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208 Sun 15-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 15ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
206 Sat 14-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 14ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
202 Fri 13-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 13ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
198 Thu 12-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 12ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
192 Wed 11-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 11ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
184 Tue 10-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 10ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
180 Mon 09-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 9ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
177 Sun 08-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 8ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
172 Sat 07-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 7ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
167 Fri 06-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 6ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
162 Fri 06-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 5ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
156 Wed 04-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 4ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
152 Tue 03-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 2ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Rebeca
148 Mon 02-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 3ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
144 Sun 01-Aug-2004Daily Report for August 1ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
139 Sat 31-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 31ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
136 Fri 30-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 30ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
130 Thu 29-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 29ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
126 Wed 28-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 28ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
115 Tue 27-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 26ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
111 Sun 25-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 25ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
108 Sat 24-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 24ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
105 Fri 23-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 23ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
102 Fri 23-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 22ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
95 Thu 22-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 21ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
90 Wed 21-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 20ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
85 Tue 20-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 19ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
80 Mon 19-Jul-2004Daily report for July 18ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
74 Sat 17-Jul-2004Daily report for July 17ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
70 Fri 16-Jul-2004Daily Report for July 16ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
68 Fri 16-Jul-2004Daily report July 15 and Power Outage Wrap-upISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
64 Thu 15-Jul-2004Daily report for July 15ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
59 Wed 14-Jul-2004Daily report for July 14ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
58 Tue 13-Jul-2004Daily report for Power-up 23z 7/13ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
53 Tue 13-Jul-2004Daily report for July 13ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
44 Sun 11-Jul-2004Daily report for Sunday July 12ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
41 Sun 11-Jul-2004Daily report for Saturday July 11 ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Heather
40 Sun 11-Jul-2004Daily report for Saturday July 10 ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
35 Sat 10-Jul-2004Daily report for Friday July 9ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
28 Thu 08-Jul-2004Daily report for Thursday, July 8ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
24 Thu 08-Jul-2004Daily report for Wed. July 07ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Jennifer
19 Tue 06-Jul-2004Daily report for Tuesday July 6 Power UpISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
18 Tue 06-Jul-2004Daily report for Tuesday July 6ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
16 Mon 05-Jul-2004Daily report for Mon. July 5ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Brad
13 Mon 05-Jul-2004Daily report for Sun July 4ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Bill
8 Sun 04-Jul-2004Daily report for Sat July 3ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Bill
6 Sat 03-Jul-2004Daily report for Fri July 2ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Bill
4 Fri 02-Jul-2004Daily report for Thu July 1ISS3 (Bahia Kino)Bill


208: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 15-Aug-2004 11:35:12 GMT, Daily Report for August 15
All systems normal. 

HE tanks:3
sondes:  8
balloons: 10

Profiler disk write: 37.8%

voltage: 133.4 on ct.4 

Weather: sunny over our area with large amounts of convection to the east













































































206: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 14-Aug-2004 22:46:33 GMT, Daily Report for August 14
All systems normal. 

HE tanks:4 
sondes:  10
balloons: 14

Profiler disk write:34.4%

voltage: 131.7 on ct.4 

Weather: Dark this morning when we left the site, large convective towers have 
been building to the North all the way around to the east and also to the west. Breezy and hot today.










































































202: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 13-Aug-2004 16:41:45 GMT, Daily Report for August 13
All systems normal. 

HE tanks: 4 3/5 
sondes: 12 
balloons: 18

Profiler disk write:30.8%

voltage  

Weather: Clear and sunny all day.








































































198: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Thu 12-Aug-2004 22:41:40 GMT, Daily Report for August 12
All systems normal. 

HE tanks: 5 1/5
sondes: 16
balloons:22

Profiler disk write:27.3%

voltage  132.9

Weather:  Clear and sunny today with some clouds and lightning in the distance this morning.






































































192: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Wed 11-Aug-2004 22:38:18 GMT, Daily Report for August 11
All systems normal. 

