SRP-2004: Site MISS IND ARPT Messages, 98 Entries..

SURFACE:
good


PROFILER:
Running, but the screen won't display. Tried alt-enter,
and all other things. Finally rebooted it.

PROF disk 78.5% full.

SOUNDINGS:
None from this site recently.

DATA COMMS:
Data products are current on ATD Web site.

from approx. 1445 - 1505.

SURFACE:
good


PROFILER:
Fine

PROF disk 75% full.

SOUNDINGS:
None from this site recently.

DATA COMMS:
Data products are current on ATD Web site.

Profiler display screen was all fouled up. Eventually,after toggling alt-enter
a bunch of times, I was able to get the pop display showing. If I switched out
of it to windows, however, the mouse didn't work. Finally shut down pop,
and windows and mouse came back to life.

Then found that the CDrom in the profiler had filled up about 5 days ago. The
spc files on it had the following sizes:

day
102   61MB
103   57MB
104   64MB
105   58MB
106   60MB
107   60MB
108   60MB
109   60MB
110   60MB
111    5MB
112   60MB
113   30MB

I finalized the disk.

Started a new CD, copied files for days 111-118 to this CD, and finalized it.

Moved files for days 111-118 to the backed_up directory.

Started a new CD.

Took the two CDs (days 102-113, and days 111-118) to the MAPR trailer.

The profiler d: drive was 99.2% full. Talked with Bill,
and he had me remove spectral files up to day 93 from the
backed up directory.

We also observed that the autorun xcopy was not running.
He had me run it manually, and it copied days 101 through 111
to the CD drive.

The CD drive has 95MB available, and so it will only
hold  another day of spectra. Bill suggested that we 
leave it in to see if the autorun runs tomorrow. After that,
the CD will need to be changed.

This site needs CD cases.

SURFACE:
good


PROFILER:
Fine

PROF disk 99.2% full.

SOUNDINGS:
None from this site in last 24 hrs.

DATA COMMS:
Data products are current on ATD Web site.

SURFACE:
good


PROFILER:
Fine

PROF disk 84% full.

SOUNDINGS:
None from this site in last 24 hrs.

DATA COMMS:
Data products are current on ATD Web site.

Sounding rack (only) delivered to Fresno. The GLASS system is currently
not operational at this site.

SURFACE:
Radiation still looks fine. The recent problem appears to
be fixed by the replacement of the optoisolator.

Aspiration working, guy wires attatched, surface values 
reasonable and anemometer turning. Full data record.


PROFILER:
Fine

PROF disk 87% full.

SOUNDINGS:
None from this site in last 24 hrs.

DATA COMMS:
Data products are current on ATD Web site.

Checking in. Everything looks good.

Stopped by to check on site. Everything looks normal.

Surface:
Radiation didn't seem to drop out yesterday. Lou had a spare opto isolator and I swapped that yesterday. We'll see if it stays that way.

Aspiration working, guy wires attatched, surface values reasonable and anemometer turning. No obvious drop outs in surface data.


PROFILER:
Profiler looks like it ran all night. RASS most of the night because of par file change done last eve from clr105 to turb105 because of folding and dop vel exceeding max. See other post by James. Beam angles and rass quiet corrected by me this morning. 

PROF disk 81% full at 12:30 140404 utc. We may have to clear some data off before end of project.

SOUNDINS':
Yesterday there were 3 soundin's and today there will be at least 2. Soundings have been going well. This mornings 12Z I couldn't get to the regulator so I had to fill by size which was a LOT OF JUICE! dz 8 m/s! Top that LOU!

12 z Sounding winds right out of 270 for the entire flt. Sounding heading almost straight east.

When James and Charlie changed the par file last night the beam angles never got changed. This morning at 11:40 14 april 04 utc I changed the beam angles to match the radar.par file they changed out and I added a RASS quiet time 0100 to 1600utc. I also saved this as radar.par.

Beam angles changed from 
22    56deg
21    146
38    56
26    236
25    146
37    326

to 

22    48
21    138
38    48
26    228
25    138
37    318

Changed par file to turb_105.par because sounding showed winds
above 3000 m above 20 m s-1 from 290 deg.

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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS Ind Airport
date yymmdd: 040414
launch time UTC: 12:06
Sonde coef tape #: 316208706

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 877.9
Temp C		: 3.5
RH %		: 40.3

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879
Temp C		: 4.6
RH%		: 35.7
Wind Spd m/s	: .5
Wind Dir deg	: 206

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Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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Dark, calm and lots of stars. 
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 95 mb
Termination Altitude km	: 16.5 km
Reason for Termination	: done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 877.3
     		Temp C		: 3.5
		RH %		: 38.9
		Wspd m/s 	: .8
		Wdir deg	: 265
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good sounding, no regulator because I couldn't get into the side panel door. Spare key was taken. dz got up to 8ms.... 

Weather clear, cold, breaking day, hazy. couple of quick wind breaks in sounding at alt. 

I accidently killed one of the Zebra windows, don't know which one, it
was probably the taskbar. The windowing system got all fouled up 
and wouldn't take input. Had to power cycle the computer to get
it back to life. Data outage of about 10 minutes for surface
obs.

