  163
Termination Altitude km	:  13.1 
Reason for Termination	:  lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.2
     		Temp C		:  11.8
		RH %		:   24
		Wspd m/s 	:   7.3  
		Wdir deg	:   336
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Good sounding...winds throughout atmosphere, up to termination pressure of 163 mb.  Sonde still encountered a strong downdraft, as in the other launches just prior to this, as reflected in the temperature and RH traces.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060326
launch time UTC: 0230
Sonde coef tape #: A3940235

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 869.3
Temp C		:  14.3
RH %		:  16.6



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	:  867.7
Temp C		:  14.2
RH%		:   17.8
Wind Spd m/s 	:  22.7  
Wind Dir deg	:   256.6

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Very very strong westerly winds...20+ m/s...developed in the last 30 minutes...filled balloon with 30 cubic feet helium for extra buoyancy under such extreme conditions.
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Termination Pressure mb	: 357
Termination Altitude km	:  7.959
Reason for Termination	:  no GPS (again)...relaunch as per Vanda's request

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872.5
     		Temp C		:  13.5
		RH %		:   23.9
		Wspd m/s 	:   9.5
		Wdir deg	:  23.9
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winds have died down substantially now...only 9 m/s.  Strong wind direction shift though to NE.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060326
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4110125

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 872.8
Temp C		:  12.4
RH %		:  39.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 871.8
Temp C		: 12.3
RH%		:  45.4
Wind Spd m/s 	:  11.3
Wind Dir deg	:  265

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Termination Pressure mb	: 375
Termination Altitude km	:  7.8
Reason for Termination	:  bad GPS...no winds...we'll launch another sonde

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 868.6	
     		Temp C		:  13.5
		RH %		:  25.6
		Wspd m/s 	:  15.9
		Wdir deg	:  253
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strong westerly wind.  Lost power briefly.  Sonde got caught in a downdraft or something, bright it down.  See skew T.

Brief power failure caused MAPR transmitter to go offline.

UPS alarms went off.

Talked to Bill. Blinking light was illuminated red.
I reset the blinking (red light went off).
Transmitter started transmitting, but failed again 40 min later.

Started transmitting again for a while, but died again.
The blinking light came on again and the fault light was flashing.

I stopped mapr_display and cycled power on transmitter (as per
Bill's instructions). Fault light came back on. Then I cycled
through the other buttons and the fault light stopped blinking.


All other systems were unaffected.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060325
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4010699

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 874.5
Temp C		: 21.2
RH %		: 29.5



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.12
Temp C		: 21.1
RH%		: 31.4
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.8
Wind Dir deg	: 249

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Wave clouds over site and Inyos, Foehn wall developing over Sierras, warm temp, calm winds, light rain, dust at south end of valley
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Termination Pressure mb	: 78.7
Termination Altitude km	: 17.5
Reason for Termination	: burst??

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 871.64	
     		Temp C		: 22.4
		RH %		: 26.1
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.92
		Wdir deg	: 129.4
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observations: Low cloud over Sierras, gusty winds a lot of dust.

Daily Report - Sat March 25

IOP6 continues. Beautiful wave cloud over Owens Valley as I was driving
in this morning. 

Goal is took look at coupled mountain waves - rotar - BL system

Weather: Highly variable across the Owens Valley, A rotor passed over
MAPR around 1800 UTC.Rotars continued to pass across the valley with
surface and profiler winds alternating between easterly and westerly
and pulsing in strength with the pulses getting succesively strong
with time. The last couple of pulses exceeding 20 m s-1 caused brief
power outages at the trailer - wrecking havoc with the MAPR transmitter.
The last surge was associated with frontal passage with winds shifting from
very strong westerly to northwesterly. At this time the MISS tower
was blown over- badly damaging the prop-vane anemometer.


Instrumentation Status:

MISS had ground clutter issues again(signal returns showing up down low
at +/- 17 m s-1) overnight.

MAPR had intermittent transmitter problems (1945-2200 UTC) caused by a brief 
disruption in power.

Data from MISS IR sensor are of intermittent quality.

MISS tower toppled at 0300 UTC.

Other: ASU sodar operating (fully attended)

Two sondes were launched during peak of winds, but were unable to lock
onto GPS. We found you must make sure GPS is locked in before launch,
especially during high winds.

changed MAPR mode to wind200_rass100 min at 1630 UTC

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060325
launch time UTC: 1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4050056

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Pressure mb	:874.0
Temp C		: 21.3
RH %		: 20.6



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	:873.04 
Temp C		: 21.766
RH%		: 21.113
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.8969 
Wind Dir deg	: 180.67

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Wave clouds over site and Inyos, Foehn wall developing over Sierras, warm temp, calm winds, dust at south end of valley
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Termination Pressure mb	: 57.2
Termination Altitude km	: 19.6
Reason for Termination	: manual stop

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Hazy, dust, visibility has dissipated, underneath the wave cloud at site.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.53	
     		Temp C		: 19.982
		RH %		: 29.555
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.9757
		Wdir deg	: 269.67
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observations:

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060325
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A

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Pressure mb	: NA
Temp C		: NA
RH %		: NA



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.4
Temp C		: 7.9
RH%		: 44
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.3
Wind Dir deg	: 256

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Termination Pressure mb	: 40.5
Termination Altitude km	: 21.7
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 874.65	
     		Temp C		: 8.946
		RH %		: 41.498
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.4771
		Wdir deg	: 191.63
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bad sonde A4050427, bad humidity sensor

observations:
2600m: isothermal layer, depth 150m
3000m: zero ascent for about 20s
3400m: inversion, 1-2K, humidity below 50%, above 20%
3600m: isothermal layer, depth 300m, humidity below 20%, above 3%

weak winds below 3000m, increasing to 20m/s, 250 at 3.6km

changed MAPR mode to wind200_rass100_30 min at 0920 UTC

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060325
launch time UTC: 0800
Sonde coef tape #: A4530331

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Pressure mb	: 879.3
Temp C		: 7.5
RH %		:  48



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 877.8
Temp C		: 9.3
RH%		: 42.4
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.6 
Wind Dir deg	: 223

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Termination Pressure mb	: 100 mb
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: to send data to ops center

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 876.7
     		Temp C		:  10.0
		RH %		:  38.1
		Wspd m/s 	:   3.0
		Wdir deg	: 230.0
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clear and calm

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060325
launch time UTC: 0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4530322

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Pressure mb	: 880.0
Temp C		: 9.5
RH %		: 40.6



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.71
Temp C		: 12.0
RH%		: 34.0
Wind Spd m/s	:1.3
Wind Dir deg	: 244

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Some clouds over the Sierra Crest.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 89.7
Termination Altitude km	: 16.8
Reason for Termination	: to send data to ops center

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 878.5
     		Temp C		: 9.4
		RH %		: 42.2
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.8
		Wdir deg	: 212.4
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note: one of the sondes that the Leeds group tried to lauch
earlier had a damaged TRH

changed MAPR mode to wind200_rass100 at 0300 UTC

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date yymmdd: 060325
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4530332

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Pressure mb	: 880.1
Temp C		: 17.0
RH %		: 23.0



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.78
Temp C		: 17.6
RH%		: 23.0
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.1
Wind Dir deg	: 229

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Some clouds over the Sierra Crest.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 95
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: to send data to ops center

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

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		Pressure mb	: 
     		Temp C		: 
		RH %		: 
		Wspd m/s 	: 
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inversion layer at cloud top 580 mb (4.2 km)

Daily Report - Friday March 24

IOP6 began at 20 UTC today.

Goal is took look at coupled mountain waves - rotar - BL system

Weather: Warm and light southerly winds, alot of high cloud
around, bands of lower stratocu moving in during the afternoon.


Instrumentation Status:

MISS was moved to an old Sierra Rotors site (accidentally), however,
this was a good site close to hwy 395 in between MAPR and OV site,
but shielded from the highway by dirt piles to the east (see photos)

MISS had ground clutter issues (signal returns showing up down low
at +/- 17 m s-1) during the previous night which seem to have cleared 
up today.

MISS IR sensor problems starting 16 UTC Mar 24.

MAPR sonde issue (no gps) - problem was loose connection with GPS antenna.
Problem solved by talking with Tim Lim.

