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When Kate was here on Monday, I was concerned that Rsw.in was significantly
different at times between the sites. Some of this could be snow/ice on the
domes, but it seemed like there were more cases with different radiation than
could be explained just by snow/ice. Now is an example where there are patches
of sun slowly propogating across the surface, which could make differences
(at least instantaneously) of Rsw.in between lake/sage/tower. I'm still not
completely convinced that the 5-min ave values should be as different as the
400 W/m2 that we sometimes get.
P.S. The attached graph shows several problems (that are real!). [The red line
is: 1300*sin(dat("azel.sun")[,2]*pi/180)
1. A semi-stationary cloud pattern (probably orographically influenced) shadows
grass and lake at about noon, but doesn't move over sage until 45min later.
2. When this cloud shifts off at about 14:00, it apparently ducts some of the
sun to have even more than a clear-sky irradiance.
3. At about 16:00, thick clouds built up along the Gore Range cause "sunset" to
occur early, though some light is still present until real sunset.
It is going to be difficult to use these data for QCing snow/ice cases!
It may also indicate that using Rlw.in.sage as a surrogate for Rlw.in.grass may
be a mistake.
189: Soil, Site all stns, Tue 04-Mar-2003 13:37:58 MST, Gravimetric soil samples
17:00 Mar 4 Sage
Near B.
Fresh(4 Mar) Dry(5 Mar) %(wet/total)
A sample taken 16:00 which broke, but I recovered some:
0-~5 80.3 56.9 29.1
56.9 49.7 12.7
The real sample:
0-3 cm EI 28.0 18.4 34.3
EII 30.0 19.8 34.0
EIII 28.7 19.8 31.0
Mean: 33.1
Total sample: 88.6 [59.3]
Density: [0.86]
3-8 cm FI 52.8 44.1 16.5
FII 54.0 44.5 17.6
FIII 48.8 38.4 21.3
Mean: 18.5
Total sample: 179.3 [146.1]
Density: [1.28]
12:45 Mar 4 Lake
Close to B!
Dug down through 28 cm of snow - broke up ice coating surface
Fresh(4 Mar) Dry(5 Mar)
(has some ice/snow on the top, but mostly solid frozen)
0-3 cm AI 38.0 28.5 25.0
AII 35.9 27.3 24.0
AIII 23.3 17.8 23.6
Mean: 24.2
Total sample: 99.8 [75.6]
Density [1.10]
(peaty: root and stem)
3-8 cm BI 19.3 14.7 23.8
BII 15.7 11.3 28.0
BIII 16.0 11.2 30.0
Mean: 27.3
Total sample: 87.8 [63.8]
Density: [0.56]
15:00 Mar 5 Grass site:
Close to B:
Dug down through 28 cm of snow - broke up ice coating surface
Fresh(5 Mar) Dry(6 Mar)
(has some ice/snow on the top, but mostly solid frozen)
0-3 cm CI 18.3 4.4 76.0
CII 10.9 3.1 71.6
CIII 12.9 2.9 77.5
Mean: [75.0]
Total sample: 42.9 [10.7]
Density 0.62 0.16
(peaty: root and stem)
3-8 cm DI 28.3 22.1 21.9
DII 19.8 13.1 33.8
DIII 29.4 24.0 18.4
Mean: [24.7]
Total sample: 111.2 [83.7]
Density: 0.97 0.73
17:00 Mar 5 Lake site:
Close to C:
Fresh(5 Mar) Dry(
(has some ice/snow on the top, but mostly solid frozen)
0-3 cm EI 32.8 23.5 28.4 [had a grub inside!]
EII 26.9 19.7 26.8
EIII 28.4 20.6 27.5
Mean: [27.5]
Total sample: 92.5 [67.1]
Density 1.35 0.98
(peaty: root and stem)
3-8 cm FI 39.4 24.7 37.3
FII 44.8 32.3 27.9
FIII 39.8 22.7 43.0
Mean: [36.1]
Total sample: 157.9 [100.9]
Density: 1.38 0.88
09:30 Mar 6 Grass site:
Close to A:
Fresh(6 Mar) Dry(7 Mar)
(has some ice/snow on the top, but mostly solid frozen)
0-3 cm AI 14.5 1.6 89.0
AII 10.6 1.0 90.6
AIII 11.1 1.1 90.1
89.8
Mean:
Total sample: 37.0 3.8 (but not complete volume)
Density 0.54 0.06
(peaty: root and stem)
3-8 cm BI 22.2 9.8 55.9
BII 16.5 7.5 54.5
BIII 17.9 4.6 74.3
Mean: 61.3
Total sample: 87.8 34.0
Density: 0.77 0.30
13:00 Mar 6 Sage site:
Close to A:
I took two cores that broke (along with the corer), so I only recovered about
6cm deep cores twice.
Fresh(6 Mar) Dry(7 Mar)
0-~6 cm EI 44.2 34.3 22.4
EII 34.5 27.3 20.9
EIII 42.4 34.0 19.8
Mean: 21.1
Total sample: 138.7 109.4 (very crude estimate)
Density 1.01 0.80
0-~6 cm FI 42.8 34.5 19.4
FII 37.7 31.4 16.7
FIII 39.4 31.8 19.3
Mean: 18.5
Total sample: 168.1 137.0 (very crude estimate)
Density: 1.22 1.00
[] values are calculated from other variables
Diameter of corer is 5.4cm
187: Weather, Site all stns, Tue 04-Mar-2003 09:00:17 MST, snowing
It started snowing ~0500 this morning and is still coming down -- I estimate
about 1" has fallen so far. About 15 min ago, I checked sage and all sensors
were snow-free (T/RH, sonic, krypton, 4-comp rad, and net).
182: Weather, Site all stns, Sun 02-Mar-2003 09:58:56 MST, fog/frost
There was heavy fog last night and associated rime this morning on all sensors.