Changed par file to turb_105.par because sounding showed winds
above 3000 m above 20 m s-1 from 290 deg.

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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS Ind Airport
date yymmdd: 040413
launch time UTC: 2356
Sonde coef tape #: 314610502

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 877.51
Temp C		: 22.00 
RH %		: 15.70

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.3 
Temp C		: 21.8
RH%		: 15.3
Wind Spd m/s	: 9.6
Wind Dir deg	: 266

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Gusty, blowing dust, clear with Cu developing over the Sierra
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 81 mb
Termination Altitude km	: 17.5 km
Reason for Termination	: done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 876.2
     		Temp C		: 20.5
		RH %		: 14.2
		Wspd m/s 	: 7.5
		Wdir deg	: 277
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good sounding, showed strong winds near surface and above 3000 m

a couple spikes in the 10s wind data

some cirrus formed overhead during launch

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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS
date yymmdd: 040413
launch time UTC: 1800
Sonde coef tape #:314610501

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MET INFO
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Pressure mb	: 879.9
Temp C		: 19.9
RH %		: 17.8

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 879.5
Temp C		: 19.2
RH%		: 21.9
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.9
Wind Dir deg	: 169

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11 lt, more thicker cirrus, still are wave clouds.  Release at 18:11 UT.
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 97.4
Termination Altitude km	: 16436
Reason for Termination	: high enough!

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878
     		Temp C		: 21.7
		RH %		: 17.1
		Wspd m/s 	: 4.3
		Wdir deg	: 138
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Used the aspirator on this flight. Looks like cirrus is starting to clear out. What was at the west side is clearing to the middle of the valley.Puffy little cu to the west now.

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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS
date yymmdd: 040413
launch time UTC: 1200
Sonde coef tape #:314610500

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 880.1
Temp C		: 6.7
RH %		: 38.4

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 880.1
Temp C		: 6.8
RH%		: 40.9
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.2
Wind Dir deg	: 212

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Dark (sun not up). Broken clouds via moon.  Release at 12:21 UT.
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 99.7
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 879.9
     		Temp C		: 7.1
		RH %		: 43.9
		Wspd m/s 	: 0.3
		Wdir deg	: 193
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COMMENTS (data quality, unusual meteorolical features, launch problems, etc.)
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Waves clouds observed visually.  See Shane's digital pics.

Two of the met tower guy wires were hanging loose today, when the turnbuckles
came apart. We hooked them back up and secured with duct tape.

Data from solar campbell has been noisy and missing today. It seemes that
the SC32A opto isolator is the problem. We switched it with the unit 
in the surface met campbell, and the problem moved with it.

The symptom can be seen in the character printout in the campbell 
window. Characters are garbled, causing the line to either be
rejected entirely, or for some data fields to be misread. The problem
sometimes occurs frequently, at other times it is very intermittant.

It may be temperature related; today it has been hotter inside the
MISS camper than usual. 

Prof datafiles from d04094 to d04101 on CD.

Installed another small fan in the small window in the front of the MISS
trailer to try to keep it cool in the afternoon.  Max since last setting
was 93F.  Currently 78F.  Outside air temp about 23 C.

Note: all MAPR data through 9 April is backed up on DVDs.

It appears the Verizon cell phone service started working again
around 2:30 PM. (21:30 UT.)

Long-distance phone service from ops center and hotel, and
Verizon service and internet from Bishop ceased this morning
at about 10:30 AM during the middle of our daily conference call.
Plan is to launch sondes at 0 and 12 Z on 10 April for IOP#11.
The 0 Z sonde will be for training purposes and the 12 Z will be
the first of a "limited" IOP on Saturday. 
Shane can still be reached on his personal T-Mobile number: 
303-359-2083.

Temperature on the wall in the MISS trailer is 86.9F and says its
been as high as 95.9F.  Called Mike and Lou and apparently there
is no solution except leaving the door open and the little fans
running.

Weather sunny and beautiful--but not good for rotors or waves.
Therefore, PIs decided to call 7 and 8 April "down days".
Next discussion to be held at the ops center at 10 AM on 8 April.

x+W25 and x-E37 beam angles swapped to correct wind direction problem
on MISS profiler.

Correct angles are: x+W25 = 138 and x-E37 = 318.
They were previously incorrect because the labels of the sides of the 
antenna with respect to the trailer were recorded on the little cheat-sheet 
incorrectly.

Anyway, problem solved by Bill (on phone in Boulder) with Shane on site.
Note: correct data being collected starting at 22:13 UT on 6 April 2004. 

On the MISS profiler computer, Under Windows, start, settings, control panel, 
date/time, Shane (with Bill Brown on the phone) changed the Time Zone 
from "GMT Daylight Time" to "Greenwich Standard Time" by going to the 
second tab ("Time Zone") and selecting "[GMT] Monrovia, Casablanca".  
This had the intended result of changing the time from 9:43 PM to 8:43 PM 
(21:43 to 20:43) and is now in agreement with the Display Manager time 
of 20:43.

To avoid confusion or loss of data previously collected data, we plan to 
wait 1 hour to resume profiler operations, and we will also fix the wind 
direction problem observed in the MISS profiler at that time.

Note: this problem was caused by Europe advancing their clock by 1 hour
one week sooner than US.

