IHOP-2002: DAILY Messages: 47 Entries..

DAILY REPORT FOR June 24
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WEATHER:  breezy (15-20 mph) with occasional stronger gusts. Hot and
dry, with high overcast throughout the day, clearing in the evening,
low-level jet set up around 200-300 m. Then, we had another BORE
event just after 1100 UTC. 

IOP:  BL Evolution

SONDES: 0900, 1100*, 1300, 1500, 1700, 1900, 2000 UTC. (* sonde data
did not transfer to skew-t plot.)

MAPR: several sondes show up on MAPR as a positive vertical velocity.
Had some problems with maprdisplay operating in wind_rass mode today.
Lost 2 hours of data because of this failure. Finally changed to wind_only
mode. Ran in Rass-only mode for 1 hour starting at 2100 UTC.

Bore shows up very well on MAPR around 11 UTC.

Performed backups.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: TAOS operating from 0700 - 1900 UTC in profiling mode with 3 sensors.
Each ascent/descent took approx. 10 min.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 24
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WEATHER:  breezy (15-20 mph) with occasional stronger gusts. Hot and
dry, with high overcast throughout the day, clearing in the evening,
low-level jet set up around 200-300 m.

IOP: Low-level Jet, BLE postponed

SONDES: 1100, 1800, 2100, 0000, 0300, 0600 UTC.

MAPR: data looks ok, performed 1 hour continuous RASS starting at 1800 UTC.
Performed backups.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: TAOS operated briefly around 4 PM. Performed project ending backup
around 23 UTC.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 23
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WEATHER:  breezy (15-20 mph) with occasional strong gusts. Very hot and
dry, skies mostly clear in the morning, becoming partly cloudy in the 
afternoon with cirrus and haze.

IOP: BL Heteorogeneity

SONDES: 1800, 2000* - no problems(* RS-80A with reference sonde, data
collected during both ascent and descent).

MAPR: data looks ok.

Performed backups. Clean tape drives.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: Raman lidar packed up today.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 22
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WEATHER:  breezy (15-20 mph) and hot, skies mostly
clear in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy in the afternoon with
a mix of BL cu and cirrus.

IOP: BL Heteorogeneity

SONDES: 1800, 2100* - no problems(*- requested by SPOL).

MAPR: clutter screen removed at 1600 UTC, system offline for 2 hours due
to network failure.

Performed backups. Had to manually update jetstor due to problem caused
by system reboot.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: network failure occurred sometime before or around 16 UTC (coinciding
with when the FMCW trailer was taken off the network.
	
          

At approx 16z the baffles were removed from Mapr
There was networking outage for approx 2 hours which in the end was fixed by
rebooting the UMASS computer controlling the network.

DAILY REPORT FOR June 21
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WEATHER: nearly calm early, breezy (15-20 mph) in the afternoon, skies
clear in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy (BL cu) around 2 PM, then 
decreasing clouds through the remainder of the afternoon. 

IOP: BL Evolution

SONDES: 1030, 1130, 1330, 1530, 1730, 1930 - no problems with most of the 
launches or the software, software. Raman crew launched 1030 UTC sonde.
Exception: 1530 sonde - string did not unwind on launch.

MAPR: running fine today, interesting layered structure between 1.5 and 3.5 km
prior to sunrise and into the mid-morning hours.BL depth deepens gradually
with time until sudden jump in BL depth which punches through "residual" 
layers at 1750 UTC.

Performed backups.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: changed tapes in FMCW trailer.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 20
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WEATHER: just breezy today (15-20 mph) with mostly cloudy skies. Surface 
moisture increased throughout the morning reaching a max around 17 UTC 
of 14.3 g kg-1. BL cu began developing after 1800 UTC launch.

IOP: BL heteorogeneity mission

SONDES: 1800 - no problems with launch or software

MAPR: running fine today, good data collected on bore even early this 
morning (note wave motions and increasing depth of good S/N. Performed backups. Ran wind_rass_wrap 3 times between 1713 and 1900 UTC.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: changed tapes in FMCW trailer.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 19
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WEATHER: extremely windy (gusts over 40 mph) and hazy all day, anvil shield
moved overhead after 0000 UTC. Surface moisture jumped up at 0000 UTC.

