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Thursday, November 8th, 2012 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap N2 cylinder, setup one more thermocouple.

Weather: warm, sunny, calm.  Some clouds in the morning, but then
cleared up and was very pleasant.  And quiet.  A snowstorm is supposed
to hit this weekend...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* Obama is re-elected president!

* there was a strange sound south of the site...i think maybe
it was coyotes?  Duane thought it sounded like a turkey.  Also,
gunshots on the hike back to MRS...

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 200 psi.  N2 at 120 psi --> 2020 psi.

* from 14:00-15:00 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old=cc76749 new=cc267681

* snow depths (taken from bottom of tape!, need to determine new
  measurement depths!):

              closest to tree =  3 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  5 cm
               farthest probe =  0 cm

* having some problems with the PC card for the MRC snow probes.  (Jen
let me borrow the card reader, but I think I brought the wrong card
back to the trailer!)...also, was checking for lights when I insert
the card...it didn't seem to work every time so perhaps need to make
sure it is inserted correctly...note, the serial port in the dell
laptop (podocarp?) has a problem with the pins getting pushed in...

* removed a bunch of variables from the LI-7200 data file:


  -- here are screenshots of the LI-7200 settings:

     http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/li7200_settings.html

    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   109226 Nov  8 10:39 li7200_settings_121108_a.png*
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   163524 Nov  8 10:59 li7200_settings_121108_b.png*
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   160904 Nov  8 11:05 li7200_settings_121108_c.png*
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   396769 Nov  8 11:16 li7200_settings_121108_d.png*

  -- variables kept:

  % DATAH
  % Sequence Number Diagnostic Value
  % Date
  % Time
  % 10 CO2 Absorptance         keep
  % 11 H2O Absorptance         keep
  % 12 CO2 (mmol/m^3)          keep
  % 13 H2O (mmol/m^3)          keep
  % 14 Block Temperature (C)   keep
  % 16 Box Pressure (kPa)      keep
  % 17 Head Pressure (kPa)     keep
  % 23 Dew Point (C)           keep (can almost calculate?)
  % 25 Temperature In (C)      keep
  % 26 Temperature Out (C)     keep
  % 28 Flow Rate (slpm)        keep
  % 30 Flow Pressure (kPa)     keep

  -- variables removed:

  % 15 Total Pressure (kPa)        -- can calculate (remove)
  % 18 Cooler Voltage (V)          need?
  % 19 CO2 (umol/mol)              -- can calculate (remove)
  % 20 CO2 dry(umol/mol)           -- can calculate (remove)
  % 21 H2O (mmol/mol)              -- can calculate (remove)
  % 22 H2O dry(mmol/mol)           -- can calculate (remove)
  % 24 Cell Temperature (C)        -- can calculate (remove)
  % 27 AGC                         -- can calculate from Diagnostic Value (remove)
  % 29 Flow Rate (lpm)             -- probably don't need
  % 31 Flow Power (V)              -- probably don't need
  % 37 CHK                         -- varies between 0-255....what is this?  (probably ok to remove).

  -- George Burba suggested:

  I would keep these if you use flow module:

  % 29 Flow Rate (lpm)             -- probably don't need
  % 31 Flow Power (V)              -- probably don't need

  I do not think this is removable, this is checksum to make sure half-hour has 1800 10 Hz data points in it, etc.

  % 37 CHK                         -- varies between 0-255....what is this?  (probably ok to remove).


* tried to get the ATI working again (opened the box and checked the
connections), but it is still broken?...in the past, checking the
loose connections has fixed it...

* moved the LI-7200 body up about 10cm so that there is a slight
downward tilt in the sample line (so any condensation/water will
flow down the inlet tubing)...

* started ucb_17.csi.  Removed the handar probe (it has not been
working) and used diff chan 9 to add one more thermocouple.  This
thermocouple is setup BELOW the LI-7500...note that the shaft of the
TC is zip-tied to the body of the LI-7500...this could generate some
heat which conducts to the TC wires...if this creates a problem, this
setup could be changed later...in the data system this is "Ttc.4".

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     9463 Nov  8 11:39 ucb_17.csi*

* here are the ucb sensors and channels:

; CR23X Channel Number       Sensor
;         1               up-looking li-190sa
;         2              down-looking li-190sa
;         3               se 5:  t107,  se 6: cs616
;         4               se 7:  257l
;         5                cnr2 SW
;         6                cnr2 LW
;         7                rebs net radiometer
;         8
;         9               tc #4
;        10               tc 1
;        11               tc 2
;        12               tc 3
;

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   827998 Nov  8 12:15 soil11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1302762 Nov  8 12:28 tc11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   349429 Nov  8 12:31 tc11_8b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    21495 Nov  8 12:38 noah11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   156006 Nov  8 13:42 ucb11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   216710 Nov  8 14:00 prf11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   560267 Nov  8 14:07 met11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   443324 Nov  8 14:14 cnr11_8.dat*

* also tried to download the penn data logger, ie:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1465 Nov  8 12:43 CR1000_Public_121108.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     2432 Nov  8 12:40 CR1000_Public_old.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     5470 Nov  8 12:43 CR1000_Status_121108.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     7278 Nov  8 12:40 CR1000_Status_old.dat*

I think I didn't do the download correctly?....there should be a way
to ge the data too...

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: clean the LI-7200, setup a few more thermocouples.

Weather: warm, sunny, calm.  Could not ask for better weather for the
last day of October.  3-5" of Wet, melting snow on the ground.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* forgot my boots!  had to make do with my keens, plastic bags,
  and gaitors.

* John Knowles was moving cylinders from C1 to the tower
(he was using the new ATV)

* bought more zip ties, allen wrench, and a few other misc
items.

* saw some more scat (lion?) on road to C1...also, some tracks
on path to tower with a gait about as large as my arm....

---------

* Span cylinder at 250 psi.  N2 at 400 psi.

* snow depths (taken from bottom of tape!, need to determine new
  measurement depths!):

              closest to tree =  5 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  11 cm
               farthest probe =  13 cm

* from 11:35-12:45 MST, did maintenance on the LI-7200 (cleaned cell,
  replaced dessicant/scrubber bottles).

  -- picked up the scrubber bottles and Ascarite II from NEON...I had
     MgClO4 which I used to fill the bottles....cleaning out the old
     bottles was a bit messy (did this in the trailer)...

  -- the instructions with the LI-7200 are fairly straight-forward
     ..note the AGC value was quite high (above 80)...once I opened
     the cell I could see why--the lenses and optical cell were very
     dirty.  It seemed like it was mostly pollen.  After the cleaning,
     the AGC was closer to 60.

  -- there was a small vial of vinegar in the shed (from Max?)...I
     used this to clean the lenses and cell (note, could not find my
     bottle of d-i water?).  Need to refill and leave in shed.

  -- the old scrubber bottles actually looked to be in good shape.
     The one at the top of the LI-7200 looked more used than the other
     two.

  -- need to pay closer attention to the AGC!!  Cleaning is easy and
     the LI-7200 is awesome to work with and clean!

  -- Also, when I reinstalled the LI-7200 inlet I moved it closer to
     the CSAT transducers.  Also, checked the filter screens at the
     inlet and at the pump and they seemed ok...didn't do anything to
     them.

  -- did screen shots (note, use PRNT-SCREEN to take and CTRL-V to
     paste into paint).  These are are on russter2 as:

     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  43231 Oct 31 10:29 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_01.png*
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 165903 Oct 31 10:31 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_02.png*
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 152144 Oct 31 10:33 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_03.png*
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 145737 Oct 31 10:34 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_04.png*
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  35330 Oct 31 10:35 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_05.png*
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  33760 Oct 31 10:36 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_06.png*
     -rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  36369 Oct 31 10:37 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_li7200/screenshot_li7200_07.png*

* at 12:50 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer (used vinegar).

* updated from ops59 to ops60:

-------------------------------------------------
ops60   2012 oct 31 22:57:00 - 2020 jan 01 16:00:00

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 38419040 Oct 31 10:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt121031.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 33094288 Oct 31 16:56 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt121031.160000  <-- last file for ops59

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  5069328 Oct 31 18:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt121031.225700  <-- first file for ops60
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 15204352 Oct 31 21:09 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt121101.000000

* added two more thermocouples to the ucb logger..these
are co-located with the 2.5m CSAT and LI-7500.
-------------------------------------------------


* updated the ucb logger to output data from two new thermocouples:

> ; ucb_16.csi, added two new thermocopules (near li-7500).
> ;  also changed se channel for cs616 probe.
> ; 31 oct 2012.  spb.
> ;

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     8474 Oct 31 14:58 ucb_16.csi*

* I had to fiddle around a bit to make room for the new
thermocouples...I moved the CS616 probe from SE chan 23 to SE chan 6,:

<  2: 23       SE Channel
---
>  2: 6        SE Channel

then the three thermocouples (two new ones) were on diff chans 10-12, ie:

14:  Thermocouple Temp (DIFF) (P14)
 1: 3        Reps
 2: 20       Auto, 60 Hz Reject, Slow Range (OS>1.06)
 3: 10       DIFF Channel
 4: 2        Type E (Chromel-Constantan)
 5: 22       Ref Temp (Deg. C) Loc [ PanelTemp ]
 6: 28       Loc [ TC1_1     ]
 7: 1.0      Mult
 8: 0.0      Offset

* new thermocouple details:

 TC1_1 (Ttc.20cm):  approx 20cm behind CSAT transducers, not moved from where it has been
 TC1_2  (Ttc.2)  :  near path of LI-7500, 33cm behind CSAT3 transducers
 TC1_3  (Ttc.3)  :  located 2cm behind CSAT3 transducers  (use this for flux!)

* collected logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1076 Oct 31 10:24 mrs_121016.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   852904 Oct 31 13:16 soil10_31.dat*
-rw-rw-r--  1 sburns aster  1745756 Oct 31 21:22 tc_121016.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   310427 Oct 31 13:53 ucb10_31.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster      765 Oct 31 15:06 ucb10_31b.dat*
-rw-rw-r--  1 sburns aster   311192 Oct 31 21:19 ucb_121031.dat

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: Do some cleanup before the snow
arrives.

Weather: warm and sunny, but then clouded up in
the afternoon (storm was approaching).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* bumped into Dean and helper...also, Dominik was at
the site fixing up the snow depth sensors.

* note, the allen wrench was missing!  Also, need to
buy more zip-ties...

---------

* Span cylinder at 300 psi.  N2 at 690 psi.

* replaced UPS battery at base of tower

* cleaned up / painted the MRC snow temp probes

* at 10:30 MST, swapped battery charger for soil logger (voltages
still too high).  Hopefully with a new charger it will start acting
"normal".

* at 12:10 MST, re-connected grounding wire for ATI K-probe (starts
  working again)

* at 13:45 MST, changed orientation of 2.5m LI-7500, re-leveled 2.5m
  REBS

* collected logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   710180 Oct 23 10:33 soil10_23.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   701845 Oct 23 10:43 tc10_23.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   166887 Oct 23 11:31 mrs10_23.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   829604 Oct 23 11:49 met10_23.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   319706 Oct 23 11:54 prf10_23.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   645597 Oct 23 12:02 nctc10_23.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   936036 Oct 23 13:04 cnr10_23.dat*

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: take russter2 to/from campus, move
N2 cylinders

Weather: Cold and windy.  Some nice wave clouds.  Calmed
down and was raining lightly when I left.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Jeep (needed to haul cylinders).

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 350 psi.  N2 at 850 psi.

* at 7:57 MST, shutdown russter2 and brought it back to campus.
UnixOPS replaced the hard drive (this time, I bought a new hard drive
rather than using a re-furbished one).  At 13:17 MST, rebooted
russter2 with the new hard drive.  Data system didn't come up right
away, but it did eventually (after doing, 'ndaqrestart quacker').
Note:  the old hard drive is sitting in a box on top of russter2.

* moved 4 new N2 cylinders to tower/trailer:

cc267681      N2    tower/base     moved to tower 10/16/12, moved to trailer 10/16/12
cc142673      N2    trlr/inside    moved to trailer 10/16/12
cc176525      N2    trlr/inside    moved to trailer 10/16/12
eb0034127     N2    trlr/inside    moved to trailer 10/16/12

* brought 8 cylinders back to MRS, here is a summary:

--------------------------------------
Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:07:47 MDT
To:      John Francis Knowles 
cc:      "Sean Burns" , jennifer.f.morse@colorado.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: gas cylinders at C1...

Hi John,

I put a total of eight cylinders in the snowmobile shed...they are all
on the wall right next to the liquid N2 tanks.  Here is a summary:

AmeriFlux cylinders:
--------------------
cc329215      N2               < 20 psi
cc301525      N2               < 20 psi
cc180691      N2               < 20 psi
SG91667447BAL co2 in air       approx 100 psi
cc140852      co2 in air       approx 200 psi

Knowles Cylinders:
------------------
cc325495     5% co2
cc262422     5% co2
cc262316     N2

I didn't have a pickup form...could you fill out the form and make the
call to have them picked up?  If not, then I'll do this next time I go
to the site (maybe next week, depending on the weather). . .

can't reach the tower right now...not surprising with this wind...


                                         SpB.


> Hi Sean,
> Empty Airgas cylinders can all go where you picked up the full
> ones from (should be a rope attached to the wall to restrain).
> Just let me know if you schedule a pickup so we don't both
> call/confuse them. Thanks!
> John Knowles
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Geography
> Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
> University of Colorado, Boulder
>
--------------------------------------

* the soil logger battery voltage has been rather high for the past
month or so (around 14.8)...replaced it with a spare battery in the
trailer (a smaller one)...the old soil logger battery is in the
bowling shack.  Did NOT replace the trickle charger (need to check
data on next visit).  Typical voltage should be around 12.8 volts.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    75180 Oct 16 14:39 noah10_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1241635 Oct 16 14:52 soil10_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   536035 Oct 16 14:57 soil10_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1034 Oct 16 15:12 soil10_16c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1315371 Oct 16 14:34 tc10_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   430385 Oct 16 14:37 tc10_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   556241 Oct 16 15:24 ucb10_16.dat*

Saturday, September 29th, 2012 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, HB, BB, +

Purpose of visit: give tower tour to Holly Barnard Forest Ecol
class.

Weather: Nice.  Warm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* the class was about 30 people, broke up into 3 groups.

---------

* Span cylinder at 500 psi.  N2 at 1300 psi.

* after tour, downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   588144 Sep 29 13:08 prf9_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1186817 Sep 29 13:19 met9_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   323594 Sep 29 13:24 met9_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1161620 Sep 29 13:36 nctc9_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1026450 Sep 29 13:54 tc9_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster      184 Sep 29 14:35 noah9_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1030949 Sep 29 14:46 soil9_29.dat*

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JS, M, L, G, MB, DN

Purpose of visit: help Jielun gather tubing (check old sites), meet
with Max to discuss the new shed.

Weather: It was sunny.  Very hazy/smoky down on the plains.  It
was a bit breezy at times, but nothing too serious.  Fall colors
(aspens) are probably at a peak right now...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up JS SUV.

* Jielun had a team of visitors helping: Mireia Udina, Lisa Dirks, and
  Guoyin Wang.

* Max and David Noone were finishing the new shed for the picarro.

---------

* Span cylinder at 550 psi.  N2 at 1600 psi.

* we searched for tubing at all the old sites (near Pine from CME04,
near como creek for CME07, and the main tower for NIWOT02).  There was
not much tubing at any of these locations.  We collected all the
synflex tubing that was just off the trail on the way to the
tower...this tubing filled Jielun's vehicle (so Max gave Mireia, Lisa,
and Guoyin a ride back to NCAR).

* at 12:49 MST, adjusted cal flows in LI-6262 system

* at approx 13:30 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1278373 Sep 19 12:02 tc9_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  346296 Sep 19 12:05 tc9_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1187989 Sep 19 12:18 soil9_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  431522 Sep 19 12:26 soil9_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  695073 Sep 19 12:38 ucb9_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  939539 Sep 19 13:24 cnr9_19.dat*

Monday, September 3rd, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, PST

Purpose of visit: swap N2 cylinder

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up PsT BMW.

* It was labor day holiday.

* we ran into Hollys grad student (Halley?) taking some
soil respiration measurements.

---------

* Span cylinder at 700 psi.  N2 at 500 psi.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1194881 Sep  3 10:07 soil9_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  618693 Sep  3 10:13 soil9_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1245184 Sep  3 09:49 tc9_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  560962 Sep  3 09:55 tc9_3b.dat*

Monday, August 27th, 2012 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: change LI-6262 tubing (flow is low)

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 800 psi.  N2 at 500 psi.

* from 13:10-14:00 MST, replaced nu-pro filters and tubing in
  EC/LI-6262 system

* from approx 11:01-11:19 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

Thursday, August 16th, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: fix LI-6251 micropump, get logger data.

Weather: very calm.  it was hazy/smokey (supposedly from
the fires in california and the NW).  it started raining
as I was leaving (around 2pm)...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Prius.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 800 psi.  N2 at 500 psi.

* from 10:30-13:00 MST, replaced micro-pump in prof system (li-6251)
  [Only zero gas connected!].  Note, the pump initiall did not work
  (using the AMP connector)...as I was investigating, one of the wires
  to power the pump was actually loose...and as I was checking the
  voltage of these wires it touched the back (metal) panel and sent up
  quite a spark...

* at 11:44 MST, changed span/n2 flow in LI-6262.

* at 12:15 MST, re-started ati k-probe (will it work?). this time I
  opened the box and tried to improve the connection of the grounding
  wire...

* also double-checked the connections of the 2m T/RH sensor (at the
  met logger).  (this didn't seem to fix anything)...the sensor
  probably needs to be replaced...T is also flaky (but not as bad a
  RH)...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1262446 Aug 16 09:58 tc8_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  345612 Aug 16 10:13 tc8_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1209931 Aug 16 10:26 soil8_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  420216 Aug 16 10:41 soil8_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  326113 Aug 16 10:49 ucb8_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster     144 Aug 16 10:56 ucb8_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  949690 Aug 16 11:18 met8_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  438970 Aug 16 11:35 cnr8_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  375194 Aug 16 11:08 prf8_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  738249 Aug 16 11:46 nctc8_16.dat*

Monday, August 13th, 2012 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: re-install russter2.

Weather: staying cool.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* a coyote ran across the road just below MRS.

* mushrooms are EVERYWHERE!

---------

* dropped russter2 off at UnixOPS (Marine St) in the morning.
the installed a new (used) hard drive...

* at around 15:00 MST, re-installed and rebooted russter2
in the trailer.  everything came back up.  didn't make it
to the tower...

Sunday, August 12th, 2012 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, PsT, O, KFC

Purpose of visit: pull out russter2 to bring back to Boulder.

Weather: Some clouds.  Cool.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up BMW; borrowed MRS vehicle to go to C1.

*

---------

* quick trip.  on friday jake from unixops reported that the hard
drive on russter2 was starting to fail...it operated fine until Sunday
morning.  tried to reboot it and it failed.  pulled out and took back
to boulder.

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: check out the data system outage on 7/30.

Weather: Some clouds, but no rain or lightning (though storms
were predicted).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep

* It's been very wet and stormy at the site.

---------

* at approx 12:40 MST, data system back on (gfi outlet at tower
  tripped)

* Moved Picarro line-pump off the gfi outlet (to the shed power strip)

* RH from 2m T/RH sensor still not working

* micro-pump for co2 prof system not working

* download logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   334358 Jul 31 14:08 cnr7_31.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1141659 Jul 31 13:01 soil7_31.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    94158 Jul 31 13:02 soil7_31b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1223002 Jul 31 13:14 tc7_31.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1223002 Jul 31 13:14 tc_120731.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   614466 Jul 31 13:24 ucb7_31.dat*

* email about power outage:

Date:    Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:24:38 MDT
To:      Max Berkelhammer 
cc:      Sean Burns ,
         "david.bowling@utah.edu" 
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: Niwot Shed AC


Hi Max,

next time I'm up here I think I'll move you off the gfi outlet at the
base of the tower...if that gfi pops it causes the laptop at the base
of the tower to crash (losing all the hi-rate tower data), someone
needs to come up here to reset the gfi, etc...

...we can run an extention cord from one of the upper power outlet on
the tower and then you can run the picarro off of that...

thanks,

                                                SpB.


> Thx Sean. I am fighting a battle against temperature with the LGR laser right now...
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> +  Postdoctoral Research Associate       +
> +  CIRES/ATOC University of Colorado   +
> +  http://earth.usc.edu/~berkelha        +
> +  (303)-735-5744 (office)                   +
> +  (626)-319-4421 (cell)                      +
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ________________________________________
> From: Sean Burns [Sean.Burns@Colorado.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:36 PM
> To: Max Berkelhammer
> Cc: Sean Burns; david.bowling@utah.edu
> Subject: Re: Niwot Shed AC
>
> i should have realized that you switched everything
> to one power line....the pump power cord was too short but
> i found a short ext cord near the TGA power strip and
> used that to connect the pump to the shed power strip....
>
> the ac unit now has "69 temp" and "speed" on the
> panel....it feels pretty warm in the shed...i'm leaving
> in 5 minutes...i'll make sure the picarro pump kicks back on
> after the delay...
>
>
>
>                                 SpB.
>
>
>
> > Hi Sean,
> > I switched the Ac over to the ups, to try and keep it up. So, it is off the s
> ame line. I can take the outside pump and put it on the other power line to dis
> tribute. If you are on th shed could you swap it? It is the power line coming o
> ut of one of the solid state delays on thr wall.
> > Sorry about that.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Max
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > +  Postdoctoral Research Associate       +
> > +  CIRES/ATOC University of Colorado   +
> > +  http://earth.usc.edu/~berkelha        +
> > +  (303)-735-5744 (offiJce)                   +
> > +  (626)-319-4421 (cell)                      +
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Sean Burns [Sean.Burns@Colorado.EDU]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:59 PM
> > To: Sean Burns
> > Cc: david.bowling@utah.edu; Max Berkelhammer
> > Subject: Re: Niwot Shed AC
> >
> > the panel on the ac unit shows "76 deg"...
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it was a gfi outlet at the base of the tower...this gfi has not
> > > tripped in the 10 years that it has been there...max, i'm looking at
> > > your power setup in the shed...it appears everything (ie, picarro, AC,
> > > pump, etc) is running off one power cord in the shed....is that
> > > correct?  I was under the assumption you were running the AC unit off
> > > of the shed power (so the picarro and the AC unit are NOT on the same
> > > circuit, see emails below)...is that not true?  it doesn't look that
> > > way to me...if you have everything on one power cord could you please
> > > come up here sometime soon and re-arrange it so it's no longer that
> > > way?...anyway, i plugged your stuff back in, but if this gfi trips
> > > again again I want to cut down on the power consumption to see if
> > > that's part of the problem...
> > >
> > > dave, i'm going to stop by the beatle shed on my way back to
> > > make sure power is ok there...
> > >
> > >
> > >                                    SpB.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Dave,
> > > >
> > > > The circuit running the shed is currently drawing 3-4 amps under
> > > > steady-state conditions...so there is plenty of extra capacity to add
> > > > the AC unit (it's important that the AC unit be on a delay start after
> > > > 
> > > > I know that the extension cord running from the tower to the shed is
> > > > fairly thick, but I'm not sure the exact gauge (at least larger than
> > > > 16 gauge)...from what I know about extension cords:
> > > >
> > > > for a 50' cord:
> > > >
> > > > 16 gauge can handle 1-13 amps
> > > > 14 gauge can handle 14-15 amps
> > > > 10 or 12 gauge can handle 16-20 amps
> > > >
> > > > with the 7 amps from the AC unit the shed will be using approx 10-11
> > > > amps.  We can make sure there is at least a 12 gauge extension cord
> > > > running into the shed...If the current goes over 20 amps the breaker
> > > > at the tower will pop...so, I don't see why a problem (or fire danger)
> > > > exists?
> > > >
> > > > I suggest we try it and if it creates problems we can adjust from
> > > > there (looking at the numbers I don't see a problem)...we can also
> > > > look at the power strip in the shed to make sure it can handle an
> > > > increase power load....I'll check this (and the extension cord) next
> > > > time I visit the site...
> > > >
> > > > thanks!
> > > >
> > > >                                     SpB.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Max,
> > > > >
> > > > > If it works from Sean's perspective, I'd prefer to see your
> > > > > AC put on a separate circuit, with a new extension cord from
> > > > > the tower to the shed.  Adding a big new load like that onto
> > > > > the single extension cord powering my operation in the shed
> > > > > is almost certain to cause problems (which might include a
> > > > > fire...)
> > > > >
> > > > > DB
> > > > >
> > > > > On 3/30/2012 10:20 AM, Max Berkelhammer wrote:
> > > > > > Many thanks Sean!

> > > power outages)...

Friday, July 27th, 2012 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap out the EOL CSAT with the Blanken CSAT.

Weather: Very odd.  Sunny in the morning, then a big storm (and power
outage), then clear and sunny again.  Storms in the area and lightning
visible from the tower.  It's been a very wet/stormy July.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep

* Allison and a helper from Utah were doing some things at the
  site (one of which was trying to diagnose the network problem
  to the Beatle shed)...

* grabbed Peters CSAT 0254 from Christol 222 and brought it up to the
  site.

* a big (healthy?) black bear ran across road below MRS...

---------

* Span cylinder at 950 psi.  N2 at 910 psi.

* the power went out while I was walking from C1 out to the tower
(stopped to talk to Allison and the power was out there).

* when I arrived, the picarro pump was still running...and then I
  realized that's because it's on the UPS....before I could do much,
  the pump stopped...

* while power was out I swapped CSATs, from 11:30-12:30 MST, swapped
  EOL CSAT sn 0674 (ver 3) with Blanken CSAT sn 0254 (ver 4).
  Returned CSAT 0674 to EOL and Chris dumped the following info for me:

  Here ya go.  Rev 3.0f, 04Aug06.