Kerio Winroute software license expired yesterday and halted communications
back to NCAR.  Shane worked with Gary to enter license number and re-
establish link.  No data were lost and plots on web will be updated soon.

Shane and Greg Poulos stopped by at 22:30 GMT on 3 April to check status
of systems and give Greg a tour.  Today is a "down day" and tomorrow will
be also.  Next ops center meeting scheduled for 10 AM on Sunday.

Weather today is mostly to partly cloudy -- but there is more sun making 
it through than in previous days.  Temperature warmer and winds much lighter
than previous days.

All systems appear to be functioning normally.  Note: clock on profiler 
computer is still running 1 hour fast.  
  

Today we had IOP 10 "limited" starting 15 Z April 2 and will be ending
at 12 Z on April 3.  This report being typed 2:30 Z on April 3.
NCAR Staff present were Bill, Shane, Bruce and Kyle.  Vanda's last
day today and Jim Doyle starts replacing her today as the on-site project PI.

The weather today was mostly cloudy again with strong northerly flow near
the surface.  We launched one balloon at 18 Z from the MISS IND Airport site.
This was Shane's training sonde.

The sonde indicated strong easterly flow at mid-levels followed by northerly
flow at upper levels.  The IOP was to document easterly flow over the Inyo 
Range.  We did observe some range-parallel wave clouds on the eastern side of 
the valley as indicated in the earlier MAPR log.

Bill Brown leaves Saturday morning and Shane replaces him until April 14.

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SITE INFO
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Site Name: MISS IND ARPT
date yymmdd: 040402
launch time UTC: 1800
Sonde coef tape #: 316209211

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 876.5
Temp C		: 10.9
RH %		: 20.7

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.0
Temp C		: 11.6
RH%		: 30.1
Wind Spd m/s	: 10.3
Wind Dir deg	: 341

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Mostly cloudy and hazy sky conditions, winds north...
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 96
Termination Altitude km	: 16.1
Reason for Termination	: done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 874.8
     		Temp C		: 14.9
		RH %		: 27.4
		Wspd m/s 	: 11.1
		Wdir deg	: 347
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Put 30 cubic feet of He in Balloon, rise rate 4 m/s.

Ineteresting winds.  North at launch turning to east and south-southeast 
and then turning north again at high level

Found profiler and sounding PC were both one hour fast.
Probably they tried to automatically adjust for daylight saving time.

The Display Manager computer is correct so we will need to go back and carefully compare times and observations to find out exactly when the problem occurred.

Today's weather was a big change from yesterday: colder, winds from north,
and substantial cloud cover. Flow was from the 
north (340-360 degrees) with wind speeds at the surface reaching 
18 m/s at the MAPR site at 21 Z.  Peak wind speeds at the IND 
Airport MISS site reaching 15 m/s.  
Skies were mostly cloudy with some sun in the AM and late PM.  In fact, 
the clouds were quite dark and threatening looking, especially over the 
mountains today with virga quite often visible.  Occasionally we saw 
raindrops on the windows of the MAPR seatainer.  The air temperature 
peaked at about 17C this morning at 20 Z and fell to around 12C during 
the afternoon between 22-2230 Z.  MAPR showed precip starting at about 
21:30 which is the same time we changed the mode.  MISS profiler
showed precip from 23:15-00:30 but not reaching the ground.

Today was spent with Bill showing Shane and Bruce how to run the MAPR set up.
This included one power cycle at the MAPR site.  

IOP #10 tomorrow.

Sunny day, high around 23C, a little high cloud in afternoon.

Winds southerlies last night, became light and variable early morning, then brisk southerlies picked up again during the day.  Peaked around 21UT at 12-14 m/s. 

MISS shutdown at Onion Valley 5 site last night, moved to Independence Airport an restarted at the end of the day.

MAPR saw mainly southerlies.  Some strong vertical motion around noon as the southerlies developed.

Lots of dust from Owens Lake, esp. on eastern side of valley.

Shane has arrived and is discussing what a lidar would have seen.

Moved MISS back to Independence Airport.
Started system about 0UT April 1.

Profiler orientation is 48 degrees and sited close to the airport shipping container to try to minimize clutter from trees in town.
Perhaps a little less clutter apparent than previously, but the KVH appears to be baised.  We corrected for this with a manual compass sighting.

Motosat link was down while at the Onion Valley site, so no data uploads until set up at the Airport.

IOP #9

Main daily report at MAPR, see that log.

MISS was running during the IOP only March 30 18Z to March 31 6Z.

Alex saw fracto-cumulus cloud possibly a rotor cloud (with no lenticular) directly south of MISS site.  He also lenticular cloud over the Inyo mountains.

Dust reached MISS site about 1Z.  Some vertical motion also seen be the MISS profiler.


The moths are deadly, Kyle saw a rattle-snake.

Sunny day, high around 26C, high cloud in afternoon.

Winds light southerly last night, a period of light northerlies this morning, then switched back to southerlies.  Profiler showing southerlies the whole day, some southeasterlies aloft.

MISS moved to West Valley for IOP#9 tomorrow (see separate entry).

