Warm sunny day, high around 27C.
IOP #5 Mar 18 21Z (13PST) to Mar 19 12Z (4PST).
MISS was sited 2 miles east of Big Pine (see yesterday's entry). MISS was powered up at 20Z. There was a very brief (about 5 minute) interruption to the MISS surface met around 2Z, fixed by resetting the freewave at the Campbell.
MAPR operating normally, apart from a power down for an hour from 21Z, necessitated by repairs of a serious oil leak in the generator.
Soundings from MISS and MGLASS at 0Z (4PST). At MISS, the first RS80 package had a faulty RH sensor so a second package was used and successfully launched at 00:19UT. MGLASS launched a second sonde about 1Z after power problems left data gaps from their first sonde. The air force sonde was also delayed to 1Z.
Light northerly winds last night, turned southerly this morning. By the time the IOP started (21Z) the southerlies strengthened to around 7 - 8 m/s and stayed constant until about 1Z when they weakened and became more variable.
Strong westerlies at mountain top produced nice clouds (particularly from about Independence north to Big Pine) during the afternoon. However there didn't appear to be any mixing to lower levels.
The MISS profiler saw southerly winds to about 2km, signals below about 500 m and above about 3km were affected by clutter.
MAPR also saw southerlies to 2km and detected some westerlies at 3km.