On the drive in (~0830), I brushed the rime (but couldn't get at all of the
underlying frost) off of all rads, sonic, and krypton at sage, then at lake.
About 0900, I brushed off bare.1.5m, then all grass rads. I then brushed off
the 1&2m sonic and krypton at the tower. Next, I "twanged" the NW guy wires
to knock rime off all sonics and kryptons. Nevertheless, I decided to climb
the tower to check on the effectiveness of the "twanging". I twanged the
side boom guy wires and was able to knock off a bit more rime, though I think
that the tower guy twanging would have been adequate by itself. All this
twanging was sufficient to get the 20&30m sonics happy again (not cycling diag).
While on the tower, I noticed that rime had clogged the T/RH inlets. I blew/
wiped the rime off of all of the T/RHs, in the order: 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5,
0.5, 1, 2m. Note that I didn't open the tubes to get at any ice that may
be on the Gortex cap. Also note that I didn't think of doing the T/RHs at
lake and sage.
180: Weather, Site all stns, Sat 01-Mar-2003 14:37:43 MST, fog this AM
We took the morning off to go to Steamboat, but noticed that there was still
fog in low-lying areas at 8:40 this morning. Thus, I'm not surprised that the
kryptons had their usual failures.
We also saw 2 coyotes and a large herd of elk along the road driving into the
site just now.
168: Radiometers, Site all stns, Wed 26-Feb-2003 15:28:33 MST, Removing radiometer snow doughnuts
The ventilation prevented the fine powdery snow from settling upon the
radiometer domes. Doughnuts of snow formed, up to 7-8cm high, with a central
hole and an annulus extending from the ventilator slot to the edge of the
radiation shield. All upward-looking radiometers as well as the ice detectors
had the same problem. Some downlooking rads had an icicle from their dome.
14:00 Sage, removed doughnuts and cleaned all domes.NB Netrad was already clear.
14:10 Lake, ditto
14:21 Grease, cleaned dome
14:28 Bare, cleaned dome.
14:30 4m scaffold, removed doughnut and cleaned domes
14:32 Ice.a and Ice.b ditto
14:45 - 14:55 Drew in boom. S pyrg already clear, removed doughnut from N pyrg.
The fans were unplugged with the N fan's wires cut.
Left trolley inboard until we fix fan wiring.
16:10 -16:20 Remounted fans and powered up. Fans operated.
Ran out the trolley BUT THE TROLLEY DIDN'T GO ALL THE WAY
167: Status, Site all stns, Tue 25-Feb-2003 16:35:00 MST, Daily status, Feb 25
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: Got a little low last night. It dropped to ~12.1.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: kh2o.20m stn0 spiked to almost 14 g/m3 between 1000 and 1100
MST Feb Other sensors ranged between 2-4 g/m3 during that same time.
No diurnal variation last night.
H2O-kh2o: this plot also shows data spike from 20m sensor.
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
TRHdiff 2m: OK
TRH_diff_profiler: Temp profile is good. RH profile looks a little
different most likely because of the snow. 30m sensor is recording
about 2% more moisture then other sensors, which is probably fine.
Should keep an eye on 2m meter sensor to see how it behaves. Currently
it's reading ~3-4% lower than other sensors, may be malfunctioning.
Thermocouples, Ice Detectors: Ttc.ref.stn0 is OK. It is a reference
temperature and will vary from the other Ttc's.
Long Wave Rad:. OK
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK
Tsoil: . Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage still bad, the cable was probably cut. Needs
to be fixed.
Gsoilc.10cm.lake still on the fritz.
Soil Thermal Properties: Are looking better. Steve has been keeping a
close eye on the data and the sensors appear to working properly, and
are giving us some good data.
u,v spectra, stn 1-3: Good
w,tc spectra, stn 1-3: OK
u,v spectra tower: OK
w,tc spectra tower: OK
kryton spectra: A lot of white noise between 0000-0030 higher
than 1.00 Hz
166: , Site all stns, Tue 25-Feb-2003 10:59:37 MST, Site inspection after snow
Persistant snow fall last night and on into the daytime. Only ~10 cm of low
density powder.
Saw well over 100 elk near the road near Sage..
Arrived at 8:45: check_aster, Daisy and Cosmos, Dailies only completed to 22 Feb.
9:30 - 10:00 Yutaka Hagimoto and I inspected tower site.
Ice detecors have snow doughnuts, 6 or so cm high with a hole down to the domes.
Photograped and also applied handkerchief test. Light lit (and also later saw
cockpit response.
Cleaned snow from cal gas guages:
Hi-cal = 1250/10
Lo-cal = 1400/12
Walked in front of tower photographed lower levels of sensors. Neither sonics
nor Kr's snow clogged..
Climbed 20m or so up tower. Snow on steps and walkways.
10:30 visited Sage: cleaned solar panels
From ladder photographed LW.in and SW.in. Same snow doughnuts as ice detectors.
Neither sonic nor Kr snow clogged.
165: Status, Site all stns, Mon 24-Feb-2003 17:08:00 MST, Daily status, Feb 24
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: Great.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: kh2o.2m sage increased to almost 6 g/m3 between 2100 and 2200
MST Feb 23 and then slowly dropped back down. Other sensors ranged
between 1-2 g/m3 during that same time.
H2O-kh2o: this plot shows sensor at 2m sage measuring more moisture
also.
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
TRHdiff 2m: RH plot shows sage-tower is about 2% more moist than
lake-tower between 1900 MST Feb 23 and 1300 MST Feb 24.
TRH_diff_profiler: looks like we had a little inversion between
0500-0800 MST
Thermocouples, Ice Detectors: Ttc.ref.stn0 is doing it's own thing (and
has been since plotting began), and doesn't look good. Ttc.h.stn.0
deviates a bit from the other sensors also (~2-5 deg) between 2000 MST
Feb 23 and 0400 Feb 24.