Sunny day with high cloud in the afternoon, high around 24C.
Winds northerly last night increasing to 9 m/s in the morning with the profiler showing northwesterlies aloft, then became light and variable.

Generator at MAPR down for unknown reason, oil looks okay. Service tomorrow.  
Last reported data around 2am.

Sunny day with light northerlies, high around 23C.

Students did a sounding at 12Z to observe strong north-westerly flow over mountains (not an offical IOP).  There were wave clouds Friday afternoon and evening and the profilers indicate the strong vertical motions and strong NW aloft, esp. before midnight.

NCAR network down so may be delay in some plots.

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Site Name: MISS INDEPENDENCE AIRPORT	
date yymmdd: 040327
launch time UTC: 1155
Sonde coef tape #:316208711

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 882.59
Temp C		: 8.59
RH %		: 38.30

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 882.3
Temp C		: 8.8
RH%		: 39.8
Wind Spd m/s	: 7.4
Wind Dir deg	: 327

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Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
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clear and crisp

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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 109
Termination Altitude km	: 15708
Reason for Termination	: done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 882.9
     		Temp C		: 7.5066
		RH %		: 45.086
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.8287
		Wdir deg	: 284.96
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Winds stopped coming in around 140 hPa.  Erratic dz above 400 hPa.

Cloudy and breezy day.  High around 22C. Mainly northerlies and occasional westerlies.

End of IOP #8.  The wave event continued to the end of the main IOP period (12Z) and appeared to produce rotors along the eastern side of the valley.  Another unpredicted wave occurred during the afternoon.

A final post-IOP sonde was launched at MAPR at 18Z.  All together 12 sondes were launched in the valley (the 11 scheduled sondes, and one extra), and 10 sondes were launched from Fresno (9 plus one extra).

The MISS profiler appeared to be biased by clutter echoes during the stronger wind periods; NIMA processing should partially recover some of this data.  The MAPR profiler seemed to be less affected, however winds were weaker there, and there are fewer clutter targets in that area.

Some very strong up and down drafts were observed (for example 12 - 15 Z on MAPR) and several sondes were pulled downwards at times (especially Marh 25 2355 UT from MAPR).

Yesterdays daily report is on the MAPR tklog and includes more comments on IOP#8.

Carried out maintainence at MISS, including replacing the surface met freewave (see seperate entries).

J. Kutner visited the sites with Vanda this afternoon.

MISS Systems restarted several times from 22 - 24 UT (March 26) doing maintainence.  
Reinstalled CR writer on profiler pc (seems to be working okay).

Attempted to install USB drive on display manager however there seems to be a conflict between that and networking.

Gary doing some work on the networking.

Switched surface met link from freewaves to optical fibre at about 20UT.

On FOMs  one end has fibre 1 going in to TX and 2 going into RX, but the other end has the reverse.

Surface met did appear to be down for an hour from about 15UT.  Hopefully this change will fix the problem.

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Site Name: Independence Airport
date yymmdd: 040326
launch time UTC: 900
Sonde coef tape #:316208703

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 876.85
Temp C		: 13.29
RH %		: 35.7

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.7
Temp C		: 13.5
RH%		: 33.4
Wind Spd m/s	: 3.6
Wind Dir deg	: 316

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Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

Clear and light breeze.
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 100
Termination Altitude km	: 16.2
Reason for Termination	: Because

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 876.34
     		Temp C		: 11.496
		RH %		: 42.241
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.0488
		Wdir deg	: 290
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Clear and breezy.

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Site Name: MISS
date yymmdd: 040325
launch time UTC: 2104
Sonde coef tape #:316208401

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 876.98
Temp C		: 25.07
RH %		: 14.9

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 876.9
Temp C		: 23.7
RH%		: 14.7
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.1
Wind Dir deg	: 106

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Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )

scattered clouds cumulus or wave clouds
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POST TERMINATION
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Termination Pressure mb	: 90mb
Termination Altitude km	: 16.4km
Reason for Termination	: 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Increased clouds, probably wind induced along the valley

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 875.1
     		Temp C		: 25.3
		RH %		: 14
		Wspd m/s 	: 10
		Wdir deg	: 282
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Sonde dropped about 20 mb for a minute or so at around 18km range, 480mb or 6 km height; perhaps it met a downward phase of a wave as it went over the next ridge.

Surface winds (westerly) picked up near end of flight.
Occasionally lost winds.  Winds okay up to about 180mb or 12km.

Used 30 cu.ft He.

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Site Name: MISS Independence Airport
date yymmdd: 040325
launch time UTC: 1500
Sonde coef tape #:316208406

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MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 879.60
Temp C		: 9.46
RH %		: 32.30

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 878.4
Temp C		: 9.5
RH%		: 33.1
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.6
Wind Dir deg	: 350

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Clear and calm
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Termination Pressure mb	: 100
Termination Altitude km	: 16.1
Reason for Termination	: Just done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 879.54
     		Temp C		: 13.914
		RH %		: 26.56
		Wspd m/s 	: 1.5461
		Wdir deg	: 64.354
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Clear and calm.

Sunny day, warm but slightly cooler than recently with a high of 25C. Some high cloud in afternoon.

