Blog from June, 2009

4June09

CG measured the top of the booms for:

4June09 ~10:15-11:15MDT Site Visit Platteville

Echo Probe swapped (these have no serial numbers):   Previous unit was reporting negative values per TH.   From raw file data from 'yesterday' was

182,1,12.27,0,15.173,0,-56.044,-4.6824,-2.2093,83191,8.9592,8.844,9.7848,9.6367,13.517,39.416,435.39,1.2594,0,0,-9999

where vqsoil,qsoil is '435.29,1.2594'  Note the rsw values appear odd in that....

New unit per rserial is reporting messages like this:

182,1,13.24,0,464.1,0,-47.208,23.373,820.48,127.9,19.809,20.507,17.573,17.611,19.076,-61.372,423.8,.45439,0,0,-9999
182,1,13.24,0,513.61,0,-45.46,24.308,1005.7,152.81,19.809,20.603,17.573,17.632,19.055,-61.26,423.8,.45439,.00335,0,-9999

where the vqsoil/qsoil is the '423.8,.45439' versus '435.39,1.2594' above.   Meanwhile Mars is reporting:

166,2,11.55,0,521.44,0,-88.63,29.675,820.27,127.64,1.0656,23.434,1.1063,22.442,23.388,-86.93,509.36,6.4007,.02996,0,-9999\r\n
166,2,11.56,0,539.42,0,-88.63,29.675,867.57,131.35,1.0656,23.434,1.1066,22.435,23.368,-86.806,508.69,6.3538,.02996,0,-9999\r\n
with vqsoil, qsoil '508.69,6.3538'

So it appears maybe all these qsoils are about the same so I'm not convinced it is fixed....checking logger coef.....

Calib. Coefs in loggers: Location 45,46,47 are for the Qsoil and are the same for both loggers....guess we'll just need to keep an eye on it...

4June09 ~10:15-11:15MDT

Pocketec Swapped.    Brought unit taken back for data merge.

Photos taken.   Sensor serial numbers confirmed.

Q7 swapped: We had installed the 'wrong' Rnet for the coefficients in the logger.  Out=Q94197 In=Q99259

NIMA is crashing on the ISS, so the plots of the improved spectra and winds will not be available until it is fixed. I'm trying to upgrade to the latest source and rebuild it to see if that fixes the problem.

As of yesterday, around 2009-06-03 18:00 UTC, the mobile ISS is up and running at Marshall. Real-time plots are available at this page:

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/isf/projects/asp/iss/realtime/summary/iss1/

The Internet link uses an etherant (ip 192.168.12.37) to the ISFS base trailer. The ISS workstation uses DHCP for its eth1 interface, and so far it has been assigned 192.168.12.250. Interface eth0 is the local trailer network, 192.168.1, on which the ISS profiler PC, sounding laptop, and ceilometer laptop are connected. The aster machine is at 192.168.13.1, which provides the routing gateway and DNS to the ISS workstation.

The network has been reliable so far, and data are flowing every half hour from the ISS site.

A web page for ISS for the ASP colloquium has been created here:

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/asp/iss

3June06 ~10:30MDT

Rlw.in had been bad.   Found loose ground wire on the excitation line.   Twiddled/secured wires.   Now working

Rlw.in Rpile reading ~  -20w/m2 with voltage ~ .2mV

Rlw.out Rpile reading ~ 20w/m2 with voltage ~ .2mV

3June06 ~10:15MDT

4m TRH swapped because it'd been bad (See GM's note) sn-out=13 sn-in=008   It was generating continuous spurious interrupts.   Only the michro-chip 'wand' was replaced, not the shield.

6m TRH removed s/n15 because of bad 'shield' (dc-dc, sio, etc).    Swapped 2m TRH up to 6m to avoid climbing later: sn10 is now at 6m

3June09 ~10:15MDT

The Li7500 that was at 2m was raised to 4m per request by SO/TH.

It has the same serial port in xml config., but the height qualifier was changed from 2m to 4m also.

NOTE: Retained the mounting arrangement so we moved the sonic from 2 to 4 along with it,

and thus the 4m sonic to 2m as well.   Will change the serial number entry for this

Recall setting 'ZN' on boom worked ok.

Boom Angle setup: BD359 as I recall....need to confirm KK's reading when he shot it.

Confirmed readings consistent with observed conditions, and manually rotating vane while mast was lowered.

The 6m RH deviates from the others when the RH is above 50 %.

4m TRH still not reporting.