TAMDAR AERI-bago Validation Experiment (TAVE) Daily Summary
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Date: 03 March 2005 CST (Sunday) 0000-2400 UTC
Location: Tennessee Air National Guard at MEM Airport
Operators: K. Bedka, S. Bedka
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tamdar/

Weather Conditions:
    Mostly Sunny skies in the morning and continuing throughout the day.  Highs in upper 50s.  Light southerly
winds.

Instrument Status:
  *  Surface pressure, RH, and tmeperature sensors working
     and archiving.
  *  Ceilometer working and archiving.
  *  GPS system working and archiving
  *  AERI working and archiving.
  *  Radiosonde system is working and archiving.
    As of 2015 UTC on 022804, ASOS surface wind data from
  KMEM is included as the lowest observation level within
  the radiosonde data.  Surface pressure, temperature, and
  humidity observations will still come from the AERIbago's
  instrument tower.
    0100  Launch normal, data good.
    1430, 1615, 2015  No launches
    2300  Launch normal, data good.

Science/Miscellaneous:
  The operators launched 2, rather than 5 radiosondes today.
There has been tremendous success with radiosonde launches
over the past few days and we are on track to hit the
experiment goal of 50-60 successful radiosonde launches.
The operators decided that since today's weather pattern was
very similar to the past 2 days, the morning launches were
not necessary.  The evening launches were carried out due to
the fact that the 2300 and 0100 UTC launches have the
closest overlap with the highest number of TAMDAR
instruments.

The operators have 15 sondes remaining within the
AERIbago.

AERIBago contact number:  608-219-0565

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Cheers,
Sarah Bedka