IOP: CI and low-level jet missions (late night bore was also sampled)

SONDES: 1800, 2100, 0000, 0300*, 0600, 0800~ UTC (*with reference sonde,
~ launched by Raman crew)

Had some difficulties with the software and had to reload the GLASS v2.3.1 
and reboot,two sondes had problems transmitting winds (i.e., wind fields 
never updated in raw data window). We lost the 2nd sonde when the balloon
popped soon after launch.

MAPR: running fine today, good data collected, interesting features
evident above 2 km. Performed backups. Ran wind_rass_wrap at 1810 UTC.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: tried inflating balloons inside trailer within the wind bag - seems to
make operations a bit easier in the strong winds as you are not inflating
out in the gusty winds.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 18
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WEATHER: extremely windy (gusts over 40 mph) and hazy all day.

IOP: CI mission

SONDES: 1800*, 2100 UTC, 0000 UTC (*with reference sonde)

MAPR: running fine today, good data collected, interesting features
evident above 2 km. Performed backups. Cleaned tape drives.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: had 2 visitors today (from Metro and CU). Gave them a nice tour.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 17
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WEATHER: increasing clouds and wind during the day, no rain though.

IOP: CI w/out aircraft

SONDES: 1800*, 2100 UTC (*with reference sonde)

MAPR: running fine today, good data collected, interesting features
evident above 2 km.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: Lou here today, reorganized the trailer storage area, chopped down 
weeds around tower, see digital photo.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 16
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WEATHER: clear skies and calm winds most of the day

IOP: BL heteorogeneity (King Air and P3)

SONDES: 1500, 1800*, 2100 UTC (*with reference sonde)

MAPR: running fine today, good data, ran rim_rass 3 times
 (1642-1650, 1805-1810, 1835-1840)

SODAR: data look good

MISC: FMCW still down, ethernet link was down this morning after yesterday's 
storm, realigned to signal strength of 23). James is leaving at 1515 PM LT
today. Tim Lim will help Dotto with ISS tomorrow.
	
          

1430 UTC: Check systems and data collection: Internet link down.

1500 UTC: Taught Tammy how to launch sonde.

1500 UTC: Backing up MAPR data files.

1520 UTC: Adjusted antenna for radionet link.

1540 UTC: Started up wind_rass.

DAILY REPORT FOR June 15
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WEATHER: very strong winds most of the day, line of severe storms
approaching from the north and west.

IOP: CI

SONDES: 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100 UTC

MAPR: data processing problem, switched to 12 gates.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: FMCW rebooted - data bad yesterday and today.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 14
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WEATHER: Light shower indicated by MAPR around 3 AM, skies gradually
clearing to partly cloud by sunrise and scattered cu by about noon.

IOP: BL evolution mission

SONDES: 1000, 1130, 1330, 1530*, 1730*, 1930 UTC - had some problems with
two sondes marked with '*'. Data good up to 550 mb for these two sondes.

MAPR: system down between 1800 and 1830 UTC - fixed with restart (see 
      RADAR log). TAOS was up between 11 and 19 UTC today.

SODAR: data look good

MISC: Some more FMCW work to get the plotting routines working. There
still is a time offset problem that UMASS is working on.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 13
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WEATHER: MCS passed through around 10z, quit raining by 13z,
remainder of day characterized by low stratocu and light winds.

IOP: BL heteorogeneity mission - cancelled due to undesirable conditions

SONDES: 15z -reference sonde, 18z (rh seemed low, never got above 90% despite
passing through cloud layer).

MAPR: system down between 07 and 16z due to filled data directory (see 
      RADAR log).

SODAR: data look good

MISC: FCMW crashed overnight likely due to a power surge. Surge protector
for monitor and modem triggered. During trouble shooting, accidentally
switched off power to radio ethernet which affected maprlab and mapr.
maprlab was rebooted. FMCW computer rebooted manually via instruction by
B. Donovan @ UMASS.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 12
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WEATHER: mostly sunny with sct altocu late morning and 
         early afternoon, TCU to the south and east late afternoon.

IOP: CI - early afternoon, called early.

