Daily status 22 Jan 2011
On site: Oncley, Militzer
A bit of rain last night, morning of broken clouds.
Summary:
- kryptons at 3,4,6 reading 0 due to the rain
- 3G modem at 4 died yesterday and wasn't rebooted by dsm crontab. Data saved locally, so no loss.
- Shadowbands at 1&7 should be adjusted (more). Inclination angle should be set to 60 deg.
- Oil clean-up people left yesterday near base.
- Tour given to John Horel's undergraduate instrument course yesterday
Vdsm: ok,
Vmote.rad: ok.
Vmote.soil(aux): ok.
P: ok, steady after falling until 11PM last night
T: ok, 0 to +7 degC (warmer)
RH: ok, 40-95%.
Rainr (3,4,6): ok, 0.8, 0.3, 1.0mm overnight, respectively
Spd (1,6): ok
Dir (1,6): ok
csat diag: ok, 6 & 7 showed simultaneous glitches yesterday, so must be physical
samples.sonic: ok,
spd: ok,
dir: ok,
u'u': ok,
v'v': ok,
w'w': ok,
u*: ok, max 0.8 m/s
sigma_w/u*: ok, a few low values at 3 (why not at 2??)
tc: ok,
tc'tc': ok
w'tc': ok, -0.01 to +0.10 m/s degC. Was pretty nice yesterday
kh2oV: ok, max 1.5--2.2 yesterday, stns 3,4,6 now 0 due to rain
kh2o'kh2o': ok
w'kh2o': ok, up to 0.02 (50 W/m2) during day yesterday
Rsw.in: ok. overcast yesterday morning, but cleared up in afternoon
Rsw.out: ok.
albedo: ok, 0.1-0.2
Rsw.dfs (1,7): "ears" in morning and afternoon in shadowbands (but not SPN-1) show that adjustment is needed (see Summary)
Rsw.global (1,7): ok.
Rlw.in: ok, 240-320 W/m2
Rpile.in: ok,
Tcase.in: ok, 0-16 degC
Tdome.in (1,2,5): ok
Rlw.out: ok, 310-390 W/m2
Rpile.out: ok,
Tcase.out: ok
Tdome.out (1,2,5): ok
soil.aux at E & W Slope (5,6)
Tsoil: ok. Only 7 is still below freezing
Gsoil: ok. Interesting abc change during the day yesterday
Qsoil: ok. apparent or real increases due to soil thawing
Cvsoil: ok.