dynamo-iss2: IMPORTANT Messages: 3 Entries..

END OF PROJECT SHUTDOWN

Dynamo has come to an end - shutting down system.

The profiler antenna on stabilized platform at 20 inches at X marks,
and 69.5 inches above deck.  Platform is drawing 2.45A.

WV GPS WXT is slightly turned to starboard (approx 5 degrees) instead of being aimed directly forward.



Thanks Chris for doing the final shift - great job!

Chris, Bill, Clayton, Tim & Lou are the teardown crew.

ship left station and got underway for storm chasing at 10:00 local, 04:00 UTC

DYNAMO R/V REVELLE ISS SET-UP
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA
August 19 - 28, 2011

Set-up of ISS2 on the R/V Revelle for DYNAMO in Darwin, Australia.

Wind profiler with stablized platform and clutter fence was assembled at 
Port Darwin's East Arm Wharf about 30km from Darwin. It was assembled on 
an H-frame mounted on pallets. The pallets enabled it to be lifted by
a large forklift, the H-frame enables it to be craned.  Another H-frame is 
used as a spacer for the crane, since the bottom H-frame is narrower than 
the top of the clutter fence.  The system was then trucked to the Fort Hill 
wharf in the city where it (minus the pallets) was craned on board the Revelle.
The system includes a tilt sensor mounted on the stablized antenna.  
The location on the Revelle is on the aft 02 deck, just forward of the CDT 
winches.

A GAUS radiosonde sounding system was installed, with antennas placed on the 
aft 02 deck.  A container with 145 Helium cylinders is on the main deck.  
The ship's met sensors on the bow mast will be used for surface checks.  
Soundings will be submitted to the GTS.

A SPN-1 Sun Pyrnometer was installed at the top of the bow mast, next to the 
ships shortwave and longwave radiometers.  This provides direct and diffuse 
solar radiation measurements.

A Trimble GPS Receiver for integrated water vapor measurements, with an 
accompanying WXT520 weather sensor, was installed on the aft 02 deck 
(receiver in a weather box, antennas and WXT on the aft 02 deck mast).

A webcam was mounted on the railing of the CDT winch boom above the aft 
02 deck (starboard side - pointed aft, upwards, and slightly starboard) 
to monitor clouds.

The computers, receiver racks, stabilized platform controller, GAUS rack and 
other items were installed in the main lab.  The data manager computer will 
be uploading a minalist data set back to Boulder every hour, about 10 minutes
past the hour.  The internet connection is very slow and intermittant so 
delays and missing data are expected.

The set-up crew was Bill Brown, Lou Verstraete, Steve Semmer, Gary Granger, 
Brad Lindseth, and Jen Standridge.  
The first crew on the Revelle are Bill Brown and student Darek Baranowski,
and they will be completing the final few set-up items and tidying up on
the inital one-week leg to the Cocos Islands.