SONDES: 1530z, 1630z, 18z, 1930z, 21z, 2230z

MAPR: system ok, check for TAOS interference (18-23z)

SODAR: data look good

MISC: Very calm winds today. Backed up MAPR data on tape. Visited TAOS
site. They had 4 functional sondes between 10 m and 300 m. Sondes
where not shielded.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 11
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WEATHER: mostly sunny with sct altocu early afternoon, line of cumulus
         formed in the afternoon, but was squashed, winds relatively
         weak most of the day, a bit stronger in the evening.

IOP: CI - early afternoon

SONDES: 1530z, 1630z, 18z, 1930z, 21z, 2230, 0130z (last sonde
was not processed (single letter files saved in folder on desktop).

MAPR: good signals and wind measurements

SODAR: corrected winds around 19 UTC by cycling power using 5 beams

MISC: sondes launched with the help of two students from U. Missouri
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 9
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WEATHER: sunny, clear most of time, some clouds

IOP: morning LLJ and CI started in the late morning.

SONDES: 11z with reference sonde, works OK. 105 helium in the balloon.
        13z, 1430z, 16z, for morning LLJ, 18z, 1930z, 21z, 2230z 

MAPR: good signals and wind measurements

MISC: Lou came to help the sounding.
      Adjust the dish antenna for wireless link because the network is down.
      clean both tape drivers.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 10
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WEATHER: mostly sunny with sct altocu early afternoon, TCU 
         developing to the NW after 2 PM, windy of coarse.

IOP: CI - early afternoon

SONDES: 18z, 1930z, 21z, 2230, 0130z 

MAPR: good signals and wind measurements

MISC: James starts today. Trained James to monitor ISS.
      Trained James & Palo (Raman lidar) to launch sondes.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 8
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WEATHER: sunny, clear most of time, some clouds

IOP: BL only mesonets are required.

SONDES: 18z 

MAPR: start wind300mode_4f2b at 1648 


MISC: Jun Wong spent some time at trailer to do her work. 
      change mini disc at PAM station.
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 7
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WEATHER: sunny and clear. low is 16C and high today is 33C. 

IOP: BL with king Air, Falcon, P3

SONDES: 18z regular but delayed until about 19z because of waiting for reference
	to be ready. This sonde was on a pole with a reference sonde, both
	supported by a big ballon with 90 ft^3 helium in. But more heilum
	is needed for this combination, the ascending rate is only about
	2 m/s in this case.
	21z sonde for BL field support

MAPR: interesting double-layer structure with wave appearance was shown
	at 2-4km, 03z to 11z, which accompanied by significant wind shear.
      did rim_rass experiement for about half hour, see radar tklog 


MISC: check with S-pol, their dish antenna for wireless comm. points roughly
	at homestead. So, the antenna orientation on both end looks fine,
	the signal strength may be an enviromental effect.
      The new pre-amp works beautifully today, signals strength is about 95dB
	on the ground and about 50dB towarding 100mb.
      Hal and Junhung did a reference sonde with us. 
      show Balaj and Palow how to make a sounding
	
          

DAILY REPORT FOR June 6
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WEATHER: sunny and clear. low is 12C and high today is 27C. The wind is pretty
	constant throughout the day with average of 5 m/s.

IOP: BL with Falcon flew above homestead. 

SONDES: 18z and 1939z, the later one was a test flight for the new pre-amp.

MAPR: wind shears were observed at abotu 1.2km after 12z, lots of interesting
	features (wave motion, KH billows) were shown on FMCW plots, some
	of them can also be shown on RIM plot too. These layer structures
	seems to well correlated with the wind shear.   

MISC: Lou came in this afternoon to replace pre-amp of the sounding system 
	and did a test flight. 
      the signal strength of wireless link is as low as 10 dB, checking
	the dish by eye, did see obvious disorientation. will monitor
	the signal strength. 
      Hal and Jounghung came to visit.
      Visitors from U of Missouri came to homestead. 
	
         

DAILY REPORT FOR June 5
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WEATHER: cloudy in the morning and starts to clear up in the afternoon, but 
	 still partly cloudy. 

IOP: down day

SONDES: 18z regular and 19z which lou came to test the glass system, but 19z
	one did well. The ground receiver lost the satellite track after
	about 780 mb for 18z flight. There was a period signals were down
	to zero, the ERR light on the rack is on since then.