Long Wave Rad:. OK
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK
Tsoil: . Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage still bad, the cable was probably cut. Needs
to be fixed.
Gsoilc.10cm.lake still on the fritz.
Soil Thermal Properties: Are looking better. Steve has been keeping a
close eye on the data and the sensors appear to working properly, and
are giving us some good data.
u,v spectra, stn 1-3: Good
w,tc spectra, stn 1-3: OK
u,v spectra tower: OK
w,tc spectra tower: w.1m isn't really following along with other
profiles?
kryton spectra: Quite a bit of white noise between 0000-0030 higher
than 1.00 Hz
163: Status, Site all stns, Fri 21-Feb-2003 15:00:00 MST, Daily status, Feb 21
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: Great.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: Good.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: for 2m tc'tc' plot tower and sage show a bit more
scalar variance than lake during the daytime (1.0-1.5 deg).
Fluxes at 2m: tower and sage also show slightly more flux than at lake,
although difference is not as great (~.3)
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Large spike (from 241 up to 253 and back down) at 1400 MST on Feb
20.
TRH:OK
Long Wave Rad:. OK
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK
Tsoil: . Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoila.10cm.lake(3) began to drift off on it's own at ~2100 MST
Jan 19. It kept decreasing until 0700-0800 MST on the 20th when it
slowly began to rise again. By noon it was back in line with the other
sensors.
Gsoil.c.10cm.sage still bad, the cable was probably cut. Needs
to be fixed.
Gsoilc.10cm.lake still on the fritz.
Soil Thermal Properties: Are looking better. Steve has been keeping a
close eye on the data and the sensors appear to working properly, and
are giving us some good data.
u,v spectra, stn 1-3: There appears to be some white noise at the
lower frequencies (.001 Hz) and also at frequencies greater than 10.0.
w,tc spectra, stn 1-3: OK
u,v spectra tower: Some white noise at frequencies greater than 10.0 Hz
w,tc spectra tower: OK
kryton spectra: OK
162: Status, Site all stns, Wed 20-Feb-2003 15:00:00 MST, Daily status, Feb 20
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: Great.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: Good.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: for 2m tc'tc' plot tower and sage show a bit more
scalar variance than lake during the daytime (1.0-1.5 deg).
Fluxes at 2m: tower and sage also show slightly more flux than at lake,
although difference is not as great (~.2)
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
TRH:OK
Long Wave Rad:. rlw.out.grease.stn0 measurements are lower than other
sensors by between 10-40 W/m2.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK
Tsoil: . Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoila.10cm.lake(3) began to drift off on it's own at ~2100 MST
Jan 19. It kept decreasing until 0700-0800 MST on the 20th when it
slowly began to rise again. By noon it was back in line with the other
sensors.
Gsoil.c.10cm.sage still bad, the cable was probably cut. Needs
to be fixed.
Gsoilc.10cm.lake still on the fritz.
Soil Thermal Properties: Are looking better. Steve has been keeping a
close eye on the data and the sensors appear to working properly, and
are giving us some good data.
u,v spectra, stn 1-3: There appears to be some white noise at the
lower frequencies (.001 Hz).
w,tc spectra, stn 1-3: OK
u,v spectra tower: No plots as of 4:25 pm
w,tc spectra tower: No plots as of 4:25 pm
kryton spectra: No plots as of 4:25 pm
161: Status, Site all stns, Wed 19-Feb-2003 15:00:00 MST, Daily status, Feb 19
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: Great.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: Good. Some diurnal variation with four of the sensors.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: At 1200 MST CO2 jumped from ~234 ppmV to ~246 ppmV
TRH:OK
Long Wave Rad:. rlw.out.grease.stn0 measurements are lower than other
sensors by about 20 W/m2.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK
Tsoil: . Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage still bad, the cable was probably cut. Needs
to be fixed.
Gsoilc.10cm.lake still on the fritz.
Soil Thermal Properties: Are looking better. Steve has been keeping a
close eye on the data and the sensors appear to working properly, and
are giving us some good data.
u,v spectra, stn 1-3: There appears to be some white noise at the
lower frequencies (.001 Hz).
w,tc spectra, stn 1-3: OK
u,v spectra tower: OK
w,tc spectra tower: OK
kryton spectra: kh2o.10m and kh2o.2m sort of trail off on their own
between 00:00-00:30
159: Soil, Site all stns, Sat 22-Feb-2003 17:12:02 MST, 10V regulators added
From 1300-1400 added regulators to the switched 12V signals from the CR10s at
all 3 sites (grass, then sage, then lake). I'm not sure about some of the
electrical contacts -- the daily plots show that I did make a change --
hopefully, it was for the good!
155: Weather, Site all stns, Fri 21-Feb-2003 08:13:55 MST, Weather conditions
A light snow occured in the early morning.
By daybreak there were only scattered clouds.
A good opportunity to check the functioning of the frost detector.
145: Kryptons, Site all stns, Wed 19-Feb-2003 12:07:08 MST, Kr cleaned
On 19 Feb .Between 11:00 and 11:30 all the tower Kr's were cleaned, starting
at the lowest and working to the uupermost.
Yesyerday, 18 Feb the Kr's at the outlying sites were all cleaned during the
radiometer cleaning visits, see logbook # 140
140: Radiometers, Site all stns, Tue 18-Feb-2003 16:51:56 MST, Radiometer cleaning
Made a tour of the radiometers and cleaned domes and inspected sites.In no case
was there any dirt apparent on cleaning tissue.
14:04 Grass: 10% snow cover only a few cm deep over flat laying long grass
Downlooking LW and SW have housing but no fans
Up looking LW and SW have housings and fans. LW.in fan stopped. I spun it and
it started up.
15:00 Sage: Helped Jielun et al locate TC system
50% snow cover, patches 6-8 cm deep between and among the sage.