  ET= 10 ts=i XD=d GN=434a TK=1 UP=5 FK=0 RN=1 IT=1 DR=102 rx=2 fx=038
  BX=0 AH=1  AT=0 RS=0 BR=0 RI=0 GO=00000 HA=0 6X=3 3X=2 PD=2 SD=0 ?d tf=02600 02600 02600
  WM=o ar=0 ZZ=0 DC=6  ELo=021 020 020 ELb=022 020 020 TNo=6ca d TNb=3ca JD= 007
  C0o=-2-2-2 C0b=-2-2-2 RC=0 tlo=9 8 8 tlb=a 8 8  CA=1 TD=  duty=031  AQ=
  10 AC=1 CD=0 SR=1 UX=0 MX=0 DTU=02320 ss=1 XP=2 RF=018 DS=007 SN0674
  04aug06 JC=3 CB=3  MD=5 DF=05000 RNA=1 sa=1 rev 3.0f cs=17456 &=1 os=

* Back-UPS 650 kept beeping after power came back on...not sure why,
but that battery has not been replaced since 2007, so it's probably
time to replace it (note: ordered RBC4 replacement on 8/1/12).  Based
on the quacker logs the power kept going on/off to the quacker, ie:

problems with power:

Jul 27 13:18:34 quacker apmd[883]: Exiting
Jul 27 13:18:36 quacker apmd: apmd shutdown succeeded
Jul 27 15:53:13 quacker apmd: apmd startup succeeded
Jul 27 15:53:13 quacker apmd[862]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux driver 1.16)
Jul 27 15:53:14 quacker apmd[862]: Charge: * * * (20% 0:40)
Jul 27 16:52:11 quacker apmd[862]: Now using Battery Power
Jul 27 16:52:11 quacker apmd[862]: Battery: * * * (94% 3:08)
Jul 27 16:56:09 quacker apmd[862]: Now using AC Power
Jul 27 16:56:09 quacker apmd[862]: Charge: * * * (80% 2:40)
Jul 27 17:44:48 quacker apmd[892]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux driver 1.16)
Jul 27 17:44:48 quacker apmd: apmd startup succeeded
Jul 27 17:44:49 quacker apmd[892]: Charge: * * * (100% 3:20)
Jul 27 19:49:10 quacker apmd[892]: Now using Battery Power
Jul 27 19:49:10 quacker apmd[892]: Battery: * * * (100% 3:20)
Jul 27 19:50:19 quacker apmd[892]: Now using AC Power
Jul 27 19:50:19 quacker apmd[892]: Charge: * * * (98% 3:16)
Jul 27 19:51:09 quacker apmd[892]: Now using Battery Power
Jul 27 19:51:09 quacker apmd[892]: Battery: * * * (100% 3:20)
Jul 27 20:25:42 quacker apmd[892]: Now using AC Power
Jul 27 20:25:42 quacker apmd[892]: Charge: * * * (74% 2:28)

Jul 27 20:30:38 quacker apmd[892]: Exiting
Jul 27 20:30:39 quacker apmd: apmd shutdown succeeded
Jul 27 20:32:08 quacker apmd: apmd startup succeeded
Jul 27 20:32:08 quacker apmd[859]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux driver 1.16)
Jul 27 20:32:09 quacker apmd[859]: Charge: * * * (92% 3:04)
Jul 27 21:33:16 quacker apmd[859]: Now using Battery Power
Jul 27 21:33:16 quacker apmd[859]: Battery: * * * (100% 3:20)
Jul 27 21:45:32 quacker apmd[859]: Now using AC Power
Jul 27 21:45:32 quacker apmd[859]: Charge: * * * (91% 3:02)
...[no more outages after this]...

Can also use the li-7200 to find when the power outages occur, ie:


$ date
Sat Jul 28 02:33:54 UTC 2012
$
$ ls -lag data/ | grep 'Jul 27'
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      7765557 Jul 27 00:00 2012-07-26T200000_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      7449217 Jul 27 04:00 2012-07-27T000000_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      7359556 Jul 27 08:00 2012-07-27T040000_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      7223934 Jul 27 12:00 2012-07-27T080000_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      7562112 Jul 27 16:00 2012-07-27T120000_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root     20042809 Jul 27 18:29 2012-07-27T160000_AIU-0366.data
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root         8783 Jul 27 16:00 2012-07-27T160000_AIU-0366.metadata
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      3245647 Jul 27 23:28 2012-07-27T222032_AIU-0366.ghg

$ ls -lag data/ | grep 'Jul 28'
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root        65536 Jul 28 00:00 .
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      1025768 Jul 28 00:00 2012-07-27T232800_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root     20430055 Jul 28 02:34 2012-07-28T000000_AIU-0366.data.part
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root         8783 Jul 28 00:00 2012-07-28T000000_AIU-0366.metadata.part

* sometime since the last visit the micropump for the LI-6251 stopped
working...need to check data for exact date...pulled out the old pump,
but didn't replace (could smell something was burned).  capped the
span and n2 flows through the LI-6251 system to try and save gas..THEN
I realized that the N2 in the LI6262 ref cell first passes through the
LI-6251 ref cell...so had to re-arrange where I capped the flows...

* at 16:15 MST, slightly decreased N2/span flow in li-6262

* Note: Back-UPS 650 battery acted strange after power came back on

* RH from 2m T/RH sensor still not working

Thursday, July 19th, 2012 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: MRS Flux Class visit, get logger data...

Weather:  Clouded up, but no hard rain (maybe after the
class was over?)

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep

* they switched up the schedule this year...in the past the class came
to the tower, in the morning..this year, they came in the afternoon
(after helping Ed/Larry setup the instruments at C1).

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1200 psi.  N2 at 1600 psi.

* from 11:15-11:30 MST, tried to clean up the 2m T/RH sensor (the RH
part of the sensor has not been working for a few weeks)....

* Max restarted Picarro Instrument (and AC unit in the shed)

* at 10:45 MST, swiped the Krypton Hyg.

* at 12:10 MST, decreased N2/span flow in li-6262

* in afternoon, flux class visited site


* download logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1224617 Jul 19 09:49 tc7_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  586777 Jul 19 10:00 tc7_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1205517 Jul 19 10:12 soil7_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  610730 Jul 19 10:18 soil7_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1165141 Jul 19 10:45 cnr7_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   77338 Jul 19 10:47 cnr7_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  485872 Jul 19 11:51 prf7_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1154360 Jul 19 12:02 met7_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   74884 Jul 19 12:04 met7_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  948404 Jul 19 12:21 nctc7_19.dat*

Sunday, July 1st, 2012 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap dessicant, get
logger data...

Weather:  Hot and Dry.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep

* lots of smoke the past few weeks from fires...and
it's been VERY HOT in the lowlands...

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1200 psi.  N2 at 1600 psi.

* at 9:10 MST, flipped on breaker in beatle shed

* from 10:22-10:38 MST, swapped dessicant + replaced 2-micron Nupro filter in LI-6251 system

* from 10:58-11:00 MST, swiped the Krypton Hyg.

* at 12:15 MST, decreased N2/span flow in li-6262

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1197456 Jul  1 09:38 soil7_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  608516 Jul  1 09:44 soil7_1b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1321349 Jul  1 09:56 tc7_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  485455 Jul  1 10:00 tc7_1b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  553223 Jul  1 10:09 ucb7_1.dat*

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: more LAI measurements.  Meet up
with DB.

Weather:  Warm (don't recall?).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Prius

*

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1400 psi.  N2 at 20 psi --> 2100 psi.

* from 11:30-13:00 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old=cc329215 new=cc180691

* at 11:00 MST, found "shady" TC (ch1, AM25T) on ground...re-deployed.

* from 11:30-13:00 MST, replaced two 2-micron Nupro filters in LI-6262
  system

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  920422 Jun 13 13:03 met6_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  713894 Jun 13 13:13 nctc6_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  364125 Jun 13 11:57 prf6_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster      46 Jun 13 11:58 prf6_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  907176 Jan 13  2012 soil6_13.dat*   % why Jan??
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   11023 Jun 13 15:08 soil6_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  907127 Jan 13  2012 tc6_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   10545 Jun 13 15:09 tc6_13b.dat*

Monday, June 4th, 2012 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DB, NT, JK, J, S, KB, +

Purpose of visit: more LAI measurements.  Meet up
with DB.

Weather:  Warm (don't recall?).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep?

* Dave Bowling was moving the TGA out to the Beatle shed (so
a crew of people was with him).

* Kyle Becker made more LAI measurements.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1500 psi.  N2 at 350 psi.

* LAI-2000 measurements (sub-can + horiz).

* ATI-K probe is not working...

* at approx 11:05 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1134680 Jun  4 11:06 cnr6_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  706775 Jun  4 11:13 cnr6_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster     189 Jun  4 11:15 cnr6_4c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1233718 Jun  4 11:39 soil6_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  626578 Jun  4 11:45 soil6_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1298318 Jun  4 11:57 tc6_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  539424 Jun  4 12:04 tc6_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  941563 Jun  4 12:34 ucb6_4.dat*

Thursday, May 17th, 2012 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, KB

Purpose of visit: get logger data, meet Max, change span

Weather: A Mix of snow, wind, calm, sun...the trail to the tower is
still firm and solid.  But, the ground is starting to appear in many
spots.  There was a slight dusting of snow in the morning.  Como creek
is flowing.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* Kyle Becker (high school student in Boulder) was up at the site to
collect LAI measurements.

* The snow is pretty much GONE!...I completely missed the melt
period...there are a still a few spots with snow remnants...but the
trails are fairly dry and como creek is not too high.

* the Aspens at C1 are just starting to break bud....the ones lower
down have already leafed out (even as close as the top of the power
line).

* Barker Res was not going over the spillway on my way up, but was on
my way back down...

---------

* Span cylinder at 1600 psi.  N2 at 800 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  00 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  00 cm
               farthest probe =  00 cm

* Kyle Becker collected the LAI-2000 measurements at the site

* LAI files are:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1700 May 17 12:24 LAI_clear_120517.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1698 May 17 13:44 LAI_cloudy_120517.txt*

* checked the location of the undersnow thermocouples (near the snow
temp probes)...for the distances north of the "tree" snowtemp probe I
found:

TC profile 1  = 45 cm
TC profile 2  = 115 cm
snow probe (Mid) = 150 cm
TC profile 3  = 150 + 65 = 215 cm
snow probe (Far) = 150 + 122 = 272 cm

The "tree snow temp probe" is 65cm from one tree and 82 cm from a 2nd
tree....

* from approx 13:02 - 13:20 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 13:02 MST, did zero, co2 approx 0.006 mV
    - at 13:18 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx 0.008 mV).
    - at 13:20 MST, back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~14.

* disconnected Noahs logger

* re-connected the CR1000 (Brent/Dustin).

* disconnected MRS cr10 logger (I think?).  Also, dumped water out of
this box....

* downloaded logger data (and reset logger clocks):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1166284 May 17 10:38 soil5_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1239685 May 17 11:00 soil5_17b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  424141 May 17 11:04 soil5_17c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1265344 May 17 11:18 tc5_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1273626 May 17 11:28 tc5_17b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  310985 May 17 11:31 tc5_17c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  125709 May 17 11:34 noah5_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  168441 May 17 11:40 mrs5_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster    1934 May 17 12:03 CR1000_Public_120517.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster    6376 May 17 12:03 CR1000_Status_120517.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  670004 May 17 12:57 prf5_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1162138 May 17 13:10 met5_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  507686 May 17 13:19 met5_17b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  759277 May 17 13:29 nctc5_17.dat*



other notes about the LI-7200:

--------------------------------
here is how to check the settings on the LI-7200:

$ date
Wed Jun  6 19:48:07 UTC 2012

$ more  /home/conf/li7200.conf

(LI7200(Reg(Reg7 48)(Reg25 32768))(Outputs (BW 5)(Delay 12)(SDM
(Address 3))(Dac1 (Source CO2MFD)(Zero 360.00)(Full 450.00)(Set
1))(Dac2 (Source H2OMFD)(Zero 0.00)(Full 30.00)(Set 2.00))(Dac3
(Source SETPOINT)(Zero 0)(Full 5)(Set 3.00))(Dac4 (Source
SETPOINT)(Zero 0)(Full 5)(Set 4.00))(Dac5 (Source SETPOINT)(Zero
0)(Full 5)(Set 5.00))(Dac6 (Source SETPOINT)(Zero 0)(Full 5)(Set
0.50))(RS232 (Baud 9600)(Freq 0)(EOL 0A)(Labels TRUE)(DiagRec
TRUE)(Ndx FALSE)(Time FALSE)(Date FALSE)(CO2Raw FALSE)(H2ORaw
FALSE)(DiagVal FALSE)(CO2D FALSE)(H2OD FALSE)(Temp FALSE)(Pres
FALSE)(Aux TRUE)(Aux2 TRUE)(Aux3 TRUE)(Aux4 TRUE)(Cooler FALSE)(CO2MF
FALSE)(CO2MFd FALSE)(H2OMF FALSE)(H2OMFd FALSE)(DewPt FALSE)(APres
FALSE)(DPres FALSE)(AvgTemp FALSE)(TempIn FALSE)(TempOut FALSE)(AGC
TRUE)(H2OAW FALSE)(H2OAWO FALSE)(CO2AW FALSE)(CO2AWO
FALSE)(MeasFlowRate FALSE)(VolFlowRate FALSE)(FlowPressure
FALSE)(FlowPower FALSE)(FlowDrive FALSE)(MinDrift FALSE)(Drift
FALSE)(YZ FALSE))(ENet (Freq 1.00)(EOL 0A)(Labels TRUE)(DiagRec
FALSE)(Ndx TRUE)(Time TRUE)(Date TRUE)(CO2Raw TRUE)(H2ORaw
TRUE)(DiagVal TRUE)(CO2D TRUE)(H2OD TRUE)(Temp TRUE)(Pres TRUE)(Aux
TRUE)(Aux2 TRUE)(Aux3 TRUE)(Aux4 TRUE)(Cooler TRUE)(CO2MF TRUE)(CO2MFd
TRUE)(H2OMF TRUE)(H2OMFd TRUE)(DewPt TRUE)(APres TRUE)(DPres
TRUE)(AvgTemp TRUE)(TempIn TRUE)(TempOut TRUE)(AGC TRUE)(H2OAW
TRUE)(H2OAWO TRUE)(CO2AW TRUE)(CO2AWO TRUE)(MeasFlowRate
TRUE)(VolFlowRate TRUE)(FlowPressure TRUE)(FlowPower TRUE)(FlowDrive
TRUE)(MinDrift FALSE)(Drift FALSE)(YZ FALSE))(Logging (Freq
10.0)(Split 240)(Zip TRUE)(Ext )(Full Stop)(7700Status FALSE)(Ndx
TRUE)(Time TRUE)(Date TRUE)(CO2Raw TRUE)(H2ORaw TRUE)(DiagVal
TRUE)(CO2D TRUE)(H2OD TRUE)(Temp TRUE)(Pres TRUE)(Aux FALSE)(Aux2
FALSE)(Aux3 FALSE)(Aux4 FALSE)(Cooler TRUE)(CO2MF TRUE)(CO2MFd
TRUE)(H2OMF TRUE)(H2OMFd TRUE)(DewPt TRUE)(APres TRUE)(DPres
TRUE)(AvgTemp TRUE)(TempIn TRUE)(TempOut TRUE)(AGC TRUE)(H2OAW
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on 4/25/12 at 15:25 MST --- changed LI-7200 "bandwidth" from 20 Hz to 5 Hz
(this is under "Outputs" --> "Setup")
also, updated the DAC output for

OLD:  DAC1 co2 dry (umol/mol) 0V = 330.00   5V=430
NEW:  DAC1 co2 dry (umol/mol) 0V = 360.00   5V=450

Thursday, April 19th, 2012 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MB, E, S

Purpose of visit: get logger data, meet Max, change span

Weather: A Mix of snow, wind, calm, sun...the trail to the tower is
still firm and solid.  But, the ground is starting to appear in many
spots.  There was a slight dusting of snow in the morning.  Como creek
is flowing.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Prius.

* max, eric, and sally hauled the AC up from the
parking lot near the 1st gate.  (it was already at
the tower when I arrived).

---------

* Span cylinder at 100 psi --> 1800 psi.  N2 at 1490 psi.

* at 13 MST, swapped span cylinder; old=sg9166747 new= cc240401

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  39 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  53 cm
               farthest probe =  51 cm

* Max setup the AC unit outside the bowling TGA shed.
 (seems to have a spike at startup, but then was only drawing
  around 1 amp)...

* at around 13:30 MST, fixed ch11 of NCTC...this was the 16m thermocouple.
  (two levels below the 21.5 m level)...the hts are:
  ...(this is was one that was only twisted together...I re-did the twist)...

  z_ht_tc_cu_new_cm=[40   91   138  200 396  592  806   993 1298 1650  1950  2198];
          s_Ttc_cu=[s_T8 s_T7 s_T1 s_T5 s_T6 s_T2 s_T3 s_T4 s_T9 s_T11 s_T10 s_T12];

so channel to ht is:

  TC channel     height
  ----------     ------
     1           138 cm
     2           592 cm
     3           806 cm
     4           993 cm
     5           200 cm
     6           396 cm
     7            91 cm
     8            40 cm
     9          1298 cm
    10          1950 cm
    11          1650 cm
    12          2198 cm

* from approx 12:55 - 13:10 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 12:55 MST, did zero, co2 approx -0.000 mV
    - at 13:10 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx 0.000 mV).
    - at 13:11 MST, back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~15.

* from 13:18-13:20 MST, adjusted the flow rate in the LI-6262.

              flow adjustment  (using needle valve in 6262 box).
              before            after
sample        9.26              9.26
span          9.34              9.24
N2            9.36               --

* downloaded logger data (and reset logger clocks):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  173855 Apr 19 11:01 mrs4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  187186 Apr 19 10:58 noah4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1197282 Apr 19 10:27 soil4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  888850 Apr 19 10:35 soil4_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1319372 Apr 19 10:49 tc4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  831307 Apr 19 10:55 tc4_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1126816 Apr 19 11:28 ucb4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  890905 Apr 19 11:37 ucb4_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  578935 Apr 19 13:43 nctc4_19.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1319370 May 17 09:07 mrs_120419.dat

A few notes about the LI-7200:

on 4/25/12 at 15:25 MST --- changed LI-7200 "bandwidth" from 20 Hz to 5 Hz
(this is under "Outputs" --> "Setup")
also, updated the DAC output for

OLD:  DAC1 co2 dry (umol/mol) 0V = 330.00   5V=430
NEW:  DAC1 co2 dry (umol/mol) 0V = 360.00   5V=450



on 4/3/12 --- changed LI-7200 sample rate from 20-Hz back to 10-Hz.

noted a few questions in the "outputs" options:
 1. the "bandwidth" is set to 20-Hz.

 2. the "Delay time(ms)" is set with an interval of "12"...
    for DAC this a delay = 172 + 12*6.667 = 252 ms.
    for SDM/RS232/Ethernet the delay = 130 + 12*6.667 = 210.0 ms

 3. under DACs it's     DAC1 co2 dry (umol/mol) 0V = 330.00   5V=430
                        (note, I need to CHANGE this sometime soon..current co2 is around 410 umol/mol)
                        DAC2 h2o dry (mmol/mol) 0V = 0   5V= 30 mmol/mol
                        (current is 290 mmol/m3)....need to convert to mmol/mol.

Thursday, March 29th, 2012 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: check cals of LI-6262 + N2 cyl.

Weather: warm, sunny, calm.  Almost no snow along power line.  All
exposed areas are snow-free.  (extremely dry March..maybe only a trace
of precip?)...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Prius.

* saw a few clouds of gnats or mosquitos....

---------

* Span cylinder at 400 psi.  N2 at 400 psi.

* snow depths (BIG change over the past two weeks):

              closest to tree =  51 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  66 cm
               farthest probe =  68 cm


* I think maybe the inlet tubes for the LI-6262 N2/span cal
  gas have been swapped from last Dec...it was not clear to me,
  but I fiddled with it so it's working as it was previously
  (at least using the manual toggles it works fine).

* used the extra scott-marrin cylinder to test each of these two line
  for leaks (connected to the tubing at a tee near the prof box)...both
  lines seemed to hold pressure without leaking.

* borrowed the clamp-on amp meter from Kurt Knudsen to check each
  ciruit at the tower:

  Overall Usage:  approx 13 amps

  (note:  this is consistent with what Rainbow/Dave found, but
  doesn't include USGS)

  Individual Circuits at CU tower:

   1. "Outlet Below":  8.5 amps

   This runs the quacker and network swith in the quacker
   box (first goes to the UPS at 1st tower level).
   Also, in Fall 2011 added the Picarro system to this
   circuit.

   2. "Bottom Level":  3-4 amps

   This runs the pumps at the bottom of the tower..as well as
   the TGA and everything else in the TGA shed.

   3. "Middle Level":  2-3 amps (might be lower than this)

   This runs the network switch at mid-tower level.  Also,
   the LI-6251 and LI-6262.

   4. "Top Level":  2-3 amps (probably less).

   This runs the CSATs, radiation instruments.  Also,
   added LI-7200 in Fall 2011.


* downloaded logger data (and reset logger clocks):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1217990 Mar 29 12:45 soil3_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   828309 Mar 29 12:52 soil3_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1322251 Mar 29 12:25 tc3_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   753543 Mar 29 12:31 tc3_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   269772 Mar 29 13:35 prf3_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   692168 Mar 29 13:42 met3_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   543150 Mar 29 15:10 nctc3_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   551381 Mar 29 15:18 cnr3_29.dat*

Friday, March 9th, 2012 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data.  swap prof pump.

Weather:  warm, sunny, calm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Prius.

---------

* Span cylinder at 400 psi.  N2 at 400 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  73 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  91 cm
               farthest probe =  100 cm

* from approx 14:18-15:12 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) micropump
  (KNI unmp30)...note, I found the extra refurbished pump in the
  trailer (and used that)...it had the holes tapped so I could put
  it in the prof box....there is also a NEW pump...I was going to set
  this up in the external grey box...but never needed to do it.
  The grey box and new micropump are both in the trailer.

* from 15:29-15:33 MST, swiped the Krypton Hyg.

* at 15:45 MST, exhaled near LI-6262 inlet (as a leak check)
  [this seemed to work fine...it caused the co2 signal to clip
   and go WAY off-scale...interestingly, it also appeared to affect
   other measurements with the fast logger (not sure why that would
   happen?!?)...

* when max installed the picarro inlets they cable-tied and
  hose-clamped EVERYTHING to the tower...I was worried they had
  crushed/damaged the flux inlet tubing...and in a few spots it looks
  a bit dented (from what I could tell it's ok).  Also, they put
  zip-ties approx every 10 cm.  So, to remove anything is a royal
  pain...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   684763 Mar  9 12:51 cnr3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   848284 Mar  9 14:37 met3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   188734 Mar  9 13:36 mrs3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   731827 Mar  9 14:46 nctc3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   114327 Mar  9 13:32 noah3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   114327 Mar  9 13:32 noah_120309.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   346143 Mar  9 14:27 prf3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1240242 Mar  9 13:54 soil3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1278715 Mar  9 14:05 soil3_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   188814 Mar  9 14:07 soil3_9c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1278686 Mar  9 13:19 tc3_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1381161 Mar  9 13:29 tc3_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    30134 Mar  9 13:30 tc3_9c.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1710827 Mar 29 11:05 mrs_120309.dat

Monday, February 13th, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data.  swap prof dessicant.

Weather:  calm and snowy (at times snowing heavily).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

---------

* Span cylinder at 500 psi.  N2 at 800 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  78 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  98 cm
               farthest probe =  104 cm

* from 13:20-13:39 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant
  ...(note, the knf micro-pump is DYING!!)...

* at around 14:00 MST, cleaned snow of the UC PAR sensor (UC REBS was
snow-free!)...but the CNR-2 sensor was snow covered and there was ICE
on top of this sensor....it was also tilted (fixed by eye-balling
it)...

* downloaded logger data (and reset logger clocks):

NOTE:  missing on of the soil files (soil2_13b.dat)!!  Also,
lost 2 days of tc logger data because the logger filled up.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1229159 Feb 13 11:50 soil2_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1126681 Feb 13 12:04 tc2_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1366912 Feb 13 12:16 tc2_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   764797 Feb 13 12:21 tc2_13c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   144875 Feb 13 12:24 noah2_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1076170 Feb 13 12:58 met2_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   877296 Feb 13 13:09 cnr2_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   937897 Feb 13 13:20 nctc2_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   444037 Feb 13 13:48 prf2_13.dat*
-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  2177695 Feb 13 15:48 mrs_120213.dat

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data.  check on cal gases.

Weather:  snowy.

--------- Misc Notes:

* went to T-van


---------

from Feb 4th (short visit after going to T-van):

-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  2293871 Feb  4 11:11 mrs_120112_raw.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1270288 Feb  4 17:38 soil2_4.dat*

Thursday, January 12th, 2012 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data.  check on cal gases.

Weather:  blustery.  and chilly.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius.

* injured my leg the day before, so moving a bit slowly.

---------

* Span cylinder at 600 psi.  N2 at 1250 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  49 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  67 cm
               farthest probe =  76 cm

* downloaded logger data (NO reset of logger clocks):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1313835 Jan 12 11:08 tc1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1381550 Jan 12 11:18 tc1_12b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   181614 Jan 12 11:20 tc1_12c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   154657 Jan 12 11:23 noah1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1318327 Jan 12 11:39 soil1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1343588 Jan 12 11:49 soil1_12b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   224800 Jan 12 11:52 soil1_12c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   553929 Jan 12 12:05 ucb1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   923230 Jan 12 12:33 met1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   377094 Jan 12 12:39 prf1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   746516 Jan 12 12:50 cnr1_12.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   789171 Jan 12 13:06 nctc1_12.dat*

Friday, December 16th, 2011 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB,

Purpose of visit: remove tree, get logger data.

Weather:  calm and nice.  sunny.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius.

* Jen and Sandor (and Mike?) came out to help with
the tree trimming....

---------

* Span cylinder at 830 psi.  N2 at 0 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  32 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  49 cm
               farthest probe =  51 cm

* downloaded logger data (and reset logger
clocks):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   606843 Dec 16 09:42 cnr12_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   309538 Dec 16 10:41 prf12_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   237488 Dec 16 10:45 met12_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   639353 Dec 16 10:51 nctc12_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   730739 Dec 16 11:05 tc12_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   733227 Dec 16 11:13 soil12_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   455344 Dec 16 11:27 ucb12_16.dat*

* we cut the top of the tree that was on the guy wire.

info about tree on guy wire:

Date:    Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:56:39 MST
To:      blanken@Colorado.EDU, John.Knowles@Colorado.EDU
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, jennifer.f.morse@Colorado.EDU,
         kelly.matheson@Colorado.EDU, William.Bowman@Colorado.EDU,
         markw@culter.colorado.edu, Max.Berkelhammer@Colorado.EDU,
         david.bowling@utah.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Tree at AmeriFlux tower...

Hi,

fyi---I took a closer look at the tree which fell near the ameriflux
tower...and I noticed it is actually leaning on one of the guy
wires...the tower does not seem to be affected at all and the guy wire
was tight, but not overly-tight (from what I could tell)...

here are a few photos:

http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/111124/pic00019.jpg
http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/111124/pic00018.jpg

the tree didn't snap off, but instead it tipped over with the roots
still partially in the ground, ie:

http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/111115/pic00014.jpg

it's only the top 1-2' that are on the guy wire...I was a bit wary to
cut the tree without ropes and/or other support because I didn't want
it to swing down and hit the guy wire below it...it might also come
close to the fence around the tower (or possibly the laser
shed)....

my question: is there a procedure which needs to be followed or should
we just set a day to do this?  John, which saw did you use for the
tree along the trail?  (there is small hand saw in the laser shed, but
it would be nice to have a bigger/better one)..


                                    SpB.

Friday, December 9th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, M, M, +

Purpose of visit: check on N2 cylinder (seems to be empty?)

Weather: not bad.  the snow is cold/nice.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* Max and his team was up there making some mods to the system.