MAPR: restart MAPR at about 1530 and MAPR works fine. design a new mode
	called wind_rim_rain_comp, which should be used during a thunderstorm.
	The purpose is to verify the high resolution wind by alternating
	two modes, wind_rain300mode_4freq2b and wind_rain100mod. But be aware
	that mapr probably won't be able to catch up after a couple hours,
	because # of gates was a lot in both modes.

MISC: Lou came in this afternoon did a test sounding and bring a UPS which
	is going to be used by network computer.
      A new version of Aspen was installed today. 
         

DAILY REPORT FOR June 4
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WEATHER: cloudy. 

IOP: nighttime bored from 5:00am~9:00am local, and later was CI, but it was
	cancelled. 

SONDES: 4z requested by SRL, 11z, 1230z, 14z, support the bore mission.
	18z and 21z to support the CI mission 

MAPR: problems caused possibly by power surge. 

MISC: 
         

DAILY REPORT FOR June 3
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WEATHER: sunny in the morning and become cloudy in the afternoon. low is 22C 
	and high 36C. wind picks up at 2330, gusty of 20 m/s was shown on 
	campbell, but dies down to 5 m/s very quickly

IOP: early morning is LLJ and later is CI 

SONDES: 03, 09z requested by NASA SRL group, 15z, 18z, 21, 00z were requested
	to support today's mission. The 00z sonde hit the groud after 
	it was released. Other sondes have good results.

MAPR: good signals up to 3km at noon. and the variations of the top
	of boundary layer matches FMCW measurements, such as around 18z.

MISC: Ned updated RS80 folder on glass and slove the coefficient problem.
         

DAILY REPORT FOR June 2
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WEATHER: sunny and clear. low is 17C and high 36C. strong gusty (14 m/s)

IOP: CI mission,P3 and king air coporated with s-pol. 

SONDES: 04z continued from yesterday, 18z regular. The raw wind data for 18z
	flight hung due to the 0 sates tracked by ground receiver and never
	recovered. 

MAPR: good wind measurements up to 2 km. A layer at 1.5km was lifted to 3.5km
	at 07UT.

MISC: Jennifer Haase from Purdue University came to install GPS receivers
	this afternoon.
      Glass computer hung when I tried to shut down, reboot and fix it.
        

DAILY REPORT FOR June 1
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WEATHER: sunny and clear. low is 16C and high 33C. wind picks up in the
	afternoon.

IOP: ground-base CI mission 

SONDES: 15z, 18z, 00z, 

MAPR: operate in multiple-frequency mode, MAPR shows southerly wind up to
	2km for most of the day.

MISC: 
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 31
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WEATHER: sunny and clear. low is 16C and high 32C. wind picks up in the
	afternoon.

IOP: BL mission 

SONDES: 18z. lou has reinstalled the glass software, but it still stuck
	on coefficient. Repeating the process three times then pass.  

MAPR: boundary layer height is about at 2km in the afternoon. A layer aloft
	at 3km in the morning.

MISC: closed cample accidentally and restarted
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 30
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WEATHER: sunny and partly clouds. low is 14C and high 32C.

IOP: BL mission 

SONDES: 18z. glass was hung for a few second and generate odd points like
	minus pressure. This should be the reason to cause weired skew-t
	on the display. signals are not stable and lost signal totally at
	about 100mb. The antenna gain is still relativey low. check antenna
	connection and hope it gets better tomorrow.   

MAPR: works well today. signals and winds are up to 2km. KH billow like 
	structures were observed around 1230~1330 UT around 3~4km. However,
	the signals strength is too low for RIM to perform reasonable results.
	try to decrease the PRT and increase NCI (save in wind200mode_4freq)
	in order to improve the SNR. However, it gets worse, the first gate
	was extremely low and can't observe as high as using old parameters.
	Therefore, switch to old mode called wind200mode_4freq_old. 

MISC: FMCW did not transmit only receiving till 20UT today. Steve and Gordon
	from UMASS tried to isolate the pproblem of horizontal shown in their
	images.
      Tian and Dotto went to S-pol this afternoon.
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 29
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WEATHER: sunny and partly low clouds. wind picks up in the afternoon.

