FLAT90: OPERATIONS Messages: 147 Entries..

Daily transfer of archive data files to stout is done 
with the /home/aster/scripts/ftp_daily_data. This 
is run from crontab on Charlie's account, since 
batch access to ftp on stout requires an existing account 
there, and aster does not have such an account. 
  
The script is run at 0215 everyday. This is done because 
we are currently archiving on 2 hour segments, and we want 
to make sure that the last file opned yesterday has been closed 
before the transfer starts. 
 
The script yesterday_delete can be run after the transfer 
to delete yesterday's data files. You should check to 
make sure that the data files succesfully appeared on stout, before 
running this script! 
 

logbook 
 
Created shell script "logbook". Run this to 
start metalog. When metalog is exited, script 
will terminate. 
 
 

incremental backup 
 
 
incremental backup done now 
 

intercomparison started 
 
sonic intercomparison started at 2309. All sonic data 
is going into flux/ directory, one file per sonic: 
 
cosmos 206: sat1        at 8 m on 15m prop-vane tower 
 
ragwort 200: sat2       at 8 m on 10m 'UW' tower 
ragwort 201: suw2       at 5 m on 10m 'UW' tower 
 
marigold 201: suw1      at 5 m on 15m 'ATI' tower 
marigold 202: sat3      at 8 m on 15m 'ATI' tower 
 
 
 
 

Flux data backup 
 
All flux files were backed up and day  258 files deleted a few minutes ago. 
 

raw_data/flux backed up. Contains a few jd 258 files, all jd 259 
files, and a few jd 260 files. jd 258 and jd 259 deleted from 
disk. 
 

archiving restarted at approximately 17-sep, 03:55 
 
All decoders appear to be working. 
 
NOTE: prior to this period, suw1 and the barometers were not 
decoding, rather were archived in ascii. 
 

intercomparison archive files 
 
	The intercomparison files for baro, psyc, flux, and rad were moved to subdirectories in 
the directory /home/aster/raw_data/backup. props files were removed after archiving to tape. 
 

 
 
approximate disk use rates for fulll configuration: 
 
for each 2 hours: 
 
prop/    0.52 MB 
psyc/    0.43 MB 
ussr/    5.7  MB 
ati/    15.0  MB 
uw/      5.2  MB 
noaa/    8.0  MB 
rad/     0.46 MB 
        ----- 
        35.31  MB 
 
17.6 MB/hour 
 
423.7 MB/day 
 
 
 

Backup done 9/21/90 
 
We were getting disk full warnings, so archiving was stopped (unfortunately by kill, rather 
than kill -HUP, so open files were empty) and tape_store performed.  As of this comment, 
archiving is done with the tape box labeled. 
 

Used disk space is 37% after deleting data files. 
 

SYSTEM CRASH! 
 
	The system crashed during backup of data to tape. Time was about 1:30. 
ASTER terminal was completely locked up. Cocklebur would let you move the cursor around 
and on/close windows but nothing else. The display lights on the exabyte, green and yellow, 
were both on. System was reset via the key switch. Everything came backup ok with minor 
operator errors! System was archiving around 2:40. 
 

Began maintenance at towers: 9:15 am MDT 
 
Soviets are preparing to place their sonic at  
5 m. 
 
Finished at 10:15 am MDT 
 

Maintenance at tower array: 17:15-17:30 
 
Steve Semmer worked on cosmos and Tony 
and Tom grounded the 45' pressure tower 
and the Soviet tower and walkways. 
 

Maintenance on tower array: 20:00-21:00 
 
Lowered psychrometer tower and replaced 
10 m psychrometer.  Oriented prop-vanes 
with jig on boom and entered boom azimuth 
from theodolite measurements. 
 

DUE TO META LOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE: Sun Sep 23 14:38:57 GMT jd 
--------------------------- 
 
ASTER system alive and well! 
 
The rawdata ATI shows some short files but only for 
the 4 meter level, the other two levels show full two hour 
files. 
 
For the UW all files are full two hours. 
 
Ditto NOAA. 
 
Ditto USSR. 
 
Ditto psyc. 
 
Ditto prop 
 
Ditto rad. 
 
T.D. 
 
 

DUE TO METALOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE: Sun Sep 23 15:20:33 GMT jd 
-------------------------- 
 
Visit ussr tower 09:05 - 09:20. 
 Ussr sonic begin operating  
T.D. 
 
 

DUE TO METALOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE: Sun Sep 23 17:29:59 GMT 1990 
---------------------------- 
 
Michael (sp?) at chem shelter from 
17:25-17:30.  twh 
 
 

DUE TO METALOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE: Sun Sep 23 20:25:45 GMT 1990 
---------------------------- 
 
Tony out at tower array from 
20:00-20:15 to look at ATI and 
pressure towers. 
 