Other: ASU sodar not operating - company rep here to examine it.

update: ASU sodar Appears to have been fixed late this afternoon.

Time		Number		Description
2245		2		facing SW, bands of clouds passing over Sierras

march 25
0030		~6		took several picks at MISS site
0200		~4		took several picks of clouds at sunset
1730             7              taken 10 mi north of Independence (wave cld)
1745		 1              Independence - limp flag

1910            ~5              took several picks at MAPR site just as winds
				went from light easterly to gusty westerly
2340            2               lenticular wave cloud to the south

changed MAPR mode to wind100_rass100 at 2230 UTC

MAPR hung up at 1000 UTC. I restarted MAPR when I arrived at the trailer
at 1915 UTC.

The QC criteria for MAPR data was loosened at 2200 UTC
March 20th to allow more data to be displayed to the web
pages (note: this also allows more bad data to make it
through to the web pages).

Switched MAPR mode to wind200_rass100_30min at 21:30 to get higher frequency
sounding information during the EOP.

Daily Report - Wednsday March 20

EOP #1 began at 23 UTC today.

Goal is to look at overnight evolution of the BL during quiescent period.

Weather: Warmer conditions than the past few days, light winds and 
alot of high clouds (cirro-stratus) around. 

Today's EOP is planned to extend until noon tomorrow.

ASU sodar not operating.

MISS MotoSat problem was corrected around 4 PM today.

MISS radar had some serious RFI between noon and 5 pm today.

Daily Report - Monday March 20

IOP #5 began at 15 UTC today.

Weather started out calm, sunny and mild. Winds began increasing around 
12 noon LT and Fohn cloud set up and rapidly spilled over the Sierras 
and spanned most of the Valley. Took some pictures while the Fohn wall 
deteriorated and clouds advanced across the valley.

All instrumentation seems to be performing adequately.

The sonde Charlie was using to test the software bug could not be
reused.

IOP #5 will end at 06 UTC March 21 (or 10 PM tonight).

Daily Report - Sunday March 19

Informed at 2 PM that the project would like to move MISS
to OV2 site.

Despite short notice we were able to tear down and redeploy
MISS in about 3 hours. See MISS log for details.

Note: Had anemometer on backwards initially, redeployed it properly.

Time		Number		Description
1945		2		fohn cloud looking E and NE at the Sierras.
2045		3		E,NE,SE fohn wall increasing
2150		5		First pic facing east,
				clouds spilling over Sierra, some over center
				of valley.
2250            4               Cloud cover now spans 3/4 of the valley, last 
				pic is toward the west showing remaining blue

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060320
launch time UTC: 1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4530343

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Pressure mb	: 873.2
Temp C		: 12.9
RH %		: 23.6



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 871.8
Temp C		: 12.7
RH%		: 25.9
Wind Spd m/s	: 8.1
Wind Dir deg	: 164

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Some clouds over the Sierra Crest.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 91.7
Termination Altitude km	: 16.6
Reason for Termination	: to send data to ops center

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 870.62
     		Temp C		: 14.1
		RH %		: 24.7
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.1
		Wdir deg	: 142.2
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no significant inversions below ~250 mb height. terminated early to send data to ops for planning purposes.

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date yymmdd: 060320
launch time UTC: 1700
Sonde coef tape #: A4530340

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Pressure mb	: 875.3
Temp C		: 4.2
RH %		: 34



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 873.7
Temp C		: 8.4
RH%		: 27
Wind Spd m/s	: 0.9
Wind Dir deg	: 106

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Some clouds over the Sierra Crest.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 38.9
Termination Altitude km	: 21.9
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872.6
     		Temp C		: 11.2
		RH %		: 27
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.8
		Wdir deg	: 165
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one bad sonde (A4530334), no GPS

no GPS between 375 and 275 hPa

I have been configuring the GTS TEMP message transmission.

1. Added a second call to AspenQC in init.d/sounding, which
generates the TEMP message and emails it to the NWS gateway.
The message also gets CC'd to me, but maybe we'll change this
to a more suitable authority.

2. Modified aspen.xml , to set correct TEMP properties (enable NNNN,
set the ICAO identifier, set the call sign, select message type = 2
for TEMP MOBILE, set abreviated hader to NNXX00).

3. Created a bunch of bogus soundings on GAUS, simply by copying
and renaming one of the soundings in training/, to debug the
scheme.

4. That abreviated header is for testing purposes. When we verify
that the messages are getting accepted at NWS, the abreviated header
will be changed to a legitimate one.

The datastorm system seems to be back to normal now. 
The receiver is staying locked on. 

Yesterday, when we were having problems, the wind
was strong from the north, and the motosat dish was 
rocking back and forth by several degrees in elevation.
I wonder if that could have caused the problems?

A Maxtor 300GB disk is now available om MAPR as /media/usbdisk.

MAPR didn't recognize the disk when it was initially plugged in.
Will reboot in an attempt to see if MPAR can access the disk.

The motosat system keeps dropping and reacquiring the 
signal. The transmit signal goes out on the dw6000, and
then the ready light on the motosat goes off. Looking
on the motosat status page, you see that the transmitter
has been turned off because the receive signal is no good.

Watching it for about half an hour, I see that the receive
signal comes and goes. When it drops out, it takes awhile 
to lock onto receive again. As soon as it does, the
transmitter will be enabled and the ready light will
appear on the motosat.

The dish is looking through heavy clouds. It is spitting rain
occasionally. Maybe that is the problem?

I did a search, and motosat was happy with what it found.
When reception is good, the signal quality is very high.

Daily Report - Friday March 17

Profiler at ISS2 trailer was down between 00 and 20 UTC March 17.
It appearantly froze at 00 UTC yesterday while calculating concensus
winds (see ISS2 log for details).

Scintec sodar/RASS not working today.

All other sensors appear to be functioning well.

No IOPs scheduled for Sat or Sun.

Visitors at MAPR today Mike Daniels and Sharon Zhong (U. of Houston).

Daily Report - Thursday March 16

MISS generator was serviced today - down for ~ 2 hours (9:30-11:30 LT).

Rotar seems to have developed this morning, Vanda requests that MISS be
left at current site. 

Steve and I restarted generator and brought up all the systems.

Visited all 12 alternate MISS sites with Steve C.

Increasing clouds through the day and in the low 60s with light winds.
A rotar-like cloud was evident late morning through early after noon.

Tonight's IOP was cancelled, next one not likely until Monday.

Due to a bug in the GAUS software, sounding data files were not 
saved for the 15 Mar 02Z and 15 Mar 05Z soundings. 

The problem occurs when a blank is entered after the Mission ID.

/iss/ds was rsync'ed to the raid drive.

cd /iss/ds
rsync -av -e ssh . mapr:/raid/data/data_source

Daily Report - Wednesday March 15

IOP#4 ended at 10pm last night (6Z Mar 15) with the last sounding at 9pm.

Sunny and clear today.

Charlie backed up the MAPR-ISS data_store to DVD. I will bring this back to Boulder (backup done at 05Z Mar 15; ie 9pm Mar 14 LT)

Sounding data was not recorded for the 02 and 05 Z launches due to
a bug in the program.

Generator was serviced at Onion Valley ISS at 1 PM.

James P arrived at 1:30 and we went through bringing up the
Onion Valley ISS after the generator was serviced.

So far today:

--Brian and Heather are collecting sodar-RASS RF spectra.
--The tentative IOP beginning Wednesday night is postponed probably until Thursday night.
--Therefore we will not move MISS today. 
--Still deciding if the MISS generator service should wait until tomorrow.

Weak signal today. Changed MAPR to 200m mode at 19:18 UT (11:18am LT) Mar 15.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060315
launch time UTC: 0500
Sonde coef tape #:A4530375

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Pressure mb	: 875.9
Temp C		: 5.1
RH %		: 45.2



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.3
Temp C		: 5.1179
RH%		: 46.213
Wind Spd m/s	: 8.5776
Wind Dir deg	: 317.68

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Gusty winds have developed since last launch, ragged foehn wall over the Sierras w/ a few stratocumulus above the valley to the north of the site.Strong NW winds at surface during launch.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 37.6
Termination Altitude km	: 22.2
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: Windy, ragged foehn wall over Sierras, stratocumulus clouds over the valley have dissipated. 

