Dec 9, 08:44 am, Tom, Gordon
data from wvally4 stopped overnight. At the site, the data system up and taking data, yesterday's files had been copied.
/var/log/isfs/kernel had many messages about eth0 down and up.
Power, WAN and WLAN LEDs were on, but not the USB. Modem LED was on solid. Could not ping the router, 192.168.0.1.
Power cycled router with
vio 7 0 vio 7 1
Router came up and the modem connected.
Apparently need to modify the network check scripts. If the viper cannot ping the router, then the router is not power cycled. It is cycled only if the viper can ping the router, but cannot ping google or EOL. This was done so that the modem would not do reconnects if the problem was in the ethernet wiring of the box. Will change the crontab, so that once an hour if the router cannot be pinged, the power will be cycled.
Pulled a drip loop in pyrgeometer data cable. Drip loop on pyranometer is not as good.
Left 8:44 am.
Updated the crontabs on all stations, so that once an hour do a router_check.sh without a net_check.sh:
# Only run router_check.sh if net_check.sh succeeds to avoid power cycling modem # if the problem is with the ethernet connection 15,30,45 * * * * net_check.sh eth0 192.168.0 192.168.0.1 && router_check.sh 7 www.eol.uca # once an hour skip net_check.sh 0 * * * * router_check.sh 7 www.eol.ucar.edu www.google.com
Dec 08, 4:23 pm, Tom, Gordon
Cleaned krypton with water from ladder, didn't lower mast. 4:2? pm
twh (3/1/11): high-rate data shows cleaned at 16:27
Sonic wicks ok, though one extended about 1cm past surface of transducer.
Pulled it back, so that it extended just a little past surface.
kh2oV = 1.5 V after cleaning
Dec 8, 3:40 pm, Tom, Gordon
kh2oV = 0.001 V
Mast down 3:49
cleaned krypton with water
twh (3/1/11): high-rate data shows cleaned at 15:53
kh2oV=1.6 V
sonic wicks OK
mast up 3:56 pm
twh (3/1/11): high-rate w suggests mast down 15:51 - 15:56
(3/2/11): high-rate T-tc supports these times
Dec 8, 2:33 pm, Tom, Gordon
kh2oV = 0.06 V
Lowered mast 2:42 pm
Cleaned krypton with water. kh2oV=1.3 V
twh (3/1/11): high-rate data shows cleaning at 14:44
Sonic wicks OK
Raised mast, 2:49 pm.
twh (3/1/11): high-rate u,w data shows mast down 14:42 - 14:47;
14:49 may reflect time taken to complete guy wire attachment
(3/2/11): high-rate pressure data agrees with u,w data
Dec 8, 1:42 pm MST, Tom, Gordon
kh2oV = 0.27 V
Lowered mast at 1:48 pm. Cleaned krypton with water. kh2oV = 1.5 V
Raised mast 1:59.
twh (3/1/11) high-rate kh2oV and w suggest these times for lowering & raising the mast are okay.
(3/2/11): kh20V data shows cleaning occurred at 13:52;
high-rate pressure data clearly shows mast down 13:50 - 15:58;
longer period (13:48 - 13:59) may account for time to begin and complete mast lowering
Soil mote has not been reporting at this site since last night. Tsoil owed spikes last night, then all soil data stopped.
mote_dump showed it was continually resetting. Yellow light on solid.
Disconnected tsoil 018, restarted mote. This site now has no Tsoil.
Left 2:03
Status evaluated Dec 8 10:00-12:00 MST
(36 hour plots; missing Dec 1700 to Dec 8 0900)
On site: Tom and Gordon
Summary: RH at Playa out
kh2oV low at sites 1-4
soil mote out at Highland, presumably Tsoil took it down.
Vdsm: ok, 12-14.5 Volts
Vmote.rad: ok, 13-18 V
Vmote.soil: ok, 12-18 V
P: ok
Tbaro: ok, 0 to 20 degC
T: ok, -3 to 8 degC
RH: ok, 60 to 100 %; Playa bad
Q: ok, 3.5 to 6 gm/kg, drying; Playa bad
Rainr (3,5,6): 3-9 mm/hr events(?) at Highland, W Valley
Spd (1,6): ok, up to 5 m/s
Dir (1,6): ok, currently W at Playa, S at W Slope
csat diag: ok now, high afternoon of Dec 6, likely precip/fog
spd: ok, generally up to 3 m/s; 6-7 m/s at Riverton
dir: ok, currently W at Playa, others ~SE
u'u': ok, up to 1.5 m^2/s^2 at Riverton; others generally < 0.5 m/s
v'v': ok, ditto
w'w': ok, up to 0.7 m^2/s^2 at Riverton; other generally < 0.2 m/s
u*: ok, up to 0.6 m/s at Riverton; others generally < 0.3 m/s
sigma_w/u*: ok, 1-3
tc: ok, -2 to 10 deg C
tc'tc': generally < 0.2 degC^2; currently < 0.04 degC^2
w'tc': ok, fluxes > 0 today, ~ 0.03 m/s degC; highest at Riverton
kh2oV: ok, 0 to 1.4 V, Playa and ABC < 20 mv; W Valley 150 mv; Highland 270 mv.