Last evenings light southerly switched to variable winds then southerly again from late morning.  At MISS westerly 8 - 10 m/s from late afternoon which isn't being seen at MAPR yet.  MAPR is showing strong updrafts at the end of the day whcih may indicate the beginning of a wave.

MISS surface met lost some data again in the morning (see separate entry).

Launched a sounding at MAPR at 4pm (0Z March 25) for the beginning of IOP #8 which is expected to be a major event.

Surface met out for about 5 hours from 16UT, appears to restarted by itself.  Voltage drops on both Campbells - perhaps another power outage?

IOP #7  Mar 24 6Z (22PST) to 18Z (10PST).

MISS at Independence Airport and MGAOS at Fresno.

MISS soundings at 12Z (4PST), and MGAOS soundings at 6Z, 12Z, and 18Z.

Light variable winds, strong westerlies aloft produced some high bands of wave clouds, but doesn't appear to have mixed down.

MISS Profiler winds switched from southerly to northerly around midnight.
MISS surface met Campbell down for about an hour from 1030UT.

Surface met out about 1030 UT for an hour.
Reset modem and Campbell to get it working again.

Very warm sunny day, high around 26C.  Some light cloud during mroning.

Light northerlies, turning to southerlies (around 4 m/s) around midday.


IOP beginning at 6Z March 24.

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date yymmdd: 040324
launch time UTC: 1203
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Pressure mb	: 879.10
Temp C		: 10.43
RH %		: 47.80

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 877.8
Temp C		: 10.3
RH%		: 51.5
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.9
Wind Dir deg	: 346

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Pretty Clear, possibly thin cirrus, calm

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Termination Pressure mb	: 70
Termination Altitude km	: 18.2
Reason for Termination	: Done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Some high wave clouds

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 878.11
     		Temp C		: 12.126
		RH %		: 44.515
		Wspd m/s 	: 3.4049
		Wdir deg	: 310.61
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Good flight.  35 cu.ft. He

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date yymmdd: 040323
launch time UTC: 1205
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Pressure mb	: 876.64
Temp C		: 11.36
RH %		: 35.7

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.1
Temp C		: 12.2
RH%		: 34.6
Wind Spd m/s	: 1.2
Wind Dir deg	: 316

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Clear skies, calm.


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Termination Pressure mb	: 90
Termination Altitude km	: 15.4
Reason for Termination	: Done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Clear, thin high cloud, calm.

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 875.6
     		Temp C		: 8.5
		RH %		: 46.1
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.1
		Wdir deg	: 337
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Good flight.  Used 30 cu.ft. He.

IOP #6  Mar 23 0Z (16PST) to 12Z (4PST).

MISS at Independence Airport and MGAOS at Fresno.

MISS soundings at 6Z (22PST) and 12Z (4PST), and MGAOS soundings at 0Z, 6Z, 9Z, and 12Z.  The MISS 6Z sounding only recorded winds to around 800mb.

Initally expected to be a strong event, like previous events this one peaked earlier and was weaker than the inital forcasts.   However this event did appear to mix down to the surface with a period of surface westerlies at MISS 2Z to 4Z peaking around 8 m/s. During this time the profiler saw southwesterlies up to 1km, southeasterlies 1 - 2.5km, and westerlies around 3km.  There were strong updrafts around the beginning and end of the surface westerlies.

The event was weaker at the MAPR site.

Very warm sunny day, high around 28C.  Some high cloud..

Winds light and variable northwest during night, turning to southerlies (around 6 m/s) around midday.

MISS surface met lost some data in the morning (see separate entry).

IOP beginning at 0Z March 23.

Surface_met Campbell:

The surface met Campbell did not report data from about 15Z to 20Z.  It is unclear whether the problem was with the data logger or with the freewave.  It magically fixed itself without intervention from operators.   The battery voltage on both Campbells dropped from about 13.5V to 13V during the outage - perhaps there was a power problem during that time.



Surface_two Campbell:

This afternoon Kyle reported that the data logger in the surface two Campbell felt very warm to touch and he was seeing many "24 fileds instead of 23" or similar messages.  The camper was also very warm in the afternoon sun, so perhaps overheating could be the source of some of the problems with that system.  We'll keep the door of that Campbell open and may add a fan to see if that helps.

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Site Name: Independence Airport
date yymmdd: 040323
launch time UTC: 05:45
Sonde coef tape #:316208806

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Pressure mb	: 877.41
Temp C		: 20.17
RH %		: 18.5

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 875.5
Temp C		: 21.5
RH%		: 15.2
Wind Spd m/s	: 2.1
Wind Dir deg	: 175

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
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Clear, pretty stars
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Termination Pressure mb	: 100
Termination Altitude km	: 16.26
Reason for Termination	: It's just done.

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 875.39
     		Temp C		: 13.873
		RH %		: 27.445
		Wspd m/s 	: 2.361
		Wdir deg	: 268.57
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Clear.  Raw Wind data stopped at time of 502.6.

Half hour outage on surface_two Campbell which records radiation data.

Event logger showing messages like "1 instead of 23 data fields" and at 0123Z (when it seems to have stopped, an end of pipe message.

Jiggled and tightened serial cable at Campbell and stop and restarted the ingest and now it seems okay.

Very warm sunny day, high around 28C.  Some high cirrus.