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.59
     		Temp C		: 4.7543
		RH %		: 29.794
		Wspd m/s 	: 11.668
		Wdir deg	: 333.09
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Launched balloon from top of hill next to tower due to windy conditions- worked 
well.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060315
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #:A4530325

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Pressure mb	: 873.9
Temp C		: 7.1
RH %		: 47.8



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.19
Temp C		: 7.5528
RH%		: 46.883
Wind Spd m/s	: 6.1603
Wind Dir deg	: 10.578

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Downslope skud lingering along the Sierras, few scattered cumulus over the Inyo's to the south.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 37.6
Termination Altitude km	: 22.2
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: cool, breezy.  few scattered clouds in the valley. Foehn wall along sierras.


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 873.07
     		Temp C		: 6.9238
		RH %		: 31.558
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.8152
		Wdir deg	: 14.908
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #:A4530321

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Pressure mb	: 872.7
Temp C		: 15.4
RH %		: 15.4



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 871.3
Temp C		: 15.6
RH%		: 16
Wind Spd m/s	: 12
Wind Dir deg	: 206

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Warm and less windy than this morning. Still partly cloudy with low 
cloud over Sierras.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 37.6
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 872.44
     		Temp C		: 10.3
		RH %		: 36.8
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.05
		Wdir deg	: 275.56
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #:A4530369

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Pressure mb	: 874.3
Temp C		: 16.7
RH %		: 16



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.5
Temp C		: 17.6
RH%		: 17
Wind Spd m/s	: 11.7
Wind Dir deg	: 147

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Warm and very windy, lots of dust blowing. Partly cloudy skies with low cloud 
over Sierras.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 46.5
Termination Altitude km	: 21
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 


For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 871.5
     		Temp C		: 19
		RH %		: 15.3
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.5
		Wdir deg	: 195
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Initial sonde values from aspen

Daily Report - Tuesday March 14

IOP#4 began at noon yesterday (20Z March 13) and should continue through 10 pm today (6Z Mar 15).

Quite windy at the surface, especially driving through Big Pine at 9am. Mostly SSE winds (up-valley).

MAPR froze at 21UT. Fixed at 23:45UT (1pm-3:45LT). Otherwise all data working.
Downdrafts seen most of the afternoon at ISS2 and MISS (Division Creek Rd). Some precip also, so beware interpreting vertical velocity.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 1700
Sonde coef tape #:NA

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Pressure mb	: 877.2
Temp C		: 8.7
RH %		: 36.7



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 877.29
Temp C		: 8.34
RH%		: 36.7
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.27
Wind Dir deg	: 100

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Lenticular clouds remain over the Sierra--most pronounced north of the site. Very clear skies elsewhere.

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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 49.6
Termination Altitude km	: 20.57
Reason for Termination	: end sounding 1818UTC

Post-Termination Weather Description: Same as launch except that clouds are making it further down the lee slope with precip to our north along the ridgeline. Also, some clearing to the south along the crest.  Cirrus (mostly thin) spreading over the valley.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 875.5
     		Temp C		: 13.4
		RH %		: 24.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.3
		Wdir deg	: 111.45
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 1400
Sonde coef tape #:NA

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Pressure mb	:879.4
Temp C		: -1.1
RH %		: 68.0



		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.17
Temp C		: 0.0
RH%		: 65.8
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.81
Wind Dir deg	: 177

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, light winds, cool. Lenticular clouds over the Sierra. Still  not that well defined. Very clear skies elsewhere.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 361.92
Termination Altitude km	: 7.947
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: lenticular clouds over the Sierras, clear, calm, cool. Lenticular clouds are more ragged than before.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 878
     		Temp C		: -.142
		RH %		: 67.394
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.29
		Wdir deg	: 166.29
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 1104
Sonde coef tape #:NA

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Pressure mb	:880.0
Temp C		: -.95
RH %		: 64

Used sounding values instead of entering surface values manually

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.64	
Temp C		: -.45959
RH%		: 64.859
Wind Spd m/s	: 4.84
Wind Dir deg	: 200.1

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Clear, light winds, cool, dark. Lenticular clouds over the Sierra.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 54.38
Termination Altitude km	: 19.9
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: lenticular clouds over the Sierras, clear, calm, cool. Lenticular clouds are more ragged than before.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 878
     		Temp C		: .94041
		RH %		: 62.05
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.8
		Wdir deg	: 173.29
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The sounding was not calibrated to the surface observations--we used the sounding instrument values.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 0800
Sonde coef tape #:NA

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Pressure mb	:879.9 
Temp C		: 2.3
RH %		: 49

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.94	
Temp C		: .30272
RH%		: 56.859
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.0096
Wind Dir deg	: 172.02

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, calm, cool. Clouds over the Sierras are more lenticular in shape than 
during earlier launch.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 54.1
Termination Altitude km	: 20.0
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: lenticular clouds over the Sierras, clear, calm, cool.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 879.76
     		Temp C		: .94041
		RH %		: 56.677
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.4726
		Wdir deg	: 176.94
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Data logger system shut down immediately after the balloon was launched- suspectthe chair leg hit the UPS on/off switch.Put 100 mile an hour duck tape on the 
switch.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 0500
Sonde coef tape #: A4530324

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Pressure mb	: 883.3
Temp C		: 2.3
RH %		: 46.1

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 881.44
Temp C		: 2.3678
RH%		: 46.463
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.3787
Wind Dir deg	: 202.81

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Termination Pressure mb	: 356.4
Termination Altitude km	: 8.1
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: cool, calm, clear

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 881.36
     		Temp C		: 2.3
		RH %		: 47.3
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.29
		Wdir deg	: 153.46
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Slow accent.  String did not unwind, but did not lose satellites or winds

Daily Report - Monday March 13

IOP#4 began at noon today (20Z March 13) and should continue through 10 pm tomorrow (6Z Mar 15).

Clear and sunny. Clouds over the Sierra peaks.

All systems operating normally.
United Rental should come Wednesday morning to service ISS2 and REAL generators.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060314
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4530174

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Pressure mb	: 883
Temp C		: 6.4
RH %		: 33

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 881
Temp C		: 7.1
RH%		: 33
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.3
Wind Dir deg	: 154

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Cloudy over Sierra Nevada, otherwise nice and sunny and warmer than before.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 205.6
Termination Altitude km	: 11.6
Reason for Termination	: lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: Cool,calm and clear; thin cloud bank over Sierras

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 881.27
     		Temp C		: 4.293
		RH %		: 40.256
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.0092
		Wdir deg	: 167.75
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060313
launch time UTC: 2300
Sonde coef tape #: A4530175

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Pressure mb	: 882.9
Temp C		: 11.2
RH %		: 19

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	:881.5 
Temp C		: 13.5
RH%		: 18
Wind Spd m/s	: 4.9
Wind Dir deg	: 171

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Cloudy over Sierra Nevada, otherwise nice and sunny and warmer than before.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 38.8
Termination Altitude km	: 22043
Reason for Termination	: burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: sunny and light wind

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 880.9
     		Temp C		: 11.4
		RH %		: 24
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.9
		Wdir deg	: 163
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date yymmdd: 060313
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4530177

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Pressure mb	: 883.5
Temp C		: 7.8
RH %		: 19

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 883.5	
Temp C		: 10.7
RH%		: 18
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.8
Wind Dir deg	: 148

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Cloudy over Sierra Nevada, otherwise nice and sunny and warmer than before.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 38.8
Termination Altitude km	: 22.1
Reason for Termination	: bang

Post-Termination Weather Description: sunny and light wind

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 882.3
     		Temp C		: 13.0
		RH %		: 17
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.0
		Wdir deg	: 167
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got pre-launch sonde data using aspen

Daily Report - Sunday March 12

No operations today. IOP#4 begins tomorrow at noon (Monday March 13, 20UT) and extend through 10pm Tuesday (Wednesday March 15 06UT)

Partly to mostly cloudy and cool but pleasant today. Heavy clouds obscuring the Sierra crest, but sunny and blue on the Inyo (east) side.Became mostly sunny by late afternoon (still clouds over the Sierra) with a full moon late in the day.