kh2o'kh2o': generally < 0.01 (gm/m^3)^2; Playa and ABC too high
w'kh2o': ok, generally < 0.02 m/s gm/m^3
Rsw.in: ok, up to 300 W/m^2 on 12/8
Rsw.out: ok, up to 120 W/m^2 on 12/8
albedo: ok, up to 0.4; ABC lowest, W Valley highest
Rsw.dfs (1,7): ok, up to 200 W/m^2 on 12/8
Rsw.global (1,7): ok, up to 200 W/m^2 on 12/8
Rlw.in: ok, up to 320 W/m^2 on 12/8
Rpile.in: ok, -100 to 0 W/m^2 on 12/8
Tcase.in: ok, -3 to 7 deg C on 12/8
Tdome.in (1,2,5): ok, -3 to 7 deg C on 12/8
Rlw.out: ok, up to 340 W/m^2 on 12/8
Rpile.out: ok, -35 to 5 W/m^2 on 12/8
Tcase.out: ok, -3 to 7 deg C on 12/8
Tdome.out (1,2,5): ok, -3 to 7 deg C on 12/8
soil.aux at Playa E&W Slope (1,5,6)
Tsoil: good at 1,2,4,5aux,6aux;
missing Playa aux, E Slope main, W Slope main,
RIP at Highland sometime after 1800 MST Dec 7
3 cm at River looks ok, but spiking
Qsoil: 15 to 34 %vol; missing Highland
Gsoil: -100 to 20 W/m^2; missing Highland
Cvsoil: 5e5 to 3e6; missing Highland
Per Steve Semmer's suggestion, left a bad TRH (015 from abc2) in the soil oven at between 35 and 40C for a few hours yesterday. This unit was giving a RH of -3, with a raw value of 0. After the baking it was generating believable T and Rh in the trailer, but upon blowing on it, the RH would go up to 50% and then cut out, back to -3%. Same thing happened when putting it outside.
Left 015 and 023 (from wslope6) TRH transducers in the soil oven at about 40C overnight. Later the next afternoon tested 015 again. Data "looked" ok and couldn't get it to fail by breathing or putting it outside.
Tom doesn't trust it, since the calibration may have changed, so we'll send these back to Boulder, along with some Tsoils.
Dec 6, 15:20 pm
Removed TRH023 which has been reporting raw values of 0 for T and RH since yesterday. Saw no obvious problems with the transducer.
Installed TRH24 at 15:30
Sonic has wicks.
Pulled a drip loop in downlooking PYG cable. PSP had a nice drip loop.
Dec 6, 14:20 Tom, Gordon
Installed Epply PSP 26224 downlooker. Made sure there were drip loops in the data cables for the downlooking radiometers.
PSP 16714 had been removed from this site yesterday due to a water leak.
26224 was a spare from the trailer, which needed an I2C address change. Previously it was address 85 (0x55), and I changed it to 91 (0x5b).
Sonic at this site has all wicks. Tom used datascope as a binocular.
At the site, noticed that main soil mote (ID12) was not reporting. Power cycled it.
Left at 14:40.
Dec 6, 10:20 am, Tom, Gordon
Fog, light rain, which stopped.
Installed TP01 at aux soil (mote ID20). This is the TP01 which was removed from site 1 this morning. Didn't check the serial number. There is no serial number on the connector. Tom thinks it might have been unit 013.
Left 10:42 am.
Dec 6, 09:20 am, Tom, Gordon
Light rain.
RH has been reading -3 % here since last night. Removed unit 015. Goretex sock was intact, a damp black film present on the goretex - probably from dust. This unit is covered with a brown resin where the transducer is soldered.
Brought 015 back to car to let it dry out a bit. Inside of din socket was damp. Sprayed it with some canned air. Put back in unit, but RH still bad. Replaced with 021.