 

DUE TO METALOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE: Sun Sep 23 21:01:00 GMT 1990 
---------------------------- 
 
ati.4m#266#02:20:00 has some bogus data 
channels in it, caused by archive bug. Use data_stats 
to look at file and see what I'm talking about. 
 
 

DUE TO METALOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE: Mon Sep 24 15:00:00 GMT 1990 
---------------------------- 
System ran nicely all night. Winds now are 6 m/s from 
the northwest, very good! 
 

DUE TO METALOG CRASH, DATE SHOULD BE:Mon Sep 24 15:30:00 GMT 1990 
---------------------------- 
 
Started soviet sonics , archiving on 16:11. 
 
At tower from 1530 - 16:00 
 

13:18 - 13:25 
Sergei at ussr tower, reorienting soviet sonic 
 

radiation archiving was stopped at 19:42 while matt checked out 
analog channels using cosmos. 
 

repaired damage to ati.4m files; removed 
the "tiny" archive files, renamed archive file 
to ati.4m#267#17:00:04 
 
This file has a couple of bogus data points in it. 
 
 

very interesting: 
 
Last night we disabled the soviet channels in channel config 
and did a data_on to marigold at around 01 GMT. 
 
We left the archiving running. 
 
This means that there was still an open archive file 
for the ussr instrument, although no data was being stored there. 
 
This morning I renabled the soviet channels in channel_config, 
and did a data_on. 
 
I thought that archive would see the later timetags on the soviet data, 
close last night's open file, and reopen a new one. 
 
Not so. archive continued to write to last nights 01 GMT archive file. 
 
What happens is that since the timetags are only in milliseconds 
since 00GMT, archive thinks that if the clock - timetag is  
> 12 hrs., then really the timedifference is 24 - (clock-timetag). 
 
The lesson of the story - stop and restart archiving if you 
are going to stop a channel for a long period of time. 
 
 

ussr instrument on 
 

archive stopped for hardware maintenence  
 

system back up - no repairs made because 
spare scsi card was not compatible, and 
the cpu card wouldn't boot properly. 
 

archiving stopped for ussr. 
 

Safety Note: Any person has veto powers! 
 
In regards to safety issues (e.g., climbing the towers) either person (aloft or 
on the ground) can declare it unsafe to work and cease work. 
 

power droop at about 04:10, ups came on. 
Adams did not even blink! 
 
 

adams all went down at 13:51 - some sort of network 
fault must have hung the network long enough for the  
ingestors to stop. As usual then, sync will disappear 
on the adam. 
 
Everything came back up routinely. 
 

Tower climbing - 9/25, 1600-2000 local 
 
Steve O. up the ati mast to take down level electronics and install fast T 
probes, BNC cables at 4 and 7 m (was going to do 13m , but dropped probe.) 
Steve then up the pressure mast to attach both level electronics boxes and 
WPL electronics.  Some cabling strung also. 
 

Tower climbing 9/26, 0900-1130 local 
 
Steve O. back up the ati mast to install the 13m fast T and 
up the pressure mast to connect the level signal cables and  
power to the WPL fast Ts. 
 

archiving shutdown for system maint. 
 

Pickup truck now back from edge of stubble 
 

archiving stopped on ussr 
 
	Archiving on ussr sonic stopped. Archiving on 
NOAA sonic also stopped since sensor was removed. 
 

Network crash 
 
	The ethernet link to the ADAMS went down at 8:30 gmt. 
Messages on console display showed 'ieo: Ethernet jammed' and 
'ieo: no carrier'. ADAMS back on line and archiving at 15:30. 
During the night, daisy was sending data to the exabyte drive. 
Who knows if this may have been the culprit. 
 

Pickup truck out and back 
 
After the earlier message yesterday, the pickup went out again (the NOAA sonic still 
had spikes, despite Ski's best efforts).  It probably was there from 1400-1530 local. 
 

Morning Report 
 
	System ran fine last night. Everything 
was working ok this morning. The wet bulb at 
10m is still bad. 
 
	A minor problem with logbook. You must 
end an entered comment with a 'cr' or logbook 
hangs up. 
 

Level change 
 
	At approximately 00:30 GMT, the 
level signals were changed from the 7m ati 
to the 13m ati 
 

SYSTEM RUNNING 
 
	The system survived another night. 
Data collection continued throughout the night 
without any problems. 
 

site visit 
 
	Went out to towers between 00:45 and 01:00 GMT 
to refill water bottle of 1m psychrometer. Also changed 
level sensor signals. Input from level sensors are 
now on 7m ati. 
 

Morning Report 
 
	System ran smoothly thru the night. 
The only system problem was logbook. 
I had to do a fix in meta.cmt; a missing 
cr at the end of the last comment. 
 
