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Thursday, September 7.   Bruce noticed that the shots per scan we getting noisy (not stable around 170) and slowly decreasing.  The system was restarted  at approximately 0810 PDT with a 5 minute warmup and the BSU was reinitialized.

This is the second time that this has occurred - both times the lidar had been operating for multiple days.  The first event happened on Sept 2.

LabVIEW restart


Clear and sunny today.


Some decent gust structures this afternoon in the REAL images.  Here is one example:

and some corresponding wind retrievals:


Here's another sequence:

and some corresponding wind fields:

But, sometimes conditions become "quiet" (meaning, no gust structures):

Shane visited site from about 8:15 PM until about 10:00 PM PDT.   Checked mirror downstream of Raman cell.   Inclusion does not look any more advanced then prior photos.



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