Both incoming SW and LW housings and fan operating
Outgoing SW housing, no fan, outgoing LW no housing
All domes cleaned,
Net rad still level
Cleaned Kr, psych fan operating
15:30 Lake 90% snow cover around site.
SW.in fan operating, SW.out housing no fan, LW.out no housing
cleaned all domes, cleaned Kr, psych fan operating
15:40 Scaffold: 50% snow in dappled patches.
4m LW.in fan operating, LW.out no housing
1m LW.out no housing
Cleaned all domes
15:45 Grass (again) SW.in and LW.in fans operating
Only housings, no fan for SW.out and LW.out
Cleaned all domes
15:50 Greasewood: Snow drift 30 -50 cm deep under radiometer
LW.out has no housing.
Cleaned dome without breaking up the snow.
138: Status, Site all stns, Thu 06-Feb-2003 15:04:38 MST, Daily status, Feb 5
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: Ok, but w.10m.stn0 dropped out of sync with other sensors between 1600 on Feb 5 and 0200 on Feb 6 (down to ~0.5).
Krytons: OK, diurnal variation for all sensors.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK.
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor was reset OK
TRH: OK
Long Wave Rad:. OK.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . OK
Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake is still not working properly and is showing quite a bit of variation.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage and Gsoil.c.1m lake are both still down (see earlier entries).
Soil Thermal Properties: Starting to look a little better.
U,V spectra stns 1-3: OK.
w,tc spectra stns 1-3: OK
U,V spectra, tower: small amount of white noise in higher frequencies (10+)
w,tc spectra, tower: OK
Kryton Spectra: The power plots have some white noise at higher frequencies but all in all the signals follow the 2/3 line fairly well.
CO2 spectra: quite a bit of white noise in the power plot.
137: Status, Site all stns, Wed 05-Feb-2003 13:33:55 MST, Daily status, Feb 5
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: OK, diurnal variation for all sensors.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance 2m: kh2o'kh2o'.2m sensor at tower went off the charts at ~0700 and came back around 0900 MST
Fluxes at 2m: OK.
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor was reset (see earlier log entry). Appears to be working fine.
TRH: OK
Long Wave Rad:. OK.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . OK
Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake is still not working properly and is showing quite a bit of variation. Qsoil.c.5cm lake(3) appears to be fine.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage and Gsoil.c.1m lake are both still down (see earlier entries).
Soil Thermal Properties: Starting to look a little better.
UW spectra: 10.00 f(Hz) between 0000-0030 does not look right, way too low.
Kryton Spectra: The power plots have some white noise at the higher end of the spectra but the lower frequencies follow the 2/3 line fairly well.
2m sonic spectra: OK
Tower sonic spectra:OK
CO2 spectra: quite a bit of white noise in the power plot.
135: Status, Site all stns, Tue 04-Feb-2003 14:39:47 MST, Daily status, Feb 4
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: OK
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK. Lake w'tc'.2m has not been following the general pattern during the day as tower and sage do. Instead of increasing, it basically stays within the same range while the others increase. Gordon believes it is because the lake bed is absorbing more heat than the other sights.
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor was reset (see earlier log entry). Appears to be working fine.
TRH: OK
Long Wave Rad:. OK.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . Ok. Tsoil.b.2.5.cm sage had a little bleep (~1 deg) between 1300-1500 MST Feb 2.
Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake is still not working properly and is showing quite a bit of variation. Qsoil.c.5cm lake(3) appears to be fine.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage and Gsoil.c.1m lake are both still down (see earlier entries).
Soil Thermal Properties: Starting to look a little better.
Kryton Spectra: The power plots have some white noise at the higher end of the spectra but the lower frequencies follow the 2/3 line fairly well.
2m sonic spectra: OK
Tower sonic spectra:OK
CO2 spectra: quite a bit of white noise in the power plot.
134: Status, Site all stns, Mon 03-Feb-2003 13:46:41 MST, Daily status, Feb 3
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: w.15m moved in line with other sensors at ~1400 MST Feb 2, and still looks good.
Krytons: Show increased moisture between 0600-0900 MST at all levels ranging between 2-12 g/m^3.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: Lake w'tc'.2m has not been following the general pattern during the day as tower and sage do. Instead of increasing, it basically stays within the same range while the others increase?
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor was reset (see earlier log entry). Appears to be working fine.
TRH: OK, difference between 1m sensor and others is not noticable today (wasn't really over the weekend either).
Long Wave Rad:. Rlw.out.grease stn0 is lower than other sensors (during daylight) by ~5-10 W/m^2.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . Ok. Tsoil.b.2.5.cm sage had a little bleep (~1 deg) between 1300-1500 MST Feb 2.
Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake is doing some crazy stuff. It came back up at ~1300 on Jan 31, and shows quite a bit of variation over the last two days. At about that same time, Qsoil.c.5cm lake(3) began behaving badly. It climbed from ~8 %vol to ~32 %vol and over the last 3 days it has slowly come back down. It looks like it came back into line around 0600 MST today.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage and Gsoil.c.1m lake are both still down (see earlier entry).
Soil Thermal Properties: All of these signals look bad, despite fixing
the wiring problem at the tower (grass). It could take a while to get
good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each "event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0
and 1 V. The "Vpile" signal at tower looks close to the signal expected
for Vheat, but at the wrong amplitude.
132: Status, Site all stns, Fri 31-Jan-2003 14:35:56 MST, Daily status, Jan 31
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: w.15m still reading lower than other sensors It was checked with a level (see earlier log entry) but apparently that wasn't the problem.
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor crashed after 1130 MST Jan 28, don't know the cause.
TRH: Still concerned about the 1m sensor. It is warmer and drier, as it should be, but lacks the same characterstics the other profiles have.