	Due to good wind conditions, west 
to north, The hot wire was started at 16:20 
GMT. The ussr sensor was giving Michael a 
hard time. He is working on a cable problem. 
The third pyg unit was setup to do intercomparisons. 
For more information on the hot wire startup 
and the pyg,refer to logbook entry under 
INSTRUMENTS at this time. 
 
	Bodies were in the tower array from 
14:45 to 15:45. 
 

Tsoil fix 
 
	I talked to Charlie about 
the tsoil mixup. The problem has been 
corrected. 
 

ARCHIVE 
 
	Archiving was restarted on cosmos 
and marigold to start collecting ussr data 
and the spare pyg data. 
Starting time was 18:30 GMT. 
 

ARCHIVE 
 
	Archiving was restarted on cosmos 
due to another change. Forgot to turn on 
channel 110, pyg.cmp.rad, in config file 
archive. 
 

MORNING REPORT 
 
Data system operation nominal. 
 
Three ati sonics still receiving extreme interference on  
a periodic basis, with periods between about 1-4 minutes. 
 
Other sensors look okay. 
 

ALL INGESTORS SHUT DOWN 
 
all ingestors shutdown when I left 
a window waiting to be positioned 
on screen. 
 

 
ski and jim out to toweres with pickup truck 
 

GOOD DATA, possibly the first! With some luck nearly all the 
sensors are working and being recorded. This afternoon have 
looked at all ATI sonics, pp, T`; starting at about 02:00 GMT 
have also been recording Vim's data and krypton. Only known 
missing data is 10m twet which is reading high. at sunset skies 
were overcast except along western horizon, which gave 
us a nice sunset. winds started out near 6pm as sw at 5m/s. 
By 0740 pm (02:40 GMT) winds are west at about 6-8 m/s. 
At this time skies are still overcast. 
 

message for Steve S. 
 
Warning! the bkfiles and bkfiles_delete 
script could trash data files if they are run at  
the wrong time, and the archive file cycling  
was different than it is now. This would 
be if for instance the archive file changover 
was at 0159, then the currently open archive 
files would have times of 2359. If bkfiles and 
bkfiles_delete were run before 0159, these  
currently active data files would be affected. 
 
We need to make bkfiles and bkfiles_delete 
smart enough to avoid this problem. Perhaps 
next_cycle could be utilized? 
 

root file system filled up again. Turned  
out to be a bunch of junk in /tmp directory. 
Occasionally check in /tmp and remove 
all of the trash there. It is safe to 
usually remove all files in /tmp. 
 

HOT-WIRE STOPPED 
 
	The hot-wire data collection was 
stopped to do archive backup 
 

HOT-WIRE STARTED 
 
	The hot-wire was restarted 
after archiving data. Startup time was 
03:04 GMT 
 

EXTABYTE 
 
	The exabyte drive was locked up 
this morning. I would guess that we ran 
out of tape during the night. Syslog and 
adm/messages offerred no clues. Daisy was 
still running ok. 
	'ps -agx | grep rmt' showed a process 
running which was stopped at 6:20 GMT. This 
maybe the time when tape ran out. 
 

Hot wire balanced and set to operate at 17:30 GMT. 
Exabyte tape was restarted at about 17:15 GMT. 
In strong winds the top level ATI sonic is 
oscillating baack and forth with an amplitude 
that appears to be about 3-5 cm. The green 
hose for pressure is also moving visibly at 
13 m. Last nights hot wire data stopped at 
about 06 GMT (midnight), freezing up the  
exabyte. 
 

RESTART MARIGOLD 
 
	Marigold was restarted because rserial 
was not working. Connot link to edleweiss. 
Started at 17:50 GMT. 
 

MARIGOLD-RESTARTS 
 
	Marigold has been restarted a few times 
today for changes in the noaa sonic calibration 
and archiving of ussr data. Below are the times: 
 
20:40 to 20:45 GMT- restart for noaa 
21:40 to 21:43 GMT - restart for ussr data 
 
 

SITE VISIT 
 
	Visitation to the site took 
place between 19:45 and 20:35 for 
work on the noaa sonic. This was 
a random visiting period, ie, in and 
out. 
 

COSMOS CRASH 
 
	cosmos went down at 23:50 GMT. 
reason is unkown. backup and archiving 
going at 00:05 GMT 
 

HOTWIRE-START 
 
	Hotwire was restarted at 02:28 GMT 
 

LEVEL STATUS 
 
	The level inputs have 
been changed from 13m unit to 
7m unit at 02:45 GMT 
 

Checked all 5 ASTER sonics with rserial 
and found them to be spike-free (~15 sec 
sample) 
 
 

MORNING STATUS 
 
	System running just fine. 
Hotwire ran thru the night, or should 
say that daisy ran ok. Sensors look 
good except for psycs. They need new 
wicks and things! 
 

HOTWIRE STOPPED 
 
	hotwire tape-off at 16:26 GMT 
for morning backup. 
 

USSR SONIC 
 
	archiving started on ussr 
at 16:41 GMT. 
 