IOP: BL mission, king air was flying over homestead site 

SONDES: 15z, 18z, and 21z. the 18z sonde was not showing wind (999.9) when 
	it's on ground although the # of satellites are OK for all three.
	The problem was sloved by restart the soundign process.
	The wind for 21z sonde was locked up due to 0 satellite received
	on the ground receiver. Called Ned and Lou, the only way to fix 
	it is to reclcye power on the rack, however, the data will be lost.
	So, I leave the sonde till the end. Therefore, no wind for 21z 
	sonde for most of time. In addition, the signal strength for 21z
	is relatively weak. 
	The new glass software worked after repeat the process of "coefficient
	failed" three time for each sounding.   

MAPR: work well today. wind_rass mode since yesterday. Signals were up to about
	2 km.

MISC: maprlab was hanging and was fixed by rebooting.
      NASA lidar groups tried to communicate with King Air by radio and shut
	off lidars when the airplan approached. However, the pilot on King
	Air did not notice us when king air approached. Instaed, the king air
	was flying about 500m away from the homestead.
      A snake was spooted near the toilet in the morning.  
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 28
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WEATHER: sunny and partly low clouds. light wind, temperature is at lower
	20C. 

IOP: BL mission planned but was cancelled later, falcon tests flight 

SONDES: launched 18z, requested a 21z sonde by NASA SBL
	Neb did a reference sonde with the 18z sounding.
	Lou came in this afternoon to install the new Glass software.

MAPR: MAPR stopped last night at about 2300UT (May 27), restart wind_rass
	mode this morning and run well after. Two sondes can be clearly seen 
	on the mapr plot. Nothing particularly interesting today.

MISC: Dave Carlson and Mike Danille came to visit this afternoon.
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 27
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WEATHER: thunderstorm, rainning and lighting all day.


IOP: BL mission, 

SONDES: launched at 18z, wind is on and off all time may be due to the lighting.
	balloon pops at about 100mb

MAPR: test high-resolution wind using rim, 50m (single frequency) and 300m
	(rim) modes were alternated every 2 min for about an hour during
	the storm. However, the range and velocity aliasing may be a problem.

MISC: the mud road is really sleaky and sticky, MIPS and one of Jeep from NASA
	were stuck on the road. They were finally abl to get out about 6pm.
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 26
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WEATHER: sunny and clear sky, thin clouds sometimes, surface wind is at 10m/s


IOP: BL mission, but down day for homestead site

SONDES: launched at 18z, good flight.

MAPR: heat flux test, run continous rass for 25 min followed by 5 min
	standard wind mod. The test last for 1.5 hr staring at about 1300z. 
      Change in.dat again to make perlap=0, and change the the frequencies
	in TXloc_RXfreq.dat.
      the rest of time was running M-freq with rass tms off    

MISC: 
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 25
+++++++++++++++++++++++

WEATHER: sunny and light wind most of the day, some thin cloud


IOP: BL mission, King Air flew above the homestead 

SONDES: launched at 14z, 18z, 2130z, 02z, last two sondes were requested
	 by NASA Raman lidar

MAPR: Run continous rass for an hour in the afternoon and wind+rass (each
	with 2 min) mode for 2 hrs. RASS signals are good up to 1.2 km 
	sometime. Fix RIM process by changing the in.dat 
	file in ~/monitor/fca_2/.
      Processes are not able to keep up, save correlation files only in
	the afternoon, hoping reduce the processing loading and keep up.      

MISC: Tape driver 1 generate error when examining files. 
      Clean both tape drivers twice. Cleaning seem working.
      Vievik and Guifu came visiting site this afternoon.
        

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 24
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WEATHER: cloudy and drizzing all day. surface wind starts to pick up in
	 the afternoon


IOP: CI mission, focused on the east TX and west OK, not homestead site 

SONDES: launched at 18z, sounding show the atmopshere dry out at about 1.8km
	 above ground  

MAPR: good signals and wind measurements up to about 2km, matching the sounding
      results. MAPR is running in M-freq mode and seemed OK.
      Modify Bill's IDL plotting routine to improve the Capon images.  

MISC: check mapr, everying is tighted up OK.
      Reprocess the D file of sounding D200205230140 by modifying the M file.
      	the original M file was saved as copy_of_M**., the new D file looked
      	reasonable.
      From now on, please Run Aspen after each sounding to generate 
	QC and WMO files.    

