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AERI-bago Daily Summary
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Date: 13 May 2002 CST
Location: Homestead Site, IHOP.
Operator: Tobin, Short
Weather Conditions:
Clear and nice. High of about 75F. Light winds from the North.
Some patchy, wispy clouds in the evening.
Instrument Status:
Power: Fuses were added to the ouside power hook-up today, and the power to the Bago
is all set.
Telephone: The hard line was installed late this afternoon and works fine. The bag-phone
is also working. (My personal cell phone (US Cellular) also works when in Liberal, but not
reliably when on the road or at the Homestead site.)
Network: The optical lines were run today and everything is working fine. I can run dhcp from my
laptop. Reading email and running netscape is nearly the same as at work. The only problem
I ran into was that bago-aeri, bago-wx, and simoon do not reckognize each other, and are not
reckognizable by other machines, using the machine names. Using the
IPaddresses works fine. I checked all of the nameserve, routing, etc. numbers, and everything
looks fine to me - if anyone has any ideas on how to fix this, let me know. As a result, the
scripts on simoon which grab data from bago-aeri and bago-wx were modified to use ipaddresses.
AERI data is being transferred to zonda and ssec-mads via simoon. But, simoon is not able to get
files off of the weather station - some OS2 thing regarding the files are currently being
written to - Wayne has an email into Ray re: this.
AERI:
is up and running. All flags are green.
This morning, after power-up, the interferometer was in the (bad) state of [scan=off,
zpd = on, data = on], and the message on the MADS screen was "failure to
communicate with the interferometer". After about 15 minutes, the lights went into
the normal condition [scan=off, zpd=off, data=blinking]. Go figure ?? Tim and Bob
suggested this might be due to cold temperatures overnight, and suggest running the
space heater at a low turn-on temperature tonight. After ~30 minutes, all flags went to
green and have stayed that way all day. After re-starting the system at ~3:30 today (the
fuse-box power box thing), the system started in "normal" mode.
John built and installed an enclosure for the AERI "chimney" area today. It is built from
heavy vinyl and has outside air forced into it via the roof fan.
Weather Station:
is up and running. See note above re: inabolity to pull current day's file off.
GPS:
is still packed away. I spoke to Belay and he can be persuaded at to where the unit should go.
It is not clear if thier system will work with SuomiNet at this site yet, so we may install our
system here. If their system can work here, I will most likekly install our system ~15 minutes
away at the S-Pol site. I'm not sure about the timing of any of this. The GSFC Lidar guys are
pre-occupied with a broken laser. (Go passive !)
Science:
Today was a good start-up day. the NCAR folks launched a baloon at ~1:15 pm and it will make for a
good check on the AERI. I hope to get the sonde data tomorrow and do the calculations. The DRI
mobile microwave radiometer (20.6GHz, 31.4GHz) was also parked behind the AERIbago today and so
are planning on some comparisons. The Wyoming King-Airs made an overpass of the site at low altitude
today at ~4pm. I still don't really know what a dry-line is :-).
Miscellaneous:
John left around 5pm today to catch his early morning flight out of Amarillo.
Tomorrow is the press day here at the Homestead site, and there is a science meeting at the
S-Pol site at 4pm, with a tele/video-con to Norman. The "tie-down guy" (the richest man in Oklahoma)
will also arrive tomorrow to put some tie-downs on the AERI-bago and another trailer.
I'm planning on putting the auto-hatch to the test, and running through
the night tonight.
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AERI-bago Daily Summary
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Date: 13 May 2002 CST
Location: Homestead Site, IHOP.
Operator: Tobin, Short
Weather Conditions:
Clear and nice. High of about 75F. Light winds from the North.
Some patchy, wispy clouds in the evening.
Instrument Status:
Power: Fuses were added to the ouside power hook-up today, and the power to the Bago
is all set.
Telephone: The hard line was installed late this afternoon and works fine. The bag-phone
is also working. (My personal cell phone (US Cellular) also works when in Liberal, but not
reliably when on the road or at the Homestead site.)
Network: The optical lines were run today and everything is working fine. I can run dhcp from my
laptop. Reading email and running netscape is nearly the same as at work. The only problem
I ran into was that bago-aeri, bago-wx, and simoon do not reckognize each other, and are not
reckognizable by other machines, using the machine names. Using the
IPaddresses works fine. I checked all of the nameserve, routing, etc. numbers, and everything
looks fine to me - if anyone has any ideas on how to fix this, let me know. As a result, the
scripts on simoon which grab data from bago-aeri and bago-wx were modified to use ipaddresses.
AERI data is being transferred to zonda and ssec-mads via simoon. But, simoon is not able to get
files off of the weather station - some OS2 thing regarding the files are currently being
written to - Wayne has an email into Ray re: this.
AERI:
is up and running. All flags are green.
This morning, after power-up, the interferometer was in the (bad) state of [scan=off,
zpd = on, data = on], and the message on the MADS screen was "failure to
communicate with the interferometer". After about 15 minutes, the lights went into
the normal condition [scan=off, zpd=off, data=blinking]. Go figure ?? Tim and Bob
suggested this might be due to cold temperatures overnight, and suggest running the
space heater at a low turn-on temperature tonight. After ~30 minutes, all flags went to
green and have stayed that way all day. After re-starting the system at ~3:30 today (the
fuse-box power box thing), the system started in "normal" mode.
John built and installed an enclosure for the AERI "chimney" area today. It is built from
heavy vinyl and has outside air forced into it via the roof fan.
Weather Station:
is up and running. See note above re: inabolity to pull current day's file off.
GPS:
is still packed away. I spoke to Belay and he can be persuaded at to where the unit should go.
It is not clear if thier system will work with SuomiNet at this site yet, so we may install our
system here. If their system can work here, I will most likekly install our system ~15 minutes
away at the S-Pol site. I'm not sure about the timing of any of this. The GSFC Lidar guys are
pre-occupied with a broken laser. (Go passive !)
Science:
Today was a good start-up day. the NCAR folks launched a baloon at ~1:15 pm and it will make for a
good check on the AERI. I hope to get the sonde data tomorrow and do the calculations. The DRI
mobile microwave radiometer (20.6GHz, 31.4GHz) was also parked behind the AERIbago today and so
are planning on some comparisons. The Wyoming King-Airs made an overpass of the site at low altitude
today at ~4pm. I still don't really know what a dry-line is :-).
Miscellaneous:
John left around 5pm today to catch his early morning flight out of Amarillo.
Tomorrow is the press day here at the Homestead site, and there is a science meeting at the
S-Pol site at 4pm, with a tele/video-con to Norman. The "tie-down guy" (the richest man in Oklahoma)
will also arrive tomorrow to put some tie-downs on the AERI-bago and another trailer.
I'm planning on putting the auto-hacth to the test, and running through the night tonight.