FAST CHANNEL CHECK 
 
	Tom and Joost looked at 
sonics, fast t, and pressure and ir/uv. 
Everything looked good except for ir(co2) 
was not too great. 
 

PSYC TOWER 
 
	The psyc. tower was lowered to 
do maintenance on the psychrometers. 
Down at 16:55 GMT. 
 

Rebalance hotwire (bridge?) at ~17:10 
Joost looked at (20 hz) hotwire output  
on xstrip and compared to 7 m u component.   
Signal looked very good. 
Restarted hotwire recording at ~17:50 
 
 

PSYC. TOWER 
 
	Psychrometers were reinstalled 
at approximately 18:20 GMT. The tower 
was left down for comparisons. 
 
	Tower was raised at 18:45 GMT. 
 

HOTWIRE INFO 
 
	The collection of data from the 
hotwire tape was stopped at 21:33 GMT. 
 
	It was restarted at 22:33 GMT. 
 

Carmen Nappo made airsonde soundings 
both yesterday afternoon and this  
afternoon. 
 
 

Tom was at the tower array from 
19:30-19:45 to take photographs. 
 
 

Joost and Tom surveyed the ground cover 
around the site.  Joost has a sketch. 
 
 

The hot wire tape turned off at JD 279 00:10:00,  
 
 
 
 

USSR SONIC 
 
Archiving stopped at 00:50. 
 
 
 

Hot wire tape start at 01:45. 
 
Previously balanced the hot wire. 
 
 
 

Level sensors switched at 02:00 
 
The level sensor cables were switched. 
 
 

Checked sonics with rserial.  No spikes 
detected. 
 
 

Hot wire tape archive stopped at 14:30. 
 

Hot wire tape archive initiated at 19:21. 
 
 

Moved sonic level recording from 13 m  
to 7 m level. 
 
 

Decided not to move the level sensor as it is cold and snowy 
 
 
 

Reconfiguration and Shutdown: 
 
Deleted 4 m fast T's: ragwort & marigold 100 
and ir h20/co2: ragwort 202 from data archiving. 
 
Deleted ati data files from 12:00 to present to 
save disk space (didn't realize until afterword 
that this also included fast p data). 
 
Hopefully disk will not fill up until we return 
on Tuesday. 
 
 

Arrived late site. Disc full. Did AM backup at 13:00 
 
Arrived at 13:00 and found that the disc was full. Started the AM backup 
proceedure to free space on disc.  
 

Restarted archiving of 4m T' s and H2O/CO2 
 

Proceedural failure which caused data loss. 
 
During the previous evening tape backup proceedure 
the disc file were not erased. 
This lead to the disc capacity being exceeded at 08:00. 
On arrival at 08:30 we attempted to erase the offending files but instead 
suceeded merely in erasing the fast data from the recent night. 
 
The problem was that we ran the script "bkfiles_kill", which detects the 
time when it is run.  We intended for it to kill yesterday's files, but it 
recognized that it was morning and deleted the morning's files. 
(Since the disk filled up at about 0500, this resulted in the loss of only 
5 hours of data - the disk filling up caused another 7 hours to be lost). 
 
The mid-day data from day 281 hadn't been stored also, since no one was at 
the site the evening of day 281.  The data from day 281 and the little bit 
of data from 1200-1400 of day 283 were appended to the tape which only had 
the fast early-day day 281 files on it.  Since the day 282 files had all been 
archived yesterday evening, they were simply deleted. 
 
Finally, when the disk space became available, archiving was still going on 
the day 283, 14:00 files, so there will be a data gap in them. 
 
 
 

Soil moisture samples taken 11:00 10 Oct 90 
 
Will the person doing the follow-up please weigh and enter the values. 
 
Dry weighing performed at 1800GMT 12 Oct, by clm. Results entered below: 
 
                       0-3 cm             3-10cm              10-30 cm 
 
  Aliquot A  Fresh     24.3               27.2                19.5  
             Dry       20.4               23.1                17.3 
             Delta      3.9                4.1                 2.2 
             %         16.0               15.1                11.3 
 
  Aliquot B            23.8               25.4                21.3  
             Dry       20.1               21.4                18.6 
             Delta      3.7                4.0                 2.7 
             %         15.5               15.7                12.7 
 
  Aliquot C            27.7               29.2                23.0 
             Dry       23.5               25.0                20.2 
             Delta      3.7                4.2                 2.8 
             %         13.4               14.4                12.2 
 
  AVERAGE    %         15.0               15.1                12.1 
 

data system shutdown and restarted 
 
System console was hung - caused by xgc. 
rebooted system at 0000. Also reset system clock 
to gmt obtained from NIST time. System time had ben 1m20s 
early (ie. system read 3:40 when true time was  
5:00) 
 

exabyte tape drive cleaned yesterday 
 

modified bkfiles to also save the files 
in hotwire to tape. DID NOT MODIFY bkfiles_kill 
TO REMOVE THESE FILES. 
 