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 23
+++++++++++++++++++++++

WEATHER: wind clams down at 8-10 m/s most of time, thunderstorm developed in 
	 the south nd southeast of the site in the afternoon.


IOP: CI mission, mobile system aborted because Convection had already formed. 

SONDES: using the old regulator seems working. launched sondes at 18z and 21z.
	the 21z sonde do not have wind for most of the time, signals jump
	a lot.  

MAPR: start wind_rim mode at 15:56 through the day. turn the RASS tms off 
	2247UT. 


MISC: Tighted the FMCW fiber cable to the rope.   

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 22
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WEATHER: gusty at surface all day (15-17 m/s), some cirrus clouds 


IOP: CI mission dry line moved back and forth between S-pol and homestead site,
     MIPS, MGLASS, DOWs, are depolyed. P3, King air were flying. 

SONDES:  plan to launch starting at 1pm to 9m LT every 2 hours, but we miss
         1pm sonde because of the software problem and broken of the helium
	 regulator. The software problem was sloved by restarting the computer
	 and receiver. To make sure recycling the power of receiver seemed to
	 be the key. We tried to use the new regulator for the sondes at 5pm 
	 and 7pm, the 5pm one looks OK, but the 7pm sonde was lost satelitte
	 track most of time and pops out only at about 670mb. The reason is 
	 not sure. We launch another sonde a few minute after 7pm. But not
	 enough helium was put into the ballon. So, the sonde hit the ground
	 when we release it and no wind measurement. The ascending rate is 
	 rediculous. We killed it at 8pm and get ready for the next lanch.
	 The 9pm sonde works and we switch back the old regulator to have
	 the right gauge of helium. We have to use the skew driver to push
	 the valve very hard to make it work. 
	 PS: It's getting harder and harder to lanch ballon in such a high
	     wind condition, we lost at least 4 ballons because the wind
	     blow ballons out of the bag and balloon just pops
	 9pm sonde has problems too. The raw data look OK on the screen, but
	 appear to be -999 in the D file. Look at the M file, it is OK, but
	 there are two odd points about where the D file start to generate
	 -999. 

MAPR: The boundary grows up to above 4km in the late afternoon. The 5-min wind
	measurements look good, but for some reasons, the wind in 24hr display
        looks odd, only a few wind bars were shown. Sharp gradient of SNR was
	shown at about 800 m, which does not look like really. possible
	cause by the ground clutter. 

MISC:   

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 21
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WEATHER: Fineall day.  Relatively strong gusty at surface 
(15-16 m/s southerly). Some thin clouds occur during the day. 


IOP: ABL mission but not focused on the homestead site. 

SONDES:  Launch at 1800Z

MAPR: No obvious structures above the boundary layer. The maprdisplay was dead
at 1700UT for no reason. Restart maprdisplay using wind_rass mode 
(1 frequency) and works OK. Turn on the RASS tms file at 2147UT. 

MISC: clean both tape drivers.
The Glass system was fixed by Ned this morning. It seem like that the coff for
the sonde was missing from the backup disc.  

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 20
+++++++++++++++++++++++

WEATHER: Fineall day.  Relatively strong gusty at surface 
(12~13 m/s southerly). Some thin clouds occur during the day. 


IOP: ABL mission (king air, and Facoln 16z 18z). DOWs and S-POL doing radar
comparison.

SONDES:  Launch at 1800Z

MAPR: In the morning, some multiple layer alfot around 3 km and persist all day.
16z ran 50m mode for 20 min then change back to 100m for the rest of day.
put baffle on 2130~2220 UT, mapr is down. RASS time series was off last night,
cor files only (due to MAPR having troubles to keep up with rim processing
yesterady), tms back on this morning.   

MISC:  

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 19
+++++++++++++++++++++++

WEATHER: Fine and clear all day.  Relatively strong gusty at surface 
(12~13 m/s southerly). Some high thin clouds this evening. 


IOP: ABL mission (king air, P3, and Facoln 16z 18z).

SONDES:  Launch at 1740Z

MAPR: In the morning, some multiple layer alfot around 3 km and persist all day.
16z ran 50m mode for 20 min then change back to 100m for the rest of day.
put baffle on 2130~2220 UT, mapr is down. RASS time series was off last night,
cor files only (due to MAPR having troubles to keep up with rim processing
yesterady), tms back on this morning.   