Winds light and variable northwest to northerlies, turned to light southeast / southerlies around midday.

MISS moved back to Independence Airport, observations started around 23Z.

Next IOP planned for Monday night from 6Z, with sounding at 12Z.

Warm sunny day, high 24C at MAPR.  Record highs forecast again.

Northwesteries overnight, peaking around 10 m/s soon after midnight.  Profilers both saw northerlies to 2km. 

Relocated MISS to a site about 2 miles east of Big Pine 23UT.
Lat 37.16388 N, Lon 118.26009 W, Alt 1205 m.

Surface met working okay, ran 2330 UT - 0UT.
Profiler also working okay running 2330 UT - 1 UT.
Clutter in lowest 500m, probably from nearby power lines and trees.

Training sonde launched at MAPR around 17Z.

MAPR Profiler down 6 UT to 17 UT.  Problem with auto-restart, which Charlie fixed.  Generator servicing at MAPR 17 - 18 UT.

Comms lost to MAPR around 20Z, investigating.

Problem with surface met Campbel again.  
Down 17 Z - 20 Z.  

Symptoms were no communications and then when we reset the freewave, some garbage characters.  Swapped CR10X data logger with replacement unit and then it worked okay from 20 Z.

Warm sunny day, high 24C at MAPR.  Record highs forecast again.

Northwesteries overnight, peaking around 10 m/s soon after midnight.  Profilers both saw strong winds (20 m/s) to 1km.  Winds weakened then turned more northerly during day and peaking around 10 m/s (both surface and profiler) about midday.

Training sonde launched at MISS at 1940Z.  Northerly near surface, westerly aloft. Dry layer around 3 km.


Surface met and radiation at MISS now repaired and working normally from mid-afternoon.

Profiler seeing some weak signal around 4km, but this appears to be clutter.

RASS off 2130 to 2330 (apart from run 2230) during repairs to surface station.

Replaced power module in surface met Campbell.  Old data logger (a CR10X) appears to have reset itself and is now working.  Probably power spikes on the old power module were disrupting the data logger.  Data okay from about 2315Z.

The data logger in surface two (radiation) has also been replaced and that Campbell is functioning normally.  Data okay from about 21Z.

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date yymmdd: 040319
launch time UTC: 1915UT
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Pressure mb	:887.15
Temp C		: 21.87
RH %		: 12.6

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: n/a
Temp C		: n/a
RH%		: n/a
Wind Spd m/s	: n/a
Wind Dir deg	: n/a

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Campbell down.  Clear skies, breezy north to northwesterlies


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Termination Altitude km	: 16.8km
Reason for Termination	: Done

Post-Termination Weather Description: 
Clear skies, northerlies

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Training flight.

Warm sunny day, high 24C at MAPR.
Northerlies most of the day, strengthening to around 10 m/s around midday, otherwise light.  MAPR saw these northerlies, however the MISS profiler saw light westerlies (the surface met at MISS wasn't working unfortunately).


IOP #4 targeted north-westerlies, with a sonde at MAPR at 12Z.  This saw northerlies to about 2km, and north-westerlies above.  However the aloft winds did not mix down as much as expected.

Surface met and radiation at MISS not working.  The problem seems to involve communications, however may be either a power supply or software problem.

Surface met still out.  Now radiation measurements also out after testing data logger in 10m tower Campbell.  After reinstalling that logger in the radiation Campbel, it also is producing a corrupted data stream.  Suspect either a major comms problem, or perhaps spikes on tower power supply.

Mike sending more equipment.

March 15 0415 UT

Changed mode to clr_105.par for tonights IOP.
Also updated angles using Pop par mod 

Some birds.

Another warm, sunny day.
Interesting MISS profiler winds last night. Relatively strong
northerlies, calm, then relatively strong southerlies. Early this evening
the winds aloft appear to strengthen.
Surface winds light through the day.

Note: Surface Met failure at 00:30Z (4:30 pm). Diagnosis/prognosis not yet
set as of now (4Z).

IOP Scheduled for 10 pm tonight through 10 am Monday morning 6Z-18Z March 15,
with a sounding from MAPR at 12Z. This is to observe some moderately strong
NW winds.

Tasty deserts delivered by PI in advance of overnight IOP. Thanks!

Beginning at 00:30Z March 15, the surface met data from the tower stopped.
The campbell window is downloading the software over and over, with no success.
We disconnected/reconnected the D9 connector to the modem. No effect.
We cycled the power at the Campbell battery. No effect.
Stopped and restarted Zebra. No effect.
Note the transformer is still making a buzzing noise inside the Campbell box.
Rebooted the display manager. No effect.
Called Lou. No effect.

Bill or Lou can finish the log entry. Gotta go.

Add any backup activities at MISS to this TKLOG entry.

[add details here on procedures for AUTORUN xcopy32 avent, CD handling,
deleting data from D:\RADAR\DATA, labeling CD's]

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Sierra Rotors POP-CD#1 MISS PROFILER *.SPC D04059 - D04068 (Feb 28-Mar 08 2004)

Breezy this morning. No IOP today.