Long Wave Rad:. Rlw.out.grease stn0 is lower than other sensors (during daylight) by ~5-10 W/m^2.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . Ok. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: 4 or the 6 Qsoilc.sensors from tower all (with the exception of the 5m sensor)increase to ~15-20 around 1500 MST. This may be a result of melting snow? Iwill keep and eye on it.
Qsoil.c.10cm lake is still both down.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage and Gsoil.c.1m lake are both still down (see earlier entry).
Soil Thermal Properties: All of these signals look bad, despite fixing
the wiring problem at the tower (grass). It could take a while to get
good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each "event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0
and 1 V. The "Vpile" signal at tower looks close to the signal expected
for Vheat, but at the wrong amplitude.
131: Status, Site all stns, Thu 30-Jan-2003 13:57:13 MST, Daily status, Jan 30
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: w.15m still reading lower than other sensors It was checked with a level (see earlier log entry) but apparently that wasn't the problem.
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor crashed after 1130 MST Jan 28, don't know the cause.
TRH: OK
Long Wave Rad:. Rlw.out.grease stn0 is lower than other sensors by ~5-10 W/m^2.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . Ok. Tsiol.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoilc.1m sage rose to about 13% and slowly dropped, over the last day, down to ~5% (still a little higher than other sensors). Will keep and eye on.
Qsoil.c.10cm lake is still both down.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage and Gsoil.c.1m lake are both still down (see earlier entry).
Soil Thermal Properties: All of these signals look bad, despite fixing
the wiring problem at the tower (grass). It could take a while to get
good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each "event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0
and 1 V. The "Vpile" signal at tower looks close to the signal expected
for Vheat, but at the wrong amplitude.
130: Status, Site all stns, Thu 30-Jan-2003 09:38:12 MST, Daily status, Jan 29
Weather Plots: OK
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: w.15m still reading lower than other sensors It was checked with a level (see earlier log entry) but apparently that wasn't the problem.
Krytons: Ok, no large diurnal variation. There were a couple of spikes (~8-14 g/m^3).
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: Sensor crashed after 1130 MST Jan 28, don't know the cause.
TRH: OK
Long Wave Rad:. Rlw.out.grease stn0 is lower than other sensors by ~5-10 W/m^2.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .OK.
Tsoil: . Ok. Tsiol.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoilc.1m sage is acting up.
Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage became bad as Tony and Steve were working at
sage on 12/18. The cable was cut and needs to be fixed.
Soil Thermal Properties: All of these signals look bad, despite fixing
the wiring problem at the tower (grass). It could take a while to get
good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each "event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0
and 1 V. The "Vpile" signal at tower looks close to the signal expected
for Vheat, but at the wrong amplitude.
129: Status, Site all stns, Thu 30-Jan-2003 08:37:51 MST, Daily status, Jan 28
Weather Plots: There is a small gap in the P, MR, 1.2m, spd, and dir
data from the tower at 1000 MST this morning, it was back up shortly
after.
Rain Gauge: OK
Vbatt: Great. Only down to 13.0 over night.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonics profile: w.15m still reading lower that other sensors prior to
1000 MST when data gap took place. Seems to have come in line with
others, may be fixed now.
Krytons: No large diurnal variation but there are some very interesting
spikes in the data. The first was between 1600-1800 MST Jan 27 where
the 2m, 10m, 20m, and 30m sensors briefly rose to ~5-~8 g/m3. The
larger of the two happened between 1000-1200 MST Jan 28 when all sensors
shot up (as much as 20 g/m3) and dropped back down (I think) after 1200
MST.
H2O-kh2o: This plot looks bad at times mentioned above in the Kryptons
section. H2O-kh2o.20m.stn0 is still lower than other sensors by ~-1.0
g/m3.
Tv and P: OK.
Scalar variance: show large increases corresponding to changes with
krytons, water vapor etc, at ~1600 MST Jan 27, and ~ 1100 MST Jan 28.
Fluxes at 2m: ""
Flux profiles: ""
TRH: RH at sage is a little higher that at lake (~2%) , but there
doesn't appear to be much difference in the temperatures.
Long Wave Rad:. Rlw.in.b.25m and Rlw.out.a.25m are up and running
again. There were some glitches yesterday, I assume while it was being
worked on, but is looking
good now.
|Tdome-Tcase| : .in.a.26m stn and .in.b.25m stn0 were both off for a
while but began working again around 1600 MST Jan 27. out.a.25m stn0
was acting up, reading higher than others, but appears to be corrected.
Tsoil: . Ok. Tsiol.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air. Im just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil
sampling. All Tsoil tower(grass) have a bit nit of noise from the
radiometer fans, but this is small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also be a cable
cut (like the Gsoil.10.cm.a problem found at lake), but will require
more digging up of snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well
since there is probably enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm.sage became bad as Tony and Steve were working at
sage on 12/18. The cable was probably cut. Needs to be fixed.
Soil Thermal Properties: All of these signals look bad, despite fixing
the wiring problem at the tower (grass). It could take a while to get
good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each "event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0
and 1 V. The "Vpile" signal at tower looks close to the signal expected
for Vheat, but at the wrong amplitude.
125: Radiometers, Site all stns, Tue 28-Jan-2003 14:57:32 MST, Radiometers Cleaned
7/27/03 25m radiometers cleaned.
7/28/03 All other radiometers cleaned with dry wipe.
Checked inside plenum at Sage and there was no snow packed
inside. All domes looked very good although we did get
some snow showers this morning which left some moisture on
them.
I noticed something like a smudge inside the psp at Lake
on the small dome. I don't know if that's a factor.
124: Kryptons, Site all stns, Tue 28-Jan-2003 14:54:04 MST, Kryptons cleaned
7/28/03 cleaned Sage, Lake
7/27/03 cleaned tower sensors.
Used alcohol with q-tip
NOTE: today SteveS mentioned kh2oV actually dropped on
20m unit after we cleaned it. We examined it and it
was OK. Re-cleaned with just a dry q-tip and after
looking at cockpit, it appears probably the best now.