HE tanks: 7 2/5
sondes: 21
balloons:27

Profiler disk write:24.1%

voltage   133.2 on Ct4

Weather:  sunny and clear during the day, cloudy at night, convection to the 
north and east and a light breeze througout the day/night.



































































184: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 10-Aug-2004 10:46:14 GMT, Daily Report for August 10
All systems normal. 

HE tanks:7 
sondes:25
balloons:31

Profiler disk write:21.3%

voltage   134.0on Ct4

Weather: convection to the N and NE with occasional low cumulus clouds and humid 
































































180: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Mon 09-Aug-2004 16:55:06 GMT, Daily Report for August 9
All systems normal. 

HE tanks:7 3/5
sondes:28
balloons:34

Profiler disk write:65.1%

voltage  134.4 on Ct4

Weather: mostly sunny skies with convection occuring througout the day to the 
north, winds have picked up slightly, humid most of the day































































177: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 08-Aug-2004 23:02:52 GMT, Daily Report for August 8
All systems normal. 

HE tanks:8 4/5
sondes:31
balloons:37

Profiler disk write:61.6%

voltage 133.7 on Ct4

Weather: 
lightning at night to the north east, today was clear and sunny with large 
amounts of convection firing up to the north




























































172: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 07-Aug-2004 16:52:14 GMT, Daily Report for August 7
All systems normal. 

HE tanks:8 1/5
sondes:34
balloons:39

Profiler disk write:58.1%

voltage 132.2 on Ct4

Weather: 
Clouds from this morning have cleared overhead,large convective tower building to the north 
























































167: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 06-Aug-2004 16:55:42 GMT, Daily Report for August 6
All systems normal. 

Power outage this morning. Clary is up and running again with the sounding computer hooked up to it. 

HE tanks:8
sondes:38
balloons:43

Profiler disk write: 53.6%


Weather: Thunderstorm this morning at 12z launch. Overcast and cloudy today with a slight breeze.























































162: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 06-Aug-2004 00:44:31 GMT, Daily Report for August 5
All systems normal. 

we powered down after 12z launch this morning because the site power supply would be turned off for one hour from 7am to 8am. Before the 18z launch, we started the systems up again and everything worked fine.

the roving crew was here today for a couple of hours and will be back early next week. 

HE tanks:9 2/5
sondes:42
balloons:47

Profiler disk write: 51.3%

Voltage:134.5

Weather: today has been mostly sunny with a variety of scattered clouds 
througout the day but no significant weather




















































156: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Wed 04-Aug-2004 23:17:46 GMT, Daily Report for August 4
All systems normal. 
Cycled Motostat, working fine now.

Launched second sonde at 0030Z because first one burst at 543.9mb, 
see 00Z relaunch log.

ramon came by and told us they are going to turn off the power tomorrow from 7am to 8am. we will shut down the equipment and turn it back on around 8:15am 

HE tanks:9 4/5
sondes:45
balloons:50

Profiler disk write: 48.6%

Voltage:134.8

Weather: this morning we saw clouds at all levels this can be shown by the 
skew-t chart. they were stratus clouds at higher levels and cumulus and stratocumulus clouds at lower levels. mostly sunny the rest of today with thin layers ofstratocumulus randomly scattered when we first launched to thicker stratocumulusclouds moving in from the south by 0z. 

sorry puerto penasco, but we have better seafood drive down and come visit



















































152: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 03-Aug-2004 23:55:42 GMT, Daily Report for August 2
All systems normal. Clary UPS malfunction this morning. We bypassed the Clary and plugged sounding system directly into tan box as per Lou's previous directionsEverything is running fine now.
 
12Z sonde had some problems tracking satellites this morning. Satellite service would come in and out with anywhere from 0 to 8 satellite coverage. The first sonde that we used at the 0Z launch had bad met data (Press:1211, Temp:114, RH:22)so we used another sonde for the launch.Sonde #408414100


HE tanks:11 1/5
sondes:53
balloons:58

Profiler disk write: 41.2%


Weather: Clear skies today with a slight breeze.














































148: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Mon 02-Aug-2004 22:43:55 GMT, Daily Report for August 3
All systems normal. Clary back in system running fine.Suspect another brief power outage because Clary and data manager-Cambell display were both acting up, allis well now.Restarted data manager and paused profiler to get Cambell going again at the 0Z August 4 sounding.