---------

* Span cylinder at 830 psi.  N2 at 0 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  38 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  57 cm
               farthest probe =  59 cm

* at 10 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old=cc262398, new=cc63143

* NOTE: No longer doing cals with LI-6262

* messed around with trying to find a leak in the N2 line...it
definitely seemed to run out before it should have.  in the end I
capped the calibration gases (both N2 and span) from going up to the
LI-6262 box.  [note, this worked without any leaks].  Need to test the
individual lines going into the LI-6262 and make sure the valves are
still holding pressure...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   514016 Dec  9 14:59 met12_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    68528 Dec  9 14:20 noah12_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1183323 Dec  9 14:00 soil12_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   387694 Dec  9 14:03 soil12_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1297062 Dec  9 14:16 tc12_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   290010 Dec  9 14:18 tc12_9b.dat*
-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  1599550 Dec  9 16:32 mrs_111209.dat

* at 15:00 MST, updated the met logger to stop doing LI-6262 cals
(this program skips the calibrations of the LI-6262):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    12113 Dec  9 14:53 met_08.csi*

* from approx 15:15-15:40 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data

Weather: warm and pleasant.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

---------

* Span cylinder at 830 psi.  N2 at 580 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  20 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  30 cm
               farthest probe =  36 cm

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  245876 Nov 24 12:20 cnr11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  258175 Nov 24 12:37 prf11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  683096 Nov 24 12:45 met11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  583563 Nov 24 12:54 nctc11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  419906 Nov 24 14:11 ucb11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1233185 Nov 24 14:25 soil11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  343590 Nov 24 14:28 soil11_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1397403 Nov 24 14:40 tc11_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  731417 Nov 24 14:45 tc11_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   91691 Nov 24 14:47 noah11_24.dat*

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: reboot quacker after long power outage.  check on
things.

Weather: windy at times...snowing at times.  not too cold, but winter
has arrived.  lots of trees damaged/broken by wind over the weekend.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* John Knowles was doing stuff--he's on a Tuesday schedule now.

* power-cycled the picarro for max.  We had a power outage between 11/12-11/14.

---------

* Span cylinder at 900 psi.  N2 at 800 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  24 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  34 cm
               farthest probe =  38 cm

* at ~13:30 MST, quacker rebooted, data system ON again

* at ~13:30 MST, started ops59; more streamlining of FAST logger (fast_15.csi)

* started new fast logger program:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     6770 Nov 15 13:19 fast_15.csi*

-------------------------------------------------
ops59   2011 nov 14 16:00:00 - 2020 jan 01 16:00:00

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 30292148 Nov 12 17:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_archive_2011/nwt111112.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 18035344 Nov 12 21:53 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_archive_2011/nwt111113.000000  <-- last file for ops58

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 13908220 Nov 15 17:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_archive_2011/nwt111115.210538  <-- first file for ops59
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 38419156 Nov 16 01:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_archive_2011/nwt111116.000000

* streamlined the fast logger a bit...also, I think
there was a MISTAKE in chan201 for ops58.

-------------------------------------------------


* list of stuff modified/damaged by wind:

  - some trees down along trail to tower.  One (probably 1-2'
    diameter?) is blocking the trail.  John Knowles said this tree was
    across the trail on 11/8 and probably fell the previous weekend
    (Nov 5-6).  It had snapped off about 3 feet from the ground.

  - a tree near the base of the western guy wire support fell
    over...if it had fallen all the way, it might have fallen between
    the fence and laser shed, but a few trees blocked it.

  - the 21.5m csat had slid along the tower tubing at the west end so
    it was pushed near the krypton...I moved it back to the original
    location (marked on the tower strut by black sharpie).  the back
    support held fast.

  - One of the 16m prop-vane boom supports broke...the boom was wedged
    at an angle near 16-m the level.  the other support (east side)
    was still holding it to the tower.  replaced back support with a
    u-bolt (much more solid than the old support).  Note: should check
    how the top-level prop-vane is supported...

  - top prof inlet had come free and was dangling about two levels
    down.  it had become tangled in the thermocouple wire (note, i
    never cleaned up that thermocouple wire!)...i had to shorten the
    dekaron tubing by about 2m so the upper inlet is now at 19m (not
    21m).

  - rain gauge "bucket" had come loose.  the screws holding it were
    gone.  I kluged support with a bungee cord and duct tape (note:
    need to bring small machine screws from trailer to the tower)...

  - canopy access tower along trail is leaning against a pair of
    trees.

  - i think all other instruments, guy wires, and towers are ok.  USGS
    tower was still there (but didn't go over to check it more
    carefully).

* PARTIAL download of soil logger data (the battery was running low).

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   302548 Nov 15 14:21 cnr11_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   525580 Nov 15 16:39 soil11_15.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster  676921 Dec  9 09:29 mrs_111115.dat

* started new fast logger program:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     6770 Nov 15 13:19 fast_15.csi*



power outage info:

sburns   pts/0        urquell.colorado Mon Nov 14 14:47   still logged in
sburns   pts/0        urquell.colorado Mon Nov 14 14:40 - 14:41  (00:00)
orrie    pts/0        pinkfloyd.colora Mon Nov 14 13:11 - 13:13  (00:02)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Mon Nov 14 13:01          (01:46)
sburns   pts/0        urquell.colorado Sat Nov 12 20:57 - 20:58  (00:00)
sburns   pts/0        urquell.colorado Sat Nov 12 16:11 - 16:11  (00:00)

-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 30642308 Nov 12 09:00 nwt111112.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 30292148 Nov 12 17:00 nwt111112.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 18035344 Nov 12 21:53 nwt111113.000000

Friday, November 4th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DS

Purpose of visit: add new thumb drive to LI-7200, deploy
cnr4, get logger data.

Weather:   fairly windy.  not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

*

---------

* Span cylinder at XXX psi.  N2 at ? psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  21 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  32 cm
               farthest probe =  32 cm

* notes about the installation about the cnr2 net radiometer:

  * serial no.  080146      sensitivity:  shortwave:  15.32 muV/(W/m2)
                                          longwave:  11.61 muV/(W/m2)

  * to make sure the values were properly digested by the quacker
    I added a gain factor of "100"...eg,

       s_Rsw_net_cnr2_raw= s_Rsw_net_cnr2; clear s_Rsw_net_cnr2
       s_Rlw_net_cnr2_raw= s_Rlw_net_cnr2; clear s_Rlw_net_cnr2

       s_Rsw_net_cnr2_mV= s_Rsw_net_cnr2_raw./100;
       s_Rlw_net_cnr2_mV= s_Rlw_net_cnr2_raw./100;

   then, convert to physical units, ie:

      s_Rsw_net_cnr2= (1000./15.32).*s_Rsw_net_cnr2_mV;
      s_Rlw_net_cnr2= (1000./11.61).*s_Rlw_net_cnr2_mV;

* started ingesting LI-7200 data into the FAST data logger...the
DAC settings in the LI-7220 are:

   co2 dry (umol/mol) = [330 430]
   h2o dry (mmol/mol) = [0 30];

to get these into physical units:

   s_co2_li7200_mV= s_co2_li7200;   clear s_co2_li7200;
   s_h2o_li7200_mV= s_h2o_li7200;   clear s_h2o_li7200;

   co2_low=330;   co2_high=430;  R=5000;
   s_co2_li7200=(co2_high-co2_low)./R.*s_co2_li7200_mV + co2_low;

   h2o_low=0;   h2o_high=30;  R=5000;
   s_h2o_li7200=(h2o_high-h2o_low)./R.*s_h2o_li7200_mV + h2o_low;



* modified UCB and "FAST" logger programs...(the fast logger is
actually running at 5 Hz!!  (didn't notice this until after I
left))...ugh!

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     7779 Nov  4 08:12 fast_14.csi*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     8158 Nov  4 11:53 ucb_15.csi*

* at ~9:30 MST, started ops58; added cn2 to UCB logger (ucb_15.csi),
  removed p.kPa from FAST logger (fast_14.csi)

-------------------------------------------------
ops58   2011 nov 04 16:35:00 - 2011 nov 14 16:00:00

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 39317744 Nov  4 10:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111104.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  1778356 Nov  4 10:22 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111104.160000 <-- last file for ops57

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster   900462 Nov  4 10:36 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111104.162222 <-- first file for ops58
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 28289808 Nov  4 18:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111104.163617   note: these are at 5 Hz!!  (need to try again!)
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 30643064 Nov  5 02:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111105.000000

* tried to streamline the fast ec logger program (removed licor 7500
pressure, changed li-7200 from diff to SE channels) because t.ec was
spiking a lot...not sure what caused the problem, but the program is
actually SLOWER now....

* added the cnr2 net radiation sensor to the UCB logger.


-------------------------------------------------
* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   288711 Nov  4 11:30 ucb11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1222611 Nov  4 12:54 soil11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   235106 Nov  4 12:57 soil11_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1322686 Nov  4 13:11 tc11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   119687 Nov  4 13:12 tc11_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    62069 Nov  4 13:13 noah11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   183448 Nov  4 13:18 mrs11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   385394 Nov  4 15:27 cnr11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   194041 Nov  4 15:32 prf11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   480534 Nov  4 15:39 met11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   391861 Nov  4 15:53 nctc11_4.dat*

from power outage on 10/25-10/26 2011 (quacker log):
Oct 23 09:02:02 quacker syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Oct 26 00:04:06 quacker apmd[882]: Now using Battery Power
Oct 26 00:04:06 quacker apmd[882]: Battery: * * * (100% 3:20)
Oct 26 00:32:38 quacker ntpd[951]: synchronisation lost
Oct 26 02:05:17 quacker apmd[882]: Now using AC Power
Oct 26 02:05:17 quacker apmd[882]: Charge: * * * (46% 1:32)
Oct 26 09:15:28 quacker sshd[12897]: Accepted password for cuff from 10.0.0.4 port 55460 ssh2
Oct 26 09:15:28 quacker sshd(pam_unix)[12899]: session opened for user cuff by (uid=500)

also, on russter2:
last -10
jesse    pts/1        crackmonkey.colo Wed Oct 26 12:02 - 12:04  (00:02)
sburns   pts/0        bearberry.mmm.uc Wed Oct 26 08:49   still logged in
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-274.7.1.e Wed Oct 26 02:06          (12:02)
sburns   pts/0        bearberry.mmm.uc Tue Oct 25 18:19 - 18:19  (00:00)
sburns   pts/0        bearberry.mmm.uc Tue Oct 25 14:48 - 18:19  (03:30)

Friday, October 21st, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: restore LI-7200, re-deploy EOL CSAT-3
box, swap span.

Weather:   fairly windy.  not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU jeep (picked up N2 cylinders from campus).

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 200 psi.  N2 at ? psi.

* modified "FAST" logger program...(this took several
iterations since the logger is near it's max output)...

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     7991 Oct 21 14:33 fast_13.csi*

* started ops57:

-------------------------------------------------
ops57   2011 oct 21 19:55:30 - 2011 nov 04 16:35:00

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 18166924 Oct 21 13:56 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111021.160000 <-- last file with ops56

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  3897562 Oct 21 14:58 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111021.195603 <-- first file with ops57 (sample rate=5 hz)
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster    24782 Oct 21 14:59 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111021.205839 <-- accidental reboot...
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  1648438 Oct 21 15:25 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111021.205945
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 12440066 Oct 21 18:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111021.212556

* changed the program for chan 201 (fast logger) to add the
output from the LI-7200 (though the wires are not there yet).
note: i had to mess around with it a bit because the sample
rate was off with early iterations of the program (fast_13.csi)...

-------------------------------------------------




* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  222193 Oct 21 13:36 prf10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  553685 Oct 21 13:46 met10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  442818 Oct 21 14:34 nctc10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  447788 Oct 21 14:44 cnr10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  748684 Oct 21 15:42 soil10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  730951 Oct 21 15:52 tc10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   30563 Oct 21 15:58 noah10_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  335194 Oct 21 16:31 ucb10_21.dat*

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  2368799 Oct 21 16:18 CR1000_IRR.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1468 Oct 21 16:20 CR1000_Public.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     5478 Oct 21 16:20 CR1000_Status.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     5584 Oct 21 16:21 Niwot_Program_110518_six_IRsensors_CS215.CR1*


* there were two short power outages on 10/23/11:

#2:

LASTXFER : Line voltage notch or spike
NUMXFERS : 6
XONBATT  : 2011-10-23 13:23:56 -0600
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 229 seconds
XOFFBATT : 2011-10-23 13:23:58 -0600

#1:

[~] apcaccess status
APC      : 001,049,1238
DATE     : 2011-10-23 09:54:53 -0600
HOSTNAME : russter2.colorado.edu
VERSION  : 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) redhat
UPSNAME  : UPS_IDEN
CABLE    : Custom Cable Smart
MODEL    : Smart-UPS SC620
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: 2011-10-04 18:01:22 -0600
STATUS   : ONLINE
LINEV    : 118.8 Volts
LOADPCT  :  24.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  49.0 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
MAXLINEV : 119.5 Volts
MINLINEV : 118.8 Volts
OUTPUTV  : 118.8 Volts
SENSE    : High
DWAKE    : 000 Seconds
DSHUTD   : 060 Seconds
DLOWBATT : 02 Minutes
LOTRANS  : 106.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 127.0 Volts
RETPCT   : 000.0 Percent
ALARMDEL : 5 seconds
BATTV    : 13.6 Volts
LINEFREQ : 60.0 Hz
LASTXFER : Unacceptable line voltage changes
NUMXFERS : 2
XONBATT  : 2011-10-23 08:34:53 -0600
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 8 seconds
XOFFBATT : 2011-10-23 08:34:57 -0600
SELFTEST : NO
STESTI   : 336
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
REG1     : 0x00 Register 1
REG2     : 0x00 Register 2
REG3     : 0x00 Register 3
MANDATE  : 02/16/07
SERIALNO : 3S0707X24618
BATTDATE : 02/16/07
NOMOUTV  : 115 Volts
NOMBATTV :  12.0 Volts
FIRMWARE : 726.1.D
APCMODEL : CWD
END APC  : 2011-10-23 09:55:10 -0600

Friday, October 14th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, RS, MB, MO, +

Purpose of visit: coordinate with max, mike on
thier tower setup.  bring up N2 cylinders.

Weather:   fairly windy.  not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU jeep (picked up N2 cylinders from campus).

* Roger Sauquet came with me (Lyia's boyfriend)

---------

* Span cylinder at 280 psi.  N2 at 1850 psi.

* Removed EOL CSAT3 control box (to go back to ver3)

* from approx 10:23-10:39 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* Powered on MRS/Noah loggers at N. Canopy Tower

* Transported 4 new N2 cylinders to the trailer

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   950109 Oct 14 11:44 soil10_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   933789 Oct 14 11:53 tc10_14.dat*

info about trying to fix time on LI-7200:

Date:    Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:24:13 -0000
To:      Sean Burns 
cc:      tmr@Colorado.EDU
From:    Eric Roseman 
Subject: Status: [CU-Boulder IT Security Office #34225] Firewall Exception Request

Hi Sean,

ptpd is running on both russter2 and lynette, and they both seem to
be sending data to an IP address hardcoded in the binary. Here is some
interface capture output from russter2:

14:50:09.391558 IP russter2.colorado.edu.319 > ptp-primary.mcast.net.319: UDP, length 124
14:50:11.391696 IP russter2.colorado.edu.319 > ptp-primary.mcast.net.319: UDP, length 124
14:50:13.390832 IP russter2.colorado.edu.319 > ptp-primary.mcast.net.319: UDP, length 124
14:50:13.392006 IP lynette.colorado.edu.319 > ptp-primary.mcast.net.319: UDP, length 124

I've restarted ptpd on russter2 with a PTP subdomain set to 'russter',
starting ptpd on lynette with the same option should allow these two
machines to talk directly instead of trying to sync with this remote
server.

Here is the full command used to start ptpd on russter2:

ptpd -t -s 1 -i NTP -b eth0 -p -S -n russter

Running /usr/local/ptpd/bin/ptpd --help will briefly explain what these
options are, and unfortunately this is the best resource for documentation
apart from digging in the source. I also found this page useful:

http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/ieee/terms1588.cfm

I hope this helps,

Eric


> Hi Dan,
>
> can you please confirm whether or not this has been done...or please
> let me know if I should contact someone else about this (I sent this
> email 10 days ago and never heard back from you)....
>
> also, UnixOPS, is there an easy way to check whether or not the 319
> and 320 UDP ports are open and/or being used on russter2?  (and also
> on the instrument that uses BusyBox v1.1.0 OS)....I see that russter2
> is running ptpd, ie:
>
> root      2979  0.0  0.1   1788   452 ?        Ss   Oct26   0:00 /usr/local/ptpd/bin/ptpd -t -s 1 -i NTP -b eth0 -p -S
>
> but for some reason the intrument does not seem to be keeping the
> correct time...here is the email from the instrument manufacturer:
>
> >
> > I'm wondering if a firewall is blocking the communications. I looked up
> > my firewall settings and I have port 319 and 320 UDP open on the master
> > ptpd server. Sorry I didn't think of that earlier. Check that and see if
> > it helps.
> >
> >
>
> is it possible that the ptp information is not being put out on the
> correct port?  (and/or how can I check this?)....or perhaps you can
> think of some other reason this isn't working correctly?  I realize
> this is not a specific issue with russter2, but if you have any
> advice I would appreciate it...
>
> thanks!
>
>                                            SpB.
>
>



how to reset the LI-7200 remotely:

Date:    Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:28:21 CDT
To:      Kevin Ediger ,
         Sean Burns
         
From:    Michael Velgersdyk 
Subject: RE: LI-COR PTPd clock setup


  Hi Sean.


   To reboot the system remotely you need to send the following command to the instrument:

   (LI7200(Program(Reset TRUE)))


   You can do this by connecting to the instrument with the Windows
   interface application, select settings and click the manual tab.
   Here you are presented with a dialog to enter commands.  Paste the
   command and press "Send Command".


   [cid:image003.jpg@01CC8CBF.E06D1870]


   Alternately, you can connect to the instrument on port 7200 and send the same command followed by a newline character.


   Michael Velgersdyk

   LI-COR Biosciences


time check after resetting li-7200 time to UTC:
-----------------------------------------------

time on LI-7200:
time on russter2:

time on LI-7200:  Tue Apr  3 19:58:57 UTC 2012  (note, the time program is working on LI-7200, started working on Feb 8 2012)
time on russter2: Tue Apr  3 19:58:57 UTC 2012

time on LI-7200:  Mon Mar 19 17:25:53 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Mon Mar 19 11:26:12 MDT 2012

time on LI-7200:  Mon Feb 20 03:36:19 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Mon Feb 20 03:36:19 UTC 2012

time on LI-7200:  Thu Feb 16 22:28:52 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Thu Feb 16 22:28:53 UTC 2012
(basically the same).

time on LI-7200:  Fri Feb 10 23:57:15 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Fri Feb 10 23:57:15 UTC 2012

time on LI-7200:  Sat Jan 28 21:56:51 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Sat Jan 28 21:56:55 UTC 2012

time on LI-7200:  Tue Jan 24 20:25:48 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Tue Jan 24 20:25:47 UTC 2012

time on LI-7200:  Tue Jan 24 18:58:15 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Tue Jan 24 18:50:19 UTC 2012
LI-7200= 58*60+15-(50*60+19)= 476 sconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Fri Jan 20 22:36:33 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Fri Jan 20 22:28:30 UTC 2012
LI-7200= 36*60+33-(28*60+30)= 483 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Tue Jan 10 19:36:38 UTC 2012
time on russter2: Tue Jan 10 19:32:38 UTC 2012
LI-7200= 36*60+38-(32*60+38) = 240 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Tue Dec 27 19:51:22 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Tue Dec 27 19:50:43 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Thu Dec  8 23:52:53 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Thu Dec  8 23:52:57 UTC 2011

time was reset here on 12/4, ie:

-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      7547010 Dec  4 20:00 2011-12-04T160000_AIU-0366.ghg
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root     26297530 Dec  4 23:12 2011-12-04T200000_AIU-0366.data
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root         8782 Dec  4 20:00 2011-12-04T200000_AIU-0366.metadata
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root      1323122 Dec  5 00:00 2011-12-04T231524_AIU-0366.ghg


time on LI-7200:  Sun Dec  4 23:07:53 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Sun Dec  4 23:06:18 UTC 2011
time on LI-7200:  Fri Dec  2 18:28:16 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Fri Dec  2 18:26:39 UTC 2011
LI-7200= 28*60+16-(26*60+39)= 97 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Tue Nov 29 16:09:59 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Tue Nov 29 16:08:19 UTC 2011
LI-7200= 9*60+59-(8*60+19) = 100 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Wed Nov 23 19:04:47 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Wed Nov 23 19:02:59 UTC 2011
LI-7200= 4*60+47-(2*60+59) = 108 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Wed Nov 16 17:43:02 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Wed Nov 16 17:41:05 UTC 2011
LI-7200= 43*60+2-41*60+5= 127 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Mon Nov 14 22:52:24 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Mon Nov 14 22:50:24 UTC 2011
LI-7200= 120 seconds FAST

time on LI-7200:  Fri Nov 11 15:57:20 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Fri Nov 11 15:57:10 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Mon Nov  7 15:58:23 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Mon Nov  7 15:58:08 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Thu Nov  3 22:51:44 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Thu Nov  3 22:51:46 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Wed Nov  2 20:46:50 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Wed Nov  2 20:46:57 UTC 2011

----------------actually it is NOT quite fixed on 11/1/2011 (maybe it needs to be a "slave only"??) ----------

time on LI-7200:  Tue Nov  1 17:34:07 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Tue Nov  1 17:34:14 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Thu Oct 27 22:36:00 UTC 2011
time on time.gov: Thu Oct 27 22:36:00 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Thu Oct 27 22:34:24 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Thu Oct 27 22:34:24 UTC 2011

-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root       118315 Oct 27 20:00 2011-10-27T195700_AIU-0366.ghg            <--- last data file with possible time issues?
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root     27032993 Oct 27 22:55 2011-10-27T200000_AIU-0366.data.part
-rwxrw-rw-    1 root     root        10208 Oct 27 20:00 2011-10-27T200000_AIU-0366.metadata.part


----------------the problem is fixed on 10/27/2011 ----------

time on LI-7200:  Tue Oct 25 21:00:52 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Tue Oct 25 21:00:02 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Tue Oct 25 14:17:04 UTC 2011
time on urquell:  Tue Oct 25 14:16:14 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Sun Oct 23 16:01:21 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Sun Oct 23 16:00:29 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Thu Oct 13 16:52:41 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Thu Oct 13 16:52:24 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Tue Oct 11 19:32:58 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Tue Oct 11 19:32:37 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Mon Oct 10 22:04:49 UTC 2011
time on russter2: Mon Oct 10 22:04:27 UTC 2011

time on LI-7200:  Sun Oct  9 23:45:23 UTC 2011
time.gov:   Sun Oct  9 23:45:00 UTC 2011

time on urquell: Sun Oct  9 17:42:55 MDT 2011
time.gov:    Sun Oct  9 17:43:00 MDT 2011

time on urquell:  Sun Oct  9 23:39:35 UTC 2011
time on LI-7200:  Sun Oct  9 23:40:03 UTC 2011

next day (after resetting clock, plus, ssh firewall is now open)
time on urquell:  Thu Oct  6 19:12:31 UTC 2011
time on LI-7200:  Thu Oct  6 19:12:32 UTC 2011

after power outage...
urquell.colorado.edu:/data/home/staff/sburns>date -u
Wed Oct  5 16:14:32 UTC 2011
$ date
Wed Oct  5 16:16:26 UTC 2011


time on urquell:  Mon Oct  3 00:20:41 UTC 2011
time on LI-7200:  Mon Oct  3 00:21:40 UTC 2011

time on russter2:  Wed Sep 28 15:59:14 UTC 2011
time on LI-7200: Wed Sep 28 15:59:46 UTC 2011


urquell.colorado.edu:/data/home/staff/sburns>date -u
time on urquell: Tue Sep 27 19:11:32 UTC 2011
time on LI-7200: Tue Sep 27 19:12:10 UTC 2011


urquell.colorado.edu:/data/home/staff/sburns>date -u
Sat Sep 24 23:29:01 UTC 2011

$ date
Sat Sep 24 23:29:13 UTC 2011

--------------------------------

another time check:

time on urquell: Tue Sep 20 12:44:37 MDT 2011
time on LI-7200: Tue Sep 20 13:07:41 MDT 2011

difference:  23:04 too FAST!

another time check:

time on urquell:Wed Sep 14 13:15:56 MDT 2011     [note, the problem with urquell is now fixed]
time on time.gov: Wed Sep 14 13:16:00 MDT 2011

time on LI-7200:  Wed Sep 14 13:35:39 MDT 2011
time on time.gov:  Wed Sep 14 13:14:00 MDT 2011
difference:  21:39 too FAST

I just noticed that the time on the LI-7200 is WAY OFF, ie:

time on the LI-7200:
Tue Sep 13 17:04:19 MDT 2011

time on urquell:
Tue Sep 13 16:42:34 MDT 2011
difference to urquell:  21:45 too FAST  (note, that urquell is slow by approx 4 sec)
approx diff to time.gov:  21:41 too FAST.


note:  to access the li-7200, do:

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JL, C

Purpose of visit: make sure everything is working
after the power is restored at the tower.

Weather:   Cool.  There were some dark clouds
at times, but then periods of sun too.  Feels like
summer is OVER.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU jeep (was planning to move gas cylinders).

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 350 psi.  N2 at 0 psi.

* at approx 8:15 MST, Power restored (short near creek fixed)

* From 9:15-10:00 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old=cc301525, new=cc262398

* at 12:20 MST, started ops56; cleaned up UCB logger (chan 202).

-------------------------------------------------
ops56   2011 oct 05 17:21:00 - 2011 oct 21 19:55:30

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 24417384 Oct  3 15:39 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111003.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  2294260 Oct  5 10:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111005.152336 reboot after power outage (John Layden)...
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  6361568 Oct  5 11:21 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111005.160000 <-- ops55 (last file)

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 30713998 Oct  5 18:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111005.172141 <-- ops56 (first file)
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 37036620 Oct  6 02:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt111006.000000

* removed a bunch of broken/dead/unecessary sensors from the UCB logger
-------------------------------------------------

* at UCB logger started running ucb_14.csi (removed dead/broken sensors)

* downloaded logger data and reset the time for all loggers (synced
watch before), ie:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   298834 Oct  5 08:48 cnr10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   371363 Oct  5 08:58 met10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   281477 Oct  5 09:03 nctc10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   121473 Oct  5 08:54 prf10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1114022 Oct  5 10:51 soil10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1110646 Oct  5 11:03 tc10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   436051 Oct  5 10:30 ucb10_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster      273 Oct  5 10:30 ucb10_5b.dat*


-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     7716 Oct  5 09:30 ucb_14.csi*

-----------------------------------------------
* info about power outage on Monday 10/3/2011:

Broadcast message from root (Mon Oct  3 16:18:21 2011):

UPS UPS_IDEN initiated Shutdown Sequence

Broadcast message from root (Mon Oct  3 16:18:21 2011):

apcupsd UPS UPS_IDEN initiated shutdown
The system is going down for system halt NOW!