I think the alcohol is a poor substitute for distilled
because it may leave a residue esp. if something comes
off the seal and/or qtip. Plane dry q-tip is better imho.
122: Status, Site all stns, Mon 27-Jan-2003 21:17:58 MST, Jan 27 work: 25m rad. installed/fixed, t.10m, calgas note, guys
1/27/03
TRH.10m fan replaced. Yes the other one was dead.
TRH.1m bell inlet partially broken (~40%). This happened
at the 10m but we decided to move the broken one down
below where the wind is less. On 1/28/03 we installed
one of the unpainted metal bell inlets on this sensor
to replace the broken bell.
25m Rad/Logger
Removed logger. Replaced AM416: out=13529, in=13532.
Wiring was apparently a problem in that:
1. pyg.in.1 Amp pin-5 to 3-L1 was not seated in the shell
so we pulled it out to make contact w/cable.
2. pyg.out.2 Amp wires 7,4 to 6-H2,L2 not connected.
so we connected them.
3. CR10 4-H1/L1,H2/L2 were connected to Pyg.in.2
CR10 5-H1/L1,H2/L2 were connected to Pyg.out.1
These were apparently reversed per logger pgm
so we swapped t 122 Status Updated:28-Jan-2003 15:15 Jan 27 work hem to
CR10-4H1/L1 to pins 1,5 pyg.out.1
CR10-4H2/L2 to pins 7,4 pyg.out.1
CR10-5H1/L1 to pins 1,5 pyg.in.2
CR10-5H2/L2 to pins 7,4 pyg.in.2
Checked s/n of sensors:
pyg.in.1 = 31975, south-side
pyg.in.2 = 31979, north-side (just installed today)
pyg.out.1 = 31974, south-side (just installed today)
pyg.out.2 = 31977, north-side
We verified that the cables from the sensors to the logger
were consistent with the naming conventions.
We then checked the 'pile' values on cockpit versus putting
a hand over the sensors: all-4 names was consistent/correct.
Cleaned domes.
Per bullet Level check, the electronic sensor bias shows:
y=-.039
x=-.100
CalGas: Tony wanted to know what cylinders are here. They need
to be identifie 122 Status Updated:28-Jan-2003 15:15 Jan 27 work d with a visual marking such as colored
tape bands to make this obvious !!!
Hical Spare = 57677
Hical ON = IHOP site 8/3 (number was underneath
1580psi at 10psi setting
Local Spare = LK438863
Local ON = LK387670
950psi, at 14psi setting
Kryptons:
All tower kryptons cleaned.
Tower: all welds inspected looked OK
Tensioned upper Guy Wires 1-turn each.
NE SE NW SW
Top 550 500 520 600
4 510 600 610 580
3 430 520 570 500
2 425 580 500 470
Bottom 450 520 440 540
Base: swapped disk
Added mouse bait
Retrieved krypton 1101
Cosmos:
cooler was not running, temp when we checked it was ~24
We did not get back to trying the heat gun yet.
The lid insul was left intact for the moment.
121: Status, Site all stns, Mon 27-Jan-2003 15:17:42 MST, Daily status Jan 27
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK.
Pam power: Is doing excellent, it dropped to just below 13.0 over night.
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: Good. w.15m stn0 still seems to be measuring a tad bit lower than other instruments (~.2 m/s). Position of sensor may be off a little. It will be checked with a level on next visit.
Krytons: No diurnal variation for any of the sensors. kh2o.20m stn0 is reading higher than other sensors by ~.5 g/m^3
H2O-kh2o: HsO-kh2o.2m stn0 is measuring between -.6 and -.9 while other sensors read between -.1 and .4.
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower reading higher than sage...will be fixed in post processing.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH difference profile: RH profile of sensor at 1m is reading drier, by about 5%, than the other sensors. John and Tony seem to believe this may be real.
Short wave radiation: OK .
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and Steve were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.Gsoil.10cm lake has been removed...I think?
Gsoila.10cm tower took a large dip just after 0100 MST from ~0 to -100 W/m^2.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
T profile (5 min ave): 10m sensor has been acting up, and reading warmer than others lately. It will be checked.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
120: Status, Site all stns, Fri 24-Jan-2003 14:20:52 MST, Daily status Jan 24
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK.
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: Good. w.15m stn0 still seems to be measuring a tad bit lower than other instruments (~.2 m/s). Position of sensor may be off a little. It will be checked with a level on next visit.
Krytons: OK. Diurnal variation is back, for all sensors. Went wacky between 1900 on Jan 23 and 0100 Jan 24.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower reading higher than sage...will be fixed in post processing.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: all kh20'kh2o'.2m sensors spike to ~3-4 between 1800-0000 MST.
Scalar variance: kh20'kh2o'.2m sensors spike to 4 (or greater) between 1800-0000 MST.
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH difference profile: 10m Temp and RH were off between 0900 and 1400 MST. Temp measurements were coming in ~2-5 deg above other sensors and the RH was reading a maximum of 15% more moist.
Short wave radiation: OK .
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
T profile (5 min ave): 10m sensor has been acting up, and reading warmer than others lately. It will be checked on next visit (Mon. Jan 27).
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
119: Status, Site all stns, Thu 23-Jan-2003 13:49:35 MST, Daily status Jan 23
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK.
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: Good. w.15m stn0 still seems to be measuring a tad bit lower than other instruments (~.2 m/s). Position of sensor may be off a little. It will be checked with a level on next visit.
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower reading higher than sage...will be fixed in post processing.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: was more activity than normal at sage on Jan 22 between 0700 and 1500 MST. w'tc'2m increased to .1, values are generally around ~-.1-.05
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: sage is higher by a degree between 0900 and 1500 MST on Jan 22. (this difference is also shown in the fluxes at 2m)
TRH profile difference:1m RH is reading a bit more moist than 2m by about 5%. John and Tony agree that this looks reasonable.
