Friday, September 1: Start of another windy day. Forecast is for high winds today, tonight, and tomorrow. Below are GOES vis image from 10:22 AM PDT and 12 Z 500 mb chart.
Winds picked up this morning as early as 8 AM. Shane arrived around 10 AM. Mohammad here.
Visibilities reduced due to blowing dust. The photo below was taken from the road to the landfill at 9:54 AM PDT. It is looking to the SE and in the direction of the field site.
The following two photos taken looking south from
Below: Checked late this morning (11:22 AM PDT) on the 2" turning mirror downstream of the Raman cell. No noticeable increase in size of the inclusion.
Eastern panorama at 12:26 PM PDT:
Looking east toward the array at 12:27 PM PDT:
GOES-18 visible at 12:46 PM PDT:
Panoramas from 1:53 and 1:54 PM PDT:
Booming backscatter signal today with lots of dust in air. Below is screenshot of REAL LabVIEW display (1:58 PM PDT) with single shot returns being displayed. Red is parallel and white is perpendicular polarization backscatter signals.
GOES Vis from 20:55 UTC below:
Below: examples of a REAL scan at 2:06 PM PDT. Upper left panel is high-pass median filtered backscatter, upper right is raw backscatter SNR, bottom left panel is "image SNR", and bottom right is vector flow field from Typhoon. Trying to link Typhoon to the following pdf.
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Friday, September 1: Start of another windy day. Forecast is for high winds today, tonight, and tomorrow. Below are GOES vis image from 10:22 AM PDT and 12 Z 500 mb chart.
Winds picked up this morning as early as 8 AM. Shane arrived around 10 AM. Mohammad here.
Visibilities reduced due to blowing dust. The photo below was taken from the road to the landfill at 9:54 AM PDT. It is looking to the SE and in the direction of the field site.
The following two photos taken looking south from
Below: Checked late this morning (11:22 AM PDT) on the 2" turning mirror downstream of the Raman cell. No noticeable increase in size of the inclusion.
Eastern panorama at 12:26 PM PDT:
Looking east toward the array at 12:27 PM PDT:
GOES-18 visible at 12:46 PM PDT:
Panoramas from 1:53 and 1:54 PM PDT:
Booming backscatter signal today with lots of dust in air. Below is screenshot of REAL LabVIEW display (1:58 PM PDT) with single shot returns being displayed. Red is parallel and white is perpendicular polarization backscatter signals.
GOES Vis from 20:55 UTC below:
Below: examples of a REAL scan at 2:06 PM PDT. Upper left panel is high-pass median filtered backscatter, upper right is raw backscatter SNR, bottom left panel is "image SNR", and bottom right is vector flow field from Typhoon. Trying to link Typhoon to the following pdf.
Derian_et_al_2015_JTECH.pdf