Broadcast message from root (Mon Oct  3 16:18:21 2011):

Battery power exhaused on UPS UPS_IDEN. Doing shutdown.
Connection to russter2.colorado.edu closed by remote host.
Connection to russter2.colorado.edu closed.

apcaccess status
APC      : 001,050,1284
DATE     : 2011-10-03 16:14:37 -0600
HOSTNAME : russter2.colorado.edu
VERSION  : 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) redhat
UPSNAME  : UPS_IDEN
CABLE    : Custom Cable Smart
MODEL    : Smart-UPS SC620
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: 2011-07-14 18:06:32 -0600
STATUS   : ONBATT
LINEV    : 000.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :  25.3 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 024.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  10.0 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
MAXLINEV : 000.0 Volts
MINLINEV : 000.0 Volts
OUTPUTV  : 113.4 Volts
SENSE    : High
DWAKE    : 000 Seconds
DSHUTD   : 060 Seconds
DLOWBATT : 02 Minutes
LOTRANS  : 106.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 127.0 Volts
RETPCT   : 000.0 Percent
ALARMDEL : 5 seconds
BATTV    : 11.5 Volts
LINEFREQ : 60.0 Hz
LASTXFER : Unacceptable line voltage changes
NUMXFERS : 44
XONBATT  : 2011-10-03 15:37:37 -0600
TONBATT  : 2221 seconds
CUMONBATT: 3750 seconds
XOFFBATT : 2011-09-30 15:00:37 -0600
LASTSTEST: 2011-08-22 17:35:10 -0600
SELFTEST : NO
STESTI   : 336
STATFLAG : 0x07060010 Status Flag
REG1     : 0x00 Register 1
REG2     : 0x00 Register 2
REG3     : 0x00 Register 3
MANDATE  : 02/16/07
SERIALNO : 3S0707X24618
BATTDATE : 02/16/07
NOMOUTV  : 115 Volts
NOMBATTV :  12.0 Volts
FIRMWARE : 726.1.D
APCMODEL : CWD
END APC  : 2011-10-03 16:14:38 -0600

Broadcast message from root (Mon Oct  3 15:37:43 2011):
Power failure on UPS UPS_IDEN. Running on batteries.

date
Mon Oct  3 15:28:06 MDT 2011

 ping quacker
PING quacker (10.0.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
From russter2-gw (10.0.0.4) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From russter2-gw (10.0.0.4) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From russter2-gw (10.0.0.4) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From russter2-gw (10.0.0.4) icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From russter2-gw (10.0.0.4) icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From russter2-gw (10.0.0.4) icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable

* first check of status, AFTER RIPs:

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, HB, A, +

Purpose of visit: give short tower tour to Holly
Barnards class, finish setting up li-7200, get
logger data

Weather:   Beautiful Fall day.  The aspens are in full
color...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU jeep.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 400 psi.  N2 at 380 psi.

* Holly sent around 3 groups of about 10 students to visit the
site and make tree measurements.

* downloaded logger data and reset the time for all loggers, ie:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1291468 Sep 24 11:42 tc9_24.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  131443 Sep 24 12:09 tc9_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1218182 Sep 24 12:21 soil9_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  217398 Sep 24 12:23 soil9_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  849861 Sep 24 12:35 ucb9_24.dat*  * missing ucb file!!
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  296299 Sep 24 14:11 prf9_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  742863 Sep 24 14:21 met9_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  366491 Sep 24 14:26 nctc9_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  964106 Sep 24 14:56 cnr9_24.dat*

found ucb9_24b, it's:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  537956 Sep 24 12:42 ucb9_24b.dat*

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, B, CG, +

Purpose of visit: move li-7200 to 21.5m, be on-site for
power shutdown.

Weather:   Beautiful Fall day.  The aspens are in full
color...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my jeep.

* John Layden was there with a small crew to add the power splice out
to the new shed...

* Chris gray came up and cleaned up the area around the Bowling shed.
...(we decided to lay the tubing in a line near the trail)...

* Ben/Nicole trenched conduit across trail and ran it out to the
new shed...

---------

* Span cylinder at 400 psi.  N2 at 400 psi.

* the power outage was from approx 9:20-11:00 MDT....

* bought a few nu-rail crosses to install the LI-7200 on the tower
(though the inlet is long enough that it doesn't need to go out too
far...which is good because the LI-7200 is not light!)...what worked
was the 1" x 1" cross...and the post fit in the 3/4" cross (which
surprised me a bit after reading the LI-COR documentation)...

* downloaded the li-7200 data from my thumb drive...and installed
the new thumb drive (that is empty).

* changed the clock setting from MDT to UTC...also corrected for the
big offset....it was in "automatic" mode, but the PTP did not seem to
be working (it was off by approx 20 minutes)...

* moved the LI-7200 up to 21.5m, but didn't have time to move the boxes
and run the longer network cable...

Saturday, September 10th, 2011 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: download logger data, install li-7200,
clean shed.

Weather:   pretty nice fall day (some threat of rain, but then
clear, sunny and calm).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my jeep.

* setup the li-7200 borrowed from neon, inc.  picked this up after
work on friday....

* finally found the new shed made by nicole and the doe team.  also
saw the tubing that needs to be cleaned up near that area (email with
Chris Gray about this)...

---------

* Span cylinder at 500 psi.  N2 at 700 psi.

* details about the LI-7200 (sn AIU-0366) installation (wanted to put
  it at 21.5m, but instead it's at approx 13m):

  - didn't have any nu-rail crosses to mount the LI-7200 (thought I
    could get this at McGuckins, but they didn't have it)...also,
    thought one might be at the site (it wasn't).  the li-7200 was
    heavier than I expected so I mounted it on the tower stairs and
    supported the inlet with the tower tubing....

  - mounting hardware to mount vertically was too small (tubing too
    big) so the boxes are all laying on the walkup tower.  note that
    andrew had a similar problem with LI-7500 so he drilled new holes
    in the mounting brackets....see:

     http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/110910/pic00015.jpg

    (check with NEON it it's ok to drill holes in these brackets, also,
    I only have one set of brackets).

  - disconnected the rs232 and "aux input" cables from the LI-7550
    control box (these are in the cardboard box from neon).  note the
    "aux input" cable does not seem quite finished (ie, the heat
    shrink is not shrunk?)...see photo.

  - there was no usb drive with the LI-7200 (surprise!...so I used my
    own, dumped files off my usb onto plumwood)....this seemed to work.

  - need a longer network cable to reach the tower network switch (also
    bring a network rj45 "coupler" and longer cable...).

  - worked with DHCP, but setup with a spare fixed IP
    (lynette.colorado.edu), was able to ftp files back to plumwood
    (need windows software, is there a way to do this with ftp?)....

  - still need to ground the boxes....

  - using the windows setup, changed logging rate to 20-hz...then
    thought it would be better to have it at 10-hz (for initial
    testing)...currently sampling all possible variables (some of
    these can be reduced later)...also reduced the flow rate in the
    li7200-101 flow module from 18 lpm to 15 lpm (the pump sounded
    much happier)...i think the time is currently set to MDT...should
    change to UTC...the current settings are saved as:

    -rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     3751 Sep 10 16:28 li7200_niwot.l7x*


* downloaded several small files with the LI-7200 (these were created while
  I was making changes to things):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster    8415 Sep 10 16:22 2011-09-10T172211_AIU-0366.data*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster    4253 Sep 10 16:22 2011-09-10T172838_AIU-0366.data*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   74187 Sep 10 16:22 2011-09-10T173117_AIU-0366.data*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   11039 Sep 10 16:22 2011-09-10T173117_AIU-0366.metadata*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1361376 Sep 10 16:22 2011-09-10T173152_AIU-0366.data*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   11039 Sep 10 16:22 2011-09-10T173152_AIU-0366.metadata*

* cleaned up the tga shed to make room for the picarro from david noone.
  ...(there were a few questionable items that i took photos of)...

* from 15:39-15:51 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1183707 Sep 10 11:38 soil9_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  944959 Sep 10 11:46 soil9_10b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1299625 Sep 10 11:58 tc9_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  811035 Sep 10 12:12 tc9_10b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1035441 Sep 10 13:26 nctc9_10.dat*

Friday, September 2nd, 2011 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MW, DN, +

Purpose of visit: download logger data.

Weather:   a bit cool in the morning....

--------- Misc Notes:

* went to T-van to work on the aircoa in the early morning, then met
david noone and mark williams to discuss the new isotope
instrument....didn't have any extra time to do too much else...

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 600 psi.  N2 at 900 psi.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  421668 Sep  2 11:42 prf9_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1068549 Sep  2 11:52 met9_2.dat*

Saturday, August 20th, 2011 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: download logger data.

Weather:   Warm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* made a stop by the tower after going to Niwot Ridge as part
of the geography retreat....

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 700 psi.  N2 at 1290 psi.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1185224 Aug 20 12:44 soil8_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   660055 Aug 20 12:49 soil8_20b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1285073 Aug 20 13:01 tc8_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   548093 Aug 20 13:06 tc8_20b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1099583 Aug 20 13:24 cnr8_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    90516 Aug 20 13:25 cnr8_20b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   808541 Aug 20 13:41 ucb8_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    65960 Aug 20 13:43 ucb8_20b.dat*


* An email from Dave Bowling about the tower power:

Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:47:22 -0600
From: Dave Bowling 
To: Russell Keith Monson ,
        Peter.Blanken@colorado.edu, Sean Burns ,
        Dean E Anderson ,
        Mark Williams ,
        Bill Bowman ,
        Kelly Matheson ,
        Nicole Trahan ,
        Jen Morse 
Subject: new shed power

Hi all,

I have received a quote from Rainbow Electric regarding
providing power to the new shed for our DOE project.  To
remind you, this shed will be located ~200 m east of the CU
tower in the center of the girdling chronosequence.  This
will be tapped off the existing powerline to the tower near
the right-angle bend in the trail.  The conductor will be
housed in conduit and the length of run to the new shed will
be < 300 feet.

Rainbow tells me that the feed from the main at the road can
supply 64 A at 120 VAC to all operations (C1-CUFF-trailer,
CU flux tower, USGS tower, my TDL shed, the new shed, and
any other add-on projects that happen).  Current use for
everything connected (C1-CUFF-trailer, CU flux tower, USGS
tower, my TDL shed) is 14 A.  Hence there is ample power
available to supply the new shed.  None of the decisions
below impact availability of power to supply current needs
(you don't need to worry about your supply, what I am adding
is trivial compared to the excess we have available).  You
will all be given adequate advance knowledge of power
interruption when this is installed.  John Laydon estimates
all power to tower operations will be shut down for <1/2 day.

A decision needs to be made regarding conductor diameter,
keeping in mind any future expansion that might occur in the
vicinity of the girdling plots.  We can wire this up with #4
AWG wire, which would ultimately allow (but not require) the
full 64 A to be used at the new location.  This could
potentially provide, for example, power to add anything else
that you might think up for any MRS project (even power
hungry projects like heat lamps).

Alternatively, we can do this with #8 AWG.  The latter is a
several hundred dollars cheaper and provides all the power I
need (a 20 A circuit, likely I will use 5 A or so).  I
prefer to go with this cheaper option but since several of
you are in this for the long term, I wanted to get your
opinions.

The full quotes are $7127 and $6754.  Russ, we have $5000
budgeted for this.  CU Fac Man is involved and will be
taking their (extremely vague) skim off the top.  John
Laydon assures me that we can stay under the $5000 budget if
we provide student labor (Nicole's crew) to haul and screw
together the conduit and use the existing (extra)
transformer at the tower (Sean, it turns out this is useful).

I will proceed with installation of #8 wire unless I hear
otherwise.  Please provide your comments by *Aug 12* as we
want to have this done by Oct 1 and I expect the
full-runaround from Fac Man.  I'll assume if you don't
respond that you are ok with this plan (although I'd
appreciate hearing that directly instead of guessing).

Russ, I would like to hear from you regardless that it's ok
to proceed since you will sign the check (this is in your
portion of the DOE budget).

Thanks everyone for your help and patience with this.

--
Best,
Dave

Dave Bowling
Dept. of Biology
University of Utah

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, E, B

Purpose of visit: usual maintenance, logger data.

Weather:   Cool and stormy-like (though the big storm never happened!).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the prius (borrowed from lindsay)

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 900 psi.  N2 at 200 psi ---> 1700 psi.

* From 10:15-10:30 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old=cc302236, new=cc301525

* from approx 9:33-9:50 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* At approx 10:30 MST, fixed thermocouple T7 (3rd level AGL).

* At approx 10:45 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1224934 Aug  2 08:52 tc8_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  579032 Aug  2 09:05 tc8_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1191054 Aug  2 09:17 soil8_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  622949 Aug  2 09:22 soil8_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  130207 Aug  2 09:32 met8_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  716439 Aug  2 09:46 met8_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  660566 Aug  2 09:53 nctc8_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  337343 Aug  2 09:30 prf8_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  823231 Aug  2 10:41 ucb8_2.dat*

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, + flux class

Purpose of visit: tour of tower by the NSF flux class.

Weather:   Pleasant.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the suburban (and got a flat on the way back down!!)

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1000 psi.  N2 at 590 psi.

* installed the new blackbox media converter box in the trailer (so
now the forestcam connection is working).

Friday, July 15th, 2011 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap REBs domes, check forestcam problem.  install
MATLAB.

Weather: Hot.   there was a steady breeze up on the
tower, but warm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Monson prius.  parked at MRS, duane gave me a ride to
  C1.

* stopped at MRS to help load matlab onto the flux class laptops.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1100 psi.  N2 at 890 psi.

* from 11:10-11:40 MST, swapped REBs domes.  NOTE, the apiration fan
was not turning...but i gave it a small "push" and then it started to
turn.  this fan should probably be replaced...

* tested the netgear network switch for the webcams.  it seemed fine
(ie, i could connect to the forestcam from the quacker box), but the
fiber-to-copper converter in the trailer seemed to have a problem and
no comm lights were flashing (the other end of the fiber line had
flashing lights).  [note: I could use the rj45 cable that goes to the
black box mini converter to connect with plumwood to connect to campus
so it was not an issue with either the cable or hub in the trailer...]

update on 7/18/2011: ordered a new fiber-to-copper converter from
black box (old one was under 6-year warranty...but need to find
invoice from this purchase).

* downloaded logger data (updated clocks using time.gov):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   686637 Jul 15 12:25 soil7_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   695292 Jul 15 12:33 tc7_15.dat*

* installing MATLAB required me to login to mathworks.com to activate
the license...



Broadcast message from root (Wed Jul 13 10:06:16 2011):

Power failure on UPS UPS_IDEN. Running on batteries.

Broadcast message from root (Wed Jul 13 10:06:18 2011):

Power has returned on UPS UPS_IDEN...

Friday, July 8th, 2011 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, E, B

Purpose of visit:  remove P sensor, check ATI k-probe, logger data.

Weather: Variable.  Sunny in the morning and then clouded up
and threatened rain.  Rain never happened.  Then cleared up and
was a bit breezy.  Then threatened rain again (a few drops fell).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Monson suburban with Nicole/Emily/Ben.

* como creek is still quite high....overflowing at the 2nd
bridge.

* took a hike west of the tower...found a few things left from the
TRAM/PAR experiement (strap on a tree, bags, cabling), etc.  Also,
near the west robot a BIG tree had snapped off...it took out a few
smaller trees, but didn't hit the robot tower.....

* nicole, et al were doing soil respiration stuff.

* russ and dave moore were filming for RKMs new webpage.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1100 psi.  N2 at 890 psi.

* at approx 10:00 MST, power-cycled the ATI k-probe (this fixed the problem)

 * at approx 10:30 MST, modified orientation of krypton
hygrometer...the detector tube should be pointed AWAY from the sun.
Note the detector tube is the SHORTER of the two tubes....I oriented
it so that the shorter tube is pointing DOWN (this what eol does, eg,
see CHATS photos).

* from 11:00-11:40 MST, removed eol P sensors and data system.  returned all
this stuff to Gordons office at NCAR.

* from 13:50-14:15 MST, replaced 3 lowest inlet filters for co2 profile system

* tried to download logger data from brent/dustin cr1000...but it wouldn't
let me connect!?

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  303460 Jul  8 10:36 cnr7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  321406 Jul  8 10:55 prf7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1186981 Jul  8 11:07 met7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  917035 Jul  8 11:18 nctc7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  821986 Jul  8 12:52 ucb7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  118961 Jul  8 12:54 ucb7_8b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1113468 Jul  8 15:37 soil7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1144561 Jul  8 15:26 tc7_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   95356 Jul  8 16:33 trlr7_8.dat*

Monday, June 27th, 2011 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, DB, E, B

Purpose of visit:  move P sensor, swap MgClO4, logger data.

Weather: Cool and cloudy in morning.  then clear and sunny
with some puffy clouds.  then cloudy again.


--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Monson jeep with Nicole/Emily/Ben.

* Dave Bowling is here setting up some soil stuff with
Nicole + gang...

* bugs are still "ok"!

* como creek is ripping pretty nicely.  water is overflowing
on the 2nd bridge...

---------

* Span cylinder at 1300 psi.  N2 at 0 psi --> 1850 psi.

* snow depths:  all at ZERO!

* from 12:57-12:59 MST, adjusted span flow for LI-6262.

* from 13:15-13:30 MST, moved "B8" sensor from 21.5m down
to the ground (colocated).

* from XX-XX, re-installed the krypton hygrometer at 21.5m.

* did dessicant (note, micropump connector was acting strange).

* downloaded logger data (clocks reset to time.gov):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  882511 Jun 27 10:30 cnr6_27.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1279579 Jun 27 10:50 tc6_27.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  142629 Jun 27 10:52 noah6_27.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  166182 Jun 27 10:58 mrs6_27.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1222801 Jun 27 11:11 soil6_27.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   94139 Jun 27 11:12 soil6_27b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  103044 Jun 27 14:18 trlr6_27.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1920155 Jul 21 16:18 mrs_110627.dat


here are the details of the calibration from campbell:

 KH2O s/n 1249
 date 08-jun-11
 file KH249-17
 dry-to-wet
 rma 13434

            path (X)    1.214 cm

  ----------------------------------
  windows "scaled":

   Full Vapor Range:  1.99-19.60 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.184 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.215 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.152 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    3696 mV

   Dry Vapor Range:  1.99-9.48 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.196 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.277 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.162 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    3934 mV

   Wet Vapor Range:  8.24-19.60 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.180 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.153 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.148 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    3475 mV

  ----------------------------------
  windows "clean":

   Full Vapor Range:  1.88-19.52 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.185 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.535 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.153 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    5092 mV

   Dry Vapor Range:  1.88-9.46 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.194 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.579 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.160 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    5318 mV

   Wet Vapor Range:  7.91-19.16 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.183 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.502 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.151 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    4927 mV

  ----------------------------------

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MW, + Soil Class.

Purpose of visit:  tour of site for class, swap N2, get logger data.

Weather: Cool and breezy in the morning (wall cloud at divide).  Then
the winds calmed and it warmed up a bit.  Still a surprising amount of
snow in the forest.  They are becoming snow "islands".  Como creek is
flowing strongly now.


--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Monson jeep.

* forgot to take aspen photo---aspens along peak-to-peak are fully
leafed out.

* in the morning a soil class from CSU was visiting the site (Mark W
was leading the tour at C1, the class also visited the tower and then
went to sample soils).  Nicole gave me info about the girdled plots.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1300 psi.  N2 at 0 psi --> 1850 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  12 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  42 cm
               farthest probe =  38 cm

* From 11:30-12:20 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old= cc17742, new=cc302236

* downloaded logger data (clocks reset to time.gov):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   723743 Jun 14 13:00 ucb6_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   819123 Jun 14 13:11 ucb6_14b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1270408 Jun 14 13:30 tc6_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   653411 Jun 14 13:36 tc6_14b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1185484 Jun 14 13:47 soil6_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   721435 Jun 14 13:54 soil6_14b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   148628 Jun 14 14:12 prf6_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   103063 Jun 14 14:51 trlr6_14.dat*

* from 13:06-13:07 MST, adjusted span flow for LI-6262.

* note, there is a still a bit of snow covering the pressure port near
the ground....see photos for details.

* from 13:15-13:30 MST, swapped pressure sensors (moved "B4" sensor
from 12m to blue box; moved sensor "B7" from blue box up to 12m).

* also, confirmed that the pressure sensors were still configured correctly:

root@pressure root# date
Tue Jun 14 20:54:19 GMT 2011

root@pressure root# rs 3
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS3
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B4  706.506  16.7\r\n
B4  706.527  16.7\r\n
B4  706.548  16.7\r\n
B4  706.548  16.7\r\n
B4  706.516  16.7\r\n
B4  706.527  16.7\r\n
B4  706.527  16.7\r\n
B4  706.527  16.7\r\n
B4  706.527  16.7\r\n
B4  706.538  16.7\r\n
B4  706.538  16.7\r\n
B4  706.538  16.7\r\n
B4  706.538  16.7\r\n


etc, etc

Friday, June 3rd, 2011 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  move gas cylinders around.

Weather: Clear, sunny and warm.  Clouded up a bit in the afternoon.
the road to C1 was opened today.  Surprising how much snow is still in
the forest.  Still not much post-holing, but como creek is getting
bigger and snow is pretty soft off the trail.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU Monson jeep.

* apsen trees at the site are still not leafing out.  but the ones
along the peak-to-peak are just starting to leaf out.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1400 psi.  N2 at 400 psi.

* snow depths (not checked).

* turned on the fans in the LI-COR and quacker boxes (we are
supposed to have HOT weather for the next week or so)....

* moved up 3 cylinders from campus:

cc302236      N2    tower          moved to tower on 6/3/11, ordered by Russ, delivered 6/11/09 (probably for flux class?)
SG91667447BAL span  trlr/ground    moved to trailer on 6/3/11, date is approx 2004, pressure in Nov 2010 was 1300 psi.
cc301525      N2    trlr/ground    moved to trailer on 6/3/11, ordered by Russ, delivered 6/11/09 (probably for flux class?)

* brought 4 empty cylinders down to MRS (didn't yet fill out the form!):

cc253014      N2    trlr/inside    moved to MRS on 6/2/11, retired on 12/2/2010 (0 psi), started on 9/13/2010 @2300 psi, moved to tower 7/1/10,
cc282442      N2    trlr/outside   moved to MRS on 6/2/11, moved to trlr on 2/16/11, retired on 2/4/2011 (0 psi), started on 12/2/2010,
cc262287      N2    trlr/outside   moved to MRS on 6/2/11, started on 2/4/2011, moved to tower on 9/13/2010, delivered on 9/8/09,
cc153480      span  trlr (inside)  moved to MRS on 6/2/11, retired on 4/20/2011 (at approx 20 psi), started on 11/19/2010, moved to tower on 2/11/09

* between 12:28-12:31 MST, zeroed LI-6262 and made a slight
flow-rate adjustment.

* moved the eol pressure sensor ("B8", ch1) from 11m up to 21.5m.
Installed it where the krypton hygrometer is usually located.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   396314 Jun  3 13:31 prf6_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster       45 Jun  3 13:32 prf6_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   973843 Jun  3 13:41 met6_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   785833 Jun  3 13:50 nctc6_3.dat*

Thursday, May 26th, 2011 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  swap dessicant trap, download logger data.

Weather: Cloudy with sun.  Feels a bit humid.  Still lots of snow, but
the melt is starting!  Snow was "hard" in the morning, but softened up
by the afternoon.  Still not much post-holing.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius.

* As usual, Dean + crew was up in the afternoon (we seem to pick
the same "nice weather" days to go up to the site).

---------

* Span cylinder at 1500 psi.  N2 at 600 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = buried
       TP101 461 middle probe = 135 cm
               farthest probe = 140 cm
      (might need to check these with photo to confirm?)

* switched eol pressure sensors SW4 to "on" so that the sampling
method could be changed:

   -at 1255 MST, switched sensor "B4" to ON (on tower)
   -at 1310 MST, switched sensor "B7" to ON (snow, in blue box)

* when i got back to the trailer (around 2:30 MST), I logged into
the eol system and then used rserial to change the settings on the
vaisala ptb220 P sensors (details are below).

* at 12:30ish MST, cleared out the snow from the lowest to
prof inlets (the snow was over the 2nd-lowest (1-meter) inlet).

* from approx 12:17 - 12:33 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 12:17 MST, did zero, co2 approx 0.03 mV  (seemed slow? slightly clogged trap?)
    - at 12:31 MST, did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx 0.002 mV).
    - at 12:33 MST, back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~13.

    - note, I watched it for one cycle and it seemed "ok"...but
      when i got back to the trailer p.prof was a mess....co2.prof
      would spike for Lev2 and the p.prof value was genearlly
      too low (i think this means a constriction, but not sure why lev2
      was so different??...anyway, hiked back to tower and made sure the
      tubing was straight and wasn't being pinched when closing
      the door.  it then seemed "ok" and p.prof was stable.