Strong northerlies aloft overnight. These look real. Need to check each
night's winds for bird contamination. Perhaps NIMA will check more easily.
NE surface winds overnight 8 m/s, falling to 4 m/s and rising again to 9 m/s.
Stayed warm and windy overnight, low last night of 9C.

Yet another warm, sunny, dry day. Steady decrease in wind speed from 10am
through the afternoon (7 m/s down to 1 m/s).
All data looks fine (as of 23Z)

IOP#3 scheduled 15Z-21Z (7am=1pm) with a sonde from MAPR at 18Z (10am),
but ended at 19Z (11am) as the weak NW event had ended.

15:42 profiler echoes very weak. Not surprising in the cool, dry morning.
Surface winds were light overnight, about 1-2 m/s from the W to NW. Lowest
T was about +3 C, with a dew point of -3 C.

Overnight the profiler showed weak winds below 1 km, variable direction; with
weak westerlies at 2 km (at 12Z 4am). Towards morning these winds aloft may
have become nearly still, or signal became too weak. Note that in weak
reflectivity clutter may overwhelm the atmospheric signal. Postprocessing
with NIMA may help. In any case, winds were light through the IOP.

Sonde at 18Z showed weak winds to 4 km MSL, with stronger westerlies above.
There was not a good crosswind at mountaintops to generate waves.

Surface winds light (0-5 m/s) from the NNW. Another warm, sunny day.

Very warm and very dry again today, and not a cloud in sight.

Today we moved MISS back to the Independence airport site, from the east
valley site. Data collection began at 23:30 with a couple of interruptions
as the profiler was tuned up.

The profiler is running CLR_60, so a 60 m resolution with a 10 m/s Nyquist.
RASS quite time set as before.

MISS will run overnight, with IOP#3 tomorrow from 15Z-21Z (7am-1pm) and
a sonde expected from MAPR at 18Z (10am).

Sunny and warm again today. We are shutting down at 22:50Z to move to the
East valley MISS site. Will not restart until tomorrow mid-morning. IOP#2 is
scheduled for 1pm Wednesday through 7 am Thursday, with one sonde launch
anticipated at MISS and one at MAPR.

Profiler winds were light, sometimes northerly today. Surface T high (25C)
and dry. Looking good at this site.

Even sunnier and warmer today.
The profiler operated well today. There were some 7 m/s winds aloft last
night and again late morning. But mostly light winds 3m/s or less.
The surface station data (Campbell#1 PTH, not rad) failed last night
and restared by itself. Lou tested, and suspects the freewave is drawing
more current than the charger can supply. He tried a temporary fix and will
see how it works tonight.So there are gaps in the surface data from the
outage and from the tests.

We explored the area for possible MISS sites within the DRI network and
found some options. No RFI was seen with the spectrum analyzer, but it is not
as sensitive as a profiler. No operations tomorrow, but we may move MISS
to one site to test for interference, or if operations are planned for Wednesday
we may move to an operational site. The possible event Wendesday is a short wave
which could bring easterlies again.

Surface met died again last night after putting a new battery in system late in the afternoon.
Tests
9:05 local 12.1vdc on battery disconnected fan
12:20 12:12vdc reconnected fan disconnected freewave
2:10 12.38vdc
2:30 changed out charger with the one running the KVH turned everything back on battery at 12:37vdc.
Wonder if its the freewave causeing the problem as last night lost data at approx 12.1vdc still well above the campbells point were it loses the program.
After changing out charger and restarting cr10 noticed battery voltage still dropping.Took the power cube from the KVH.then ran an extension cord to tower and plugged freewave in that way. Battery voltaqge does appear to be slowly increaseing.Tomorrow may swap KVH freewaves with sruface met and see if that makes a difference.The reason is the freewavw in the cr10 got soaked in transit which is why from now on for transporting the system any distance we will remove the cr10 from the tower.

So surface met down for periods due to failure and to testing.

Profiler serial moments stopped at 21:30 becasue ISS pc was rebooted. Then
profiler was paused to examine overnight data (looked fine), and work on
data backup and autostart. Back to normal around 22:30.

Note that, although there is a netrad data stream at MISS, the data is not
considered accurate. This sensor is not deployed and the data stream should
be disconnected.

Today is another sunny, cloudless, warm, sometimes breezy day.
The MISS surface met_1 stopped working yesterday evening. It has done this
before, usually just when starting up, and the immediate fix has been to
disconnect/reconnect the 9-pin connector inside the box which controls the
RF data transfer. However, that didn't fix the problem this morning, and
we noticed the battery voltage was low. [You can use Zeb to plot this].
This battery was swapped with the one in the KVH Campbell. Seems to work.
Some conenctors were also replaced. Down time approx 01Z-22Z.
Radiation, running off the second Campbell, was not affected.

MISS profiler showed fairly strong winds overnight, and a few birds. The spectra
look real and the winds are probably fine. [Note the Zeb winds on the NCAR
web page are in kts.]. The "jet" starts out appearing to be a nice depiction
of down valley (nocturnal) flow for Owens Valley. Peak northerly winds around
14 kts a few hundred meters up, and decreasing above (7 kts aroudn 1.5km, and
light and variable above that). But these winds persist through the day,
so they are not a valley wind system. Probably driven by the synoptic pressure
gradient.

