Monday August 21 - post hurricane Hilary
tropical Storm Hilary dumped over 2" on rain on Tonopah starting Saturday Aug 19 through early Monday Aug 21
On startup we were hitting the grouds between azimuth 60 and 80 2 to 3 km in range
We stopped the lidar and Shane looked at the long angle housekeeping data and it went from 0.38 to 0.35 deg
The trans angle went from -.105 to .003
We raised the PPI elevation angle from 0.0 degree to 0.1 degree and no longer hit the ground
Lidar start
Clouds looking east 0900 PDT
Clouds look west 0900 PDT
Aug 20 MPD03 hurricane Hillary day
Aug 21 MPD03
Typical very clean atmosphere scan from 21 Aug
Wind field plot from a vehicle going out to the VORTAC