MORNING - 291 
 
	System ran ok throughout 
the night. 
 

Stopped and restarted marigold archive 
at 15:43 to begin collection of data 
from Soviet sonic. 
 
 

Stopped and restarted marigold archive 
task at 00:11 in order to delete  
Soviet sonic. 
 
 

Stopped & restarted marigold archive task 
at 15:21 to begin archiving soviet data. 
 
 

Moved level input cables from 7 m 
to 13 m.  I had moved them from 13 m 
to 7 m last night, but forgot to 
note this in the logbook. 
 
 

MORNING - 293 
 
	Everything running ok. 
There is a potential gap in data from 
14:30 to 15:00 GMT due to full disk. 
 

ARCHIVE - cosmos 
 
	Stopped archiving on cosmos 
due to core dumps while trying to preprocess 
file 14:00:00 of prop data. Decided the raw 
data file had some funny points. Other files 
such as psyc seemed ok. 
This took place at 15:36 GMT. 
 

Moved level recording from 13 m to 7 m. 
 
 

PSYC.15m - ARCHIVING 
 
	Started archiving the 15m psyc. 
at 18:26 GMT in directory ati using file 
name 'psyc.15m'. Tryed to get archive to write 
file in to directory psyc. Archive didn't seem 
to like the change I made to archive_config. 
Maybe we cannot archive across ADAM boundaries. 
A question for Charlie. 
 

Moved level signal from 13 m to 7 m 
at 02:00 
 
 

default calibration for pp's changed to microbars 
 

Channel reconfigurations, etc. 
 
Today we did a lot of channel swapping to try to read the new PAM barometer board.  Here goes 
a memory dump (from me): 
 
~1220 local:  NOAA sonic taken out of marigold:206 and replaced by the new PAM barometer. 
~1230 :       marigold crashed because of data coming in at an unexpected baud rate - restarted 
              and reconfigured for the new baud rate. 
~1250 :       new PAM board temporarily put in old PAM channel (marigold:203) for testing and 
              soon swapped back. 
 
~0035 :       Psychrometer at 15m rewired back to RAGWORT:202 (formerly Wim's IR sensor) 
              NOAA sonic wired back to marigold:206 
              new PAM barometer put in marigold:207 (old psychrometer@15m channel) 
 
This means that analyzing data from today will be tough.  (The winds (direction) were bad  
until about 2100 GMT anyway.)  Also, the files: psyc.15m are no longer being created since 
the data are now stored with the other psyc channels. 
 
The new PAM barometer data are being stored as: pam_new.bar.  Note that the files which 
were just archived to tape have channel id #206, whereas the pam_new.bar files from now 
on will have channel id#207. 
 
Sorry 'bout all this, but we should now be in a better configuration. 
 
 
 

CHANGED TO OPS3 ! 
 
Changes include: 
 
no Gill instrument 
no USSR instrument 
level data being recorded 
 

Started 0 level backup at 16:09 to 
backup tape #3. 
 
 

New configuration on marigold 
 
The second new PAM barometer board has just been added to marigold. 
The status is: 
marigold 206 - new board #0001, 2 ports plumbed to 4m (in parallel with 
               the old PAM board), other port plumbed to 7m (also in 
               parallel with the old 7m PAM board). 
marigold 207 - new board #0002, all three ports plumbed to 13m (in  
               parallel with the old PAM board at 13m) 
 
Note that this required changes in archive_config, channel_config, 
preprocess_config, and did.config.  The new versions of these were created 
in /ops4, and pointers in /config set to point to them.  Archiving was 
shut down and restarted just before this logbook entry was started. 
 
Also note that the NOAA sonic is no longer connected (or archiving). 
 
 

Steve O. at (on) mast 
 
All afternoon (~1400-1630 local) Steve was on the pressure transducer mast 
installing the new pressure boards.  Note that the winds were almost due 
South during this process, so the data were bad anyway. 
 
 

ati.4m file renamed 
 
Apparently, one of the ati's got a wrong time-tag, and created a file at 22:00:02 
which it named 02:16:48 of the next day.  I have just renamed this file back to 
22:00:02 manually.  Hopefully, this won't cause TOO much confusion. 
 