* downloaded logger data (no major time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   575907 May 26 11:14 cnr5_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1241984 May 26 11:51 tc5_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   909407 May 26 12:02 tc5_26b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    96158 May 26 12:04 noah5_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1201408 May 26 12:17 soil5_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   912457 May 26 12:25 soil5_26b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   101287 May 26 15:56 trlr5_26.dat*

some notes on the pressure sensors:

---------------------------------------------
On Mon May 16 12:54:49 MDT 2011 changed the "form" setting
for sensor B8...it was:

"B8 " 4.2 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n

increased sig figs for P to 0.001, ie "form" is now:

"B8 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n

here are more details:

B8  698.78  16.5\r\n
B8  698.77  16.5\r\n
B8  698.79  16.5\r\n
B8  698.78  16.5\r\n
B8  698.78  16.5\r\n
B8  698.78  16.5\r\n
sB8  698.78  16.5\r\n
B8  698.79  16.5\r\n
B8  698.77  16.5\r\n
^MB8  698.80  16.5\r\n

form^M>form\r\n
"B8 " 4.2 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
"B8 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n^M? "B8 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n\r\n

?^M>?\r\n
Software version          PTB220 / 3.05\r\n
Serial number             U4110003\r\n
Configuration             1\r\n
Linear adjustments        ON\r\n
Multipoint adjustments    ON\r\n
Calibration date          ????-??-??\r\n
Baud Parity Data Stop Dpx 9600  N 8 1 F\r\n
Echo                      ON\r\n
Sending mode              RUN\r\n
Measurement mode          FAST  \r\n
Pulse mode                OFF  SLOW LOW       0.0\r\n
Address                   8\r\n
Output interval           0 s\r\n
Output format             "B8 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
Error output format       \r\n
SCOM format               \r\n
Pressure unit             hPa\r\n
Temperature unit          'C\r\n
Averaging time            1.0 s\r\n

send^M>send\r\n

B8  698.754  16.5\r\n
r^M>r\r\n
B8  698.774  16.5\r\n
B8  698.785  16.5\r\n
B8  698.785  16.5\r\n
B8  698.774  16.5\r\n

%% as a side note, I checked the other sensors and found
that sensor "B4" was also using format 4.2 but sensor
"B7" (undersnow) was already using format 4.3, ie:

root@pressure root# rs 2
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS2
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B4  698.85  17.4\r\n
B4  698.85  17.4\r\n
B4  698.84  17.4\r\n
s^M^M>\r\n
r^M>r\r\n
B4  698.84  17.4\r\n
B4  698.84  17.4\r\n
B4  698.84  17.4\r\n
received Interrupt signal

root@pressure root# rs 3
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS3
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B7  699.889   2.4\r\n
B7  699.932   2.4\r\n
B7  699.928   2.4\r\n
B7  699.928   2.4\r\n
B7  699.938   2.4\r\n
B7  699.937   2.4\r\n
B7  699.934   2.4\r\n
B7  699.914   2.4\r\n
B7  699.908   2.4\r\n
received Interrupt signal

And all the details for each sensor:

line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B7  699.943   2.4\r\n
B7  699.943   2.4\r\n
sB7  699.962   2.4\r\n
^M?^M>?\r\n
Software version          PTB220 / 3.05\r\n
Serial number             U4110001\r\n
Configuration             1\r\n
Linear adjustments        ON\r\n
Multipoint adjustments    ON\r\n
Calibration date          ????-??-??\r\n
Baud Parity Data Stop Dpx 9600  N 8 1 F\r\n
Echo                      ON\r\n
Sending mode              RUN\r\n
Measurement mode          NORMAL\r\n
Pulse mode                OFF  SLOW LOW       0.0\r\n
Address                   7\r\n
Output interval           1 s\r\n
Output format             "B7 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
Error output format       \r\n
SCOM format               \r\n
Pressure unit             hPa\r\n
Temperature unit          'C\r\n
Averaging time            1.0 s\r\n


root@pressure root# rs 2
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS2
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B4  698.86  17.4\r\n
B4  698.88  17.4\r\n
s^M?^M>?\r\n
Software version          PTB220 / 1.04\r\n
Serial number             S0610001\r\n
Configuration             1\r\n
Linear adjustments        ON\r\n
Multipoint adjustments    ON\r\n
Calibration date          ????-??-??\r\n
Baud Parity Data Stop Dpx 9600  N 8 1 F\r\n
Echo                      ON\r\n
Sending mode              RUN\r\n
Measurement mode          NORMAL\r\n
Pulse mode                OFF  SLOW LOW       0.0\r\n
Address                   1\r\n
Output interval           1 s\r\n
Output format             "B4 " 4.2 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
Error output format       \r\n
SCOM format               \r\n
Pressure unit             hPa\r\n
Temperature unit          'C\r\n
Averaging time            1.0 s\r\n

So, now I changed it so that sensor "B4" is also using a
format of 4.3f....ie:

root@pressure root# rs 2
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS2
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B4  698.88  17.4\r\n
B4  698.91  17.4\r\n
sB4  698.88  17.4\r\n
^Mform^M>form\r\n
"B4 " 4.2 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
"B4 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n^M? "B4 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n\r\n
?^M>?\r\n
Software version          PTB220 / 1.04\r\n
Serial number             S0610001\r\n
Configuration             1\r\n
Linear adjustments        ON\r\n
Multipoint adjustments    ON\r\n
Calibration date          ????-??-??\r\n
Baud Parity Data Stop Dpx 9600  N 8 1 F\r\n
Echo                      ON\r\n
Sending mode              RUN\r\n
Measurement mode          NORMAL\r\n
Pulse mode                OFF  SLOW LOW       0.0\r\n
Address                   1\r\n
Output interval           1 s\r\n
Output format             "B4 " 4.3 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
Error output format       \r\n
SCOM format               \r\n
Pressure unit             hPa\r\n
Temperature unit          'C\r\n
Averaging time            1.0 s\r\n
send^M>send\r\n
B4  698.908  17.4\r\n
r^M>r\r\n
B4  698.894  17.4\r\n
B4  698.894  17.4\r\n
B4  698.876  17.4\r\n
B4  698.911  17.4\r\n
B4  698.899  17.4\r\n
received Interrupt signal

root@pressure root#


====================================================================================
trying to change the eol P sensor to 10-hz:
-------------------------------------------

notes from a 5/12/2011 meeting with gordon:

* we initially tried to use "rserial" to change the settings....it did
not work...we also tried using "minicom"...the communication with the
ptb did not seem to be working....gordon (and I) were a bit confused
about this.  So we setup a similar system in the lab to test
things...one difference with the one in the lab is there there were a
2nd set of jumpers that the "B8" sensor did not have...we eventually
figured out that you need to send an "s"  to stop the data and
then it can accept other commands...and an "r" to re-start the
data...so this looks something like:

rs 1
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS1
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B8  700.64   4.9\r\n
B8  700.64   4.9\r\n
B8  700.67   4.9\r\n
B8  700.67   4.9\r\n
B8  700.66   4.9\r\n
B8  700.68   4.9\r\n
B8  700.66   5.0\r\n
^MB8  700.67   5.0\r\n
B8  700.65   5.0\r\n
B8  700.65   5.0\r\n
B8  700.62   5.0\r\n
B8  700.62   5.0\r\n
B8  700.59   5.0\r\n
B8  700.59   5.0\r\n
B8  700.57   5.0\r\n
sB8  700.58   5.0\r\n
B8  700.57   5.0\r\n
B8  700.58   5.0\r\n
^MB8  700.59   5.0\r\n
?^M>?\r\n
Software version          PTB220 / 3.05\r\n
Serial number             U4110003\r\n
Configuration             1\r\n
Linear adjustments        ON\r\n
Multipoint adjustments    ON\r\n
Calibration date          ????-??-??\r\n
Baud Parity Data Stop Dpx 9600  N 8 1 F\r\n
Echo                      ON\r\n
Sending mode              RUN\r\n
Measurement mode          FAST  \r\n
Pulse mode                OFF  SLOW LOW       0.0\r\n
Address                   8\r\n
Output interval           0 s\r\n
Output format             "B8 " 4.2 P1 " " 3.1 T1 #r #n \r\n
Error output format       \r\n
SCOM format               \r\n
Pressure unit             hPa\r\n
Temperature unit          'C\r\n
Averaging time            1.0 s\r\n

mmode^M>mmode\r\n
Meas mode     : FAST  \r\n
^M>\r\n

mtim^M>mtim\r\n
^MMtim          :       32 ? \r\n

^M>\r\n
filt^M>filt\r\n
Filter        : OFF   \r\n
^M>\r\n

intv^M>intv\r\n
Output intrv. :     0 s  \r\n

* note, we also changed the INTV setting on serial chan 2 (sensor
"B4"), but this did not create real hi-rate data...it gave 10 constant
values for 1 second.  To change this the dip switch #4 needs to be
flipped to the ON position...

* to do minicom, do:   minicom ttyS1

* "adn" shuts down the pressure data system
  "aup" boots up the pressure data system...


and to check the data stats:

ds
2011-05-12,19:22:32|NOTICE|parsing: /usr/local/isff/projects/NIWOT/ISFF/config/niwot.xml
received signal Interrupt(2), si_signo=2, si_errno=0, si_code=128
sensor               dsm sampid    nsamps |------- start -------|  |------ end -----|    rate minMaxDT(sec) minMaxLen
pressure:/dev/ttyS1    1     40        39 2011 05 12 19:22:32.212  05 12 19:22:35.972   10.11  0.060  0.100   19   19
pressure:/dev/ttyS2    1     50         3 2011 05 12 19:22:33.023  05 12 19:22:35.020    1.00  0.998  1.000   19   19
pressure:/dev/ttyS3    1     60         4 2011 05 12 19:22:32.160  05 12 19:22:35.160    1.00  1.000  1.000   20   20
IOException: inet:127.0.0.1:2148: recv: Interrupted system call

ls -lag /media/usbdisk/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 May 12 17:29 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1024 Mar  1 22:47 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      3053423 May 12 07:59 pressure_20110512_000000.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      3053458 May 12 16:00 pressure_20110512_080000.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root       481969 May 12 17:15 pressure_20110512_160000.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      2295607 May 12 19:36 pressure_20110512_172903.dat

root@pressure root# ds
2011-04-22,20:04:24|NOTICE|parsing: /usr/local/isff/projects/NIWOT/ISFF/config/niwot.xml
received signal Interrupt(2), si_signo=2, si_errno=0, si_code=128
sensor               dsm sampid    nsamps |------- start -------|  |------ end -----|    rate minMaxDT(sec) minMaxLen
pressure:/dev/ttyS1    1     40        14 2011 04 22 20:04:24.495  04 22 20:04:37.487    1.00  0.992  1.000   19   19
pressure:/dev/ttyS2    1     50        14 2011 04 22 20:04:24.125  04 22 20:04:37.125    1.00  0.948  1.052   19   19
pressure:/dev/ttyS3    1     60        13 2011 04 22 20:04:24.725  04 22 20:04:36.717    1.00  0.992  1.000   20   20
IOException: inet:127.0.0.1:2439: recv: Interrupted system call

note, it's:  ssh root@198.11.18.38

Thursday, May 5th, 2011 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  check span gas, download logger data.

Weather: Clear and sunny.  Lots of snow, but things
are warming up.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1600 psi.  N2 at 1105 psi.

* at 10:30 MST, powered up logger for brent h.

* at 1:30 MST, removed krypton hygrometer 

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = buried
       TP101 461 middle probe = 140 cm
               farthest probe = 141 cm


* downloaded logger data (reset time on all loggers to
time.gov)..note, the card for the MRS logger had filled up, but my
download gave me the missing data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1170159 May  5 11:51 soil5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  337342 May  5 11:54 soil5_5b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1355132 May  5 12:08 tc5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  217211 May  5 12:10 tc5_5b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  231844 May  5 12:13 noah5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  179121 May  5 12:17 mrs5_5.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 3220338 May  9 12:17 mrs_110505.dat

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  415202 May  5 12:51 cnr5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  405467 May  5 12:59 prf5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  827783 May  5 13:20 nctc5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  980370 May  5 13:30 met5_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  103489 May  5 14:42 trlr5_5.dat*

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  swap span gas, check li-6251, download logger
data.

Weather: Snowing in the morning, but then above the clouds
and sunny (and a bit breezy at times)...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my jeep.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 20 psi --> 1800 psi. N2 at 1510 psi

* From 9:30-11:00 MST, swapped span cylinder; old= cc153480, new=cc140852

* from 10:15-10:45 MST, replaced KNF micropump for the li-6251 profile system.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  buried
       TP101 461 middle probe =  132 cm
               farthest probe =  130 cm


* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   957016 Apr 20 12:40 cnr4_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1319991 Apr 20 13:16 tc4_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   146667 Apr 20 13:17 tc4_20b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1195753 Apr 20 13:34 soil4_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   235379 Apr 20 13:36 soil4_20b.dat*

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  check gas cylinders, download logger
data.

Weather: Foggy.  Socked in, but the sun is breaking through...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU malibu

* Heather was looking for a snow-pit kit at MRS (and there were none
to be found!).

---------

* Span cylinder at 200 psi. N2 at 0 psi.---> 1900 psi

* From 9:30-11:00 MST, swapped N2 cylinder; old= cc262287, new=cc17742

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  90 cm (over top)
       TP101 461 middle probe =  110 cm
               farthest probe =  114  cm

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  added p' port for new pressure sensors, download
logger data, etc...

Weather: Feels a LOT like spring.  Some big puffy convective
clouds...above freezing.  Very windy/blustery.  The clouds were moving
fast...the upper surface of the snow seemed to be a bit wet....John K
said the snowpack has gone isothermal (and I believe it!).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

* stopped by McGuckins for tubing, bungees, and zip ties.

* note, my watch battery was dead...but I synced plumwood to time.gov
before leaving the trailer.

---------

* Span cylinder at 400 psi.  N2 at 700 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =   83 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =   107 cm
               farthest probe =   113 cm

* used the clamp-on amp meter and split extention cord (borrowed from
Kurt Knudson at NCAR) to measure the power used in the bowling shed
(approx 6 amps at startup, and then 3.6 amps under steady conditions).

* note, that our clamp-on meter also works...it seems difficult to
read...compared to the one from NCAR...it looks like you can set the
range to "Amps 6" and then use the middle Amps scale...this has
markings like: 0 10 20 30 40 50 60....the power to the shed comes out
to be around "40"...which we thought might be "4.0 Amps"?  [note, this
should be 3.6 Amps]....

* installed the two "p'" inlet ports to the tower.  I also bought a
smaller (1/4" OD) tubing that can be used to splice the p' port tubing
to the transducer.  This smaller tubing seems to work well...note:

   - at around 1pm connected North p' port (at 12m) to sensor B8
   - the South p' port (also at 12m), is unconnected right now.

* also added the smaller tubing to the "undersnow" transducer (the
previous connection seemed quite loose...so the new tubing connector
might change things a bit??)...

* updated met logger to met_07.csi, output the pressure (Ptot.18m) as
"high" resolution rather than low-res.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    12053 Mar 16 11:07 met_07.csi*

* started ops55 to take into account hi-res Ptot.18m.

here is the OLD resolution (using OPS=54):

prep -D Ptot.18m -f -B "11 03 10 7:0:0" -E "11 03 10 7:10:0" -t | more
prep -D Ptot.18m -f -B "11 03 10 7:0:0" -E "11 03 10 7:10:0" -t -A "%4.2f" | more

Set OPS period: OPS=ops54
Opened: /usr/local/PORTER/cuff/aster/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt110310.000000
25200862 1119.00
25201860 1120.00
25202860 1118.00
25203860 1118.00
25204859 1117.00
25205859 1118.00
25206859 1119.00
25207861 1120.00

this results in about 0.1 mbar resolution in the calibrated pressure...

* here is the NEW resolution (using OPS=55):

prep -D Ptot.18m -f -B "11 03 17 1:0:0" -E "11 03 17 1:10:0" -t -A "%4.2f" | more
Set OPS period: OPS=ops55
Opened: /usr/local/PORTER/cuff/aster/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt110317.005708
 3600099 1047.50
 3601117 1047.60
 3602099 1047.70
 3603099 1047.60
 3604099 1048.00
 3605116 1047.50
 3606098 1048.00
 3607098 1048.30
 3608098 1048.00
 3609118 1048.00

* at approx 12:30 MST, adjust LI-6262 flows.

* from approx 13:00 - 13:15 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 13:00 MST, did zero, co2 approx -0.004 mV
    - at 13:14 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.002 mV).
    - at 13:15 MST, back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~11.

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1407984 Mar 16 11:55 tc3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   133381 Mar 16 11:56 tc3_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   128507 Mar 16 11:58 noah3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1237612 Mar 16 12:12 soil3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   216066 Mar 16 12:14 soil3_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   766242 Mar 16 13:20 cnr3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   475776 Mar 16 14:44 met3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   736094 Mar 16 15:13 ucb3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   829792 Mar 16 15:23 ucb3_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   105639 Mar 16 15:50 trlr3_16.dat*

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  setup new pressure sensors/ data system,
download logger data...

Weather: Feels a bit like spring.  Some big puffy convective
clouds...above freezing.  Some signs of melted snow over the past few
days (which have been quite warm)...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

* stopped by NCAR FL to pickup the data system, etc.

---------

* Span cylinder at 580 psi.  N2 at 1100 psi.

* borrowed a sled from MRS, hauled up the new data system and pressure
sensors.  (rode the sled back down the hill which was FAST!)....

* setup the new data system as "isff".  It seems to be working:

root@pressure root# ls -lag /media/usbdisk/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Mar  3 16:00 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1024 Mar  1 22:47 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         3997 Mar  1 22:48 pressure_20110301_224738.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root        31045 Mar  1 22:54 pressure_20110301_225004.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root       104679 Mar  1 23:12 pressure_20110301_225613.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root        27221 Mar  2 19:57 pressure_20110302_194439.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      1214463 Mar  2 23:59 pressure_20110302_195736.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      3053458 Mar  3 08:00 pressure_20110303_000000.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      3053423 Mar  3 16:00 pressure_20110303_080000.dat
-r--r--r--    1 root     root       496208 Mar  3 17:17 pressure_20110303_160000.dat

but I need to check these data and figure out how to dump them into
ASCII...

* details about the pressure sensors setup:

  - chan1, U4110003, "B8"   setup near the CU P sensor (no inlet port used)
  - chan2, S0610001, "B4"   setup near the CU P sensor (no inlet port used)
  - chan3, U4110001, "B7"   connected to the undersnow P inlet port

* here are a few useful commands:

 data_stats pressure_20110303_080000.dat
2011-03-03,23:19:30|NOTICE|parsing: /usr/local/isff/projects/NIWOT/ISFF/config/niwot.xml
EOFException: pressure_20110303_080000.dat: open: EOF
sensor               dsm sampid    nsamps |------- start -------|  |------ end -----|    rate minMaxDT(sec) minMaxLen
pressure:/dev/ttyS1    1     40     28803 2011 03 03 08:00:00.786  03 03 15:59:59.305    1.00  0.521  1.479   19   19
pressure:/dev/ttyS2    1     50     28802 2011 03 03 08:00:00.376  03 03 15:59:59.473    1.00  0.624  1.376   19   19
pressure:/dev/ttyS3    1     60     28803 2011 03 03 08:00:00.657  03 03 15:59:59.424    1.00  0.662  1.338   20   20


rs 1
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS1
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B8  696.36  -0.1\r\n
B8  696.37  -0.1\r\n
B8  696.38  -0.1\r\n
B8  696.38  -0.1\r\n
B8  696.38  -0.1\r\n


root@pressure raw_data# rs 3
connecting to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
connected to inet:localhost.localdomain:30002
sent:"/dev/ttyS3
"
line="OK"
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
B7  697.650   0.9\r\n
B7  697.649   0.9\r\n
B7  697.632   0.9\r\n
B7  697.667   0.9\r\n
B7  697.656   0.9\r\n
received Interrupt signal

* to get the data back to russter2 here is what I did:

added the line to my .cshrc:    set today = `date -u +%Y%m%d`

then can use:

to check files:   rsync rsync://198.11.18.38/data/NIWOT/raw_data/

  to get files:

rsync --exclude="*${today}_*" -av --dry-run rsync://198.11.18.38/data/NIWOT/raw_data/ /tmp

(note, this is a "dry-run" so it won't do anything)....

what I should do is:

rsync --exclude="*${today}_*" -av --dry-run rsync://198.11.18.38/data/NIWOT/raw_data/ /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/

to actually get the data files do:

rsync --exclude="*${today}_*" -av rsync://198.11.18.38/data/NIWOT/raw_data/ /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/

to remove the files after getting them do:

rsync --exclude="*${today}_*" -av --remove-sent-files rsync://198.11.18.38/data/NIWOT/raw_data/ /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/

here is the result:

[~] rsync --exclude="*${today}_*" -av rsync://198.11.18.38/data/NIWOT/raw_data/ /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/
receiving file list ... done
rsync: failed to set times on "/data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/.": Operation not permitted (1)
./
pressure_20110301_224738.dat
pressure_20110301_225004.dat
pressure_20110301_225613.dat
pressure_20110302_194439.dat
pressure_20110302_195736.dat
pressure_20110303_000000.dat
pressure_20110303_080000.dat
pressure_20110303_160000.dat
rsync: failed to set times on "/data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/.": Operation not permitted (1)

sent 284 bytes  received 10543650 bytes  602510.51 bytes/sec
total size is 10541744  speedup is 1.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1298) [generator=2.6.8]


[~] dir /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/
total 416104
drwxrwxr-x 2 aster  aster     4096 Mar  4 09:24 ./
drwxrwsr-x 3 aster  aster     4096 May 14  2002 ../
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554612 Mar  1 01:00 nwt110301.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554886 Mar  1 09:00 nwt110301.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554498 Mar  1 17:00 nwt110301.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554764 Mar  2 01:00 nwt110302.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554412 Mar  2 09:00 nwt110302.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554342 Mar  2 17:00 nwt110302.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554886 Mar  3 01:00 nwt110303.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554758 Mar  3 09:00 nwt110303.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554016 Mar  3 17:00 nwt110303.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554762 Mar  4 01:00 nwt110304.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster 37554874 Mar  4 09:00 nwt110304.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root   aster  1933312 Mar  4 09:24 nwt110304.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster     3997 Mar  1 15:48 pressure_20110301_224738.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster    31045 Mar  1 15:54 pressure_20110301_225004.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster   104679 Mar  1 16:12 pressure_20110301_225613.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster    27221 Mar  2 12:57 pressure_20110302_194439.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster  1214463 Mar  2 16:59 pressure_20110302_195736.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster  3053458 Mar  3 01:00 pressure_20110303_000000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster  3053423 Mar  3 09:00 pressure_20110303_080000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 sburns aster  3053458 Mar  3 16:59 pressure_20110303_160000.dat

* here is an email from while I was up on the tower:

  Date:    Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:47:23 MST
  To:      maclean@ucar.edu
  cc:      Sean Burns , sburns@Colorado.EDU
  From:    Sean Burns 
  Subject: Re: connected...

  gordon,

  thanks...i think it's working, i just need
  to setup the sensors....which i'm doing now...
  1 and 3 are connected....i think i'm all set...

  i'll give you a call tomorrow to chat more
  about dumping the data....and make sure i'ts really
  workikng..

  thanks!

                                SpB.



* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   356679 Mar  2 12:09 prf3_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   872608 Mar  2 12:22 met3_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   751624 Mar  2 12:30 nctc3_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1248024 Mar  2 15:18 soil3_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   264468 Mar  2 15:21 soil3_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1424708 Mar  2 15:34 tc3_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   160939 Mar  2 15:35 tc3_2b.dat*

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:

Weather: Gusty, but not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 700 psi.  N2 at 1500 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =   78 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =   99 cm
               farthest probe =   104 cm

* at 13:05 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* at 13:17 MST, adjusted cal gas flows in LI-6262 system

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  326678 Feb 16 11:35 cnr2_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster      92 Feb 16 11:36 cnr2_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  187542 Feb 16 12:20 noah2_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1302897 Feb 16 12:34 soil2_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  964609 Feb 16 12:44 soil2_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1486357 Feb 16 12:11 tc2_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  855623 Feb 16 12:18 tc2_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  108079 Feb 16 13:54 trlr2_16.dat*



Sunday, February 13th, 2011 (no site visit):
--------------------------------------------
At the site: NaN

Purpose of visit:  power outage.

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

*

*

---------

* there was a power outage at around 7:30 MST...i thought russter2
might need to be power-cycled, but at 7pm it came back on.  The
quacker was up but the data system was not archiving the data...it
looked like:

 check_aster
Sun Feb 13 19:23:30 MST 2011

            ------------- Environment -------------
PROJECT = NIWOT, OPS=ops1

            ------------- Server tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    2980 17:01 ? 00:00:00 adamserver
russter2    sburns    2982 17:01 ? 00:00:00 nc_server

            ------------- Ingest tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    root      2984 17:01 ? 00:00:00 ingest

            ------------- Archive tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Covar calcs --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- X processes --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Ingest Statistics ----------
russter2: RPC: Program not registered
No ingest process running on russter2 for quacker

            -------------- Living adams  --------------
quacker


Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              9851308   3368452   5982436  37% /usr/local
/dev/hda8            105557532  88269900  11925540  89% /data
            -----------------------------------------
Sun Feb 13 19:23:31 MST 2011


So I did:

 ndaqrestart quacker
 quacker: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused


waited a short while, and then data started coming
in...ie:

dir /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/ | grep 'Feb 13'
drwxrwxr-x 2 aster aster     4096 Feb 13 19:28 ./
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 37554966 Feb 13 01:00 nwt110213.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 30328940 Feb 13 07:37 nwt110213.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster    16384 Feb 13 19:29 nwt110214.022833

then redo "check_aster", ie:

check_aster
Sun Feb 13 19:29:17 MST 2011

            ------------- Environment -------------
PROJECT = NIWOT, OPS=ops1

            ------------- Server tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    2980 17:01 ? 00:00:00 adamserver
russter2    sburns    2982 17:01 ? 00:00:00 nc_server

            ------------- Ingest tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    root      2984 17:01 ? 00:00:00 ingest
russter2    root      4665 19:28 ? 00:00:00 quacker

            ------------- Archive tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    root      4677 19:28 ? 00:00:00 archive quacker .

            -------------- Covar calcs --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    root      4687 19:28 ? 00:00:00 covar -S -a quacker

            -------------- X processes --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Ingest Statistics ----------
station     port                    status   up since   sample/sec serialErrs
quacker     2038                    open   Feb 13 19:28      0.00         0

            -------------- Living adams  --------------
quacker


Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              9851308   3368452   5982436  37% /usr/local
/dev/hda8            105557532  88269932  11925508  89% /data
            -----------------------------------------
Sun Feb 13 19:29:18 MST 2011

Sunday, February 6th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, PsT

Purpose of visit:  check on 2.5m CSAT.

Weather: calm and snowy.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up spb jeep.

*

---------

* at 13:00 MSt, power-cycled 2.5m csat.

* (no snow depths).

Friday, February 4th, 2011 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DL

Purpose of visit:

Weather: Gusty, but not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

* Don Lenschow came with me to go for a ski....

---------

* Span cylinder at 950 psi.  N2 at 0 psi --> 1850 psi.

* (no snow depths).

* From 12:00-13:00 MST, swapped N2 cylinders; old= cc282442, new= cc262287

* at 11:30 MST, rebooted the quacker (data system back up).

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  603297 Feb  4 12:22 cnr2_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  740435 Feb  4 12:38 met2_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  647680 Feb  4 12:47 nctc2_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  305470 Feb  4 12:30 prf2_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  109976 Feb  4 13:49 trlr2_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  826356 Feb  4 13:11 ucb2_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   47008 Feb  4 13:12 ucb2_4b.dat*



here are the logs from when the quacker shutdown on 2 Feb 2011 (extreme cold):

2011-02-02T00:19:09.273820-07:00 russter2 sshd[12273]: Postponed publickey for root from 172.20.59.15 port 35463 ssh2
2011-02-02T00:19:09.468086-07:00 russter2 sshd[12266]: Accepted publickey for root from 172.20.59.15 port 35463 ssh2
2011-02-02T00:19:33.316285-07:00 russter2 sshd[12297]: Connection closed by 128.138.129.19
2011-02-02T00:24:33.518717-07:00 russter2 sshd[12337]: Connection closed by 128.138.149.75
2011-02-02T00:29:33.270026-07:00 russter2 sshd[12382]: Connection closed by 128.138.238.194
2011-02-02T00:30:14.224903-07:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[3012]: quacker select timeout 300 sec
2011-02-02T00:34:33.217877-07:00 russter2 sshd[12429]: Connection closed by 128.138.129.19
2011-02-02T00:35:14.184576-07:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[3012]: quacker select timeout 300 sec
2011-02-02T00:39:33.486248-07:00 russter2 sshd[12468]: Connection closed by 128.138.238.194
2011-02-02T00:40:14.154671-07:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[3012]: quacker select timeout 900 sec. Ingest stopping
2011-02-02T00:40:14.154701-07:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[3012]: quacker russter2.54185 socket closed, 2 active connections
2011-02-02T00:40:14.154720-07:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[3012]: quacker russter2.51332 socket closed, 1 active connections
2011-02-02T00:40:14.173484-07:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[3012]: quacker shutting down
2011-02-02T00:40:14.364310-07:00 russter2 archive(quacker)[3035]: EOFException: quacker@russter2: RawDataInput::openNextFile: : quacker@russter2
2011-02-02T00:40:14.364348-07:00 russter2 archive(quacker)[3035]: archiving stopped for quacker
2011-02-02T00:40:14.435079-07:00 russter2 archive(quacker)[3035]: russter2 ingest: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
2011-02-02T00:40:14.484660-07:00 russter2 ingest[2870]: quacker ingest [3012] has exited/stopped, exit value:1, signal:none(0)
2011-02-02T00:40:14.601880-07:00 russter2 covar[3041]: russter2 ingest: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
2011-02-02T00:40:14.601911-07:00 russter2 covar[3041]: covar: EOF on all inputs
2011-02-02T00:40:14.887216-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Opened: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110106.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:14.887248-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110201.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:14.981784-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing Connection, Id=0, heap=4153344
2011-02-02T00:40:14.981817-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110202.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:15.006239-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110106.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:15.006289-07:00 russter2 covar[3041]: Closed nc_server connection on server=russter2, Id=0
2011-02-02T00:40:14.601911-07:00 russter2 covar[3041]: covar: EOF on all inputs
2011-02-02T00:40:14.887216-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Opened: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110106.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:14.887248-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110201.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:14.981784-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing Connection, Id=0, heap=4153344
2011-02-02T00:40:14.981817-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110202.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:15.006239-07:00 russter2 nc_server[2868]: Closing: /usr/local/aster/projects/NIWOT/results/covar/nwt.110106.nc
2011-02-02T00:40:15.006289-07:00 russter2 covar[3041]: Closed nc_server connection on server=russter2, Id=0
2011-02-02T00:40:15.006305-07:00 russter2 covar[3041]: Disconnected from nc_server

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:

Weather: Gusty, but not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up NCAR jeep

* made trip to T-van with Andy W, then a quick
trip out to the tower.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1000 psi.  N2 at 400 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =   67 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =   81 cm
               farthest probe =   84 cm

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1380694 Jan 26  2011 soil1_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   24634 Jan 26  2011 soil1_26b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  331779 Jan 26  2011 tc1_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1128258 Jan 26  2011 tc1_26b.dat*

Thursday, January 13th, 2010 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  change dessicant

Weather: Gusty, but not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1150 psi.  N2 at 800 psi.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =   50 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =   66 cm
               farthest probe =   68 cm

* at 12:15 MST, adjusted flow in LI-6262

* from 14:12-14:27 MST, swapped LI-6251 dessicant

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1152393 Jan 13 11:39 cnr1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  195419 Jan 13 12:30 met1_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1218069 Jan 13 12:28 met1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1229667 Jan 13 12:03 nctc1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  585792 Jan 13 11:50 prf1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  756277 Jan 13 13:13 soil1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  795430 Jan 13 13:25 tc1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   61687 Jan 13 15:10 trlr1_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  793782 Jan 13 14:02 ucb1_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   73278 Jan 13 14:03 ucb1_13c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  693277 Jan 13 13:51 ucb1_13.dat*

Thursday, January 6th, 2010 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JC

Purpose of visit:  check problem with russter2.