Fueled ISS2 at 1pm LT (25 gallons).
Added 25 gallons deisel to Ford transfer tank.
Fueled MISS at 01Z Mar 13 (5pm Mar 12). Tank was 1/2 full.

All systems nominal.

Took a couple of sodar-RASS spectra and maybe can transfer and email them.The spectrum looked wider than 10-kHz (centered on 915 and down 10-dB by +/- 1 MHZ, i.e. 914 and 916 MHz were down 10 dB).

United Rental asked for runtime numbers, and also for generator numbers.

MISS BASE: Generator: 820535
Service Due: 378.4 hours
Current:     219.5 hours at 1pm Sunday March 12, BUT not running (MISS roving)

ISS2:      Generator: 617264
Service Due: 3101.7 hours
Current:     3112.3 hours at 1pm Sunday March 12.

United Rentals: 760-446-7628
Contact: Shane Maguire
Based in Ridgecrest which is 2-hours South of Independence

NOTE: We may as well include REAL in the loop when getting service since they also have a United generator.

Daily Report - Saturday March 11

Today was a hard down day for T-REX, but everyone was around anyway.
No operations are planned for tomorrow (Sunday). There will be a planning meeting (12pm LT) and likely IOP#4 starting monday evening (10pm LT estimate but may change).

Mostly sunny this morning. Increasing clouds by 11am (19Z) and alot of moisture apparent through the afternoon. Snow spilling over the peaks and evaporating in the valley through the afternoon, but no show reaching the surface. There mnay have been a few crystals reaching the ground on the west side (by ISFF west tower and REAL).

MISS remains running at Division Creek and was refueled about 4:30pm. Very good winds from this site. Solar shows much heavier clouds at this western site.

ISS2 also showing good winds today. It will need to be fueled tomorrow.

Daily Report - Friday March 10

IOP#3 ended at 18Z (10am) with the last sounding at 9am.All systems worked well through the IOP (except the MotoSat's sometimes would not connect).

MAPR, ISS2, and MISS all reported some 60 kt winds aloft last night (~2Z Mar 10) and many 50 kt winds above 3 km through about 6am (after which there were no sigals that high). All also showed considerable vertical motions and periods of broad spectral width.

MISS was refueled this morning, as was the ISS2 generator tank.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060310
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4530177

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Pressure mb	: 866.8
Temp C		: 4.5
RH %		: 18

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 865.3	
Temp C		: 4.5
RH%		: 21.5
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.9
Wind Dir deg	: 313

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Cloudy over Sierra Nevada, otherwise nice and sunny and warmer than before.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 49.4
Termination Altitude km	: 20.5
Reason for Termination	: Reached 50 mb

Post-Termination Weather Description: Windy, mostly sunny with some clouds. Clouds still over Sierra Range.

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 864.8
     		Temp C		: 5.0
		RH %		: 16
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.6
		Wdir deg	: 277
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no problems

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060310
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4530178

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Pressure mb	: 865.8
Temp C		: -0.9
RH %		: 61

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 864.11	
Temp C		: -0.86
RH%		: 64
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.8
Wind Dir deg	: 207

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Cold and calm and mostly clear


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Termination Pressure mb	: 36
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: Chilly calm, cloudy to the west, sunny on the east

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 864.95
     		Temp C		: 2.5
		RH %		: 46
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.9
		Wdir deg	: 82
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060310
launch time UTC: 1100
Sonde coef tape #: A4511187

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Pressure mb	: 864.48
Temp C		: 1.4
RH %		: 48.9

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 862.91
Temp C		: 2.4087
RH%		: 44.925
Wind Spd m/s	: 6.6519
Wind Dir deg	: 202.68

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
Light snow, winds picked up since last launch, 


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Termination Pressure mb	: 39
Termination Altitude km	: 21.8
Reason for Termination	: POP!

Post-Termination Weather Description: Cold, calm, partly cloudy

For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 863
     		Temp C		: -0.02
		RH %		: 61
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.3
		Wdir deg	: 288
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Daily Report - Thursday March 9

IOP#3 began at 11Z (3am) Mar 9. All systems working well.

At 00Z Mar 10: MISS still operating from Division Creek site. Spectra show vertical speeds 2-4km indicating waves. Also some snow not reaching the ground.Consensus winds are failing because of variability within the consensus period, but we'll see how NIMA does.
MISS Main tank is 3/4 full - good for another 24h, so fill by 4pm Friday (LT)

ISS2 (Onion Valley Rd) showed a very strong surface wind (17 m/s from 260) at 21-21Z today. Profiler signals look great but not consensing well.

MAPR was down from about 1-3pm LT (PC locked up). When it was brought back up, changed to wind100_rass100 mode.

MAPR appears to have some great IOP#3 data around 10UT Mar 10 (oscillations).

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060310
launch time UTC: 0800
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Pressure mb	: 865.7
Temp C		: 2.7
RH %		: 34.8

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 864.3
Temp C		: 2.8
RH%		: 36.6
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.0
Wind Dir deg	: 296

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Windier and about as cloudy.
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Termination Pressure mb	: 38.6 
Termination Altitude km	: 22
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: Cold and windy, no observable changes in cloud deck.
For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 863.4
     		Temp C		: 2.7533
		RH %		: 36.482
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.0174
		Wdir deg	: 113.64
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Very Stable up to 400 mb.

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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060310
launch time UTC: 0500
Sonde coef tape #: 84530180

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Pressure mb	: 865.1
Temp C		: 3.7
RH %		: 42

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 865.4
Temp C		: 3.9
RH%		: 40
Wind Spd m/s	: 3
Wind Dir deg	: 269

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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hazy moon

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Termination Pressure mb	:37.0
Termination Altitude km	: 22.4
Reason for Termination	:lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: hazy moon, cool temps, light winds
For Surface Data

		Pressure mb	: 864.27
     		Temp C		: 3.3397
		RH %		: 39.127
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.9022
		Wdir deg	: 299.12
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060310
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #: A4530165

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Pressure mb	: 865.8
Temp C		: 7.9
RH %		: 19.2

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 864.1
Temp C		: 8.2
RH%		: 20.4
Wind Spd m/s	: 9.7
Wind Dir deg	: 260

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Termination Pressure mb	: 233.9
Termination Altitude km	: 10059
Reason for Termination	:loss of signal 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 864.18
     		Temp C		: 7.29
		RH %		: 29
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.44
		Wdir deg	: 345.4
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Site Name: MAPR
date yymmdd: 060309
launch time UTC: 2300
Sonde coef tape #: A4530166

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Pressure mb	: 868.6
Temp C		: 11.8
RH %		: 18

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 866.9
Temp C		: 12.5
RH%		: 18
Wind Spd m/s	: 10.9
Wind Dir deg	: 285

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Termination Pressure mb	: 294
Termination Altitude km	: 9159
Reason for Termination	: signal loss

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 866.62
     		Temp C		: 10.2
		RH %		: 14.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 11.8
		Wdir deg	: 261.7
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MAPR stopped running around 20Z. It took me a couple of hours to 
learn that after running it via the button, you have to choose 
restart and choose a configuration.

Operator error.

Restarted in the wind100_rass100 mode.

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Site Name: MAPR 
date yymmdd: 060309
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #: A4530167

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Pressure mb	: 870.1
Temp C		: 13.8
RH %		: 11.4

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 868.6
Temp C		: 16.3
RH%		: 13
Wind Spd m/s	: 10.7 
Wind Dir deg	: 258

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Fine
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Termination Pressure mb	: 293
Termination Altitude km	: 9.2
Reason for Termination	: Lost signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 868.2
     		Temp C		: 15.9
		RH %		: 12.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 14.6
		Wdir deg	: 270
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Caught in rotor around 560 MB, 600 to 900 seconds into the flight. Sonde descended about 20 mb.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060309
launch time UTC:1400
Sonde coef tape #:A4530171

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Pressure mb	: 873.3
Temp C		: 9.6
RH %		: 34

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 871.7
Temp C		: 11.4
RH%		: 34
Wind Spd m/s	: 0.6
Wind Dir deg	: 131

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partly cloudy, mostly sunny and warm

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Termination Pressure mb	: 184
Termination Altitude km	: 12.4
Reason for Termination	: Loss of signal


Post-Termination Weather Description: partly cloudy and warm

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 871
     		Temp C		: 12.4
		RH %		: 32
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.8
		Wdir deg	: 93
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Early loss of signal. GAUS froze. Data processing still required.