4 sondes today

HE tanks:9 3/5
sondes:48
balloons:53

Profiler disk write: 44.7%

Voltage: 133.4 on Circuit #4

Weather: Cool this morning, in mid 20's, heating up to average temps., mid 30's,mostly clear skies with a few cirrus to the south and small cumulus towers building on the horizon to the NNE.


First 6Z sonde (408401511) launched only received wind data between 1009.6 to 
937.1. Satellite coverage between 5 to 8 and signal in the 70's. Terminated at 
617mb and launched a new one.Second sonde also had marginal wind data at the lower levels.











































144: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 01-Aug-2004 22:55:25 GMT, Daily Report for August 1
All systems normal.

3 sondes today

HE tanks: 11 2/5
sondes: 56
balloons:60

Profiler disk write: 37.7%

Voltage: 135.5 on circuit #4

Weather: Overcast layer has remained from this morning although thinner and w/fewer signs of convection, strong southerly breeze.  

Ending IOP#5 w/0Z August 2 launch

2 sondes reporting unrealistic data at 6Z and 12Z on August 1, launched sondes were fine.



































139: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 31-Jul-2004 22:45:00 GMT, Daily Report for July 31
All systems normal.


HE tanks: 12.25
sondes: 62
balloons:64

Profiler disk write: 34.3%

Voltage:131.9 on Circuit 4

Weather: Clouds and fog from this morning have cleared up. Few cirrus to the 
south, stratocumulus to the NNE, scattered cirrus to the west, clear above.  

Starting IOP#5 w/0Z August 1 launch



































136: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 30-Jul-2004 22:56:00 GMT, Daily Report for July 30
All systems normal.


HE tanks: 12.5
sondes: 64
balloons:66

Profiler disk write: 30.8%


Weather: Clear skies today with a slight breeze. 



































130: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Thu 29-Jul-2004 17:59:08 GMT, Daily Report for July 29
All systems normal.

ISS crew visiting- Steve,John, Lou, and June.

HE tanks: 12.75
sondes: 66
balloons:68

Profiler disk write: 27.5%

Voltage: 132.7

clary ups functioning again with 3 extension cords

Weather: Lightening this morning at early launch (12Z) to the NNE, the (18Z) launch had a broken layer of cumulus above and in all directions from the site. The humidity is up, so far less wind than yesterday.


































126: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Wed 28-Jul-2004 22:50:53 GMT, Daily Report for July 28
All systems normal.

HE tanks: 13.75
sondes: 70
balloons:72

Profiler disk write: 23.9%

Voltage: 134.5

Weather: Breezy with mostly clear skies today. 
































115: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 27-Jul-2004 00:31:02 GMT, Daily Report for July 26
All systems normal.

HE tanks: 14.5
sondes: 76
balloons:78

Profiler disk write: 48.3%

Voltage: 136.7

Weather: Sunny, clear skies today after morning thunderstorms subsided. 






























111: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 25-Jul-2004 23:46:41 GMT, Daily Report for July 25
All systems normal.

HE tanks: 14.75
sondes: 78
balloons:79

Profiler disk write: 44.8%


Weather: Sunny, clear skies all day today with convection firing up to the west.
































108: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 24-Jul-2004 22:55:22 GMT, Daily Report for July 24
All systems normal.

HE tanks: 15 
sondes: 80
balloons:81

Profiler disk write: 41.3%

Voltage: 134.5

Weather: Thunderstorms and light rain at the morning launch, rained harder 
around 7am, tapering off midmorning. Sunny this afternoon with a line of cumuluson the horizon from the NW to the NE. High cirrus to the SW. 





























