Today the weather was cool and calm with high scattered clouds. The 2nd IOP ended at noon and all soundings went well, including our normal one at 1615 today. Bill left this morning.
At ISS1 site I walked around and verified that all RASS speakers were still operating, and adjusted one of the webcams for Bill. All instruments were doing well. It seems that after Bill changed the duty cycle on the Wind Profiler, it is seeing up to 3-4km now. At 1425 MST the 50V power supply was reading 3.43A and the 31V supply 1.843 with 100m mode running. AT 1430 MST the 50V supply went to 2.89A and the 31V supply went to 1.898A with 150m RASS mode. The enclosure temperature dips to around 14C at night and rises to 32C during the day. If it starts to get closer to 40C I will probably plug in one of the AC units and only run it during the day time.
At the 1615 sounding Isabel and I trained 3 more students (Becca, Johnathan, and Peter). I also took some measurement estimates to create a sketch of the sounding site, which will be posted later.
I also wanted to note that yesterday (1/16) I checked on the fluid level for the LIDAR lens cleaning as well as the desiccant and both were good. As long as conditions are safe I plan to check these again before I go back to Boulder.
The rest of the day I helped Isabel with ISFS tasks. We went to the Provo River Supersite, and Isabel did an update to the DSM. We also went to the South Pivot site to take a soil sample.
Isabel getting ready to take a soil sample and giving me a refresher.
Becca, Johnathan and Peter being trained on the sounding system