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Pressure mb	: 873.9
Temp C		: 1.3
RH %		: 65

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.2
Temp C		: 2.4
RH%		: 63
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.2
Wind Dir deg	: 319

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partly cloudy (mid- and high level clouds)

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Termination Pressure mb	:38.6
Termination Altitude km	:22 
Reason for Termination	: POP!


Post-Termination Weather Description: partly cloudy and cool

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 872.0
     		Temp C		: 6.7
		RH %		: 46
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.1
		Wdir deg	: 313
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Pressure mb	: 874.2
Temp C		: 3.0
RH %		: 54

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 872.7
Temp C		: 4.5
RH%		: 54
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.9
Wind Dir deg	: 305

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partly cloudy

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Termination Pressure mb	:45.1 
Termination Altitude km	: 21.1
Reason for Termination	: 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 872.1
     		Temp C		: 3.5
		RH %		: 60
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.8
		Wdir deg	: 270
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vertical velocity -1 m/s at 520 hPa (5300m), stopped rising for about
1 minute

Weak signal since late afternoon. Changed MAPR to 200m mode for overnight IOP. Change made at 01:30 UT Mar 9 (17:30 PST Mar 8).

Daily Report - Wednesday March 8

The MISS was shut down today at about 9:50 MST (17:50 UT). It has been operating at Division Creek site since the start of IOP#2. Brian did the Kubota generator 100-hour service (oil change, etc.). We left it off until 3:30pm (23:30) when it was turned back on in anticipation of IOP#3 starting tonight. MISS will continue to operate from the Division Creek site for IOP#3.

The MotoSat links from both MAPR and ISS2 were down intermittently today. We cycled power at both sites. But it was most likely a satellite problem, not ours.

Greg McCurdy from DRI was in the valley today trying to find why the DRI surface station network is not working. We coordinated at test, turning off the sodar-RASS transmitter beginning at 1:30pm (21:30 UT). This seems to have fixed their problem receiving signals from the DRI surface network. Not sure why since sodar-RASS should be narrow band and the DRI freewaves should be able to avoid it. But we will leave it off at least for this IOP and do another on/off test when we are able.

No call back from United Rental so I'm guessing they will service the MISS-base and ISS-2 generators Monday.

Cool and breezy this morning. Clear skies all day with afternoon cirrus.

MAPR signal became weak with the collapse of the afternoon boundary layer. Changed to 200m mode at 17:30 LT (01:30 UT Mar 9).

Daily Report - Tuesday March 7

IOP2 Recap:

IOP 2 ended at 03Z (7pm last night) with the last sounding at 02Z.

During the IOP, ISS2 appears to show vertical motions and broad width between 2km and 3km AGL. But there was snow aloft which biases the vertical velocity.Winds at 3km were about 15+ m/s from the WSW for much of the IOP.

MAPR showed similar features. Downward velocity (again but there was snow), and high WSW winds aloft.

MISS was sited at the F6 location - this is the water sampler on Division Creek Rd. Its a few miles N of Independence, and west toward the Sierra. It showed a lot of vertical motions also. This is a good mountain wave case - and we'll have to see if there were rotors.

Today:
Sunny and warm this morning (10am), with fair weather Cu. By 2pm it was 8/10 overcast with ice crystals, and breezy. That may be the forecast weak front.

MISS continues to run in place at F6 (Division Creek Rd). We refueled the Kubota generator today - filled the main tank and topped off the day tank. It is due for 100-hr service tomorrow (Brian will do this) and will be down most of the day for a break. We may move to a different site in anticipation of a Thursday IOP.

United Rental asked about Hobbs numbers. They will decide if service for the MISS-base and ISS2 generators will be tomorrow or Monday to avoid the IOP.
ISS2:      2992 hrs (at noon)
MISS-base: 0219 hrs (stopped since MISS is absent)
REAL:      4490 hrs (at 2pm)

Daily Report - Monday March 6

IOP 2 Continued.

Started off cloudy and cool with occasional light drizzle,
however cleared up later.

IOP 2 is being cut short by a few hours as the situation progressed
faster than expected.  The last sounding was done at 2 UT (Mar 7).

MISS is still operating at the Division Creek Road site, and has enough
fuel to run through at least tomorrow morning.  It and the other profilers
saw some good data.  Refueled ISS2 (10G).

We did some work on the sodar, transferring the computer to a weather proof
container.  The sodar was down for a few minutes around 1 UT (Mar 7).

Backed up MAPR data (tms,cor,results,etc) up to March 7 to a USB drive to 
take back to Boulder.  Includes data_source.

Steve is taking over from Bill who is headed home.

 

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date yymmdd: 060307 
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Pressure mb	:880.3
Temp C		:9.4
RH %		:65.6

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.94
Temp C		: 9.5637
RH%		: 66.012
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.7405
Wind Dir deg	: 343.66

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Virga to the north just west of the Whites, the Sierras are still mostly 
obscured- snow line visible 2,000-3,000 ft above valley floor. Partly cloudy,
stratus, light winds.
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Termination Pressure mb	: 73.2
Termination Altitude km	: 18.0
Reason for Termination	: Lost Signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 879.32
     		Temp C		: 7.1565
		RH %		: 70.083
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.814
		Wdir deg	: 286.36
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Clear, Calm, Cool.

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date yymmdd: 060306 
launch time UTC:2300 
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Pressure mb	: 879.2
Temp C		:15.2 
RH %		: 48.5

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 877.5
Temp C		: 13.0
RH%		: 49.8
Wind Spd m/s	: 7.7
Wind Dir deg	: 173.5

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Termination Pressure mb	: N/A
Termination Altitude km	:N/a 
Reason for Termination	: loss of signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878.2
     		Temp C		: 12.3
		RH %		: 41.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.7
		Wdir deg	: 331.4
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date yymmdd: 060306
launch time UTC: 2000
Sonde coef tape #:A4530645

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Pressure mb	: 880.1
Temp C		: 12.6
RH %		: 38

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.7
Temp C		: 14.7
RH%		: 37.9
Wind Spd m/s	: 6.8
Wind Dir deg	: 139

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Original sonde and surface obs lost due NCAR training. 100% cu. Light rain, moderate winds from south.
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Termination Pressure mb	: 39.9
Termination Altitude km	: 22.1
Reason for Termination	: increasing pressure

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 877.6
     		Temp C		: 14.05
		RH %		: 38.7
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.5
		Wdir deg	: 156.4
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Nothing of note to report

Good signal in the light precip so switching back to 100 m mode,
19:15 UT.

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date yymmdd: 060306
launch time UTC: 17:00 UTC
Sonde coef tape #:A4440918

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Pressure mb	: 881.0
Temp C		: 12.9
RH %		: 33

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.4
Temp C		: 13.6
RH%		: 34
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.7
Wind Dir deg	: 185

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overcast

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Termination Pressure mb	: 45.8
Termination Altitude km	: 21.0
Reason for Termination	: 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 879.0
     		Temp C		: 14.0
		RH %		: 32
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.5
		Wdir deg	: 155
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launch time UTC: 14:00 UTC
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Pressure mb	: 879.8
Temp C		: 9.8
RH %		: 48.5

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	:878.52
Temp C		:10.7
RH%		:49.3
Wind Spd m/s	:4.7 
Wind Dir deg	:178

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windy, cold, partly cloudy and very light rain

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Termination Pressure mb	: 32.3
Termination Altitude km	: 23.2
Reason for Termination	: balloon pop

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 877.7
     		Temp C		: 12.42
		RH %		: 35.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.8
		Wdir deg	: 188.9
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first sond (A4530170) was bad, no GPS

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Pressure mb	: 880.5
Temp C		: 10.5
RH %		: 26

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.9
Temp C		: 10.9
RH%		: 27
Wind Spd m/s	: 8.3
Wind Dir deg	: 202

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Termination Pressure mb	: 39.7
Termination Altitude km	: 21.9
Reason for Termination	: rising pressure

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878.8
     		Temp C		: 11.0
		RH %		: 32
		Wspd m/s 	: 8.3
		Wdir deg	: 166
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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060306
launch time UTC: 08 UTC
Sonde coef tape #:A4530161

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Pressure mb	: 880.6
Temp C		: 10.9
RH %		: 29.3

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.51
Temp C		: 11.145
RH%		: 31.402
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.1542
Wind Dir deg	: 172.33

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Increasing cloudiness and windspeed from previous launch.
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Termination Pressure mb	: 36
Termination Altitude km	: 22.5
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 879.55
     		Temp C		: 11.137
		RH %		: 28.793
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.7324
		Wdir deg	: 188.56
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Weak signal strength at lower levels, improved as the sonde got higher.Winds have increased and changed direction- from easterly at 5m/s to southerly at 10-12m/s.FROPA at 08:00 UTC ?

