- 74: GENERAL, Site MISS East Valley, Tue 30-Mar-2004 01:25:42 GMT, MISS moved to West Valley
MISS shutdown at Independence Airport 21:15 UT March 29
and moved to Onion Valley Road site number 5, started up 0:30 UT March 30.
This will be the MISS site for IOP #9 which runs March 18 UT to March 31 6 UT.
This site is 4.0 miles up Onion Valley road from Hwy 395 and is on gently sloping ground. We are about 50 m south of the road on a pullout.
There are small rocky hills to the east and and south east which should block interference from MAPR and Independence.
There are scattered trees to the north and mountains nearby to the west.
The instruments came up okay, however the atmospheric signal is very weak (RH is only 12%) and the profiler is picking up lots of clutter. We tried both 60 and 105 m modes, 105m seemed slightly better.
The Moto-Sat is not locking on to any satellites, perhaps because the Camper is sloping slightly and so the antenna orientation is out.
Lat 36.774601 Lon -118.259331 Alt 1590 m
MISS trailer orientation 38 d magantic, 52 deg true.
- 45: SOUNDING, Site MISS East Valley, Thu 18-Mar-2004 23:22:34 GMT, Sounding#1 00:15z, March 19 IOP#5 from East of Big Pine
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SITE INFO
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Site Name: East of Big Pine
date yymmdd: 040319
launch time UTC: 00:15
Sonde coef tape #:316208704
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb : 877.51
Temp C : 25.80
RH % : 13.70
For Surface Data
Pressure mb : 277.4
Temp C : 25.2
RH% : 14.0
Wind Spd m/s : 5.8
Wind Dir deg : 184
Pre-Launch Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description ( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type,
rain, virga, etc. )
wave clouds due west
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb : 100
Termination Altitude km : 16.2
Reason for Termination : It's done.
Post-Termination Weather Description:
For Surface Data
Pressure mb : 877.52
Temp C : 23.392
RH % : 16.037
Wspd m/s : 5.3747
Wdir deg : 174.93
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COMMENTS (data quality, unusual meteorolical features, launch problems, etc.)
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Wave clouds got a little thicker.
- 29: SOUNDING, Site MISS East Valley, Wed 10-Mar-2004 21:17:44 GMT, Sounding #3 21:30Z March 10 IOP#2 from East Valley (1 km S of DRI#12?)
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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS East Valley site, 1 km south of DRI#12
Lon: 118.990 Lat: 36.779; Alt: ? (from sounde)
date yymmdd: 20040310
launch time UTC: 21:30z
Sonde coef tape #: 316208402
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb : 890.0
Temp C : 25.1
RH % : 11.5
For Surface Data
Pressure mb : 890.
Temp C : 23.8
RH% : 12.8
Wind Spd m/s : 9.7
Wind Dir deg : 323
Pre-Launch Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description ( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type,
rain, virga, etc. )
Very windy; approx 10 m/s from NW plus higher gusts; sunny; clear
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb : 48 mb
Termination Altitude km : 20.8 km
Reason for Termination : burst (but watch it fall)
Post-Termination Weather Description: : less windy, sunny, and clear.
For Surface Data
Pressure mb : 889.5
Temp C : 23.9
RH % : 11.2
Wspd m/s : 7.5
Wdir deg : 323
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COMMENTS (data quality, unusual meteorolical features, launch problems, etc.)
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About 32 cubic feet helium. Windy at launch, Again we are watching the T/RH
on the way down. Good flight.
- 28: SOUNDING, Site MISS East Valley, Wed 10-Mar-2004 20:01:45 GMT, Sounding #2 19:30Z March 10 IOP#2 from East Valley (1 km S of DRI#12?)
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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS East Valley site, 1 km south of DRI#12
Lon: 118.990 Lat: 36.779; Alt: ? (from sounde)
date yymmdd: 20040310
launch time UTC: 19:30z
Sonde coef tape #: 316208407
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MET INFO
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Pressure mb : 891
Temp C : 23.2
RH % : 16.6
For Surface Data
Pressure mb : (MISS sfc met not up at launch)
Temp C :
RH% :
Wind Spd m/s :
Wind Dir deg :
Pre-Launch Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description ( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type,
rain, virga, etc. )
Very windy; approx 12 m/s from NNW plus higher gusts; sunny; clear
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb : 100
Termination Altitude km : ?
Reason for Termination : burst
Post-Termination Weather Description: : still windy, sunny, and clear.
For Surface Data
Pressure mb : 890.4
Temp C : 23.2
RH % : 14.8
Wspd m/s : 8.7
Wdir deg : 311
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COMMENTS (data quality, unusual meteorolical features, launch problems, etc.)
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Used 30 cf Helium. Very windy at launch, managed to hit surface tower dead
center with balloon. Balloon continues on its way, with the sonde attached.
No adverse affects. T/RH data looks good on descent also. Good aim, good flight.
- 27: DAILY, Site MISS East Valley, Wed 10-Mar-2004 19:59:50 GMT, Daily Wednesday March 10, 2004 IOP#2
IOP#2 today
Problems starting profiler. Replacing keyboard fixed.
Started profiler at 19:12Z. Any earlier profiler data prior may have bad
angles and from just a few dwells. 60m mode up. 10m/s Nyquist. No RASS
Launched sonde at 19:30
Surface met up at 19:43
Second sonde at 21:30
Today's IOP was originally scheduled for 21Z to 15Z tomorrow morning. The
forecast has a short wave bringing Easterly winds, with a possible wave
event. The IOP was changed to begin earlier (forecast changed).
The observed winds from sounding were northeasterly above the mountains.
Vertical motions in the profiler data but not clear wave motion.(Deserves
a closer look). Surface winds decreased slowly from about 10 m/s at 20Z to
about 5.5 m/s at 00Z. Direction steady from 340. T was about 24C
Profiler seeing NWerlies up to 1500 m or so, rotating to more northerly
above.
Once underway, all systems operated will. Profiler had severe clutter in lowest
500 m and again at 2.5 km and up from mountains to east.
IOP#2 will end at 02Z (6pm) so expect data to stop then.