- 98: IMPORTANT IMPORTANT, Site MISS at MAPR, Tue 13-Apr-2004 12:30:50 GMT, MAPR Down due to generator failure
Arrived at MAPR site 4:30 AM to find all dark & quiet.
Fan belt on generator broke sometime overnight.
Determined problem, notifed United Rentals and
and launched sonde from MISS at IND at 5:21 AM.
- 50: GENERAL, Site MISS at MAPR, Mon 22-Mar-2004 01:30:10 GMT, MISS MAPR Intercomparison ended
Mar 21, 21UT ended MAPR MISS intercomparison and moved MISS to Independence Airport.
- 49: DAILY, Site MISS at MAPR, Sun 21-Mar-2004 02:36:24 GMT, Daily Saturday March 20, 2004
Very warm sunny day, high around 28C.
Winds light and variable overnight, shifting to light southerlies during the day.
Both systems continuing to operate normally in the intercomparison mode. MAPR did have a 2 & 1/2 outage from 22:30UT due to an overheating problem which was fixed by adding additional cooling.
The wind measurements made by the two systems appear to agree well, however the MISS system is giving better coverage, especially at night. Post-processing is expected to improve MAPR coverage.
- 48: GENERAL, Site MISS at MAPR, Sat 20-Mar-2004 03:05:38 GMT, MISS and MAPR Intercomparison
MISS was relocated to the MAPR site and is now about 100 m west of MAPR.
Latitude is 36d 43m 29s, Longitude is 118d 8m 7s, Altitude is 1169m.
The MISS profiler and MAPR are in alternating mode, with MISS operating for the first 30 minutes of each hour and MAPR for the second 30 minutes. Both profilers are using 100 m 4 bit code pulses.
MISS is currently not running RASS, nor the surface met instruments. The MISS radiation sensors are operating.
The intercomparison will continue until at least Sunday afternoon.
- 47: DAILY, Site MISS at MAPR, Sat 20-Mar-2004 02:29:42 GMT, Daily Friday March 19, 2004
Warm sunny day, high around 27C.
IOP #5 (see yesterdays report) finished at 4am (12Z). Winds weakened and turned to light northerlies by the end of the IOP. MISS was turned off at the end of the IOP.
At MAPR winds were initially southerly during most of the IOP, although they weakened and turned to light variable westerlies around midnight, then to light northerlies during the morning. During the afternoon southerlies strengthened to about 6 m/s.
MISS was relocated to the MAPR site for an intercomparison study (see separate entry).
The next IOP will probably be not until Monday night at the earliest.