Not an exciting day at MISS (spent working on MAPR). Daily notes may be added
later.

RASS was down from approx 3:30pm local time on the 6th til 9:10am on the 7th.
Rass amp was shut down while power cables were switched out. I guess I forgot to restart it when work was completed.

surface met was down from approx 01:00 z on 7th til approx 22:00. Several various problms were found One was low battery voltage 8.5v. Went through all cabling.
Replaced battery with one from KVH at 12.73v. Put low battery from CR-10 onto KVH charger and it came seems to be charging. May have something draging cr-10 down. Keep an eye on voltage.

surface met appears to have gone down between 02:00 and 08:30z of the 6th. I can't find any reason for this as it did come back.

POP uses parameter files to specify how the profiler should operate. The
specific files will be described in another tklog entry.

Because MISS is a mobile system, the beam direction information must be
reset each time the antenna is moved.

MISS has a KVH flux gate compass which measured the antenna angles (magnetic)
and uses input from the MISS GPS for the local magnetic declination angle.

With this information, Gary has created a script/program to update all
the parameter files in the C:/radar/ directory on the profiler PC. To
run, click the icon on the display manager PC labeled "Update POP PAR files"

The antenna angles should be checked with a compass also.
This program will also update the LAT and LON in all parameter files.

If it works correctly, the operator must still update by hand
1. ALTITUDE (alt-F3 screen) - set by GPS, prior notes, or topo map.
2. RASS QUIET TIME (F5 screen) - 00-00, except at airport use 01-16Z.

Warm and sunny. Diffuse cirrus.

Profiler was down most of the day, because of the filled PC disk and a delay
before it could be reset. Data begins again at 20:30Z. Showing fairly light
winds. Changed to 100 m mode at 21:35

Surface met also had gaps. All restarted at 20:30.

About the only consistent data today was the surface radiation from the
second campbell station.

Clear, warm, sunny, windy at times. But see the MAPR surface station for
better coverage of winds and temperature.

Much of the surface met is missing - db9 connector pronlem again? And
later maybe problem of disk filling on the display manager computer.

Profiler data only available for a few hours in the afternoon from after
the coherent integrator cable and cards were change, until the display
PC disk filled.

No surface met from about 01Z Mar 5 until 16:30.
Another data outage from 18Z until 20:30.

Some or all of this maybe due to the display manager computer disk
becomming full.

Note that the NetRAD sesnor is not deployed.

No profiler data from about 22Z Mar 04 until 20:30 Mar 05. The display computer
was logging numerous messages which filled its disk. The POP PC then could
not transfer moments over the serial line, and it eventually hung. We will
see if there is any data in the SPC files during this time.

No profiler (or surface) data from about 02Z to 20Z March 4. What happened
overnight? Would everyone please use the TKLOG?

This morning the profiler cards were replaced with spares and the newer set
of cables was intalled. We expect this to fix the coherent integrator error
("no data received for 6 seconds....").

MISS profiler was changed to run CLR_105 mode for more sensitivity. Also note
that RASS was OFF for the past day (inadvertantly).

Profiler shut down at 22:28Z to move from airport to ....

PRESET MISS PAR FILES AND NOTES

PAR FILE	RESOLUTION	NYQUIST		HT RANGE
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CLR_60.par	 60 m		10.1 m/s	0.20 - 4.34 km
CLR_105.par	105 m		10.1 m/s	0.18 - 4.80 km
TURB_60.par	 60 m		20.2 m/s	0.20 - 4.34 km
TURB_105.par	105 m		20.2 m/s	0.18 - 4.80 km
RAIN_60.par	 60 m		20.5 m/s	0.20 - 5.05 km
RAIN_105.par	105 m		20.5 m/s	0.18 - 8.69 km

CLR_60 has worked during most IOP's. It has a wide enought Nyquist
for the (lack of) waves so far. But sometimes CLR_105 could be better
during times of weak signal (evening, night, early morning).
Only use the TURB parameter files if a wide Nyquist is needed.
RAIN_60 is a lot like TURB_60.
RAIN_105 should be used if a high altitude mode is needed.

Run Gary's program to set beam angles and LAT/LON
  NOTE! RESTART POP AFTER TO RUN WITH NEW VALUES
Check beam angles with compass
Set ALTITUDE from GPS or earlier measurement
When at Independece Airport set RASS QUIET TIME to
  OFF AT 01Z (5pm),  ON AT 16Z (8am)
(actual performace: First runs at 8:30, last runs at 5pm)

Today we will move MISS from the Independence airport to the East valley mining site. PI's have scheduled an IOP tomorrow from 8am to 1 pm (16Z-21Z) with a
sonde launch (one from MISS and one from MAPR) at 18Z or 10 am.

Forecast is for EASTERLIES at mountaintop height, with speeds 35-45 kts. This
could generate mountain waves. Not clear if these waves will be strong enough to
generate rotors.

Today surface winds increased 17-19Z from 3 m/s to 9 m/s (may increase more;
this note written at 22Z). Profiler shows northerlies from the surface up to
about 1.5 km, with an easterly component above. Speeds 10-15 m/s.

First day of Sierra Rotors official data collection. MISS set up at the
Independence, CA airport site.

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Pressure mb	: 
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