Installed the EC100 w/ sonic at Ap8.  Saw power and sonic light green while the gas light went from orange to red.  [shrugging]  But it's installed at 3m with a pressure port.  I believe it left it on port 7.

Chris

Weather:

Great sunrise but mid-low level clouds moving into the area.  Chilly with a breeze this morning.  Just hovering above freezing with high humidity.

Status:

All systems reporting.  Notice that two baro's are reporting RIP, that is because we have changed from the PTB220 to the Nano-barometers.  Realize that more instruments are being added to Ap8 and we should watch the power on that station.

To Do:

- Will deploy the EC100 with it's sonic on Ap8.  Everything is ready to go and I will get in contact with Gordon to see if we can see it.  We had trouble with seeing it last night.

Three nano barometers were installed at A11, A5 and Main towers.  Gordon got them to communicate but we still need to config it's outputs.

Gordon, Nov 9

Chris hooked up the EC150 via USB to the flux laptop. It comes up as a typical serial device /dev/ttyUSB0, so I talked to it with minicom, 115200 baud. It is currently set for 10Hz reporting, so I didn't change anything.

EC100>H

Terminal Mode Commands:
D: Parameter Dump
E: Load CalFile
K: Dump cal file
N: Bandwidth, ECMon Rate, and Unprompted Rate configure
O: Pressure, Temperature sensor menu
S: Set Parameters
X: Save Setup to FLASH
Z: Change user calibration coefficients (manually or span/zero)

EC100>N

Bandwidth = 12.5Hz, ECMon Rate = 10Hz, Unprompted Rate = 10Hz
        1) Modify Bandwidth.
        2) Modify ECMon Rate.
        3) Modify Unprompted Rate.
Enter Selection: 

EC100>D

Copyright (C) Campbell Scientific Inc.
OS Version: EC100.03, OS Date: 2012-09-19 12:07:38
Board Srl#: 1313-5.1
Gas Id: , Gas Cal Date: 
Sonic Id: , Sonic Cal Date: 
SDM Address: 1, Bandwidth: 12.5Hz
Lifetime timer: 0.000000 Hours

EC100>

Gordon Nov 9

Chris substituted Paroscientific 6000 nano-barometers for the Vaisala PTBs at site 10 and at 1 meter on the main tower.

He will add a Paro 6000 to site 5 later today. Site 5 doesn't currently have a barometer, and he needs to modify the 1m boom.

The barometers were reporting at 1 Hz in some other units than millibars:

*000111.95841\r\n
*000111.95840\r\n
*000111.95839\r\n
*000111.95844\r\n

I sent them the commands documented in http://wiki.eol.ucar.edu/sew/ISFS/SensorInformation/NanoParo, so that they report at about 13 Hz, in millibars.

With this modification, site 5 becomes a Aph station, rather than a Ah. On that DSM, I've left its hostname as Ah5, and just added the barometer to the catalog for Ah_DSMs.

For a short period of time I ran an Aph config on 5, which garbled up the sensor <-> id mapping:

• 0.5m TRH on port 1 ingested as barometer, id: 5,10
• 2m TRH on port 5 ingested as 0.5m TRH, id: 5,40
• handar on port 6 ingested as 2m TRH, id: 5,50
• PWR mote on port 7 ingested as Handar, id: 5,60

Depending on whether the data records parse with the wrong sensor tag, data will need to be edited out. I believe they are all in the file Ah5_20121109_180123.dat, and the real-time isfs file. The file Ah5_20121109_182039.dat has the correct config (Ah_DSM with the barometer added to port 8)

Updated the XML on the servers (gully, flux and at EOL). On the servers, Ah5 is now an Aph_DSM.

Chris

Weather:

CHILLY!  Temperatures are freezing and high humidity.  Frost on grass this morning.  High to mid-level clouds.  "Red skies in the morning..."  Winds are calm to null.

Status:

All stations are reporting.  

To Do:

Finish with mounting EC150.

Help ISS with the RASS.

Collect as many tumbleweeds as I can and mark them.  I will release them up gully and see which weed wins.  Tumble on!

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Main Tower

Gordon, Nov 8

The flux system is reporting errors related to its Seagate disk. ST9160411ASG, /dev/sbd. Fortunately the software RAID is working, and it is staying up, using the Western digital drive, WDC WD1600BJKT on /dev/sda.

More info is at http://wiki.eol.ucar.edu/sew/ISFS/BaseSystemNotes/ISFSDellPrecisionM6400#Disk_Failure

Chris and Larry

Weather:

Chilly today.  Winds are blowing and temperature is having a hard time to get to 10C.  Mid-level clouds are keeping the sun from shinning.

Status:

Gandered the Gully and it all looks good.  Everyone is communicating today and all playing nice.

To Do:

Check out Stations 2,11 and C for nano and EC150 installment.

Oh my!

I have cleaned radiometers, Kryptons and Licors.  

Noticed the 0.5m TRH at station 3 was not reporting.  If I try to recycle power on port, nothing happens.  If I recycle power on station it works for a few seconds.  So I went out to station 3 and decided to replace the TRH probe.  Rebooted system and awaiting results.

Removed probe 024 and put in probe 048.  Funny.

Weather:

Very pleasant out.  Light winds with mostly sunny skies.  ~13C w/ 25% Rh

Status:

All systems reporting.  A lot of cows by water tower this morning.  Hopefully, they do not have a plan to run down the fence and get into the testing area.

To Do:

- Reboot RASS for APG.

- Check on TRH confusion on main tower.

- Make my bed.

On Site: TWH and Larry Mahrt

Weather: 

Scattered clouds; light south winds; temperature 9 degC, 60% RH

Status:

Booooring...

To Do:

Categorized photos and retake photos of station configuration.  Previous photos were often back-lit, which made the sensors indistinct.

Attend ISF group-heads meeting at 1:30 via Skype.

Vamoose.

On Site:  TWH and Larry Mahrt (arrived last night with granddaughter)

Weather:

Low overcast, 10 m/s north winds at 10m, 12 deg C and 25% RH

Status:

All stations (DSMs) operational.  Qsoil.c not reporting.  10m sonic ok with 10 m/s winds.

To Do: 

Watch Broncos game this afternoon.

Discuss analysis plans with Larry.

Reset watch to MST.

November 3, TWH took photos of stations with Canon Power Shot SD990 IS.  The last photo for each station was taken of the DSM to record the station ID.  I did not always get this in focus, so I have listed the frame numbers for each station below.

1237 - 1244: main tower

1245: radiation stand

1246 - 1247: cactus soil

1248 -1249: grass soil

1250 - 1251: a11

1252: main tower base & Picarro

1253 - 1258: a1

1259 - 1263: a2

1264 - 1267: a4

1268 - 1271: a5

1272 - 1274: a6

1275 - 1279: a7

1280 - 1283: a3

1284 - 1287: a9

1288 - 1290: a10

1291 - 1294: a8

1295 - 1297: a12

1298 - 1300: a13

1301 - 1302: a14

1303: a17

1304: a15

1305: fiber optic, north end

1306 - 1307: a15

1308 - 1311: a17

1312 - 1314: a16

1315 - 1318: a18

1319 - 1321: a19

1322 - 1325: c20