A warm day with variable winds and some scattered clouds in the afternoon. A few dust devils, mostly to the south.
David, Isabel, and Josh (along with mainly of the ISFS crew) left early this morning - many thanks to all for a productive setup. It's now just myself on the ISS side and Steve, Justin and Gary working on the ISFS side (and the RSF crew). Most instruments are operating although there are still some communications issues and I had a somewhat frustrating day trying to get the lidars and cameras online. With Gary's help we got the lidar camera on-line (it's on the MISS LAN and for some reason it kept coming up on the wrong subnet and wouldn't accept a static IP address). This is a Microseveen camera which will allow us to remotely monitor what the lidars are doing (eg, where the heads are pointing). Another Microseven camera on the ISS1 tower pointed to the southeast over the study area did not have the same issue. I hope to install another Microseven camera on the ISFS tower array.
A bigger issue was with the Halo lidars. For some reason, the teamviewer app normally used by these lidars isn't working on the ISS network so the only way to control them has been by directly connecting a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Eventually I was able to get Microsoft remote desktops working for both lidars and then by finally being able to compare them side-by-side discovered that the Metek Halo lidar is showing significantly less signal than the UVA Halo and our Windcube. I will investigate further tomorrow, it is not clear yet if the reduced power is due to a different scanning or sampling strategy or if there is a problem with the lidar.
Remote desktops for the Halo lidars, the UVA lidar on the lower left, and the Metek lidar on the upper right.
The Microseven camera installed south of MISS (left) and its field of view (right) which is designed to view (from left) the NCAR windcube, the Meek Halo (on MISS), the UVA Halo, and the Chico State REAEL lidar.
A Microseven camera on the ISS1 met tower looking southeast (left) and its field of view (right) looking out over the main study area south of the ISFS tower array.