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date yymmdd: 060306
launch time UTC: 05UTC
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Pressure mb	: 880.8
Temp C		: 9.6
RH %		: 31

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 880.85
Temp C		: 9.4653
RH%		: 31.101
Wind Spd m/s	: 6.6274
Wind Dir deg	: 157.02

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Light winds at surface, clear directly above the site.Cirrus/wave cloud east of Sierra crest, thinner cirrus across the valley- south of the site- to the west of the White's crest- both approx.parallel to N-S mtn. axis.Wave action evident 
in the vertical speed of sonde from 2m/s to 9 m/s at 30 psi in the balloon.


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Termination Pressure mb	: 27
Termination Altitude km	: 24.3
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 880.19
     		Temp C		: 10.948
		RH %		: 31.448
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.0925
		Wdir deg	: 188.52
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Increasing cloudiness during launch. 

02:33 UT
Switched MAPR to 200m mode as the clear air retuurns are getting weak.
Getting some bird echoes unfortunately.

Daily Report - Sun March 5

IOP 2

Partly cloudy, southerlies.
Rotor cloud band running north from about Independence close to mountians
on west side of valley, and also at times another one up the center of 
the valley further north.  Southerlies appeared to be stronger at MISS
and MAPR than ISS2.  Seeing some persistent upward vertical motion at 
MAPR and downward at ISS2 - may be trapped wave.

3 hourly sondes from MAPR starting at 17 Z (9am LT).
Leeds group are also doing soundings at airport at 1430 UT and 2330 UT
(6:30 and 15:30 LT).

MISS was moved from it's base site to site F6 (Division Creek Rd Water
Sampler) which is about 8 miles NNW from Independence.
This put it under the above rotor cloud.
The cloud drifted slowly back and forth above MISS.
We are getting a lot of clutter there but hopefully the rotor data
will make it worthwhile (and that NIMA will clean it up).

Mike and Gary's last day.  Steve and Brian are starting tomorrow.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060306
launch time UTC: 02UTC
Sonde coef tape #: A45300163

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Pressure mb	: 882.5
Temp C		: 10.5
RH %		: 27.2

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 880.8
Temp C		: 10.8
RH%		: 28.7
Wind Spd m/s	: 4.5
Wind Dir deg	: 145

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extensive thin cirrus


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Termination Pressure mb	: < 100mb
Termination Altitude km	: 19.8
Reason for Termination	: increasing pressure

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 881.3
     		Temp C		: 8.9
		RH %		: 33.1
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.5
		Wdir deg	: 218
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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060305
launch time UTC: 23UTC
Sonde coef tape #: A4530164

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Pressure mb	: 882.2
Temp C		: 14.8
RH %		: 18.9

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 881.05
Temp C		: 15.982
RH%		: 19.5
Wind Spd m/s	: 8.1
Wind Dir deg	: 141

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near 100% very thin cirrus, some thicker patches.


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Termination Pressure mb	: < 100mb
Termination Altitude km	:17.9 
Reason for Termination	: increasing pressure

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 880.7
     		Temp C		: 14.5
		RH %		: 26.3
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.8
		Wdir deg	: 137.2
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Good sounding. burst balloon at 17km

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060305
launch time UTC: 20UT
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Pressure mb	: 884.4
Temp C		: 14.4
RH %		: 20.6

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 883.1
Temp C		: 15.5
RH%		: 19.4
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.4
Wind Dir deg	: 169.3

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scattered cirrus, 50% cover. 

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Termination Pressure mb	: < 100mb
Termination Altitude km	: 17.339
Reason for Termination	: Increasing pressure

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 881.5
     		Temp C		: 17.4
		RH %		: 18.6
		Wspd m/s 	: 6.2
		Wdir deg	: 174
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near 100% thin high cirrus, 20% thicker cirrus

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launch time UTC: 17:05
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Pressure mb	: 884.1
Temp C		: 9.3
RH %		: 33.9

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 884.1
Temp C		: 9.7
RH%		: 32.9
Wind Spd m/s	: 4.3
Wind Dir deg	: 144

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Termination Pressure mb	: 118.6
Termination Altitude km	: 15.1
Reason for Termination	: loss of signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: light wind, some high clouds

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 884.11
     		Temp C		: 11.5
		RH %		: 30.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.0
		Wdir deg	: 111
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reconditioned u-sensor
oscillations in humidity reading above 600 hPa, waves?

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060305
launch time UTC: 17:05
Sonde coef tape #: ??

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Pressure mb	: 884.1
Temp C		: 9.3
RH %		: 33.9

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 884.1
Temp C		: 9.7
RH%		: 32.9
Wind Spd m/s	: 4.3
Wind Dir deg	: 144

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Termination Pressure mb	: 118.6
Termination Altitude km	: 15.1
Reason for Termination	: loss of signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: light wind, some high clouds

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 884.11
     		Temp C		: 11.5
		RH %		: 30.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.0
		Wdir deg	: 111
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reconditioned u-sensor
oscillations in humidity reading above 600 hPa, waves?

MAPR - changing back to 100 m mode to get better resolution since
we have good signal.

Daily Report - Sat March 4

Clear with light southerly winds.

Systems operating okay apart from MAPR outage (see separate log entry).
Weak signal in evening so switched MAPR to 200m mode.

Finished set up of the sodar-RASS today.
It does seem to be getting a little interferencem, however it appears
to be working well and is reporting temperatures up to about 200m.  
It is sensitive to nearby metal objects; for example we shouldn't
leave a car next to it.  Otherwise it seems to operate well.
Gary set up a WiFi link to it from the ISFF trailer (about 300m) 
and it's data is being streamed back.

IOP 2 is planned for tomorrow starting at 17UT (9am) Sunday with 3 hourly
launches from MAPR.  

We also plan to move MISS to north of Independence tomorrow morning
(after the IOP starts so that we can train Steve & Brian in the move).
I scouted around a few sites - we'll probably either go to the M8 site
or the F6 site. 

MAPR went down for unknown reasons last night.
Gary is investigating the cause.  
One possibility is the change to the raid for storage,
but it is unclear why this would cause a problem.
Restarted aroound 22 UT.

MAPR parameter set change to wind200_rass100 at 2:17 UT
due to weak clear air signal.
On 100m mode the only signal was a weak layer at 2km, but after
switching to 200m mode we started filling in some gate below that.
Still fairly weak though.

Daily Report - Friday March 3

Cool, brief periods of snow or grappel, and brisk winds, partly cloudy.
There appeared to be a wave cloud (often lenticular) at south end of valley
on eastern side.  Also there seemed to be a roll cloud in the afternoon.

IOP 1 finished at 6am local this morning.  Everything seemed to go fairly well.
The last sounding at MAPR was at 3 am and had to be repeated thanks to
high winds, and also the last IOP sonde from Indy airport had to be
repeated for the same reason.

The ASU sodar went down Thursday night, but was fixed yesterday.
Apparently the electronics may have got too cold.

The ISS sodar was working from yesterday afternoon.  It reported winds
up to 20 m/s, up to heights of around 200m.  It was initally set up
such that the A1 direction set to true north, but in fact it was pointing
at 8 degrees (corrected late afternoon).

We also worked on the RASS portion of the sodar today.  
It was working from late afternoon and reporting temperatures of around 7C
(consistent with surface obs) up to around 200m.