 

Soil moisture samples taken 15:00 25 Oct 90 
 
 
Dry weighing performed at 09:00  28 Oct, by acd. Results entered below: 
 
                       0-3 cm             3-10cm              10-30 cm 
 
  Aliquot A  Fresh     30.3               22.4                19.3  
             Dry       29.7               20.3                16.7 
             Delta      0.6                2.1                 2.6 
             %          2.0               10.3                15.6 
 
  Aliquot B  Fresh     28.1               25.2                19.7 
             Dry       27.5               22.7                17.2 
             Delta      0.6                2.5                 2.5 
             %          2.2               11.0                14.5 
 
  Aliquot C  Fresh     28.5               19.4                20.3 
             Dry       28.1               17.6                17.5 
             Delta      0.4                1.8                 2.8 
             %          1.4               10.2                16.0 
 
  AVERAGE    %          1.87              10.5                15.4 
 
 
 
 

rawort crashed ~1757 
 
While working on the psyc. tower, rawort crashed.  The only causes I can 
think of are: 
- a bad message from the psychrometer just installed (unlikely, since it 
  had been running for about 2 minutes and reading okay on "temps"). 
- the e`net cable may have been stepped on under the walkways. 
 
I had noticed a fair number (3?) of time_tag errors/sample dropped messages 
on the ragwort console before the crash.  I believe that the error message 
of the crash was a broken socket. 
 
I rebooted ragwort by rlogging-in from cosmos and mxresetting.  I started 
archiving, but then started the wrong sonic spike tester, and in the process 
of killing it, killed the archiving instead.  Eventually, I got both (plus 
covar) running again, but there will be a very short (~2 min) set of archive  
files from this mistake. 
 
 

Soil moisture samples taken 12:00 28 Oct 90 
 
Dry weighing performed at rr:rr  rr Oct, by acd. 
 
                       0-3 cm         3-10cm            10-30 cm 
 
  Aliquot A  Fresh     29.3           22.3              17.3 
             Dry       28.7           20.0              15.3 
             Delta      0.6            2.3               2.0 
             %          2.1           11.5              13.1 
 
  Aliquot B  Fresh     29.8           23.6              19.3 
             Dry       29.4           20.8              16.8 
             Delta      0.4            2.8               2.5 
             %          1.4           13.5              14.9 
 
  Aliquot C  Fresh     29.1           22.7              19.1 
             Dry       28.5           20.3              16.8 
             Delta      0.6            2.4               2.3 
             %          2.1           11.8              13.7 
 
  AVERAGE    %          1.9           12.2              13.9 
 
 

marigold crashed when xstrip backed-up 
 
While doing sonic zero checking on ati.7m, xstrip hung up.  The first time 
on cocklebur, there was VERY sluggish mouse response.  The second time on 
aster, the display suddenly hung, with no more information.  The only way 
either were stopped was by using "destroy window".  In the meantime, while 
I was figuring this out, marigold crashed, probably because of data backing 
up.  I`ve just restarted marigold again with its associated tasks.  Strange. 
 
 

Exabyte tape CLEANED! 
 
I saw a message to the effect of: 
"9137 retries on tape, tape either worn out or drive needs 
to be cleaned" on the aster CONSOLE. 
We used one of the cleaning kits, which seemed to work properly 
(ejected after about 15 seconds).  Note that the kit says that 
it should be used every month or 30 Gigabytes (12 full tapes), 
whichever comes first.  Probably once a week up here would be 
a good idea.  I had noticed that there were about 3000 retries 
as of yesterday or the day before. 
 
 
 

NOAA SONIC #2 
 
	Archiving for marigold was stopped 
at 19:10 GMT to add a second noaa sonic. 
This is the beginning of ops5. Below is the 
new channel assignments, etc. 
	Marigold was rebooted with the new 
channel_config and archiving started at 
20:00 GMT. 
 
 
ADAM - marigold 
channel     instrument 
203          noaa2/ ussr tower 
205          noaa/  noaa tower 
 
 

ARCHIVE - marigold 
 
	Archiving to marigold was restarted 20:32.  Spike detection and 
sonic covariances also restarted shortly thereafter. 
 
This was due to the addition of both wpl ATI sonics.  This was done by 
changing to an ops5/ configuration.  The instruments are: 
 
new wpl sonic: ussr tower (clean)   stored in ussr/noaa*, named (u,v,..).noaa2 
               connected to marigold:203 
 
old wpl sonic: noaa tower (sphere)  stored in noaa/noaa*, named (u,v,..).noaa 
               connected to marigold:205 
 
  
 

MORNING - 304 
 
	Everything running ok. The spike 
detector routine for ati went down last night. 
Restarted this morning. Sensors still need to be 
checked. 
 

Alan White and Chris F. went out to NOAA tower at about 
1845 GMT. 
 

MARIGOLD - archive 
 
	Marigold archiving was stopped and 
restarted at 01:07 GMT. This was done to remove 
the noaa sonic, which fell to the ground today, 
from the archive files. 
 

COVARS 
 
	The covar tasks were killed and restarted 
at 02:25 GMT. 
 

NOAA SONIC - archive stopped 
 
	Due to the accident yesterday, the 
plan for today is to reconfigure the network with 
the noaa sonic, on the ussr tower, removed from the 
system. The 2 serial channels now available will be 
used for the 2 old pam barometers. Refer to future logbook 
message for more information. Archiving of the noaa 
sonic was stopped at 18:39 GMT to allow for a smooth 
transition to the new configuration. 
 