Tom removed Qsoil, ECHO003, which had been reporting intermittently. Replaced with unit 020 which we had just removed from aux playa1. Values look good.
Left 09:53
Dec 6, 08:25 am, Tom, Gordon
Removed all aux soils, sensors, mote, and post.
Removed dead ts013 at main site and buried ts017 inserting it into the holes of ts013.
ts017 had been hanging in air since last night.
Left site at 08:40.
A little after 15:00 MST Dec 5, the TRH at wslope6 failed:
TRH23 -40.21 -3.99 0 0\r\n TRH23 -40.21 -3.99 0 0\r\n TRH23 -40.21 -3.99 0 0\r\n TRH23 -40.21 -3.99 0 0\r\n
Note that the raw values are 0.
I've tried:
eio 5 0 eio 5 1
but it didn't help.
Fog was prevalent all over the valley yesterday, including at 6. We visited the site at 16:15 but didn't notice that the TRH was out.
Status (36 hour plots): Dec 3 12:00 to 13:20
On site: Tom and Gordon
Summary: bad Rsw.out removed at E Slope
Mote at W Slope main down, likely caused by bad Tsoil
Missing Tsoil at Playa (both), E Slope main and W slope main
Missing Cvsoil at Eslope aux
Qsoil intermittent at ABC
Vdsm: ok, 12-14.5 Volts
Vmote.rad: ok, 13-18 V
Vmote.soil: ok, 12-18 V; missing Playa main, W Slope main
P: ok
Tbaro: ok, 0 to 20 degC
T: ok, -4 to 6 degC
RH: ok, 70 to 106 (Playa) %RH
Q: ok, 3.5 to 5.3 gm/kg
Rainr (3,5,6): 3mm/hr event at Highland, 2 at W Valley
Spd (1,6): ok, up to 4 m/s
spd: ok, generally up to 3 m/s; 6-7 m/s at Riverton
Dir (1,6): ok, currently N at Playa, S at W Slope
dir: ok, N at Playa, W Valley; others ~S
u'u': ok, up to 2 m^2/s^2 at Riverton; others generally < 0.5 m/s
v'v': ok, ditto
w'w': ok, up to 0.7 m^2/s^2 at Riverton; other generally < 0.2 m/s
u*: ok, up to 0.5 m/s at Riverton; others generally < 0.3 m/s
sigma_w/u*: ok, 1 to 2.5 , including Riverton
kh2oV: ok, 0 to 1.5 V
kh2o'kh2o': generally < 0.1 (gm/m^3)^2
w'kh2o': generally < 0.02 m/s gm/m^3
tc: ok, -2 to 6 deg C
tc'tc': generally < 0.2 degC^2; eslope, wslope and river have higher variance
w'tc': ok, fluxes positive today, ~ 0.01 m/s degC; highest at playa and w valley
diag: ok, a few events to 0.01 to 0.04
Rsw.in: ok, up to 500 W/m^2 on 12/5
Rsw.out: ok, up to 350 W/m^2 on 12/5; removed sensor at E Slope ~1830 MST, Dec 4
Rsw.dfs (1,7): ok, up to 400 W/m^2 on 12/5
Rsw.global (1,7): ok, up to 500 W/m^2 on 12/5
Rlw.in: ok, up to 320 W/m^2 on 12/5
Rpile.in: ok, -140 to 0 W/m^2 on 12/5
Tcase.in: ok, -3 to 15 deg C on 12/5
Tdome.in (1,2,5): ok, -3 to 13 deg C on 12/5
Rlw.out: ok, up to 320 W/m^2 on 12/5 (spurious spike at site 5, 1800 MST, Dec 4)
Rpile.out: ok, -40 to 10 W/m^2 on 12/5
Tcase.out: ok, -3 to 15 deg C on 12/5
Tdome.out (1,2,5): ok, -3 to 13 deg C on 12/5
soil.aux at Playa E&W Slope (1,5,6)
Tsoil: good at 2,3,4,5aux,6aux;
missing Playa (both), E Slope main, W Slope main,
3 cm at river(7) is increasingly high also erratic
Qsoil: 12 to 34 %vol; missing W Slope main, abc (intermittent),
Gsoil: 5 to 10 W/m^2; missing W Slope main
Cvsoil: 1-3e7; missing W slope main, E Slope (aux)
Dec 5, 1158 MST: Joe Young disconnected Tsoil at Playa main soil site and pressed the white reset button on the mote.
Gordon looked at the data and it is reporting Gsoil, Qsoil, and TP01.