MAPR was not writing to the RAID so the disk filled and it stopped about 21UT.
Fixed and running again from 2 UT.

Maybe having battery water troubles. Keep water heated or start early in soaking it (10min).

Signal level seems to be off for a while when starting sounding. Then it seems to come on. Cycling the rack seems to fix it or it may be related to battery voltage and colder water. 

Cycle the PC every once in a while.

Balloon bag helps.

Watch for the power lines to the north, the tower to the south and the fencing to the east.... 

Sounding rules on the wall to your left by sounding equipment.

Spare sounding equipment in the green rubbermaid.

When adjusting sounding frequencies, end them in even numbers ~ 401.78

Walk through and all systems seem fine. 

Looking through the DM and all data looks like it's coming into the workstation.
Shutting down the sounding system. Ceilometer finding a lot of clouds today! MAPR now getting a full 4+ km of data. 

Marked the empty cylinders with survey tape. 

Bit of a clean up and organizing. 

Weather has heavy clouds over the west valley side. Lighter cloud cover to the east side and blustery winds. Surface shows winds slowly increasing since midnight. 0300UT sounding shows lots of shear levels through 600mb.

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Site Name:ISS/MAPR 
date yymmdd: 060303
launch time UTC: 11:30
Sonde coef tape #:A4440910

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Pressure mb	: 871.9
Temp C		: 7.5
RH %		: 46.1

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 870.34
Temp C		: 7.4323
RH%		: 46.058
Wind Spd m/s	: 10.507
Wind Dir deg	: 162.57

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, cold, and windier than before.Lost first sonde on take-off.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 48.1
Termination Altitude km	: 20.7
Reason for Termination	: ballon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: windy

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 870.37
     		Temp C		: 6.0
		RH %		: 63.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.5
		Wdir deg	: 180
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Lost first sonde on takeoff.
Weak telemetry signal.

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Site Name:ISS/MAPR 
date yymmdd: 060303
launch time UTC: 08
Sonde coef tape #:A4530672

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Pressure mb	: 875.2
Temp C		: 7.2
RH %		: 42.2

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 873.6
Temp C		: 7.8
RH%		: 42.7
Wind Spd m/s	: 7.6
Wind Dir deg	: 169.0

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Clear, cold, and windier than before.

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Termination Pressure mb	: unknown
Termination Altitude km	: unknown
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst and signal lost on descent

Post-Termination Weather Description: unremarkable

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 872.3
     		Temp C		: 7.7
		RH %		: 43
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.1
		Wdir deg	: 176.8
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No problems.

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Site Name:ISS/MAPR 
date yymmdd: 060303
launch time UTC: 05
Sonde coef tape #:A4530672

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Pressure mb	: 876.3
Temp C		: 8.4
RH %		: 38

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.75
Temp C		: 9.1
RH%		: 37.8
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.7
Wind Dir deg	: 186

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, cool, variable wind.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 100 (descending after burst)
Termination Altitude km	: ?
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: fine

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 873.7
     		Temp C		: 7.9
		RH %		: 42
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.3
		Wdir deg	: 164
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Surface measurements at termination were entered late, at 07:43, rather than exactly at termination.  Oooops.

MAPR

Setup up 200 m mode.  
Only use this mode if signals are weak for a hour or two.
The downside to this mode is that it may smear the bird signals
more than the standard 100 m mode, but it should provide a little
boost to the atmospheric signal under weak scattering conditions.

Left MAPR running in the standard 100m mode for now as the signals
are strong (and very interesting with features at 3km that look
like K-H rolls).

Also slightly relaxed settings on consensus winds to match
DBS profiler winds.

Daily Report - Thursday March 2

IOP 1 underway.

All systems working well.

Mainly southerlies in valley.  
Some rotor clouds, mainly running north from Independence.
Apparent easterlies on ISS2 around 22UT and clear easterlies when 
I visited MISS 2 UT (we'll check these in post-processing).
Also possible reverse flow aloft at MAPR around 1:30 - 2 UT.

Began installing SODAR at Independence Airport about 300m north of hanger
(using the ISFF long power cable with 220V transformer).
Running winds only mode from around 1 UT (Mar 3)
(plan to work on RASS tomorrow).

Soundings going smoothly, although we're finding we need to soak the
batteries for at least 5 minutes (based on weak signal and advice from the Leeds
group who have launched lots of RS-92s).
Also it appears we should cycle the power on the sounding rack.

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Site Name:ISS/MAPR 
date yymmdd: 060303
launch time UTC: 0200
Sonde coef tape #:A4530621

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Pressure mb	: 875.5
Temp C		: 12.5
RH %		: 23.4

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 874.19
Temp C		: 12.15
RH%		: 24.44
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.62
Wind Dir deg	: 200.77

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Some cloud, 1/8th cover. Clear, cool, moderate wind.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 34.7
Termination Altitude km	: 22.8
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: fine

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 874.7
     		Temp C		: 10.4
		RH %		: 32
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.5
		Wdir deg	: 165
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Site Name: ISS/MAPR	
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC: 2030
Sonde coef tape #:A4220533

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Pressure mb	: 877.6
Temp C		: 15.1
RH %		: 19.7

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.2
Temp C		: 16.7
RH%		: 20.4
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.9 
Wind Dir deg	: 190

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clear
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Termination Pressure mb	: 27.3
Termination Altitude km	: 24.2
Reason for Termination	: balloon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 874.6
     		Temp C		: 17.9
		RH %		: 18.7
		Wspd m/s 	: 9.5
		Wdir deg	: 169
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Nice sounding.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC: 20 UT
Sonde coef tape #: A4530648

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Pressure mb	: 878.4
Temp C		: 13
RH %		: 24

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 877.1
Temp C		: 15.0
RH%		: 24.5
Wind Spd m/s	: 5.2
Wind Dir deg	: 155

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Termination Pressure mb	: 520
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: Sonde failure - very weak signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 876.5
     		Temp C		: 16.1
		RH %		: 21.5
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.2
		Wdir deg	: 93
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Sonde tx was weak from the start. -80 dbm on the ground.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC:17:00 UTC
Sonde coef tape #: NA

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Pressure mb	:880.1
Temp C		:7.1
RH %		:40

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.56
Temp C		: 9.4
RH%		: 38.7
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.8
Wind Dir deg	: 150

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, cool, calm at site- evidence of high winds along Sierra Crest from the West. 

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Termination Pressure mb	: 34.0
Termination Altitude km	: 22.9
Reason for Termination	: ballon burst

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878.03
     		Temp C		: 12.65
		RH %		: 26.3
		Wspd m/s 	: 5.5
		Wdir deg	: 153

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No Met data before launch.Sonde stationary/slight downward motion at 4600 meters/560 mb.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC:11UT
Sonde coef tape #: unknown

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Pressure mb	: 
Temp C		: 
RH %		: 

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Pressure mb	: 
Temp C		: 
RH%		: 
Wind Spd m/s	: 
Wind Dir deg	: 

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Clear, cooler, calm.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 39
Termination Altitude km	: 24
Reason for Termination	: loss of signal

Post-Termination Weather Description: Clear and calm

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	:877.9
     		Temp C		: 0.2
		RH %		: 72
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.4
		Wdir deg	: 261

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For some reason while Juerg was putting the windows in forground and background the ISS workstation suddenly rebooted... Everything seems to be coming in fine now, but the original sounding log started by Gary and Serena is lost... 

Otherwise, the sonde flight itself was fine, if a few minutes late.

For some reason Juerg was looking through the data and suddenly the workstation rebooted. He was only making foreground background changes. Unfortunately this meant we lost the sounding log started by Gary and Serena. 