Weather: Gusty, but not too cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU vehicle

* Jesse from UnixOPs came with me to check on
russter2...I picked him up at his house.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1200 psi.  N2 at 1000 psi.

* Jesse et al determined the eth0 problem was that the russter2 IP was
  being blocked. (to fix, changed IP)

* at 12:40 MST, adjusted cal gas flows in LI-6262

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  157463 Jan  6 11:55 noah1_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1343705 Jan  6 12:15 soil1_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  665572 Jan  6 12:20 soil1_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  656607 Jan  6 11:53 tc1_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1445317 Jan  6 11:48 tc1_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  111045 Jan  6 14:30 trlr1_6.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 2375457 Jan 13 09:58 mrs_110106.dat

Friday, December 31st, 2010 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  check problem with russter2.

Weather: Extreme cold.  It was also windy and there
was lots of blowing snow.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

* never went to the tower, only the trailer.

* happy new year with pei!

---------

* Span cylinder at ? psi.  N2 at ? psi.

* to my surprise russter2 was up and running!  And the data had been
collected since we lost communications sometime on 24 Dec.  It turns
out there was an issue with the network card to the outside world
(eth0).  Orrie thought it might be a configuration/software problem
and we tried quite a few things to figure it out....i also tried the
obvious things like a new network cable, different port on the hub,
etc.  Also, the cable/hub used for russter2 worked just fine when i
connected to the network with one of the dell laptops...

* in the end we couldn't figure it out, but i'll go back up again next
week to deal with it (and hopefully bring a replacement network card
if that is available)...

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  get soil/tc logger data.

Weather: Snowing pretty hard (and windy).  My tracks to the tower were
almost completely covered by the time I was coming back (only 1.5
hrs).  The storm did not go very far east of the site.  More snow than
I expected in the trees (knee-deep).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up SpB Jeep.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1450 psi.  N2 at 1450 psi.

* downloaded logger data (last one of the year!):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1427994 Dec 18 14:17 tc12_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   360369 Dec 18 14:20 tc12_18b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster      394 Dec 18 14:22 tc12_18c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1382596 Dec 18 14:39 soil12_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   338941 Dec 18 14:42 soil12_18b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   107495 Dec 18 15:16 trlr12_18.dat*

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  swap GAST pump.

Weather: It was much windier than I liked because I was swapping the
2-micron filter at the 21.5m inlet.  Could have been worse, but it was
not ideal.  As I was finishing the wind started dying down a bit...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU malibu (was supposed to have a prius).

* the gast pump died early Monday morning.  kurt was kind enough
to kill the power to it late on monday.

* went to FEF on Tue so couldn't come up until wed.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1600 psi.  N2 at 1710 psi.

* with orries help, figured out that the thumbdrive in the trailer was
having a problem when connecting to russter2 (so the usb ports are
ok).  [try to reformat it?]

* from ~10:30-11:30 MST, swapped out gast pump for LI-6262 (replaced with a new pump)

* no surprise that the pump died because it has been running for around
 2 years (with one swap of the vanes last summer).

* had a spare GAST pump in the trailer that I used (also, ordered a
new one during the week of 12/13).

* at 9:30 MST, rebooted russter2 (to update kernel, etc)

* from 11:30-12:00 MST, replaced 2-micron Nupro filters in LI-6262 system (at inlet only)

* at 12:15 MST, adjusted cal gas flows (and re-zeroed) LI-6262

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  swap N2 cylinder, get logger data.

Weather: A bit breezy and near freezing (not bad for Dec).  High
clouds and sun.  Snow is very powdery and pulverized.  A small dusting
of fresh powder over older snow.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius

* left at 1pm to get back for a 2pm meeting at INSTAAR.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1600 psi.  N2 at 0 psi.

* at 12:04 MST, poured water into rain gauge (check data for this),
  the wind had blown the top over (see photos)

* at 12:15 MST, adjusted cal gas flows (and re-zeroed) LI-6262

* at ~12:30 MST, swapped N2 (old cylinder=CC253014 at 0 psi, new
  cylinder= CC282442) (also re-did the swage fitting to regulator, it
  had a small leak)

* logger data files:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  130072 Dec  2 08:59 cnr12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  641904 Dec  2 09:08 cnr12_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1154362 Dec  2 09:36 met12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  966899 Dec  2 09:47 nctc12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  150224 Dec  2 10:14 noah12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  471500 Dec  2 09:25 prf12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1324055 Dec  2 10:29 soil12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   71986 Dec  2 10:30 soil12_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1427995 Dec  2 10:11 tc12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  869842 Dec  2 10:52 ucb12_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  246788 Dec  2 10:55 ucb12_2b.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 2213332 Dec  8 08:48 mrs_101202.dat

Friday, November 19th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  get logger data.

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU prius.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 100 psi (replaced).  N2 at 400 psi.

* at ~13:30 MST, swapped span gas (old cylinder=CC282360 at 100 psi,
  new cylinder= CC153480, at 1800 psi) (note, also re-did the swage
  fitting to regulator)

* at 14:00 MST, adjusted cal gas flows in LI-6262

* logger data files:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1107365 Nov 19 12:06 soil11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  487759 Nov 19 12:51 soil11_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1353743 Nov 19 13:04 tc11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  240994 Nov 19 13:06 tc11_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  111222 Nov 19 14:08 trlr11_19.dat*

Thursday, November 4th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my Jeep

* made 3 trips to/from tower...once for a power outage...once at the
  very end of the day to try and fix the flow in the LI-6251 (which is
  better, but still a problem as of 11/2/2010).

---------

* Span cylinder at 300 psi.  N2 at 800 psi.

* at approx 10:30 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* from 10:37-10:47 MST, swapped profiler (li-6251) dessicant tubes,
  also check wires, tubing, etc

* logger data files:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1019193 Nov  4 10:18 cnr11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster     193 Nov  4 10:18 cnr11_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  610965 Nov  4 11:31 soil11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  595758 Nov  4 11:38 tc11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   49608 Nov  4 13:06 trlr11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  878002 Nov  4 11:13 ucb11_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  789683 Nov  4 11:23 ucb11_4b.dat*

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  swap dessicant, download logger data.

Weather: windy, but not too cold.  We have had very strong
winds the past few days.  And the ground is now snow-covered.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU Pruis.  Saw smoke to the west as I was heading from
  Marine St...was planning to stop by McGuckins, but I bypassed that
  and made a beeline for cayon road.  The "dome" fire was just
  starting and I made it up the canyon before the road closed....

* moved the HYDRA out of N324 and into my office when I got back to
  campus.

* made 3 trips to/from tower...once for a power outage...once at the
  very end of the day to try and fix the flow in the LI-6251 (which is
  better, but still a problem as of 11/2/2010).

---------

* Span cylinder at 350 psi.  N2 at 950 psi.

* setup the pressure inlet near the ground...see photos.  (need to get
some extra tubing and "connector tubing" to extend this line a bit)...

* from 14:23-14:37 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* John Knowles noticed a cylinder of hydrogen at the tower....here
is a summary of what we found out about this:

Date:    Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:18:20 MDT
To:      Dean E Anderson 
cc:      Sean Burns , John.Knowles@Colorado.EDU,
         Kurt.Chowanski@Colorado.EDU, russell.monson@Colorado.EDU,
         turnip@ucar.edu, Linda.Bowden@Colorado.EDU, david.bowling@utah.edu,
         blamb@wsu.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: Hydrogen Cylinder?


Hi Dean,

thanks for solving this "mystery" for us!  I think we can bring the
cylinder back to airgas sometime over the winter (once the snow gets
deeper it will be easier to slide out of there)....John, will that be
possible?  my guess is that this cylinder of hydrogen was used to run
a fuel cell....does that sound familiar at all?  Once we get the
correct cylinder numbers, I think airgas will be able to tell us who
originally ordered it....also, it is tagged with ramaley N1B68 which
is a good clue...

Linda, do you happen to recall who would have had cylinders
stored/delivered in room N1B68?  (this might have been 7-8 years
ago)...when I first started working at CU in 2003 part of the Monson
Lab was in room N1B46, but I don't think we used N1B68 for
anything....

thanks!

                                            SpB.



>
>   Hi Sean,
>
>   Sorry about that. I forgot to email you when I got back from the site and
>   left for a trip right after. That cylinder had been sitting at the profiler
>   shack (outhouse) for several years and its not mine. I'm not sure if it
>   was brought in for Brian Lamb's experiment in '02 or for something a little
>   after. If one of my students comes along this week, would you like it pulled
>   down to the trailer?
>   Dean
>
>
>
>  Dean E. Anderson
>   U.S. Geological Survey
>   M.S. 413, Bldg. 53
>   Federal Center
>   Denver, CO. 80225-0046
>   U.S.A.
>   Phn:  303-236-5691
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Dean,
>
> a hydrogen cylinder is at the Monson tower....i think it's from CU
> (and possibly an old cylinder), but do you have any idea about this?
> (see email below for more details)....we are trying to track down the
> owner to figure out what the plans are for it, etc...
>
> thanks!
>
>                                      SpB.
>
>
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> To: Steve.Schmidt@Colorado.EDU, russell.monson@Colorado.EDU,
>         david.bowling@utah.edu, chris.gray@Colorado.EDU
> cc: sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, John.Knowles@Colorado.EDU,
>         Kurt.Chowanski@Colorado.EDU, Linda.Bowden@Colorado.EDU,
>         William.Bowman@Colorado.EDU
> Subject: Re: Hydrogen gas cylinder at MRS laser shed...
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:19:04 -0600
> From: Sean Burns 
> Message-Id: <201011012019.AMV81425@omr-raz-2-priv.int.colorado.edu>
>
>
> Hi Russ/Steve/Dave/Chris,
>
> anyone know anything about a gas cylinder of HYDROGEN that is out by
> the Monson AmeriFlux tower?  It's a big steel cylinder so getting it
> out there would have taken a bit of effort...it looks like:
>
> http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/101029/pic00014.jpg
>
> We are trying to figure out who moved it there (and when) and how long
> they need it out there....I never noticed it until John Knowles
> brought it to my attention a few weeks ago (and apparently it was put
> next to some of the cylinders for Daves TGA)...
>
> There is a sticker on it that has a label,
>
>    "EPO Bio BS61394"
>    "Ramaley N1B68"
>
> the "EPO Bio" makes me think it's been around for a while...I think
> it's an airgas cylinder, but it it has "Airgas (So-Cal)" on it (which
> I think means "Southern california")...i'm not very familiar with
> hydrogen cylinders...there are many numbers on it and two that looked
> most like cylinder number(s) to me are, "UN1049" (this is a label
> stuck to the outside) and "KZ29087" (stamped into the cylinder
> itself).
>
> We have contacted airgas and are trying to figure out who this
> cylinder belongs to...if you have any info about this please let us
> know...
>
> thanks!
>
>                                     SpB.
>
>
>
>
>
> - ------- Forwarded Message
>
> From: John Francis Knowles 
> Subject: Re: Hydrogen gas cylinder at MRS laser shed
> To: "Sean Burns" 
> Cc: Kurt.Chowanski@Colorado.EDU
> Date: Mon,  1 Nov 2010 12:49:18 -0600 (MDT)
>
> Thanks for following up with this Sean. I called contacted airgas last Wednesday
> with the ICC# and the larger-font number below that, with the plan being for
> them to call back to the MRS and let us know if they found anything in their
> computer. Kurt, have you heard anything from them?
>
> Since I dont know for sure that this is an airgas cylinder as of yet, any sleuthing
> within the ebio (or epob per the cylinder - must be at least a few years old) dept
> you can do would be much appreciated. As for what to do with it, I will volunteer
> to get it down to the Marr lab/snowmo shed as soon as snow permits
> snowmobiling and the rightful owner can take care of it from there. If it does
> turn out to belong to airgas, we'll just have them pick it up the next time they
> come drop off liquid nitrogen. Thanks  again
>
> John Knowles
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Geography
> Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
> University of Colorado, Boulder
>
> - - ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:28:19 -0600
> >From: Sean Burns 
> >Subject: Re: Hydrogen gas cylinder at MRS laser shed
> >To: John Francis Knowles 
> >Cc: sean.burns@colorado.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi John,
> >
> >I was at the tower on friday...saw the hydrogen cylinder up against
> >the tree...looked like it had some e bio labels on it.  did you ever
> >figure out who it belongs to?  it would probably be good to know this
> >so we know why it's there, what the plans are for it, etc....
> >
> >i wrote down some more info in case we need it...if you want me to
> >check into this in more detail let me know...
> >
> >thanks!
> >
> >                                      SpB.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> All,
> >> Thanks for your help with this. I will grab the cylinder number next
> Wednesday when I am back up there (don't know why I didn't yesterday) and we
> can work it out from there. Cheers
> >> John Knowles
> >> Ph.D. Candidate
> >> Department of Geography
> >> Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
> >> University of Colorado, Boulder
> >>
> >>



* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   418484 Oct 29 10:31 prf10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1150 Oct 29 13:31 prf10_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1044700 Oct 29 13:20 met10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   829271 Oct 29 13:29 nctc10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   984272 Oct 29 13:50 soil10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   594690 Oct 29 13:55 soil10_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1344180 Oct 29 14:08 tc10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   207932 Oct 29 14:10 tc10_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    64410 Oct 29 14:12 noah10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   181847 Oct 29 14:16 mrs10_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   104447 Oct 29 15:06 trlr10_29.dat*

Thursday, October 14th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  transport new span gases, download logger data

Weather: still warm and sunny, but there are some snow patches on
the ground.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU Jeep.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 500 psi.  N2 at 1400 psi.

* moved 4 new span gases up to the trailer

* turned off the fan in the li-6251 box.

* note:  span cylinder cc153468 5125 psi is at the N Canopy tower.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  640453 Oct 14  2010 bh_101014_Table1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  610703 Oct 14  2010 bh_101014_Table2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1221165 Oct 14  2010 soil10_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  224691 Oct 14  2010 soil10_14b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1335486 Oct 14  2010 tc10_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   65804 Oct 14  2010 tc10_14b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  101432 Oct 14  2010 trlr10_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  101432 Oct 14  2010 trlr_101014.dat*

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit:  change li-6251 dessicant.

Weather: still warm and sunny (when will the snow/cold arrive?)

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.  (returned it to the CU motorpool at the end of
the day.)

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 650 psi.  N2 at 1800 psi.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     8687 Sep 30 09:06 am25t_02.csi*

* at approx 12:00 MST, removed the KZ PAR-LITE sensor (PAR2.up) from
  the CNR logger

* from 13:00-13:30 MST, changed li-6251 dessicant & replaced 2-micron nupro filter

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   592085 Sep 30 11:25 soil9_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   582161 Sep 30 11:31 tc9_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    50491 Sep 30 09:15 trlr9_30.dat*

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, LY, J, M

Purpose of visit:  swap out csats (campbell sent a "new" one to us).

Weather: Clear and dry.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.  (went through the fourmile/sunshine burn area).

* nicole and crew were "cleaning up" the girdling sites.

---------

* Span cylinder at 680 psi.  N2 at 1850 psi.

* from 10:30-11:30 MST, moved eol TRH sensor from 21.5m down to 8m

* from 12:30-14:00 MST, swapped out 21.5m csat with one from campbell (get SNs)

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   739692 Sep 28 10:16 cnr9_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   935821 Sep 28 11:32 met9_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   710821 Sep 28 11:44 nctc9_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   364961 Sep 28 11:22 prf9_28.dat*

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DB

Purpose of visit: finish post-cal of co2 cylinders.

Weather: Sunny and breezy.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.  (went through the fourmile/sunshine burn area).

* stopped by "lightning eliminators" and picked up a bucket of salt.

* brought back a bunch of sampling chambers that belong to chris gray.

* aspen leaves are all yellow and/or fallen off the trees due to the
wind, etc.

---------

* Span cylinder at 700 psi.  N2 at 1960 psi.


* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   354573 Sep 24 14:49 bh_100924_Table1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   336853 Sep 24 14:49 bh_100924_Table2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1112170 Sep 24 14:35 soil9_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1100304 Sep 24 14:46 tc9_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    33955 Sep 24 12:14 trlr9_24.dat*

Monday, September 20th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: change N2 cylinder.

Weather: Breezy with some nice clouds around.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.  (it was not in the parking lot---they towed
it on saturday to near Mackey Aud...due to the football game).

* found a radiosonde along the trail going out to the tower.

* aspen leaves are all yellow and/or fallen off the trees due to the
wind, etc.

---------

* Span cylinder at 750 psi.  N2 at 2100 psi.

* when i was adding thermocouples to the am25ts I realized that I
never modified the ucb logger program to take into account the change
in thermocouple type (it's now using E-type rather than T-type).  So I
made this change and uploaded the new program (ucb_13.csi).

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     9011 Sep 20 10:56 ucb_13.csi*

* setup the AM25T comparisons in the trailer (it was in Ramaley).
  Used the 21x and am25t_02.csi program.

* also reconnected the tubing for the LI-6251 calibrations.
NOTE: need to convert the splus programs into MATLAB!

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   748763 Sep 20 12:30 ucb9_20.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster      964 Sep 20 13:06 trlr9_20.dat*

Monday, September 13th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: change N2 cylinder.

Weather: Breezy with some nice clouds around.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.

* there is a funky wind turbine at C1 (doesn't look very sturdy or
very effective?)....

---------

* Span cylinder at 800 psi.  N2 at < 100 psi --> 2320 psi.

* From 11:00-11:45 MST, swapped N2 cylinders; old= cc198609, new= cc253014

* at 11:26 MST, noticed one of the 20cm TCs near snowT probes was
knocked down.  Not sure when this happened, but it looks like the
dowel holding the probe was snapped.  I put it back to 20cm as best I
could.

* turned off fan in LI-6262 box (but left the LI-6251 box fan on).

* I checked the LI-6262 pressures/flow during the 12:10 MST cal.  Made
a slight adjustment for the span: from 8.56 up to 8.93 lpm.

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   385798 Sep 13 11:36 bh_100913_Table1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   367084 Sep 13 11:36 bh_100913_Table2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1209747 Sep 13 11:32 soil9_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1191087 Sep 13 11:21 tc9_13.dat*

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap dessicant, change N2 cylinder.

Weather: Lots of smoke in boulder canyon on the way up (it was clear
on the way back down).  Large dispersed area of smoke off to the east.
The light downslope winds kept it mostly clear near the tower.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.



---------

* Span cylinder at 870 psi.  N2 at 50 psi.

* Swapped N2 cylinder (now using what is left of cc198609)

* from 11:24-11:35 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* at 12:15 MST, adjusted flows in LI-6262 system

Monday, September 6th, 2010 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap dessicant, change N2 cylinder.

Weather: Very strong downslope winds.  The fourmile canyon
fire started at around 10am today.  Could see the big
plume from the site.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.  Had to drive down coal creek canyon to get
back to Boulder.

* was also going to work on aircoa at T-van.


---------

* Span cylinder at 900 psi.  N2 at 300 psi.

* decided to go to T-van first (rather than the AmeriFlux tower).
This turned out to be a good decision because the power went out at
around noon (while I was at T-van).  By the time I was back in the
trailer the power was back on...as I was working there on russter2
(found out a few details about the fire, etc), it went off again.

* i left the area without the power coming back on.  And without
visiting the tower (decided to return on Tue).

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MC, JM, M

Purpose of visit: Download logger data, check N2, move
eol T/RH sensor.

Weather: Cool.  With some strong downslope gusts (esp before
noon).  Feels more like Fall than Summer.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.  Jen met us at MRS.

* Jen/Meredith/Mitch did plot-mapping work.

* mushrooms are still quite numerous (though it seems like
it's been dry)...

---------

* Span cylinder at 900 psi.  N2 at 300 psi.

* from 12-12:20 MST,

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1295891 Sep  1 10:42 tc9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   782952 Sep  1 10:49 tc9_1b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1224881 Sep  1 11:02 soil9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   904679 Sep  1 11:10 soil9_1b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   669314 Sep  1 11:14 bh_100901_Table1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   635844 Sep  1 11:14 bh_100901_Table2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   825249 Sep  1 11:37 ucb9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   284455 Sep  1 11:53 prf9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   720617 Sep  1 12:00 met9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   552700 Sep  1 12:08 nctc9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   574197 Sep  1 12:22 cnr9_1.dat*

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, MC, M

Purpose of visit: Download logger data, swap REBS domes, add OSU PAR
sensor.

Weather: Pleasant.  But a bit gusty above the trees.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep and prius.

* Nicole/Meredith/Mitch did some soil work; then Nicole/Mitch took the
  jeep back down and Meredith helped me at the tower.

* briefly met Mark Williams, Kurt C., et al to discuss the drilling...

* mushrooms are popping up EVERYWHERE!...

---------

* Span cylinder at 1100 psi.  N2 at 850 psi.

* from 12-12:20 MST, swapped REBS domes.

* at 11:10 MST, added KZ PAR-LITE sensor to CNR logger.  Notes:

 use diff chan9 = parameter "PAR2.up" in cockpit/prep.config

 wiring:

       white wire = H
       green wire = L
           shield = GND.

------------------------------------------
Info about KZ Par Lite sensor (from OSU):


 % for 2010:
 %      Calibration Date :  July 9, 2010
 %         Calibrated by :  C. Hanson
 %          Manufacturer :  Kipp and Zonen
 %                 Model :  PAR LITE
 %         Serial Number :  060859
 %     Calib Coefficient :  149.25 +/- 0.00 umol m-2 s-1 / mV  (mean +/-1 SD)
 %             Impedance :  240 Ohms
 % Sensor Temp during Cal:  27.79 +/- 0.67 degC

* at approx 14:00 MST, swiped the krypton hygrometer

* from 14:09 - 14:26 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 14:09 MST, did zero, co2 approx 0.016 mV
    - at 14:20 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.005 mV).
    - at 14:25 MST, did span
    - at 14:26 MST, back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~14.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1237461 Aug 11 10:27 soil8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   184041 Aug 11 10:29 soil8_11b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1318447 Aug 11 10:42 tc8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    63608 Aug 11 10:42 tc8_11b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   531468 Aug 11 10:58 ucb8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   497103 Aug 11 11:28 prf8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1183104 Aug 11 11:39 met8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    60619 Aug 11 11:42 mrt8_11b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1018997 Aug 11 13:58 cnr8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   802468 Aug 11 14:12 nctc8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   170167 Aug 11 14:14 nctc8_11b.dat*

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   436961 Aug 11 10:46 bh_100811_Table1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   416265 Aug 11 10:46 bh_100811_Table2.dat*

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap dessicant.  get logger data.

Weather: Sunny in the morning, then thunder and lightning (and dark).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU jeep.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1250 psi.  N2 at 1210 psi.

* from 11:37-11:49 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* reconnected TC at 2.5m LI-7500 to UCB logger (it was a bit loose)

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB + Flux Class

Purpose of visit: Have students climb the tower, etc.

Weather: Cool.  a bit breezy up on the tower.

--------- Misc Notes:

* campbell guys looked at 21.5m csat.

Friday, July 16th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: Download logger data, put matlab on the flux class
laptops.

Weather: Very Warm.  But it was a bit gusty above the trees.  So
working on the tower was cooler.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU Jeep.

* Dean Anderson was up there with a crew of three (to service tower
instruments, swap inlet filters, etc.

* Russ/Dave Moore were at MRS with the laptops.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1450 psi.  N2 at 1850 psi.

* turned the fan in the bowling TGA shed from Med to High.

* The network went down while I was at the tower---this seemed to be a
problem with a flakey power strip in the network closet at MRS (I was
there when it happened and I met matt reynolds (nednet)).

* the matlab install worked when going from the DVD.  Over the network
it was REALLY slow (partially because i tried to install simumlink and
all the toolboxes too)....

Monday, July 5th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB, BH

Purpose of visit: meet up with Brent Helliker (U of Penn)

Weather: Chilly (actually COLD) and windy in the morning, then
calm and sunny (and warmer) in the afternoon.

--------- Misc Notes:

* Drove up the CU Jeep.

* didn't have time to make it to T-van...but I can do this
on Monday...

---------

* Span cylinder at 1450 psi.  N2 at 1850 psi.

* drove/hiked up to T-van to service the AIRCOA micropump.  This took
about 3 hours (and now the high-P check is ok).

* Brent had already hauled most of his stuff to the tower by the time
i was back at C1.  He set his things up on the N Canopy Tower.

Thursday, July 1st, 2010 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JM

Purpose of visit: put up new boom for 21.5m csat.

Weather: Clear and sunny in the morning.  Upslope winds.  Clouds built
up and it became pretty stormy around 2pm.  After that there was a
some brief clearing, but still storms visible in the distance.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the NCAR Truck (was hoping to go to T-van, plus used
it to bring up the boom).

* Jen rode her bike up to MRS and I met her there.

* didn't have time to make it to T-van...but I can do this
on Monday...

---------

* Span cylinder at 1450 psi.  N2 at 1850 psi.