105: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 23-Jul-2004 23:04:29 GMT, Daily Report for July 23
All systems normal except for satellite link up- going through the cycling process right now. We had a brief, approx. one minute, power outage earlier today around 12:30pm. It was so brief that nothing lost power, but now the sat link is acting up. Turned sat system off for one minute, didn't work. Now trying for a longer period of time, probably an hour to see if that will fix the problem.This doesn't seem  to be a result of any of the DICTUS folks, just a local power outage
Called Roving Crew and informed them of outage.Powered down for an hour, restarted, it worked.

HE tanks: 15 
sondes: 82
balloons:83

Profiler disk write: 37.8%

Voltage: 134.4

Weather: The overcast stratocumulus layer from this mornig has cleared to cirrusoverhead. The local terrain, or mountains (~900 to 1000 ft.) to our west have a few cumulus clouds hanging overhead.




























102: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 23-Jul-2004 00:35:55 GMT, Daily Report for July 22
All systems normal. Profiler is now working fine.

HE tanks: 15 1/2

Will update balloon and sonde inventory tomorrow as we have some boxes back at the house.

Mostly cloudy 6/8 oktas. Has been overcast for most of the day and the seas have been up.

Profiler disk write: 34.6%

Voltage: 134.4



























95: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Thu 22-Jul-2004 04:49:00 GMT, Daily Report for July 21
All systems normal.

Paused profiler while restarting data manager to get surface met to work before 0Z launch today- few minutes data missing.

Partly cludy this morning clearing to a few cirrus to the south, convective towers on the horizon to the north. A few scattered clouds overhead at time of 06Z launch.

Sonde vs surface station pressure: we've been waiting 5 to 10 minutes to see if the sonde pressure would ever stabilize to be same as the surface met station and have not found it to do so. The sounde almost always seems to be one millibar lower than the met station at the launch time regardless of the wait time. 

Profiler disk write: 31.7%

Voltage: 133.5


























90: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Wed 21-Jul-2004 00:25:26 GMT, Daily Report for July 20
All systems normal.

Convective towers to the north on the horizon.

Profiler disk write: 27.6%

Voltage: 135.4























85: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 20-Jul-2004 00:44:20 GMT, Daily Report for July 19
Skies are clear with the usual evidence of convection to the North, although it appears unorganized at this time.

Computers,satellite, profiler, RASS and surface tower functioning as expected.

We launched 2 sondes for the 0Z sounding as the first one had a weak signal and no wind data coming in. 

Campbell not recording at time of 6z launch. Restarted Data Management computer and all seems to be working fine.Space in display data from approximately 6 to 7  UTC

Profiler disk write: 24.2%

Voltage: 135.6






















80: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Mon 19-Jul-2004 00:33:25 GMT, Daily report for July 18
Partly cloudy to overcast for most of today, clearing this afternoon, then reforming after the 0Z sounding.

Steve and John stopped by to back up Profiler data, play with the electricity, and check on the IR radiation.

Profiler disk write: 20.7%

134.5 volts







74: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 17-Jul-2004 23:14:57 GMT, Daily report for July 17
Conditions last night were very abnormal, see 17 July 12 z sounding for detailed report. 

Satellite out last night until approx. 4:00 am this morning. Got it running by rebooting the Motostat and laptop computer. Because of this 0z sounding for July 17 was not e-mailed until this morning after 12z launch.

Profiler disk write: 56.8%

133.3 volts






70: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 16-Jul-2004 16:24:40 GMT, Daily Report for July 16
Power status:
Stopped by site this morning at 9AM to speak with the local electricians. They were not working. I spoke to the manager of the DICTUS site, he didn't know when they would be working but said he would tell us if he saw them working. Will have to keep checking on the site every few hours to try to catch them before they cut the power- most likely this will occur during the afternoon.

Brad waited at the site for an hour while I went back to the Hacienda, the electricians finally showed up at around 11AM. I spoke with them again and they told me they did not need to turn off the electricity today but possibly on Monday afternoon. They promised to give us warning before cutting the power.

Things didn't go as planned, the power was turned off on us at approximately 1:00-1:30 pm today. The electricians did try to contact us before hand but left no message. I am going to email Ramon, the manger of the DICTUS site, and tactfullystress that we need more notice about future power outages as well considerationof our launch schedule.

