Hot, clear with light variable winds, mostly from west.
The main events today involved lidars, networking and Helium (and lots of forklift work). We unpacked and installed our own wind lidar (the Windcube 200S) on a small platform about 20 meters SSW of MISS (and west of the UVA Halo and CL61 ceilometer). This lidar will be mainly doing PPI scans for VAD wind profiles. We then installed the Metek Halo lidar on an elevated platform on top of the MISS container. It will be mainly staring along the ISFS array to the east. After some more network work, we started up the Windcube and CL61, both appeared to be working well and see up to about 2km altitude. We haven't started up the Metek Halo yet. Isabel also got the plotting working in the ISS1 data manager so we can view plots from the Modular Profiler, surface met, windcube and CL61. A technician from Tonopah connected us to the outside world so we now have a broadband network connection.
Will, Chris, and I met with Chenning and his students, gave a safety briefing, and discussed their work setting up poles for a fiber optic line to measure temperature.
Installing NCAR's Vaisala/Leosphere Windcube scanning lidar (left) and the Halo-Photonics Streamline lidar (leased from Metek) on the right.