| Entry | Date | Title | Site | Author | #Graphics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Sun 03-Mar-2002 | Notes and contact numbers | trademark | Steve | |
| 20 | Sun 03-Mar-2002 | SOUNDING GPS LOSSES | trademark | Steve |
Information for Lou:
Phone Numbers:
OPS Message: 775-674-7002
NWS desk: 775-673-8107 (call to setup coordinated launch)
NWS switchboard: 775-673-8100
extension 516: x516 gets to balloon launch shed for coordination of release
Reno ATC Tower: 775-348-8840 (call before every launch, when ready to launch)
Washoe Pk HQ: 775-687-4319
John Hallett: 775-674-7013 (office)
775-747-0776 (home)
John Lewis: 775-674-7077 (office)
John Bowen: 775-674-7044 (office)
Greg McCurdy 775-359-4979 (home)
Who is who:
John Hallett is the PI.
John Lewis is co-PI and does weather analysis/forecasting. He leaves
the OPS message.
David Kingsmill (co-PI)
Darko Koracin (co-PI)
Vanda Grubicek (?) (co-PI)
John Bowen is in charge of the DRI met tower at Trademark drive
Jack Gilles is also associated with the DRI met tower
Student teams trained for soundings:
Project status/Launch times:
Washoe Lake State Park:
The park HQ is often not staffed because the people there work outside
around the park. You can often find someone to let you into the HQ if
you look at the park areas and campground.
Eric Johnson (park manager)
Donna (one of the rangers)
Anne (Americore volunteer - lives in camper near HQ)
NWS Reno:
Al Cox - senior person, also does some launch shifts.
Mary ?? - head of NWS Reno office
Mark - does some launch shifts
Rudy - does some launch shifts
FAA:
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Wind profiler parameter files
Soundings: coefficients file so far has been the "3" file. Can't see this with
the default mask in file chooser.
Call the FAA TOWER before each launch. Preferable outside just before release.
They may ask you to wait a couple of minutes or call back in a couple of
SYSTEM STATUS NOTES:
AutoRun backup to Jaz is not working at Trademark. I have been moving files
by hand every day or two.
EQUIPMENT NOTES:
Used all 5 reflectors from ISS2 (Washoe Lake) at ISS3 (Trademark) site.
Broken surface met aspirator fan (Trademark) is labelled broken and on
shelf above Sparc.
A couple of problems with GPS: We lose lock on launch every time, and so are not getting the lowest winds. Has typically recovered about 500 m up, which is a couple of minutes later. Have tried no motion prior to launches and very gentle releases without success. On one flight ( 0516 Z Mar 1) we had good lock before launch, but lost it and never recovered, so no winds. The software seemed to give up, with no change in the number of satellites tracked. Mike suggests rebooting the GLASS pc before each sounding, and I have subsequently done this. On two flights we were getting good winds (after the initial loos and recovery) but above 10 km on 11:18Z 02-Mar, and above 8.5 km on 23Z 02-Mar the sonde reported 0 satellites tracked and we lost all winds above. (The next launch at 12Z on 03-Mar lost lock for 800 m at launch and then was ok to burst). Why? Ned: Other observations on the GLASS realtime plots: The minimum temperature on the T plot is -50 C. This is way too warm, and we cannot see the tropopause temperature or often any values in the stratosphere. The max wind speed of 50 m/s is sometimes too small to show part of the data.