Short wave radiation: OK .
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
T profile (5 min ave): 10m sensor has been acting up, and reading warmer than others lately. It will be checked on next visit (Mon. Jan 27.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
118: Soil, Site all stns, Wed 22-Jan-2003 15:39:36 MST, Soil sensor configuration
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To view the configuration of the soil sensors at Grass, Sage and Lake:
Hit "Graphics Viewer", and then the little diamond.
- 117: Status, Site all stns, Wed 22-Jan-2003 15:31:46 MST, Daily status Jan 22
Weather plots:OK
Rain: No data shown in first plot.
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: Good. w.15m stn0 still seems to be measuring a tad bit lower than other instruments (~.2 m/s). Position of sensor may be off a little. It will be checked with a level on next visit.
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower reading higher than sage...will be fixed in post processing.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference:1m RH is reading a bit more moist than 2m by about 5%. John and Tony agree that this looks reasonable.
Short wave radiation: OK .
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 116: Soil, Site all stns, Wed 22-Jan-2003 12:57:12 MST, TP01 wiring
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The graphics file shows the wiring ofr the TP01 probe. The color code
for the wires corrresponds to the probe wires and NOT the wires in the
logger box.
- 115: Status, Site all stns, Tue 21-Jan-2003 14:50:59 MST, Daily status Jan 21
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: Good. w.15m stn0 seems to be measuring a tad bit lower than other instruments (~.2 m/s).
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower reading higher than sage and lake by about a millibar.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference:OK
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 114: Status, Site all stns, Fri 17-Jan-2003 14:42:35 MST, Daily status Jan 17
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: OK.
Krytons: OK
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower dropped below sage and lake between 1300 and 1600 Jan 16, then rose again to between 2-4 mb greater than sage and lake.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference: 10m sensor measurements varied from the others between
0900 MST Jan 16 and 1600 MST Jan 16 by as much as 6 deg C. Rebounded after 1600 and appears fine since.
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: all sensors fall out of sync after 0800 MST, as of 1400 they had not corrected themselves.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
w'kh2o' profiles: 01:00 profiles looks bad, 2 and 10 m sensors read w'kh2o' below -.0005 while the 20m and 30m sensors are ready w'h2o' at about .0005??
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 113: Status, Site all stns, Thu 16-Jan-2003 15:21:17 MST, Daily status Jan 16
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: OK.
Krytons: kh2o.2m lake(3) spiked to ~7 (g/m^3) and kh2o.20m.stn0 spiked to ~4 at 2400 Jan 15 MST.
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower is still slightly higher then at other sites. (~2-3 mb) Tbox.cosmos.stn0 is consistently warmer than daisy.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference: 10m, for both RH and T were measuring about the same as the other sensors until about 1000 MST when the temperature began to increase(RH decreased). It continued to warm to 7 deg (~peaked at 1100) and didn't come back into sync until 1600 MST.
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: Tdome-Tcase.out...all sensors fall out of sync a bit between 0900 and 1700 MST
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Problems with Gsoil.c.10cm.lake, it should be checked.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 112: Status, Site all stns, Wed 15-Jan-2003 15:07:47 MST, Daily status Jan 15
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: OK. w.15m stn0 is still reading a little lower (~-.2) than other sensors.
Krytons: plots are showing more moisture during early evening and early morning then throughout the night?
H2O-kh2o: OK
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower is looking better, it matches sage and lake around 1200 MST Jan 14, then begins to break away a bit after 1800 MST jan 14. After that, difference is about 2 mb. Tbox.cosmos.stn0 is consistently warmer than daisy.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference: 1m is more moist over night by ~5%. After 0700 MST all sensors measure about the same.
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Problems with Gsoil.c.10cm.lake, it should be checked.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 111: Status, Site all stns, Tue 14-Jan-2003 14:24:22 MST, Daily status Jan 14
Weather plots:OK
Rain: OK
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: OK. w.15m stn0 is coming in a little bit lower (~-.2- -.4) than other sensors (.4 - -.1)
Krytons: Diurnal variation is not present for any sensors.
H2O-kh2o: H20-kh20.2m sage had glitch from .6 to 1.2 on Jan 13 at 1300 MST
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower is a bit higher (by about 2 mb) than at other sites. Tbox.cosmos.stn0 is consistently about 5 deg warmer than daisy.
2m Sonic QC and profile: OK
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference: 1m -.5m is about 4% drier than other differences measured.
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK, Rlw.in.b.25m and Rlw.out.a.25m stn0 were removed.
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK, out.grease stn0 no longer being plotted either.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
All Tsoils.tower(grass) have a bit noise from the radiometer fans, but
this is
small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Problems with Gsoil.c.10cm.lake, it should be checked.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 109: Status, Site all stns, Fri 10-Jan-2003 14:56:44 MST, Daily status Jan 10
Weather plots:Pressure at tower dropped yesterday afternooon just after 1300, to 751. It rebounded at 1700 MST
Rain: Top plot has no data.
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: OK
Krytons: Diurnal variation is present for all sensors. Sensors show small moisture increase from 0100-0130 MST .
H2O-kh2o: 20m tower still showing signs that it may have a light leak? 2m tower
shows a small variation from what the other sensors are outputting. It increased ~1.5 g/m^3 between 0100-0500 MST jan 9.
Tv and P: pressure sensor data at tower is quite a bit higher (by about 2 mb) than at other sites. Tbox.cosmos.stn0 jumped from ~22 deg to ~58 deg between 0100and 0500 MST Jan 9. Doubt that its real because temp shot straight up to 58 deg, apparently stayed there for 4 hours and dropped straight back to ~20 deg.
