Today was the first research flight, which went pretty well overall. We had one sonde not transmit all the way to the surface, with the last data point at ~980mb (and sporadic data for a bit before that). There were only 31 sondes dropped, because the last drop point was scheduled for so close to the end that we would’ve been on the ground before the drop had finished. All of the data should now be uploaded to ftp://ftp.eol.ucar.edu/pub/data/incoming/otrec/EOL_data/AVAPS_data/raw_files (and also to all of the mirrors as noted in the data flow diagram).
Having the QC being done onboard the aircraft for the first flight worked well, and I think was nicer than having it done on the ground. Since this was the first flight, being able to answer questions in quickly person was helpful.
The launcher carriage did get stuck once, when the entire bin of sondes was dropped. I think this was caused by the top solenoid being stuck open, as the sondes with full packaging during the ferry flight didn’t fit as well. I thought I had checked that prior to the flight, but must have missed one bin. Tomorrow is a maintenance day, so I will go out and make sure everything is working as expected.
The next pair of flights is currently scheduled for Sunday (08/11) and Monday (08/12). Today’s flight was shorter than expected, which means the possibility of enough flight hours for an extra pair of flights.
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Jacquelyn Witte
I only see dfiles in the /scr/tmp/otrec/...dfiles/ folder. Everything else is empty.
In the ftp directory it looks like there is the additional directory 'RF01' under the raw_data folder and subdirectories like Originals/ and Transfer/ that are not being passed over (mirrored) to the /scr/tmp/otrec...raw_data/ folder. I don't understand why.
Is this a BTsynch issue or a permissions issue? Mack, can you please find out why the raw data are not mirrored at EOL? Thank you.
Mack Goodstein AUTHOR
Right, I suppose it won't be syncing back yet. I uploaded directly to FTP for this, because the NAS is still stuck in customs. So the rest of the locations won't automatically get data until the sea container arrives.
Jacquelyn Witte
Email from Taylor (Thurs. 8 Aug):
Hi Jacquie,
No, unfortunately I'm in Broomfield in a cinder block office building (RAF). If there is an "opposite" of Costa Rica...
Yes, nothing is showing up in /scr/tmp/otrec from Costa Rica, until the NAS gets set up in the Ops Center. Based on emails from Lou / Pavel, it sounds like it won't be until next week, due to a shipping hold-up in San Jose. Really sorry about that.
In the mean-time, Janine (SE from RAF) is ftp-ing flight data directly from a computer on the ground at the hotel to /net/ftp/pub/data/incoming/otrec so at least project participants can access there. It sounds like internet connectivity is generally pretty good down there.