MISC: Tian is here today. 

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 18
+++++++++++++++++++++++

WEATHER: Fine and clear all day.  Relatively light southerlies
(changed from easterlies early this morning).

IOP: No IOP (boundary layer expt cancelled).

SONDES:  Launch at 18Z

MAPR:  Multiple layers aloft this morning so 
ran in multiple freq mode from 1545 to 2255 UT.
FMCW operating, both it & mapr saw layer aloft at around 2230 at 2.5km.
Modified parameters from 2211 because mapr having problems
keeping up with data (mainly zipping and processing delays,
not any problem with maprdisplay).
Back to single freq mode 23Z.

SURFACE:  Interuptions at around 23Z as we loaded Gary's changes and
Mike kicked the power strip!
Lou cleaned the radiation sensors.

MISC: 

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 17
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WEATHER: Thunder storm passed thru last night, echoes up to 12km
on mapr.  This morning cloudy and cool.  Clouds broke during
afternoon to a few scattered cloud this evening.

IOP: No IOP.  Falcon flew over at 2237 about about 10-13k feet
on test of DIAL and HRDL.

SONDES:  Launch at 18Z

MAPR:  Last night set up a rain mode with 200 m pulse and gates
up to 12km.  Reset to clear air mode this morning.
Running single frequency all day.

MISC: Jim Wilson & Rita Roberts came for a pow-wow with the
homestead PIs - he's going to be the go between for us & Norman.

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 16
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WEATHER: Fine and clear during morning, some low level haze or dust.
Increasing high clouds later.  Northerly wind.  
Thunderstorm approaching in evening.

IOP: Bore mission early this morning. King Air flew over,
and launched 2 sondes.

SONDES:  Launchs at 11Z, 12Z, 18Z

MAPR:  Running single frequency mode all day,
       locked up around 2115Z, rebooted.

MISC: Worked on sodar processing, and data transfer to jetstor.
Comms meeting at S-Pol this morning.

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 15
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WEATHER: Fine, clear skies, increasing high clouds later, gusty winds
IOP:  CI test of Liberal mobile systems

SONDES:  Launchs at 18Z and 2330Z

MAPR:  Running single frequency mode all day,
       lost an couple of hours of data this morning,
       collecting more data than expected and having problems
       with tape drive 1.

MISC: Evening sonde launch was timed for Learjet dropsonde.
Had problems starting GLASS software so reloaded from distribution
and rebooted.  Gusty winds so balloon popped, but 2nd one okay.

Surface station campbell rebooted about 0:15Z, seems to be okay now.

Some problems with network, T1 at S-pol? Running late afternoon.

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 13
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WEATHER: Fine, clear skies, light wind, warm

IOP:  No IOP today

SONDES:  One launch at 18Z

MAPR:  Running single frequency mode all day,
       RASS from 20Z - seems to be okay, though lowest gates dropping out.

MISC:  King Air flew over twice on test flight
           21:10 flew N to S at about 900'
           21:23 flew NE to SW at about 850'
           Radio contact wasn't great, only clear within 10 or so
           miles of site.


Charlie working on networking etc.  Rebooted computers several times
so some brief data interuptions. (See seperate entries).

Joe VanAndel & Brandon here working with U.Mass hooking up
fiber network around the site.

DAILY REPORT FOR MAY 13
+++++++++++++++++++++++

WEATHER: Fine, clear skies, light wind, warm

IOP:  No IOP today

SONDES:  One launch at 18Z

MAPR:  Running single frequency mode all day,
       RASS from 20Z - seems to be okay, though lowest gates dropping out.

MISC:  King Air flew over twice on test flight
           21:10 flew N to S at about 900'
           21:23 flew NE to SW at about 850'
           Radio contact wasn't great, only clear within 10 or so
           miles of site.


Charlie working on networking etc.  Rebooted computers several times
so some brief data interuptions. (See seperate entries).

Joe VanAndel & Brandon here working with U.Mass hooking up
fiber network around the site.

Surface sensors checked. All appear to be running fine.

Site Lat 36.559n
     Lon 100.606w
     Alt. 862 meters

 Phone #'s

Mapr 580-646-3404
FMCW         3405
SRL          3406
GLOW         3407
HARLIE       3408
AERIBAEO     3409