The power was restored at approximately 6-6:15 pm local time, we launched the sonde at approximately 6:45 pm local time.

Current weather: Overcast after this mornings launch, cleared off considerably. Only cumulus towers to the NNW, cirrus to the SSW.

Computers, profiler, RASS and surface tower functioning as expected.

Having some difficulty with our satellite link. Contacted Lou, will contact again if issue doesn't resolve itself.

Profiler disk write: 53.6%

The ISS roving team, Steve and John, is planning on heading this way either tomorrow or the next day.




















68: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 16-Jul-2004 00:33:57 GMT, Daily report July 15 and Power Outage Wrap-up
Everything is on and working after power failure.  We had a tough time communicating with the electricians but determined with the help of the roving crew that since this was not an IOP that it wasn't worth the risk of losing another sonde due to another power failure.  Tomorrow we will power down after our 12z launch due to the replacement of the power lines at the site.

Meteorological conditions are as follows:
  At time of initial launch we had numerous convective towers in the mature stage over the water for the first time.  I was able to observe lightning and surface winds were the strongest yet.  At the current time all towers have dissipated and only cirrus clouds remain.

Voltage in the trailer was recorded after the power outage at 135.4 volts which is the highest that I have yet to measure.

















64: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Thu 15-Jul-2004 00:41:20 GMT, Daily report for July 15
Current weather: 

Computers, profiler, RASS and surface tower functioning as expected.


Profiler disk write: 47.0%

Still not receiving 10 second data for sounding. Raw met data is comming in fineand the soundings looked fine.

Awesome convective processes today.  Numerous updrafts began to form but lack of speed shear prevented storm genesis.  Hopefully they will return tonight.


















59: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Wed 14-Jul-2004 02:00:54 GMT, Daily report for July 14
Current weather:
Large cumulus towers on the horizon to the east, evidence of convection- degraded towers, cirrostratus, stratocumulus to the north. The cloud cover has cleared some since this morning to approximately 1/8 sky coverage. Cooler ambient temps as well as water temps- waves are up in Bahia Kino.The easterly winds from this morning have moved through the south to the west and have incresed in speed to 6 m/s.

Computers, profiler, RASS and surface tower functioning as expected.

On 6th Helium tank.

2 bad sondes so far- third repaired.

Profiler disk write: 43.8%

During the 06Z and 12Z soundings the 10 second data was not updating, the raw met data was comming in fine, and the sounding looked fine.


















58: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 13-Jul-2004 22:54:03 GMT, Daily report for Power-up 23z 7/13
Power-up went well.  Tested voltage in trailer at 135.4v, which is up from previous measurements.

 Brad
















53: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 13-Jul-2004 01:22:26 GMT, Daily report for July 13
Current weather:
The cumulus towers to the north have degraded as the day has progressed and now appear mostly as cirrus and stratus along the horizon- some cumulus in the NE. Last night during the July 11 06Z sounding experienced periods of heavy rain. It was not raining when we launched the sounding or left the site. 

Computers, profiler, RASS and surface tower functioning as expected.

On 5th Helium tank.

3 bad sondes so far- one can be repaired.

Profiler disk write: 40.4%

















44: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 11-Jul-2004 23:02:56 GMT, Daily report for Sunday July 12
Current weather:
Large Cumulus tower with a well defined anvil and updraft region on the horizon to the North, closer than those observed previously at the 00Z launch. 

Computers, profiler, RASS and surface tower functioning as expected.

Profiler disk write: 36.6%














41: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 11-Jul-2004 00:07:51 GMT, Daily report for Saturday July 11
Current weather:
Cumulus Towers on the horizon to the North around to the East.

Profiler disk write: 33.3%%

132.1 volts








40: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 11-Jul-2004 00:03:27 GMT, Daily report for Saturday July 10
Current weather is cumulus towers and maris tail cirrus to the north.

Profiler disk write: 29.9%

133.8 volts







35: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 10-Jul-2004 00:29:22 GMT, Daily report for Friday July 9
Current weather is cumulus towers and maris tail cirrus to the north.