2m Sonic QC and profile: Small but quick increase in 10m for all components (u,v,w,diag), between 0300 and 0500 MST.
Sonic variance (2m / profile): v'v'.2m shot up to almost 7 (m/s)^2 at 0500 MST./ OK
Scalar variance 2m: kh2o'kh2o'.2m steadily climbed to 4+ over night, suddenly dropped to near 0 at 0600 MST. Remained at/near zero until 1200 MST when all the sensors increeased to between 2.5-3.5. tc'tc'.2m showed a lot of variation over night, up until about 0500 when it dropped to almost zero where it has stayed
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: OK
CO2 Moments: OK
TRH 2m difference: Temp dropped from ~-1 to ~-13 just before 0500, RH also decreased at this time from ~2% to ~-18%. Both recovered fairly quickly.
TRH profile difference: fairly significant temp change (drops 5-10 deg), and decrease in RH (10-20%) at 0500 MST.
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK, but Rlw.in.b.25m and Rlw.out.a.25m stn0, which were having having problems are not longer there?
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK, in.b.25m stn0 is no longer being plotted. out.grease stn0 no longer being plotted either.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
All Tsoils.tower(grass) have a bit noise from the radiometer fans, but
this is
small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Gsoil.c.10cm is back on the fritz. Also, keep an eye in Gsoil.a.10cm.sage, it seems to be behaving starngely.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 108: Status, Site all stns, Thu 09-Jan-2003 13:06:39 MST, Daily status Jan 9
Weather plots:Pressure at tower dropped yesterday afternooon to, or below, 752. It rebounded, and then dropped until about 1700 MST, Jan 8, and came back up around 2300.
Rain: From looking at top plot, there's no moisture, no calibraiton bleeps, and no sign of life.
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: OK
Sonic profiles: w data from 10m drops from around 0 to -.5 m/s shortly before 0200 MST, and rebounds shortly after 0500 MST. None of other sensors behaved this way.
Krytons: Diurnal variation is present for all sensors except at 30m. 2m sensor misbehaves between 1700-2300 MST Jan 8.
H2O-kh2o: 20m and 30m show no diurnal variation. 2m jumps from -.8 to 1.3 at 1700, drops slightly over the next few hours, then returns to negative values.
Tv and P: pressure sensor behavior at tower noted above in weather section.
2m Sonic QC and profile: Flares up a bit over night, reading dropped again around 0900 MST.
Sonic variance (2m / profile): OK
Scalar variance 2m: OK
Scalar variance: OK
Fluxes at 2m: OK
Flux profiles: OK
CO2: between 1700-2400 Jan 8 co2mr.2m, tlicor2m, and plicor.2m flatlined. Pressure also jumped from ~640 to ~840 mb during this time.
CO2 Moments: no moments data shown during times listed above.
TRH 2m difference: OK
TRH profile difference: . OK
Short wave radiation: OK.
Long Wave Radiation: OK but Rlw.in.b.25m and Rlw.out.a.25m stn0, which were having having problems are not longer there?
|Tdome-Tcase|: OK, in.b.25m stn0 is no longer being plotted. out.grease stn0 no longer being plotted either.
Tsoil: OK. Tsoil.2.5cm.a.sage still looks like it may be exposed to
air.
I'm just ignoring this, since we should have adequate Tsoil sampling.
All Tsoils.tower(grass) have a bit noise from the radiometer fans, but
this is
small enough that I'm ignoring it too.
Qsoil: Qsoil.c.10cm lake sensor still down. It might also a cable cut
(like the Gsoil.10cm.a problem found at lake), but will require more
digging
up snow to check. Currently, I'm ignoring this as well since there
probably
is enough redundancy in the Qsoil measurements.
Gsoil: Gsoil.c.10cm sage became bad as Tony and I were working at sage
on
12/18. Problem was not fixed because ground was frozen. Ignore for now.
Gsoil.c.10cm lake was on the fritz prior to 1500 Jan 8 but seems to have
recovered.
Soil Thermal properties: All of these signals look bad, despite "fixing"
the
wiring problem at tower (grass). I've expected that it will take a
while to
get good data from these, since there was a small air gap around the
probes
after installation; however, the data look even worse. In particular,
each
"event" on Vheat should look like a square wave toggling between 0 and 1
V.
The "Vpile" signal at tower looks close to the signal expected for
Vheat, but
at the wrong amplitude.
Wind direction profile: OK, though there probably are biases of 1-2
degrees
(despite aligning the booms by eye up and down the tower and shooting
boom
angles that were mostly the same). We'll need to check these angles
again.
u* profiles: First plot there is not data for sensors at 30 m between 1:00-6:00 MST?
Kate Beierle
Associate Scientist I
NCAR/ATD
Research Technology Facilit
- 106: Status, Site all stns, Wed 08-Jan-2003 14:03:31 MST, Daily status Jan 8
Weather plots:rainr tower(1) had a spike from -25 to -3 g/kg at 1530 on Jan 7.
Rain: OK
Pam power: OK
Sonics 2m: w.2m tower was behaving strangely from 0700-0900 MST.
Sonic profiles: data from 10m is quite different than that
coming from other sensors. for u component Between 0600-0900 the
10m sensor was reading between -2 and -4 m/s, while others were close
to (or above) 0 m/s. At one point it jumped to 2 m/s from -2 m/s.The v componentduring this time ranged between 2 and 9 m/s. The w component for the 5m, 10m and 15m sensors at that time looks bad also. All sensors seem to recover
shortly after 0900 MST.
Krytons: OK. Diurnal variation is present for all sensors.
H2O-kh2o: 20m still shows a diurnal difference (light leak?). This
didn't
change with cleaning on about 12/17.
Tv and P: tc.1m stn0 may have had a glitch just after 0800. According to the sensor the temperature drops from ~-21 to ~-29 between 0800 and 0900 MST which is almost 10 deg colder than at other |
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