OPS6 - started 
 
	From about 19:00 to 19:15 GMT 
work was done at the ati tower to configure hardware 
for ops6 mode. Marigold data collection was turned off then 
on to check the new channel configuration, at ~19:10 GMT. 
At 19:30 GMT, marigold archiving was stopped and restarted to 
offically start ops6. 
 

MARIGOLD - new barometer 
 
	From 20:30 to 20:45 GMT, marigold 
data collection was turned on and off a few 
times. We were trying different sio configurations 
trying to get the sensor to respond to input. 
The sensor brought into the lab worked ok. It was 
hooked up directly to the Toshiba. The trigger signal 
is an '!', same as the psychrometer. Both sensors 
will be changed to a 1 sec report rate. 
 

MARIGOLD - restarted 
 
	After collecting a few hours of data 
from the new operation configuration, did a look 
at the old pam pressure sensors. The 7m looked ok; 
the other two were bad. Had to restart marigold, 
mxreset, inorder to get the new configuration running 
properly. It appears that ingest must look at the 
preprocess.config file to determine calibration information. 
Have to ask Charlie about that. 
This was done at ~23:45 GMT. 
 

CRASHES! 
 
	While xstrip was running and other processes 
going, such as xgraph, both ragwort and marigold 
went down. Had to do a mxreset on both adams. 
System seems to be running now; however, the light 
pattern on the optical bridge does not look quite 
right. Will monitor for awhile. This happened at 
~02:00 GMT. 
 

MORNING STATUS - operations 
	system operation: ok 
	intruments: 
		psychrometers - ok 
		prop vanes    - 15m no wspd. 
		sonics        - 7m.uw, 13m.ati, 7m.ati, 4m.ati  
				down due to freezing rain / ice. 
 

Morning - 307 
 
	The ADAM stations were down this morning. 
All 4 units shutdown at 12:54 GMT. There was no obvious 
explaination in the syslog. Daisy was the first to go 
down then everybody else followed. All ADAMS, except 
ragwort, responded to ping. Each unit was reset via mxreset. 
System was collecting data again at ~17:00 GMT. 
 

BACKUP for JD307 
 
	Due to weather conditions, the backup for 
JD307 was done early, 23:00 GMT. The files for time 
period 307#22:00:00 will be left in the raw_data subdirectories. 
Somebody tomorrow can finish backing these files to tape JD307. 
 
	The decision was made to let the system keep 
archiving since we no longer have the fast data from the 
noaa sonics. I believe Tom and Charlie will arrive before 
we run out of disk space. 
 
 

NEW GRAPH ROUTINES 
 
	All the scripts for the standard graph routines 
are in /home/aster/scripts/graphs. Links have been made 
so these routines should execute from anywhere. 
These routines use the preprocess data files which reside 
in the appropriate directories. As an example, data files 
for prop or psyc reside in: 
	 /home/aster/projects/FLAT90/results/profiles/auto. 
 
The routine graph_wind does a batch call to Splus to graph 
the wind data. It will not output the graph to screen but directly 
it to the printer. This takes about 30 seconds. You can still 
use the interactive call to Splus to generate graphs. The only 
difference is the parameter passed in function fun.winds should 
make access to the subdirectory auto; ie; fun.winds("auto/prop#307"). 
The new version allows you to select which sensor you wish to plot. 
The calling procedure is: graph_wind  . The sensor 
ID is the height of the desired sensor. 
 
	In directory /home/aster/scripts/autoproc are the routines 
to autoprocess data in background. The main routine autoprocess.bat is 
called,using the crontab file, 15 minutes pass the present hour. 
Processed data is appended to the appropriate file (refer to comment 
above about location of data files).  
	The file autoprocess.file is necessary and must not be destroyed. 
autoprocess.bat uses it to determine the last files processed and which 
files are next. 
	The file autoprocess.init can be used to recreate the autoprocess.file. 
It will setup the autoprocess.file to process all rawdata from hour 00 to the 
last closed file. It will destory any processed file for the present day. 
Once this is done, the first process run of autoprocess.bat will create a 
processed file from hour 00 upto the last closed file. 
NOTE: this has not been completely tested!!!!! 
 
 

MORNING STATUS 
 
	System is running ok. Status of sensors below. 
 
SONICS: 4m.ati - spiking 
	7m.ati.v - spikes 
	13m.ati.w - noisy 
 
PROPS: 15m speed came back to life 
 
FAST T: all down 
 
HOTWIRE: not running 
 

RAGWORT - restarted 
 
	Ragwort was restarted to use the new 
sio_converter file which was changed to handle  
the error in psyc. wet temps below -9.99. 
This occurred at ~17:53 GMT. 
 