* transported two new n2 cylinders out to the tower: cc253014,
  cc262389 (...still have 3 more new N2 cylinders on the ground near
  the trailer that need to go out to the tower)....

* cc264923 (approx 200 psi) was halfway down the path; now it's at the
  front of the trailer.

* setup a new boom for the csat at 21.5m (borrowed from NCAR/EOL)..note:

  -- this boom puts the 21.5m csat about 20-30cm LOWER than it was
  before....

  -- you need to have a 9/16" socket wrench in order to tighten the
  csat to this boom (it's a very specific fit)!!  We wound up
  borrowing a socket from Duane...and even that didn't fit through the
  outer hole, but it was possible to detach the extender from the
  socket and make it work that way.  A wrench does not work because
  the csat gets in the way

  -- We didn't use the "clamshell" parts to guy-wire the boom to the
  tower---the boom is u-bolted to the tower cross-bars and sits across
  the short-width of the tower.  It's actually designed to fit on the
  outside of the shortside of the tower--see photos from CME04 (might
  try this sometime in the future).  For now, the extra parts are in
  the laser shed...

* downloaded logger data (no time problems, but it was in the middle
of the thunderstorm!):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1349949 Jul  1 12:56 tc7_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   248368 Jul  1 12:59 tc7_1b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1269060 Jul  1 13:15 soil7_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   365663 Jul  1 15:11 soil7_1b.dat*

(note, i went back and did the final soil download after the storm had
passed and we had finished setting up the csat which is why there is a
two hour break between files)...

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, DM, J, E,

Purpose of visit: do li-6251 dessicant, swap 2 micron filter.

Weather: Clear and sunny in the morning.  Upslope winds.  Some clouds
in the afternoon.  This past weekend had heavy rain and some small
amount of snow (which was completely gone).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU jeep (summer rental).

* Aspens have mostly leafed out at como creek.

* carried cc264923 back down the path (about halfway)

---------

* Span cylinder at 1590 psi.  N2 at 250 psi --> 2400 psi.

* from ~10:40-11:50 MST, swapped N2 cylinder
(old cylinder= cc264923 at 250 psi, new cylinder= CC264964, at 2400 psi)

* i think the pressure in the new cylinder was bit high because it was
lying in the sun?...

* from 10:20 - 10:35 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 10:20 MST, did zero, co2 approx 0.035 mV
    - at 10:34 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.005 mV).
    - at 10:35 MST,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~14.

* from 11:16-11:50 MST, swapped out the 2-micron nupro filter at the
  li-6262 inlet.  sample flow increased from 8.25 to 9.35

* from 11:52-11:55 MST, adjusted the flow rate in the LI-6262.

              flow adjustment  (using needle valve in 6262 box).
              before            after
sample        9.35              9.35
span          8.14              9.20
N2            7.82              8.96

* from 12:05-12:09 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   619730 Jun 15 12:26 soil6_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   604700 Jun 15 12:34 tc6_15.dat*

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: download logger data, turn on fans in licor boxes.

Weather: Warm and pleasant.  The snow is basically GONE (a few small
patches).  The small pool of water by the trailer is full.  Como creek
is ripping, but not too bad.  Water is going over the spillway at
Barker Res.  Some mosquitos around, but not too bad.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU jeep (summer rental).

* Aspens have mostly leafed out at como creek.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1700 psi.  N2 at 450 psi

* transported 5 new cylinder of n2 from campus to C1:

cc253014, cc282442, cc262398, cc262287, cc262389

* brought back 3 empty N2 cylinders:

cc199722, cc199751, cc264924

* adjusted the flow rate in the LI-6262 and also zeroed it (both
n2 and h2o).

  at 11:20 MST, flipped the LI-6262 to manual and did zero.

              flow adjustment  (using needle valve in 6262 box).
              before            after
sample        8.77              8.77
span          9.16              8.82
N2            8.61              8.24

   original:
   co2 at approx 100 mV  dial = 4.31
   h2o at approx 82 mV  dial = 5.70

   after:
   co2 at 0 mV  dial = 2.80
   h2o at 0 mV  dial = 4.30

  at 11:22 MST, back to sample.


* reset the clocks on the all loggers (nctc was slow by approx 1.5
minutes, others all ok).  Didn't reset CNR, but it was within about 10
sec of correct time...logger files:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  963977 Jun  9 10:44 cnr6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  656401 Jun  9 10:53 prf6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  475978 Jun  9 10:59 met6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1246256 Jun  9 11:12 nctc6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   65325 Jun  9 11:13 nctc6_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1258287 Jun  9 11:50 soil6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  162566 Jun  9 11:51 soil6_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1351809 Jun  9 12:03 tc6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   55859 Jun  9 12:04 tc6_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  103000 Jun  9 12:06 noah6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  163182 Jun  9 12:10 mrs6_9.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1395344 Jul  1 09:44 mrs_100609.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  548001 Jun  9 12:28 ucb6_9.dat*

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LY, MC

Purpose of visit: check on profiler micropump

Weather: lots of moisuture in the air.  the snow is starting to
melt....como creek is flowing, spring has arrived at 10,000'.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove prius to MRS, then hiked power line.  Road to C1 is
driveable.

* Meredith and Lindsay help J. Knowles move liquid N2 for TGA.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1750 psi.  N2 at 790 psi

* p.prof recovered overnight (probably a restriction in the line)

* at 10:48 MST, turned off pump in LI-6251 for about 20 seconds

* Chan 204 (MET logger) found a loose connection in the SC932 (inside
  the box)...note: this FIXED the problem that has been around for YEARS!

Monday, May 17th, 2010 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, NK, MC

Purpose of visit: swap span cylinder.

Weather: Intense sun w/ lots of snow.  The snow was quickly melting...

--------- Misc Notes:

* started the CU jeep rental (drove it up).

* Meredith and Nate (summer hires) came up to the site.

---------

* at ~11:30 MST, swapped span gas (old cylinder=CC282352 at 100 psi,
  new cylinder= CC282360, at 1800 psi)

* at 12:25 MST, adjusted cal gas flows in LI-6262

* from 12:29-12:53 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* at around 13:10 MST, swapped the 14m and 21.5m (10-hz) thermocouples

* started running "fast_12.csi" in fast cr23x logger (attempt to get
  back to 10 hz, no OPS change)

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  9058 May 17  2010 fast_12.csi*

diff fast_11.csi fast_12.csi
2a3,4
> ; fast_12.csi, same as fast_11.csi, but tried to make it slightly faster, 5/17/2010, spb.
> ;

* chan204 is having problems (loose connection!)...

Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: data system ok, so went to t-van aircoa

Weather: heavy snow.  white-out conditions up on the ridge.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the prius rental.

---------

* Never made it to the tower.

* went to T-van to swap aircoa gas cylinders.  (long ski there).



Wed May 12 23:13:43 MDT 2010
power outage and russter2 went down around noon...strangely, it
rebooted itself at around 6pm...i noticed it at 10pm.  and restarted
data system---note, doing "ndaqrestart quacker" from russter2 seemed
to get it going....it wasn't running archive at first so it took a few
tries to get it going again (shutting everything down, etc)...

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 37535006 May 12 10:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt100512.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  8620158 May 12 12:01 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt100512.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 16220054 May 13 02:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt100513.043232
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 37510496 May 13 10:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt100513.080000

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: add 10-hz thermocouple, get logger data.

Weather: pretty calm compared to the previous couple of days.
not bad for working on the tower.  puffy clouds.

--------- Misc Notes:

* caught a ride up with Adrian (Az) and Dave Gochis who are working on
instruments near the snotel site.

---------

* Span cylinder at 300 psi.  N2 at 1250 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 70 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 96 cm
               farthest probe = 100 cm

* started running "fast_11.csi" in fast cr23x logger (note: sample
  rate < 10 hz)

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  9444 May  5  2010 fast_11.csi*

* from 12:29-12:52 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* from 10:50-11:30 MST, added a thermocouple at 21.5m

* for e-type thermocouple:   purple wire= H
                             red wire=L
                             black wire= GND.

wires removed from fast logger (diff ch 7):
..these wires didn't go to anything...
green= H
black= L
bare= nothing

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, LY

Purpose of visit: re-align the csat at 21.5m

Weather: variable.  it was very windy/snowy when we were at MRS...by
the time we got to the trailer it was clear, calm sunny.  then clouds
built up and it was snowing, etc...lots of melting snow dripping off
trees.  (and yellow pollen stains on the snow)...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

---------

* Span cylinder at 410 psi.  N2 at 1550 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  60 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  81 cm
               farthest probe =  83 cm

* between 10:30-11:30 MST, lindsay and i re-aligned the csat at 21.5m
Note--the bubble level was EMPTY of liquid...we taped a store-bought
one on there to use...and now campbell has mailed me a replacement...

* hauled a new N2 cylinder out to the tower (cc264964).  it's sitting
inside the fence on the ground...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   192495 Apr 22 11:20 cnr4_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   230626 Apr 22 11:28 met4_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   186360 Apr 22 11:32 nctc4_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    93315 Apr 22 11:25 prf4_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   705042 Apr 22 12:11 soil4_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   714797 Apr 22 11:55 tc4_22.dat*

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data.

Weather: calm, sunny, warm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

---------

* Span cylinder at 500 psi.  N2 at 1710 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  69 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  91 cm
               farthest probe =  95 cm

* at ~11:30 MST, swiped the krypton hygrometer

* from 12:47-12:59 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   822806 Apr 15 12:20 cnr4_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1120713 Apr 15 12:51 soil4_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   510264 Apr 15 12:55 soil4_15b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1367277 Apr 15 13:11 tc4_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   349618 Apr 15 13:14 tc4_15b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   173165 Apr 15 13:21 mrs4_15.dat*
-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  2006833 Apr 15 16:04 mrs_100415.dat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   139057 Apr 15 13:17 noah4_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   412762 Apr 15 14:09 prof4_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   542692 Apr 15 14:15 met4_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   848959 Apr 15 14:25 nctc4_15.dat*

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data, swap N2 (if needed).

Weather: windy and clear.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

---------

* Span cylinder at 620 psi.  N2 at 310 psi

* at ~11:58 MST, swapped N2 cylinder
(old cylinder= cc198609 at 300 psi, new cylinder= CC264923, at 2150
psi) note, can still use up the old cylinder sometime....but i was
leaving town and didn't want the cylinder to run out while i was
away...

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  82 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 109 cm
               farthest probe = 117 cm

* at 11:00 MST, dug out lower inlets for prof. system

* at 12:12 MST, decreased span flow in LI-6262 (9.44 --> 9.04 mV)

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  993621 Mar 30 12:02 soil3_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  482485 Mar 30 12:06 soil3_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1364862 Mar 30 12:21 tc3_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  211028 Mar 30 12:22 tc3_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  474900 Mar 30 13:26 met3_30.dat*

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data, check other stuff.

Weather: Clear blue, sunny skies.  Either calm winds or upslope in the
morning....in the afternoon there were a few gusts, but still not bad.
Snow was up to the top of my leg (off-trail).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* mark williams was meeting with Kurt/Casey at MRS.

---------

* Span cylinder at 750 psi.  N2 at 700 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  61 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  82 cm
               farthest probe =  89 cm

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   788868 Mar 16 11:49 cnr3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   398958 Mar 16 11:57 prf3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   965004 Mar 16 12:07 met3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   837402 Mar 16 12:16 nctc3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1299321 Mar 16 12:44 soil3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   161237 Mar 16 12:46 soil3_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1452476 Mar 16 12:58 tc3_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    24883 Mar 16 12:58 tc3_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   132452 Mar 16 13:01 noah3_16.dat*
-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  1985002 Mar 16 15:03 mrs_100316.dat

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data, check other stuff.

Weather: Very warm (same as prev day)....sunny, but up the tower the
downslope wind was cool.  Calm lots of the time.  the snow was pretty
wet on the surface.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* john knowles was working on the TGA.

---------

* Span cylinder at 900 psi.  N2 at 1030 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  55 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  77 cm
               farthest probe =  82 cm

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1330326 Mar  3 12:04 soil3_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   504496 Mar  3 12:09 soil3_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1461707 Mar  3 12:22 tc3_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   340421 Mar  3 12:25 tc3_3b.dat*

Monday, February 15th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: change dessicant, get logger data

Weather: Pretty nice day for mid-February.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* the "old" Sun urquell (which died) was replaced today.  A new Dell
PowerEdge T110 replaced it....

---------

* Span cylinder at 1000 psi.  N2 at 1490 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  48 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  72 cm
               farthest probe =  77 cm

* from 13:31-13:52 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* downloaded logger data (reset all logger clocks to time.gov):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1280378 Feb 15 12:03 soil2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   998929 Feb 15 12:11 soil2_15b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1458332 Feb 15 12:26 tc2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   791463 Feb 15 12:32 tc2_15b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    89486 Feb 15 12:35 noah2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   188988 Feb 15 12:39 mrs2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   498292 Feb 15 13:00 prf2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1148784 Feb 15 13:12 met2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    65858 Feb 15 13:14 met2_15b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1044797 Feb 15 13:26 nctc2_15.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   984460 Feb 15 14:08 cnr2_15.dat*

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap N2 cylinder, get logger data

Weather: Clear, sunny and calm in the morning.  Could see the
storm clouds up on the divide.  At times snow blowing into the
area.  Snowing (mostly blow-by) in the afternoon....

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1200 psi.  N2 at 2100 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  46 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  55 cm
               farthest probe =  60 cm

* at ~12:10 MST, swapped N2 cylinder
(old cylinder= cc199751 at 20? psi, new cylinder= CC198609, at 2100 psi)

* at 13:40 MST, added an elbow to the EOL T/RH aspiration unit.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   72059 Jan 26  2010 noah1_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1240713 Jan 26  2010 soil1_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  560042 Jan 26  2010 soil1_26b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1480663 Jan 26  2010 tc1_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  327445 Jan 26  2010 tc1_26b.dat*

Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: re-install eol csat3 box

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my Jeep.

* lots of tracks along the trail.  Including some moose tracks near
nicoles turnoff...

* a snowmobile had driven right up to the shed...

---------

* Span cylinder at 1300 psi.  N2 at 350 psi

* at ~11:40 MST, swapped span gas (old cylinder=CC245057 at 50 psi,
  new cylinder= CC282352, at 1590 psi)

* added back the eol csat3 box (now with ver4 of chip/firmware)

* from 12:50-13:15 MST, swapped 2-micron inlet filter for LI-6262

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  663881 Jan 17  2010 ucb1_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  820065 Jan 17  2010 ucb1_17b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   48079 Jan 17  2010 ucb1_17c.dat*

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: remove eol csat3 box, get logger data

Weather: Calm and sunny.  Temps were above freezing.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  39 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  57 cm
               farthest probe =  62 cm

* Span cylinder at 1390 psi.  N2 at 600 psi

* removed the eol csat3 box so the chip could be swapped
out for ver.4 chip (brought back to NCAR).

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1084037 Jan 10  2010 cnr1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   44403 Jan 10  2010 cnr1_10b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1113769 Jan 10  2010 met1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  275214 Jan 10  2010 met1_10b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1223927 Jan 10  2010 nctc1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   99121 Jan 10  2010 noah1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  579563 Jan 10  2010 prf1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1278282 Jan 10  2010 soil1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1204028 Jan 10  2010 soil1_10b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1464107 Jan 10  2010 tc1_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster 1024070 Jan 10  2010 tc1_10b.dat*

Saturday, December 19th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, RB

Purpose of visit: swap span cylinder, get logger data, do dessicant.

Weather: Clear and sunny in the morning.  Then some high clouds moved
in.  quite blustery at times.  It was hovering around freezing and
then got colder as the day went on...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* a colleague of Bill Baugh (Richard Brantingham from London) came up
to visit the site...met Richard at settlers park.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1590 psi.  N2 at ? psi

* at ~11:40 MST, swapped span gas (old cylinder=CC245057 at 50 psi, new cylinder= CC282352, at 1590 psi)

* cc282352 span tower/active started on 12/19/09, 1590 psi; airgas= 397.7 ppm,
   cal (080604), 2150 psi, (398.76+397.42+397.36+397.54)./4= 397.77 ppm


* from 12:50-13:15 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* at ~13:35 MST, checked flows in LI-6262

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =  37 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe =  44 cm
               farthest probe =  48 cm

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1248051 Dec 19 11:59 soil12_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  861862 Dec 19 12:10 soil12_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1486394 Dec 19 12:22 tc12_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  646094 Dec 19 12:27 tc12_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   85890 Dec 19 12:30 noah12_19.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1308924 Dec 19 14:56 mrs_091219.dat

this is a test.

Monday, November 30th, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: move plugs for LI-CORs....

Weather: Clear and sunny in the morning.  Then some high clouds moved
in.  It was calm most of the time, but there were a few wintry wind
gusts.  Very warm for the last day in November.  Except for a dusting,
I don't think it has snowed significantly since just before my last
visit...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU compact.

---------

* Span cylinder at 300 psi.  N2 at 1700 psi

* dragged a new N2 cylinder (cc198609) to the tower and set it up at
  the base of the tower; hauled an empty one (cc264924) back to the
  trailer...

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 14 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 28 cm
               farthest probe = 32 cm

* at around 11:30 MST, moved the plugs for the LI-CORs from the
"battery backup" to "surge protected" on the tripp light
battery-backup outlet/UPS (piece of junk)....unfortunately, this UPS
died on Tue (11/24) right around the time i was leaving town...so it
was down for the 5 days that I was gone...

* re-arranged the pressure inlets in the UCB logger (previously, they
were both inside the campbell logger box)...now "P.mpx" is placed just
outside the entrance to the logger box...and "Pbaro.ucb" is attached
to a tree branch about 1.5m off the ground...

* downloaded logger data (no major time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   830251 Nov 30 11:59 cnr11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster      200 Nov 30 11:59 cnr11_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   333177 Nov 30 12:13 prf11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   819776 Nov 30 12:22 met11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   676981 Nov 30 12:30 nctc11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1173869 Nov 30 12:57 soil11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   297471 Nov 30 13:00 soil11_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1399547 Nov 30 13:12 tc11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   131471 Nov 30 13:13 tc11_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   109165 Nov 30 13:16 noah11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   786243 Nov 30 13:34 ucb11_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   167906 Nov 30 13:38 ucb11_30b.dat*

Monday, November 16th, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: try to get russter2 to reboot on powerup, swap N2...

Weather: Dead calm.  Cold.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU prius.

---------

* Span cylinder at 400 psi.  N2 at 150 psi (replaced)

* from 13:00-13:40 MST, switched N2 cylinder at the tower (new
  cylinder=CC1997651 (2050 psi); old cylinder=CC264924 (100 psi))

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 21 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 30 cm
               farthest probe = 39 cm

* stopped the data system and tried to reboot and change the BIOS for
an "auto-boot" on power applied to russter2..this STILL did not work??

[root@quacker cuff]# tail -80 /var/log/local/cuff.log
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: doStop
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: ndaq: received signal Terminated (15), thread:  (1024) si_signo=15, si_errno=0, si_code=0
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: thread DaqMonitorRPC(id=3076) received signal User defined signal 1(10) si_signo=10 si_errno=0 si_code=0
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: IOException: DaqMonitorRPC: select: Interrupted system call
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: RawSampleBuffer::run interrupted
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: thread SensorPortHandler(id=2051) received signal User defined signal 1(10) si_signo=10 si_errno=0 si_code=0
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: SensorPortHandler finished, closing remaining 9 serial ports
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB0
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB1
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB2
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB3
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB5
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB6
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB7
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyS0
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: deleting sampler
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: deleting relayParsers
Nov 16 11:06:08 quacker logger: /usr/local/ndaq/ndaq.sh exiting
Nov 16 11:37:59 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=RawSampleBuffer(id=1026), Non-RT, priority=0
Nov 16 11:37:59 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=SensorPortHandler(id=2051), Non-RT, priority=0
Nov 16 11:38:00 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB0
Nov 16 11:38:01 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB1
Nov 16 11:38:02 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB2
Nov 16 11:38:03 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB3
Nov 16 11:38:04 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB4
Nov 16 11:38:05 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB5
Nov 16 11:38:06 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB6
Nov 16 11:38:07 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB7
Nov 16 11:38:09 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyS0
Nov 16 11:38:09 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=DaqMonitorRPC(id=3076), Non-RT, priority=0


* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1031382 Nov 16 14:08 soil11_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1032186 Nov 16 14:25 tc11_16.dat*
-rw-rw-r--  1 sburns aster   999096 Nov 30 10:40 mrs_091116.dat


---------------------------------------------------------
Mon Aug  3 17:14:41 MDT 2009
here is what ndaqstatus looks like with 5-hz sampling on Chan 200:

ndaqstatus quacker
*** System Status *********************************************************
Start time:   Tue Jun  9 10:19:36 2009
Restart time: Thu Jul 30 10:10:54 2009
                       Socket  Socket    Max    Min
  Time  Sample    Lost  Write    Temp Socket Socket Socket Buffered   Total Archive
  Diff    Rate Samples Errors Unavail  Write  Write   Rate  Samples Samples  BadTTs
  msec     #/s       #      #       #  bytes  bytes byte/s        #       #       #
     1      30       0      0       0   6703   6523   1322      305     760       0
***************************************************************************

*** A2D Status ****************************
A2D    Total    5min   Total   User
      Sample  Missed  Missed Intrpt
        Rate Samples Samples   Rate
         #/s       #       #    #/s
           0       0       0      0

    A2D Sample
channel   Rate MinV MaxV  VRes
      #    #/s    V    V    uV
*******************************************


*** Serial Port Status ****************************************************************************
port                           flow     Msg Sep Msg  read sampl  min  max readerrs writerrs overflow
name         chan   baud p/d/s cntl     Sep Loc Len  /sec  /sec read read 5min cum 5min cum 5min cum
/dev/ttyUSB0  200   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  36     5     5   38   38   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB1  201   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  46  9.77    10   48   92   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB2  202   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0  2.03     1   12   56   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB3  203   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  24     1     1   26   26   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB4  204   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  26     1     1   28   28   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB5  205   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  22     1     1   24   24   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB6  206   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0  12.8    10    8   56   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB7  207   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  26     1     1   28   28   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyS0    216   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0     0     0    0    0   0    0   0    0   0    0
***************************************************************************************************
---------------------------------------------------------


some strange activity where the data sytem re-started itself, ie:

-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 37554926 Nov  7 01:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt091107.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 37555024 Nov  7 09:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt091107.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster 31826616 Nov  7 16:07 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt091107.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root aster  2277376 Nov  7 16:38 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt091107.230839

Friday, November 6th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, DA

Purpose of visit: change battery in russter2, add P sensor.

Weather: It was a mix of gusty and calm.  Very warm for November, but
the road was not passable and lots of snow still on the ground.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU grey jeep.


---------

* Span cylinder at 500 psi.  N2 at 400 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 17 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 28 cm
               farthest probe = 28 cm

* replaced the internal battery in russter2...ie:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws360/en/ug/battery.htm#1106873

* fixed (i hope) the loose wire in the met logger (see photo).

* downloaded logger data, updated times on all loggers...nctc had
drifted by approx 2 minutes...others were ok. (still need to dump data
at MRS!):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   626408 Nov  6 13:01 ucb11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   613888 Nov  6 13:14 soil11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   604804 Nov  6 13:22 tc11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    91791 Nov  6 13:25 noah11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   165000 Nov  6 13:29 mrs11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   165000 Nov  6 13:29 mrs_091106_logger.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   482088 Nov  6 13:50 prf11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1110432 Nov  6 14:02 met11_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    78021 Nov  6 14:03 met11_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   973294 Nov  6 14:12 nctc11_6.dat*

* started a new UCB program to include pressure data from
two sensors (and send this data out to the data system).

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     8700 Nov  6 10:49 ucb_11.csi*

* started ops54 (to ingest the pressure data, Pbaro.ucb and P.mpx)

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap dessicant, get logger data, clear snow off
tower.

Weather: It was fairly warm (above freezing) and sunny.  Snow was
about 3/4-calf deep...the snowcat had been used to the snow on the
road was fairly well-packed.

--------- Misc Notes:

* rented a prius from the motorpool.

---------

* Span cylinder at 520 psi.  N2 at 550 psi

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 35cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 46cm
               farthest probe = 48cm

* from 13:12 - 13:28 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 13:12 MST, did zero, co2 approx -0.008 mV
    - at 13:27 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.005 mV).
    - at 13:28 MST,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~14.

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1202509 Oct 31 12:29 soil10_31.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  360118 Oct 31 12:33 soil10_31b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1324903 Oct 31 12:47 tc10_31.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  259696 Oct 31 12:49 tc10_31b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  803646 Oct 31 13:49 cnr10_31.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster  973851 Nov 16 09:48 mrs_091031.dat

...(also swapped cards for the snow temp probe data)...

Friday, October 16th, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, DA, LY, CG, TD, NM, DG, PB, +

Purpose of visit: move in-canopy radiation sensors, etc.

Weather: Seemed calm when we arrived, but some gusts of wind.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU grey jeep.  (extended the rental for the weekend
for lynette/loles).

* gave tiffany from acd/ncar a lift to do rea sampling.

* solar panels are up just below C1...

---------

* Span cylinder at 710 psi.  N2 at 900 psi

* from approx 10:00 - 11:00 MST, moved in-canopy radiation sensors out
of the "tree mount" and back to the mini-tower (now that TRAM is
gone).  [NOTE: checked data on 10/19 and they look
reasonable...Rnet_2m did seem to change a bit, probably due to better
leveling of the sensor?]

 load /data2/matfiles/cu_5min_2009_10.mat
 plot(s_jd_mst,s_Rnet_2m)
 plot(s_jd_mst,[s_PARup_2m s_PARdn_2m])
 set(gca,'xlim',[287 293])

* re-connected UCB pressure sensor (ASCX15AN)

* re-connected the mrs logger and resent the program (mrs_02.csi)

* from 13:53-13:55, adjusted span/n2 flow rates for LI-6262

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   60988 Oct 16 13:30 noah10_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1183568 Oct 16 13:11 soil10_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  302048 Oct 16 13:14 soil10_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1297094 Oct 16 13:27 tc10_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  147444 Oct 16 13:28 tc10_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  430923 Oct 16 13:44 ucb10_16.dat*

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LL, SO, KK, CG, +

Purpose of visit: help move out TRAM stuff.

Weather: very windy in the morning, but then calm in the
afternoon.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU grey jeep.  (last week of the jeep rental).

* NCAR/EOL was up there tearing down TRAM...

---------

* Span cylinder at 700 psi.  N2 at 1200 psi

* helped with TRAM removal...also, pulled out battery from the old
west robot site (and extention cords, etc)...

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: reboot the data system (quacker was down).

Weather: windy and dry.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU grey jeep.  (last week of the jeep rental).

* NCAR/EOL was up there tearing down TRAM...

---------

* Span cylinder at 750 psi.  N2 at 1260 psi

* a power outage (due to wind) knocked out the power on thursday
(10/1) afternoon....