Upon further review, the D-file for the previous sounding (IOP 1 08z) has a gap from the surface to about 650mb.  The data all looked good during the launch, but the final D-file is missing all samples from 878mb at the surface to 637mb, at which point the data resume normally.  The corresponding T-file appears to contain those missing samples.  Copies of the data have been uploaded to EOL:

/net/ftp/pub/archive/iss/t-rex/iss-mapr/GAUSdata/"IOP 1"

I will email Dean to ask him to take a look.  This may be related to the number of restarts we had to do before we could get GAUS to allow the surface measurements to be entered manually.  See the log entry for the 8z sounding for details.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC: 8UT
Sonde coef tape #: A453646

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Pressure mb	: 880
Temp C		: 4
RH %		: 66

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.61
Temp C		: 3.5
RH%		: 65.2
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.6
Wind Dir deg	: 180

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Clear, cooler, calm.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 44
Termination Altitude km	: 21.3
Reason for Termination	: Reached 50mb

Post-Termination Weather Description: Clear, calm, and cooler

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878.52
     		Temp C		: 3.0
		RH %		: 63
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.1
		Wdir deg	: 173

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Discovered a bug in the sounding software, v2.3.1: the surface data were being UDP broadcast, and the GAUS program was receiving but still showing bad values in the comparison step.  The comparison step is the window where the surface values are subtracted from the sonde values.  Pressing continue at that point proceeds directly to the message about all lauch requirements met, whereas in the previous soundings you were given a chance to enter the surface measurements manually.  I killed the broadcast on the data manager and restarted the channel one sonde a few times, but not until I completely exited and restarted GAUS could we get into the manual surface entry screen.

Otherwise, the sonde flight itself was fine, if a few minutes late.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC: 5UT
Sonde coef tape #: A3870187

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Pressure mb	: 881
Temp C		: 5.8
RH %		: 52

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.15
Temp C		: 5.8
RH%		: 52
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.4
Wind Dir deg	: 142.0

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Clear, cool, calm.

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Termination Pressure mb	: 60
Termination Altitude km	: 19.4
Reason for Termination	: Done

Post-Termination Weather Description: Clear, calm, and cool

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 879.2
     		Temp C		: 4.4
		RH %		: 59
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.7
		Wdir deg	: 151.7

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No problems.  Vertical speed ranged from 3-4 m/s for the whole flight.
Had to manually enter surface station data.

33 cu ft He

Daily Report - Tuesday March 1

Clear and cool with light southerly winds.

Re-orientated MISS to reduce ground clutter and generator service
on both MISS and ISS2 (see separate log entries on those systems).
Having problems with internet connection from ISS2, Gary is investigating.

IOP 1 started at 0 UT (March 2) with 3 hourly soundings from MAPR
starting at 2 UT (6pm LT).  
The IOP is scheduled to continue to 18UT March 3, with the last sonde at
17 UT March 3.
MISS is remaining at its Base Site.

We picked up the last of the sodar hardware from WMRS, the Metek engineer
will be helping us set it up tomorrow.

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Site Name: ISS/MAPR
date yymmdd: 060302
launch time UTC: 2UT
Sonde coef tape #: A4530647

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Pressure mb	: 879.8
Temp C		: 9.9
RH %		: 36

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.4
Temp C		: 10.05
RH%		: 36
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.7
Wind Dir deg	: 157

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )
Clear and cool, light southerly

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Termination Pressure mb	: 90
Termination Altitude km	: 17
Reason for Termination	: Done

Post-Termination Weather Description: Clear, calm, and cool

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878.95
     		Temp C		: 7.1
		RH %		: 48
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.6
		Wdir deg	: 176
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Good sounding.  
Had to manually enter surface station data.

32 cu ft He

Daily Report - Tuesday Feb 28

Cool and clear - windy (westerlies)

The profilers got very good data during the precip, with a melting
layer about 1.7 km above the valley floor. 
MAPR showed lots of persistent vertical motion early morning
suggesting  trapped waves, and then higher frequency vertical motions
during the afternoon.

MAPR down for an hour this afternoon as Gary did some maintenance.
(Reposition computer and install DVD drives).

Upgraded GAUS software to version 2.3.1.
This version has a number of up-grades including surface station
data ingest (however this feature is not working yet).

Saw a little RFI at ISS2 - it may be from data links the ISFF group
are using at their west and south towers.

MISS profiler seeing lots of clutter in east and west beams.
We plan to reorientate it tomorrow.

The sodar arrived today at the White Mountain Research Station.

The first IOP is scheduled to begin tomorrow evening.

Daily Report - Monday Feb 27

Cooler today with brisk southerlies, lots of cloud and occasional light rain.

All systems working well.  No oblivous RFI today.

Made some adjustments to MAPR parameters, increasing the range and Nyquist
to capture more rain signal.

Continued work on processing - bird algorithm, sounding profile plots, etc.
Gary also working on getting plots into Field catalogue.
Gary also has raid configured and has transferred some data to it.

ISS-MAPR data manager rebooted at 1:51 (Feb 28) for some reason.
It happened when I blanked the Zeb display.
It seemed to recover correctly and is now working properly.

Brian visited with Eva (another student of Vanda's) - they say there may
be an IOP Thursday as the next weather system rolls in.
Weather forecast says there may be snow in the valley Friday or Saturaday.

Lou and Jason left to drive up to Reno and fly home, leaving just
Mike, Gary, & Bill.   Heather should be arriving today.

Sunday Feb 26

Set-up continued.

Brisk southerlies ahead of an approaching tough.
Cloudy - some wave clouds during morning, more widespread later.
Lots of dust blown up from Owens lake during afternoon.

Training radiosonde launched at 19 UT (see Sounding tklog entry).

In addition to sounding system, worked on MAPR (raid and bird algorithm)
plus tidying up plots etc.

TV crew filmed training launch and did tour of site.

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date yymmdd: 060226
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Training sounding.
30 cu.ft. helium.

TV crew filmed launch.

Replaced domes on net rad at 17:19.  

Friday Feb 24

Fine day, clear

Mainly testing MISS today,  driving it to roving sites etc (see MISS tklog).

Briefly shutdown MAPR around 0:04 to 0:15 UT (Feb 25) to see if was causing
some RFI we were seeing at MISS - it didn't appear to be.

MAPR collecting good data.
Seeing some reflectivity layers 2 - 3 km in afternoon and evening.

Reprocessing data from early in setup with corrected wind directions.

Thursday Feb 23.  Nice sunny day.

Set-up continuing- various tidying up jobs and fixing minor bugs.

Reprocessing MAPR data for correct wind directions - seem to be consistent
with surface winds.  Also reprocessing RASS to allow ingession into Zeb.

Ceilometer hooked up to network and Gary looking at data transfer.

Arizonia State sodar-RASS set up today.  Set up on the flat above the gravel
pit beyond where the met tower is set up.  Nice looking system with multi-tone
beeps.  We're using their big wooden boxes as a wind break for balloon filling,
the only downside is that they are ASU colors.

Bill has arrived

MAPR wind directions corrected at about 19:42 UT (Feb 22)

0-1 side is at 310 deg east of true north
(corrected for magnetic declination of 14 degrees).

Previously was set at 39 degrees.


Rebooted MAPR 20UT

MAPR winds seem pretty good at the surface today, but the direction indicates they are out of the west where as the surface station is saying north. Maybe there is a low level wind shear? I see the tops of the mountains this afternoon look like the wind is blowing from the north. I don't think the antenna orientation in the software is correct. 

The SNR dropped this afternoon after Gary made a software mod. One of those mods which are unlikely to have effected anything, but none the less... It is also very hot in the container... I've turned the heat off at 00:30-22feb06 to see if things come back... :-(

So far it hasn't come back.

Another item that is noticable in the humidity trace is that it has smoothed out about 2300 hours. There were "oscillations" prior to that time in the humidity trace... That is about the same time the returns dropped to nill. 

The CL-31 is now operational. Using the data line (as opposed to the maintenance line) and the rs-232 capability, the laptop is now reporting data through the CL-VIEW software. The matlab files from Vaisala are not yet installed, though matlab itself is installed. 

The ceilometer was installed using the tilt feature because it has a built in tilt angle sensor and offers the following advantages:
- Protection in heavy weather conditions. The tilt feature protects the unit window from precip. 
- Helps avoid direct sunlight tilting away from the south. 

See pages 29/30 in vaisala users guide. 

There was no data being recorded for the last few days. I think the LOGGING was not turned on and on the screen it says LOG and should be pushed. I also restarted the software and a new data file had been loaded. 

Gary has the laptop on the net. I should not be used for web browsing in anyway what so ever as it hasn't been completely patched. There is no password. 

There is a key for the internals to the internals of the ceilometer. It is placed underneath the work station monitor. 

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