Blog from December, 2012

Post Cal - barometers

The 10 Vaisala barometers have been post-cal over the range of 790mb to 850mb in 11 steps.

At each level 30 data points were collected and averaged. The ParoScientific was used as the

reference. The table below shows the results.

Sensor

mean error (mb)

stdev (mb)

B1

      .217

0.009643

 

 

B2

    -.022

0.022461

 

 

B4

    -.017

0.008821

 

 

B5

    -.016

0.011472

 

 

B6

    -.053

0.008349

 

 

B7

     .005

0.005977

 

 

B8

    -.051

0.010317

 

 

B9

    -.011

0.011812

 

 

B10

    -.001

0.009677

 

 

4 ParoScientific nano barometers were deployed in SCP. A post-cal was conducted over the range

of 790mb to 840mb in 7 steps. 30 data points were collected at each level.

Sensor

mean error (mb)

stdev (mb)

123997

   0.1563

0.161

123998

   0.1930

0.184

123996

   0.1974

0.184

122850

   0.3316

0.184

NOTE: 122850 was involved in the lighting strike.

POST Serial Numbers

These are the serial numbers of the instruments and their towers during teardown.

Station

CSAT

Handar

Pressure

OTHER

Ah1

0923

000194

 

 

Ah2

0671

01660

 

 

Aph3

0743

y3840003

NCAR001

 

A4

1120

 

 

 

Ah5

0732

123998

 

 

Ah6

0800

00719

 

 

A7

0673

 

 

 

Ap8

0176

 

B10

EC150(1244/1313)

Ap9

1121

 

B6

 

Ap10

0677

 

122996

 

A11

---

-------

------

------

Ap12

0855

 

B9

 

A13

0745

 

 

 

Ap14

1124

 

B5

 

A15

1122

 

 

 

A16

0740

 

 

 

A17

0856

 

 

 

A18

0744

 

 

 

A19

---

---

---

---

C

0197,0200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Main(from bottom):  1455, 1117, 0813(licor), 123997(nano), 0536, 1166(licor), 0540...

Radiation:  IN-940185,1002255/ OUT-940187,100226

Grass Soil:  ECHO001,H013291,200589,ts001,ts011

Cactus Soil:  ECHO002,H992560,200239,ts018,ECHO012

Gordon, Dec 6

Downloaded the remaining archive files from the USB and CF drives.

For stations 1-22 these consisted of the archive files for Dec 1, since the files for Nov 30 and before had been copied to the gully server over the network.

The USB pocketec from gully contained Nov 21 to Dec 1.

The copy_arch_media script also did a fsck on each disk. Some errors were seen and noted below. For the bluetooth Viper systems with CF disks, the number is noted.

stn

CF

notes

1

20

OK

2

26

OK

3

 

OK

4

 

OK

5

21

OK

6

29

OK

7

 

OK

8

24

OK

9

22

OK

10

27

OK

11

 

OK

12

 

OK

13

 

OK

14

28

OK

15

 

OK

16

 

fsck errors

17

 

OK

18

 

OK

19

 

many fsck errors

20

 

OK

21

 

24 bad blocks on pocketec

22

 

OK

Dec 2 2012

Teardown:

 Today was very successful. All tower infrastructure is down and all sensors, DSMs removed from the field.

The DSMs and TRHs will be taken back to Boulder Sunday night.

Daily Status 1 Dec 2012

Weather

High cirrus clouds, temp s throughout the night from 0C to 10C. Winds around 3 m/s. History shows winds

pushing 15 m/s during the night.

Status

morning (7:15): Everything looks good tis morning.There were Idiag spikes on about 10 stations last night. I assume due to

high winds. Station 3 shows an RIP in the history.

Starting shutdown @ 7:30am.

Teardown

Stations A1-A7, A15-A19, and C are down. Tomorrow we hope to get the remaining A stations down and the main tower stripped

of sensors and DSM, We will also remove the radiation/soil sensors.