Profiler disk write: 29.9%

133.8 volts




28: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Thu 08-Jul-2004 22:19:26 GMT, Daily report for Thursday, July 8
Atmosphere is beginning to change.  We had 7 to 8 oktas cloud cover today, almost overcast, for about 2 hours earlier this afternoon.  Cloud erosion is beginning to occur to the southeast but even more exciting is the appearance of a few convective towers including a cumulonimbus in the mature stage to the east near Hermosillo from our perspective.  Hopefully storms are not far behind.






24: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Thu 08-Jul-2004 00:44:56 GMT, Daily report for Wed. July 07
Atmospheric conditions are clear in our area with scattered cirrus to the south and a developing cumulus field to the SSW.  

Profiler disk at 23.0%





19: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 06-Jul-2004 22:13:42 GMT, Daily report for Tuesday July 6 Power Up
Power up went great, getting ready to launch.




18: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Tue 06-Jul-2004 13:07:28 GMT, Daily report for Tuesday July 6
There is a lot going on in Bahia Kino this morning.  Atmospheric conditions are clear in our area with scattered cirrus to the west and a developing cumulus field to the WSW.  

The power is going to be shut off soon for work on the electricity at the DICTUS site so we will do a complete shutdown just prior to avoid problems.  We will then post another report after power-up to report specific conditions of the atmosphere.




16: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Mon 05-Jul-2004 22:04:59 GMT, Daily report for Mon. July 5
Daily Report July 5

Equipment check okay.  Scattered cirrus around the area.  Humidity up today at 75%  Hal, Charlie, and Nick left today with sondes (420) for Los Mochis and Mike and Bill left for Puerto Penasco.  

Temperature at present is 35c with winds ssw at 6-7 m/s.






13: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Mon 05-Jul-2004 02:09:28 GMT, Daily report for Sun July 4
Daily Report Sun July 4

Weather fine, brisk southerly, high approx 33C.  
Low clouds early, clearing during morning.
More humid today, there appears to be a weather change, is the monsoon coming?

Profiler working well, getting winds to 2 - 4 km, rass to about 700m.
Disk 14.1 % full.

Training sonde with the students at 23Z

Last day here for Hal & Charlie (who are going to Los Mochis) and Mike & Bill (to Peurto Penasco).



8: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sun 04-Jul-2004 04:27:35 GMT, Daily report for Sat July 3
Daily Report Sat July 3

Weather fine, light SW seabreeze.  High approx 33C.  
Partly cloudy, cirrus.  Saw some nice mare's tail clouds.

Profiler - continued to suffer noise problem most of day,
however was repaired and is operating normally from about 0430 UT (July 4).
See separate entry.

Approx 600 sondes arrived today.   
Charlie, Heather and Jennifer took approx 140 sondes to meet Gordan and Rebecca
about half way to Peurto Penasco, who brought down profiler replacement parts.

Hal did a training sonde with Nick & Brad.






6: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Sat 03-Jul-2004 01:27:20 GMT, Daily report for Fri July 2
Daily Report Fri July 2

Weather fine and clear, light SW seabreeze.  High approx 34C.  
Scattered high clouds gradually increasing this afternoon.


Profiler still has the intermittant internal noise problem.  
The problem seems to be either in the interface boxes or the integrator & dsp cards in the computer.  
Replacement computer and interface boxes have been shipped from Boulder.

The students went to Hermasillo to work on distributing the radiosondes.



4: DAILY, Site ISS3 (Bahia Kino), Fri 02-Jul-2004 01:46:13 GMT, Daily report for Thu July 1
Daily Report Thu July 1

Weather fine and clear, light SW seabreeze.  High approx 34C.

Temperature/RH fan replaced about 1730 UT.

Profiler moved about late morning to behind the trailer to get better shielding from clutter from the lagoon.

Profiler also seems to have an intermittant internal noise problem which is being worked on.

Bill and Mike arrived yesterday evening.  Lou, Tim, Rebecca, and Gordan moved on to Peurto Penasco. .