27 August 2010: Afternoon Ozonesonde Launch

Ozonesonde Launch RC350

Team: Darrell, Barbara

Temp: 33.59C
RH: 29.49%
WS: 1.20 m/s
WD: 62.73
P: 1012.21
Launch Time: 13.53 CDT

Weather: Clear with a few clouds

26 August 2010: HFP01SC Program

After multiple drafts, still cannot get program to correctly report heat flux plate value.

Contacted Justin Baumgartner at Campbell:

Hi Christine,

Attached is the new revision of your program. Changes made were: Added shf(1) to the data tables. Changed the HFP01SC_Cal to HFP01SC_Mult and took out the extra scan instruction.

Let us know how it goes.

Best,

Justin Baumgartner
Technical Sales Representative-North Central Region
Campbell Scientific, Inc.
Ph: 435-750-1838
jbaumgartner@campbellsci.com
www.campbellsci.com

His changes worked and we are now successfully logging heat flux plate values in the ground. Hooray!

25 August 2010: Afternoon Ozonesonde Launch

Ozonesonde Launch RC349

Team: Darrell, Barbara

Temp: 35.7
RH: 41
WS:
WD:
P: 1012
Launch Time: 2:40 local

Weather: Clear

24 Aug 2010 Afternoon Ozonesonde Launch

Ozonesonde Launch RC 348

Team: Darrell, Barbara

Temp:
RH:
WS:
WD:
P:
Launch Time: 12:46 CDT

Weather: Partly cloudy and very hazy

17 AUG 2010 Afternoon Ozonesonde Launch

Ozonesonde Launch RC 347

Team: Darrell, Barbara

Temp:
RH:
WS:
WD:
P:
Launch Time: CDT

Weather:

16 Aug 2010 Afternoon Ozonesonde Launch

Ozonesonde Launch RC 346

Team: Darrell, Barbara

Temp: 36.4 C
RH: 39.8
WS:
WD:
P: 1011
Launch Time: 14:02 CDT

Weather: Mostly cloudy and very hazy

Soil Heat flux plate installation Pics

24 August 2010: Soil Heat Flux Plate

Yesterday (23 August 2010), from approximately 3:30 to 5:45 pm CDT, Darrell and I installed the Hukseflux soil heat flux plate. We lined it up with the CG3down. The hole is approximately 8cm beneath the soil surface. We used a drill to cut the horizontal slice into the southern side of the hole where we then inserted the circular plate. We then covered the hole with the soil and grass. We also ran the wire across to the helium shed, to the trailer, and finally into the trailer.

Today I connected the two soil heat flux plates to the CR5000 datalogger and modified the loggernet program to scan and print tables for the soil heat flux plate.

11 August 2010: Morning Radiosonde Launch

Launched an 80-15 radiosonde this morning around 9:30am.

Temp: 31
RH: 65
P: 1011.83
Wind Dir: 5.88
Wind Spd: 1.20m/s
Weather: Mostly sunny, Hazy

11 August 2010: Afternoon Ozonesonde Launch

Ozonesonde Launch RC 345
Team: Darrell, Matt
Temp: 36
RH: 36.26
WS: 1.30
WD: 71.38
P: 1010.69
Launch Time: 13:13 CDT

Weather: Partly cloudy and very hazy

Lots of ozone at the surface with a reading in the low 100's ppb at the surface peaking around 120 right above the ground.

11 August 2010: Dualsonde Launch

Dualsonde launch: RC344
Team: Christine, Darrell, Barbara
Temp: 28.1 C
RH: 77.3%
WS: 0.2 m/s
WD: 249 (mostly calm)
P: 1010.78 mb
Launch Time: 06:45 CDT (11:45 GMT)

Primary sonde: 2Z8220EGPS (leads are reversed on this sonde!)
Secondary sonde: 2Z8223X1

Stable layer around 225m
Ozone maxed out around 70 ppbv in residual layer

Flew Spot GPS: login: blefer, password: ozone123

7 August 2010: High Def Camera Launch

Launched two high definition video camera sondes with Ben Longmier and 20 high school students from Washington T. Booker High School

Benjamin Longmier, Ph.D.
Professional Development Chair
AIAA-Houston

profdev@aiaa-houston.org

Recovered both sondes SW of Houston.

Darrell Anderson helped.

4 August 2010

Flux Station up and running.

Extended anemometer cable by 42 ft (total of 87 ft.)

Replaced anemometer "Launch" with "UH 1".

Matt and Natalie to calibrate "Launch" Anemometer

Logging: T, RH, P, WS, WD, Net Rad

Darrell removed duct work

Workers: Matt, Natalie, Christine, Darrell

3 August 2010: Mounted Instruments on Flux Post

Mounted net radiometer and T/RH probe

Installed guide wires and fence around Flux post

Attached instrument cables from Flux post to helium shed to launch trailer

Mounted CR5000 datalogger to wall next to PC desktop station

Connected net radiometer, T/RH probe to datalogger and currently logging data

C:\Campbellsci\LoggerNet\UH Trailer Data

Workers: Jimmy, Darrell, Natalie, Barry, Christine

2 August 2010: Datalogger and Post

Buried net radiometer/flux pole near the road. Secured it with cement.

Cleaned out trailer. Organized tool chest. Removed old tubing and electrical cables from inside cable.

Moved CR1000 datalogger cables (temp, RH, WS, WD, P) cables to CR5000 datalogger.

Modified .cr3 program to a .cr5 and added net radiometer. Tested net radiometer and appears to be working.