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AERI-bago Daily Summary
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Date: 20 May 2002 CST (Monday)
Location: Homestead Site (near Balko, Oklahoma) , IHOP field campaign
Operator: W. Feltz
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/ihop

Weather Conditions:

Mostly clear, thin cirrus veil most of day, temperature ~80F, very windy, some dust

Instrument Status:

AERI ran well overnight, installed the AERI sky view aperature at ~1846 UTC (per request by Hank Revercomb), one AERI radiance at record number 159 (1851 UTC) was contaminated by the installation procedure. Retaped the AERI chimney cloth. Ralph Dedecker updated the atmospheric pressure AESITTER.SCR to account for lower atmospheric pressure at site.

Surface station running well.

http://scooby.ssec.wisc.edu/aeribago/


Science:

AERI retrievals are operational and running well. Boundary layer flights by the Wyoming King Air were conducted today. Updated bago web page below with other homestead data links.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/ihop/aeribago/
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/catalog/ihop/research/index

Miscellaneous:

Robin Tanamachi last night and is working on multiple AERI x-sections. Bill Brown went back to Boulder today.