OZONE - checked 
 
	Marigold was `data_off/data_on`, ~21:10, to 
enable the analog channel for the ozone instrument. 
At 00:00 JD313, we will start archiving this data. 
 
 

ANALOG CHANNELS - new 
 
	Two more analog channels were added to the 
network today. They are marigold 112, ozone, and 
cosmos 112, pyg.in.raw. The gain setting for the 
ozone sensor is 1 with a 1 hz sampling rate (the filter 
is a 10 hz filter from GILL days). Pyg.in.raw has a  
gain of 200 with a .5 hz filter. The calibration settings 
in preprocess are as follows: 
			      ozone: .0001525925 (volts) 
			 pyg.in.raw: .0007629625 (mvolts) 
 
The analog cable for channels 108 to 111 on marigold was moved 
to the radiation saw-horse to get channel 112 going. 
This work took place between ~21:00 and 23:00 GMT out at the array. 
 
	Since we have not redefined any channels for ops6 (only 
added some), we will consider this ops6-A. This will be noted 
in the idraw figure. The ops6 directory will have its config files 
changed. 
 
	At 00:00 GMT for 313JD the new channels will be archived. 
A new directory was started for the ozone sensor, dir - chem. 
Changes have been made to bkfiles and bkfiles_kill. 
 

PYG.IN.RAW - test 
 
	Cosmos was 'data_off/data_on' to check data 
flow on the new channel for pyg.in.raw. this occurred at 
23:26 GMT. 
 

morning backup completed for JD314. 
 
Although we've found that the disk will just barely (fills to 97% by the time backup 
is done) hold a day's worth of data, I thought I'd be safe and split it up today. 
Note that there is a gap in the hotwire data because of this, which should be 
okay since it is just now getting neutral.  (It takes a lot of sun to heat up this 
cold ground!) 
 
 

Soil moisture sample taken 11 Nov 1990 
  
Soil moisture samples taken 15:00 11 Nov 90 
Fresh weighing performed at 15:30  11 Nov, by acd. 
Dry weighing performed at 13:00  13 Nov, by acd. 
 
                       0-3 cm         3-10cm            10-30 cm 
 
  Aliquot A  Fresh     23.4           23.8              22.8 
             Dry       21.9           20.4              20.1 
             Delta      1.5            3.4               2.7 
             %          6.85          16.7              13.4 
 
  Aliquot B  Fresh     21.5           29.5              24.0 
             Dry       20.1           25.7              21.0 
             Delta      1.4            3.8               3.0 
             %          6.97          14.8              14.3 
 
  Aliquot C  Fresh     27.1           29.1              21.3 
             Dry       25.4           25.3              18.9 
             Delta      1.7            3.8               2.4 
             %          6.69          15.2              12.7 
 
  AVERAGE    %          6.84          15.6              13.5 
 

Tape head clean on exabyte at 10:00 
 
Because of the difficulty with the tape yesterday decided to clean the heads. 
 

Aircraft overflights 
 
This morning the class people arrive to do the drop sonde work 
They arrived at 9:30 and will be here til afternoon. The aircraft will 
overfly at 11:00 
 
 

CHEM - archive data 
 
	Unfortunately, the ozone raw data has not been 
stored on the archive tapes! A mistake existed in the bkfiles 
script. This has been corrected. 
 
	We do have the 1 sec data that has been preprocessed. These 
reside in directory /home/aster/raw_data/chem. We should hang on to 
these files. 
 

MORNING - 319 
 
	System running ok. The ati sonics show 
some spiking. All other sensors look good. 
 

ati_covar started 
 
We noticed that ati_covar hadn't written anything since the reboot yesterday (actually 
the day before at 02:00). It has just been restarted. 
 
 

weird ati.4m files renamed 
 
ati.4m#319#14:23:44 --> ati.4m#319#06:00:05 
ati.4m#320#03:24:26 --> ati.4m#319#22:00:04 (this is a VERY short file (~150 bytes), 
with no valid time-tag.  time was estimated from file system access time stamp) 
 
Note that ati.4m#320#01:52:31 will have to be renamed to 
ati.4m#319#22:00:05, but we'll wait until this file is closed at 00. 
 
 

MORNING STATUS 
 
	SYSTEM up and running. Sensors look ok 
except for 13m.ati.w is spiking. There are a few spikes 
on 4.ati.u. 
 

archiving restarted 
 
Since everything is still running except pressures and fast Ts, we have started 
things going to get ONE MORE NIGHT's worth of data.  (We could get fast T info. 
from the sonic speed-of-sound channel!)  Note that archiving had stopped at about 
00:23 when the disk was almost full, so we didn't get about 2 hours of data - no 
great loss. 
 
 
 

The Death of FLAT 
 
	At 16:50 GMT all data collection was stopped 
bringing an end to FLAT90. 
 

ASTER shutdown