* at 9:30 MST, rebooted quacker (data system back up)

* from 11:20-11:47 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* removed the KZ PAR-LITE sensor (PAR2.up) from the CNR logger

* moved EOL T/RH sensor 4.6m up to 8m

* re-connected noahs snow depth logger and confirmed it was running

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1272967 Oct  2 09:56 tc10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  356688 Oct  2 09:58 tc10_2b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster     172 Oct  2 10:01 noah10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  495829 Oct  2 10:08 soil10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  479574 Oct  2 10:15 ucb10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  828059 Oct  2 10:58 nctc10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1047853 Oct  2 11:10 met10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  416382 Oct  2 11:17 prf10_2.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  855425 Oct  2 12:23 cnr10_2.dat*

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: setup eol csat-3, move eol T/RH sensor.

Weather: Windy in the early morning (before I arrived).  Very nice day
up there...calm and warm.  The aspen leaves near como creek are pretty
much done for the year.  Lots of yellow along the peak-to-peak...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove the CU grey jeep.

*

---------

* setup the eol csat3 (sn 0674)---didn't have a long enough bolt to
attach to the long eol boom!  luckily, there was an extra (longer)
bolt in the trailer....

* at 11:00 MST, started ops52/ops53; collecting eol csat3,
  accelerometer data no longer saved (after a few adjustments).

* started running "fast_10.csi" in fast cr23x logger

* moved EOL T/RH sensor from 2.0m up to 4.6m

* downloaded logger data (only the soil logger):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1140694 Sep 27 16:28 soil9_27.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   25961 Sep 27 16:28 soil9_27b.dat*

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, CG, NT, LY

Purpose of visit: setup eol csat-3, also turn off fans!

Weather: First sig snow of the season on Monday...still cold and snowy
today.  The yellow aspens and white snow make for nice scenery...the
wind kicked up in the afternoon a bit (but still not too bad).

--------- Misc Notes:

* Chris Gray, et al. moved the ptrms on Monday.

* Nicole and Lindsay showed up to do some "winter'izing".  Also, I
think they re-setup Noahs cr10x...

* the wireless network from the outside world to MRS started on Monday
  (9/21).  This made the connection to/from russter2 slower and with
  lost packets...

---------

* turned off the fans in the LI-COR and quacker boxes (should have
done this earlier!)...

* hot-swapped the battery in the UPS that is in the trailer.

* csat3 wiring at the logger:

   C1 = green           G= black + shield (clear)
   C2 = white
   C3 = brown

* when i was changing the eol csat3 (sn 0674) SDM setting from 3 to 4 i noticed
  that the SDM cable was not connected...emails about this:

------------------------------------------
Date:    Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:54:38 MDT
To:      Chris Golubieski 
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: photo...


Chris,

thanks.  i was able to pop out the pins...but when trying to stuff the
pin for the black wire in with the other two black wires, the pin
broke.  so i cut the pin off the black wire...the other ones i
connected to the green connector with the pins attached (though this
might smush the pins)....here is what the wires were like for the
black connector (looking from the back, ie along the wires):

  empty  empty   black  white  empty
  empty  empty   brown  green  empty

i reconnected serial output (even though i don't need this)....

still snowing lightly...i'll go see if i can get this bastard sonic up
and running on the tower...


                                                SpB.


------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:47 -0600
From: Chris Golubieski 
To: Sean Burns 
CC: horst@ucar.edu, semmer@ucar.edu.gordon
Subject: Re: photo...

Sean,

Oops. That is a sonic that has been set-up for our serializer. Those
wires will be connected in the green connector with the black and red
wires are connected (just behind the RS232 bulkhead). Looking at the
box with the bulkheads to the top the wires will be connected from
left to right on the green, screwlok connector.

Red, Blk, Grn, Wht, Brn.

Don't forget to plug in the DE9 connector also.

Chris


------------------------------------------
Date:    Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:27:58 MDT
To:      golub@ucar.edu, horst@ucar.edu, semmer@ucar.edu.gordon
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: photo...


hi,

here's photo of what i'm talking about:

http://urquell.colorado.edu/sean/pic00007.jpg

you can see the SDM connector on the right side with green/white/black
wires...where on the board should this be connected?

thanks!

                                SpB.

------------------------------------------
Date:    Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:16:04 MDT
To:      Chris Golubieski 
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, horst@ucar.edu, semmer@ucar.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: More Info on CSAT-3...

Hi Chris/Tom/Steve,

quick question---when i opened the white control box to change the SDM
address from 3 to 4 i noticed that the wires for the SDM output are
not connected to anything...the serial output is connected...do you
happen to know where the SDM connection is on the board inside the
white box?  i'll keep on looking, but it's not obvious to me...

if it wasn't snowing i would just open one that we have to figure this
out (and maybe i'll still do this)....if this is unclear or you have
some idea about this please let me know...most importantly, i assume
that it is still possible to use the SDM output, right?  (i know you
have done some custom'izing of the csat3's)....

thanks,

                                        SpB.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JK

Purpose of visit: meet John Knowles for LI-7500 work...

Weather: Fairly calm most of the day.  But rather cool and primarily
overcast.  A few sun breaks.  Seemed like it might rain, but never
did.  In the late afternoon it turned quite nice with a few puffy
clouds floating around...

--------- Misc Notes:

* aspens are at peak yellow.

*

---------

* transported 4 new N2 cylinders from CU up to the trailer (cc17742,
  cc198609, cc264923, cc19975)

* lots of stuff to transcribe from my notes about the LI-7500 work...seemed
to have problems with the dewpoint generator??....maybe the flow/pump is
not strong enough?...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1102305 Sep 16 10:00 soil9_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  389327 Sep 16 10:08 soil9_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1301068 Sep 16 10:22 tc9_16.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  169158 Sep 16 10:24 tc9_16b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  452597 Sep 16 14:43 ucb9_16.dat*

Friday, September 11th, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DA

Purpose of visit: add back the Krypton Hygrometer...

Weather: very nice for working on the tower (calm, etc).

--------- Misc Notes:

* aspens are starting to turn yellow.

*

---------

* replaced gelman filters for two tower inlets

* reconfigured the mounting for the star-dot camera (need to add guy wires?)

* at around 10 MST, remounted our our newly calibrated krypton (sn
1249).  it has the following new calibration values (updated in
lat.heat1.q and sens.heat.q):

 # Borrowed a krypton hygrometer from ATD (sn 1101) from Jun 15-Jul 28 2004 :
 if(t1 >= utime("04 jun 15 120000") & t1 < utime("04 jul 28 110000"))     {
        plength <- 1.3                # pathlength in cm
        if(rhov*1000 <= 9.00 )  kw <- 0.168
        else                    kw <- 0.168
                        }

 # Recalibrated Sept 2009 :
 if(t1 >= utime("09 aug 28 110000") & t1 < utime("15 jan 1 000000"))     {
        plength <- 1.201                     # pathlength in cm
        if(rhov*1000 <= 9.20 )  kw <- 0.156  # note: these are the "windows scaled" values
        else                    kw <- 0.147
                        }
                        ## units : g m^-3

% note, I don't think i added the re-cal from 2007 to these files!?!....

-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns       4046 Sep 18 10:46 lat.heat1.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns       3769 Sep 18 10:47 sens.heat.q*

make .fun.lat.heat1
make .fun.sens.heat

-rwxrwxr-x   1 aturnip         0 Feb 18  2005 .fun.lat.heat1*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 aturnip         0 Feb 18  2005 .fun.sens.heat*

-rwxrwxr-x   1 aturnip         0 Sep 18 10:48 .fun.lat.heat1*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 aturnip         0 Sep 18 10:49 .fun.sens.heat*

here are the details of the calibration from campbell:


 KH2O s/n 1249
 date 02-sep-09
 file KH249-15
 dry-to-wet
 rma 9692

            path (X)    1.201 cm

  ----------------------------------
  windows "scaled":

   Full Vapor Range:  1.74-19.26 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.179 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.197 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.149 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    3631 mV

   Dry Vapor Range:  1.74-9.19 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.188 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.238 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.156 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    3784 mV

   Wet Vapor Range:  8.04-19.26 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.177 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.164 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.147 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    3514 mV

  ----------------------------------
  windows "clean":

   Full Vapor Range:  1.76-19.16 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.183 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.547 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.152 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    5153 mV

   Dry Vapor Range:  1.76-9.23 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.191 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.585 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.159 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    5353 mV

   Wet Vapor Range:  7.91-19.16 g/m3

      Coefficient  (XKw)   -0.181 ln(mV) m3/g             Contstant (Vo)    8.520 ln(mV)
                     Kw    -0.151 ln(mV) m3/g/cm               Intercept    5015 mV

  ----------------------------------




added "fun.wind.combine(MANUAL=F)" to fluxcalcs.csh:

this creates the files:

dir /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind*09*

-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     124557 Sep  8 12:53 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.aug.11.20.09A
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     113044 Sep  8 12:53 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.aug.11.20.09B

which were last created in Nov, 2003, ie:

dir /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind*03* | grep nov
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     131659 Dec 11  2003 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.nov.01.10.03A
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     104982 Dec 11  2003 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.nov.01.10.03B
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     113889 Dec 11  2003 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.nov.11.20.03A
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns      98660 Dec 11  2003 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.nov.11.20.03B
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     134384 Dec 11  2003 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.nov.21.30.03A
-rw-rw-r--   1 sburns     107215 Dec 11  2003 /home/staff/aturnip/results/wind.data/s.wind.nov.21.30.03B

Monday, September 7th, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: swap out N2 cylinder, change dessicant.

Weather: A bit cool and blustery.  The aspens around como creek
are starting to turn yellow now.  It feels like summer is over.

--------- Misc Notes:

* picked up the jeep key from Lynette in the morning (she had
taken it home with her).

* ordered 5 more N2 cylinders from airgas to drive up to C1 before the
snow moves in.

---------

* from around 10:50-10:40 MST, swapped N2 at the tower.  (did leak
  check during that time).  (new cylinder=CC264924 (2000 psi); old
  cylinder=CC199722 (approx 100 psi)).  left CC199722 at the base of
  the tower.

* from 10:32 - 10:53 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 10:30 MST, did zero (N2 not connected!).
    - at 10:48 MST, re-open N2.
    - at 10:50,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.001 mV).
    - at 10:52:45,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~14.

* from 10:55-10:58 MST, adjusted flow rate in LI-6262.

* messed around the T/RH.eol, but wound up needing better mounting
parts to set it up properly...

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DA, DB, AT, T

Purpose of visit: swap out the LI-6262, download logger data.

Weather: Warm and sunny.  A few bursts of wind from time-to-time.
Very hazy due to the smoke from the fires to the west of us (ie, in
california!).

--------- Misc Notes:

* Andrew Turnipseed and Tiffany (NCAR/ACD) were installing a REA
system at the top of the tower.

* Dave Bowling was working on his data logger, etc.

---------

* the gelman filter at the lowest inlet had come loose; tried to use
tape this to make it more secure.  still need to swap gelman filters
for the two inlets on the tower.

* downloaded logger data and reset the clocks on the all the loggers
(all within about 15 sec of russter2 time):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   373550 Sep  1 09:47 prf9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   953736 Sep  1 11:41 met9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   774636 Sep  1 11:52 cnr9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   736478 Sep  1 12:02 nctc9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   713771 Sep  1 12:35 soil9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   703174 Sep  1 12:43 tc9_1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1021068 Sep  1 12:56 ucb9_1.dat*

* removed loaner LI-6262 (sn IRG3-224); re-installed our re-calibrated
  LI-6262 (sn IRG3-0638).

  - at 9:30 MST, bumped up the LI-6262 h2o signal, dial, span=5.0, offset=5.80
    (this must be the "offset" that i changed)...

  - between 10:00-10:35 MST, changed the LI-6262s.
      at 10:32 MST, ran N2 into the LI-6262...
      at 10:33 MST, ran span into LI-6262....
      at 10:33:30, back to sample...

  - also made some adjustments to the needle valve at this
    time...note, p.cell on the LI-6262 front panel is no longer
    working correctly (but the mV output is ok)...


* Calibration coefficients for the re-calibrated LI-6262:

       LI-6262 CO2/H2O Analyzer:
       Serial Number:  IRG3-638
          Date:  5 Aug 2009

  CO2 Calibration Values (Enter using FCT 01)
        C2 T =  33.47
        C2 K =  18691
        C2 A =  1.30439e-1
        C2 B =  7.30249e-6
        C2 C =  6.13264e-9
        C2 D = -6.96707e-13
        C2 E =  4.06238e-17

  H2O Calibration Values (Enter using FCT 02)
        H2 T =  32.89
        H2 K =  15944
        H2 A =  6.03607e-3
        H2 B =  2.55113e-6
        H2 C =  5.97424e-11

  Pressure Calibration
  PX-169    02 Oct 2000
  ------    -----------
  FCT 71 = 59.123
  FCT 72 = 0.01520
  FCT 73 = 43
  FCT 75 = 0


on 9/8, updated the splus file to reflect the replacement of the
loaner li-6262 with our recalibrated one...files changed:


dir *.q | grep :
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      20449 Jul 27 15:47 cal.co2.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      15980 Jun 24 18:47 cal.prof.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      10678 Jul 27 16:35 co2.calibrate.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      30667 Jul 27 15:41 co2.fluxes.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns       9072 Jul 21 16:25 co2.h2o.q*


-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      21136 Sep  8 10:21 cal.co2.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      15980 Jun 24 18:47 cal.prof.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      10677 Sep  8 10:25 co2.calibrate.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      30666 Sep  8 10:34 co2.fluxes.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns       9759 Sep  8 10:20 co2.h2o.q*


make .fun.cal.co2
Splus.compile -D /usr/local/aster/isff/.Data/NIWOT cal.co2.q && touch .fun.cal.co2

make .fun.co2.calibrate
Splus.compile -D /usr/local/aster/isff/.Data/NIWOT co2.calibrate.q && touch .fun.co2.calibrate

make .fun.co2.fluxes
Splus.compile -D /usr/local/aster/isff/.Data/NIWOT co2.fluxes.q && touch .fun.co2.fluxes

make .fun.co2.h2o
Splus.compile -D /usr/local/aster/isff/.Data/NIWOT co2.h2o.q && touch .fun.co2.h2o

       if(t1 >= utime("09 sep 1 093000"))     {
        ## Recalibrated August, 2009
                To <- 33.47+273.15              # K
                K <- 18691
                A <- 1.30439E-01
                B <- 7.30249E-06
                C <- 6.13264E-09
                D <- -6.96707E-13
                E <- 4.06238E-17
                R <- 0.0
                p.slope <- 0.0152               # kPa/mV
                p.offset <- 59.123              # kP
                ### H2O coefficients
                ToH <- 32.89 + 273.15
                KH <- 15944
                AH <- 6.03607E-3
                BH <- 2.55113E-6
                CH <- 5.97424E-11
                }


also updated the mfile (get_licor_info.m):

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LL, SO

Purpose of visit: restart the LI-6262, check on N2, download
logger data.

Weather: Cool and cloudy.  Some big Cu clouds up around the tower.


--------- Misc Notes:

* returned from vacation on 8/24.  Discovered the LI-6262 was OFF the
entire time i was gone!!  This was after the power outage on the morning
i left town...ugh.

* helped lynette and steve o setup the ladder at the west grove.

---------

* Span cylinder at 1250 psi. N2 at 490 psi.

* at 9:00 MST, LI-6262 power-cycled (now back up and running).

* at 10:40 MST, did a quick check of the LI-6262 flow rates...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1176371 Aug 25 09:41 soil8_25.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  421929 Aug 25 09:45 soil8_25b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1222172 Aug 25 09:25 tc8_25.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  348205 Aug 25 09:28 tc8_25b.dat*

* check on status of REBs domes!!

* info about T/RH sensor from steve semmer:

  - when mounting take the strain off the cable!!

  Red - +12VDC, black= gnd

  White - temperature  T=100V -40  (degC).  range=0-1V.
    black= gnd

  Green - RH, RH=RH_volts/10, range 0-1V.
    black= gnd


* Info about LI-7500 SDM connections from Sasha (at Campbell, 435.750.1747)

  gray wire = C1
  blue wire = C2
 brown wire = C3

  ground = other wires

Cable needed to take in the LI-7500 SDM ouput (see p C-4 in LI-7500 manual):

li-cor part number    control box connector   cable connector type   turk part number
392-05618              SDM interface              5-pin female       RK 4.5T-*/S90
[....see manual for other cables...]

Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DA

Purpose of visit: remove krypton hygrometer, download logger data,
swap out the gelman-filters.

Weather: Cool and cloudy.  Some big Cu clouds up around the tower.


--------- Misc Notes:

*

*

---------

* Span cylinder at 1400 psi. N2 at 900 psi.

* from 10:30-11:00 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* from 10:39 - 10:57 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 10:39 MST, did zero.  co2 0.000 mV
    - at 10:54,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (span is approx 1.354 mV).
    - at 10:57,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~15.

* at 10:15 MST, removed krypton hygrometer

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  497259 Aug  9 11:16 soil8_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  493978 Aug  9 11:22 tc8_9.dat*

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, SL, LY, DA, CG, AJ

Purpose of visit: get channel 200 back to 10hz (it has been running at
5 hz).

Weather: Warm and sunny most of the day.  Light breezes.


--------- Misc Notes:

*

*

---------

* replaced batteries

at cnr logger:  YUASA NP7-6 6V, 7.0Ah  (this battery might still be workable?..they are at least 6 years old).
at met logger:  YUASA NP7-6 6V, 7.0Ah  (old one which was bad).

* at 9:44 MST, started ops51; analog outputs from 2.5m LI-7500 no longer saved.

* uc23x logger starts using uc_03.csi (note: this change causes data
  output rate from 5 Hz to 10 Hz, no 5-min data saved at the logger)

* changed the internal (digital) filter on both LI-7500s from 5-hz to
  20-hz (ie, no filter)

    - at 10:24 MST, did this on the 2.5m LI-7500
    - at 12:40 MST, changed this on the 12.5m LI-7500...

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  769716 Aug  4 10:50 cnr8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster     187 Aug  4 11:15 cnr8_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  439690 Aug  4 12:46 met8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster    2342 Aug  4 14:31 met8_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  341923 Aug  4 12:51 nctc8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   83405 Aug  4 14:34 prf8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  914661 Aug  4 12:26 soil8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  387679 Aug  4 12:29 soil8_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1192299 Aug  4 12:12 tc8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   88410 Aug  4 12:14 tc8_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  143617 Aug  4 09:32 uc8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster     189 Aug  4 09:58 uc8_4b.dat*


# Undercanopy datalogger - CR23X
s=quacker:200  c=campbell_binary(0,"LLLLLLLLLLLLLLHH","m/s","m/s","m/s","C","mv", "m/s","m/s","m/s","C","mv","mv","mv","kpa","C","mmol","mmol")
        d=(u.csi.2m, v.csi.2m, w.csi.2m, tc.csi.2m, diag2, u.csi.4m, v.csi.4m, w.csi.4m, tc.csi.4m, diag4, co2.4m, h2o.4m,P.li2.5m,T.li2.5m,co2.l\
i2.5m,h2o.li2.5m) r=10
        m=(-5:5,-5:5,-2:2,-10:30,-100000:100000,-5:5,-5:5,-2:2,-10:30,-100000:100000,1500:3500,0:5000,65:75,-15:25,0:20,0:400)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, A

Purpose of visit: add T/RH sensor from EOL, change to SDM output
for 2.5m LI-7500.

Weather: Overcast, foggy and cold.  Upslope wind.  It was drippy/wet
all day.  Toward the end of the afternoon it started to really rain.

--------- Misc Notes:

* mt lion seen recently at cable gate (according to Kurt C.).

*

---------

* Added a T/RH sensor from EOL (currently setup at 188 cm) to prof
  logger (start using prf_02.csi).   Borrowed from Steve Semmer.

* Here is the wiring for this sensor:

    Red/black = Power (+12 VDC) and ground.
    White/Black = Temperature,  Ta_eol= 100.*Ta_eol_mV./1000-40
    Green/Black = RH,           RH_eol= RH_eol_mV./10

* at 10:44 MST, disconnected o3.slow, added EOL T/RH.

* Added SDM output from the LI-7500 at 2.5m, uc23x logger starts using
  uc_02.csi (note: this change causes data output rate to be at 5 Hz,
  not 10 Hz)

* some more info about LI-7500:

  LI-7500 at 12.5m:   SDM cable....wiring:

   (note this wire goes through a junction box);
      C1 = red wire
      C2 = black wire
      C3= green wire
      GND= white + shield

* talked to sasha at campbell....here is what the wiring should be:

      C1 = gray wire
      C2 = blue wire
      C3= brown wire
      Gnd = other wires....

note, it needs a lot of power on startup....so should use +12V from
some external source (ie, not the cr23x!)....

     warmup = 30 Watts = 2.5 amps....
     running = 10 Watts = 0.8 amps....


* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  454923 Jul 29 12:50 uc7_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  661896 Jul 29 14:13 ucb7_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   99020 Jul 29 10:50 prf7_29.dat*


# Undercanopy datalogger - CR23X
s=quacker:200  c=campbell_binary(0,"LLLLLLLLLLLLLLHH","m/s","m/s","m/s","C","mv", "m/s","m/s","m/s","C","mv","mv","mv","kpa","C\
","mmol","mmol")
        d=(u.csi.2m, v.csi.2m, w.csi.2m, tc.csi.2m, diag2, u.csi.4m, v.csi.4m, w.csi.4m, tc.csi.4m, diag4, co2.4m, h2o.4m,P.li2\
.5m,T.li2.5m,co2.li2.5m,h2o.li2.5m) r=10
        m=(-5:5,-5:5,-2:2,-10:30,-100000:100000,-5:5,-5:5,-2:2,-10:30,-100000:100000,1500:3500,0:5000,65:75,-15:25,0:20,0:400)


* To-Do List:

  - show ryan/lindsay how to swap the GAST pump....bring new vanes!
  - fix the support cable for REBS sensor....need turnbuckle...
  - replace (internal) batteries in the rad and met loggers...
  - adjust flows for LI-6262...
  - change program for uc23x logger (get output back to 10hz!)
  - change "bandwidth" settings for LI-7500s....set to "none" or
    20 hz...
  - get diameter for PVC of eol t/rh sensor...






on 27 July 2009, updated the splus file to reflect using the loaner
li-6262 (sn 224)...files changed:

 dir cal.co2.q co2.fluxes.q co2.h2o.q
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      19761 Jun 24 18:46 cal.co2.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      30345 Apr 21  2006 co2.fluxes.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns       9072 Jul 21 16:25 co2.h2o.q*

-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      20449 Jul 27 15:47 cal.co2.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      30667 Jul 27 15:41 co2.fluxes.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns       9072 Jul 21 16:25 co2.h2o.q*

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DA, AR, MC, CG, A

Purpose of visit: install the StarDot webcam on the tower.

Weather: hot and sunny.  A dark cloud and wind gust with a few
raindrops passed by the tower in the mid-afternoon.  AFter that blew
by, it was bright and sunny again.

--------- Misc Notes:

* met Andrew Richardson and Mariah at MRS (the camera was shipped to
Andrew and arrived on Wed).

*

---------

* it's a StarDot "netcam XL"

user name:  [see MY own logbook for this info!]

* NOTE: need to double-check the mounting and I might try to "beef it
  up" a bit...might need to drill a few new holes in the base of it...

* see screen shots (updated IP on 4 August):

-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 295521 Aug  4 09:51 netcam_xl_advanced_trigger.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 308571 Aug  4 09:49 netcam_xl_datetime.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 303664 Aug  4 09:50 netcam_xl_dialout.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 320674 Aug  4 09:48 netcam_xl_ftp.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 334423 Aug  4 09:53 netcam_xl_image2.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 322874 Aug  4 09:47 netcam_xl_image,png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 299219 Aug  4 09:28 netcam_xl_network_orig.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 315840 Aug  4 09:49 netcam_xl_network.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 338814 Aug  4 09:48 netcam_xl_overlay.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sburns aster 295521 Aug  4 09:50 netcam_xl_security.png

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LT, SL, LA

Purpose of visit: get ready for the StarDot webcam.  mess
with LI-7500 at 2.5m.

Weather: Starting to warm up.  No rain very dry.

--------- Misc Notes:

* the flux class at MRS is going on...


---------

* at approx 11:00 MST, leveled PAR-Lite sensor (it was previously at a
slight (5 deg?) angle to horizontal).

* from 12:06 - 12:29 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 12:06 MST, did zero (value is approx 0.005 mV).
    - at 12:15,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.005 mV, span at 1.395).
    - at 12:20,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~13.

* unplugged the rain gauge heater....

* check the setting on the LI-7500:

delay time= 0, DAC = 240 ms, Bandwidth= 5 Hz, SDM= 7 (..note the 12.5m
LI7500 outputs digital data, while the 2.5m LI7500 used analog
output...)

* added a 5-port "netgear" switch at the 10-m power box to prepare for
  the new webcam

* logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   213488 Jul 22 10:40 prf7_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   514271 Jul 22 10:46 met7_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   396865 Jul 22 11:44 nctc7_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   909481 Jul 22 12:59 soil7_22.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   893948 Jul 22 13:08 tc7_22.dat*


* there have been some strange things happening on russter2.  here are
a few emails about it:


Date:    Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:39:01 MDT
To:      Sean Burns 
cc:      tmr@Colorado.EDU
From:    Erinn Looney-Triggs 
Subject: Re: message on russter2...

Near as I can tell a user trahan logged in and then attempted to suspend the system.
Looks like she did that multiple times actually. This is probably the root cause of
this suspending and resuming the system can lead to a lot of funky errors and this
probably broke the serial connection.

Anyway, we should probably reboot the system if someone is up there to watch it and
that 'should' fix the issue.

-Erinn

----------------
Date:    Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:05:27 MDT
To:      trouble@Colorado.EDU
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: message on russter2...


Hi UnixOPS,

a message just appeared on my xterm window from russter2:

 Broadcast message from root (Mon Jul 20 12:31:45 2009):
 Warning communications lost with UPS UPS_IDEN

seems like it's related to the UPS software....any idea if this is
something to worry about?  i think the UPS is connected by a serial
cable to russter2....

thanks,

                                        SpB.

Friday, July 17th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: listen to lectures.

Weather: ?

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my own jeep.

*

---------

* listened to the lectures by Dave Bowling and Dennis Baldocchi as part
of the flux class.

*

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LA, CG, AJ, LL, R, +

Purpose of visit: help with visit to tower.

Weather: ?

--------- Misc Notes:

* lots and lots of people at the tower (Steve Oncley
was also there with a group from EOL)...

*

---------


* stayed on the tower while the students climbed up in
groups of three...

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LA, CG, AJ, LL, R, +

Purpose of visit: finish matlab install, see flux class.

Weather: warm with some wave clouds.

--------- Misc Notes:

* campbell had the instrument "demonstration" at C1

*

---------

* finished softare installation on the flux-class laptops (in the
afternoon).

*

Monday, July 13th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LA, CG, AJ, LL, R, +

Purpose of visit: setup matlab for flux class.

Weather: warm with some wave clouds.

--------- Misc Notes:

*

*

---------

* span pressure = 1690 psi; N2 pressure 1600 psi.

* worked more on matlab installation for flux class (didn't quite
  finish everything).  Also installed pdf reader + Splus on each
  laptop.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1127870 Jul 13 12:00 soil7_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  257311 Jul 13 12:03 soil7_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1260313 Jul 13 12:14 tc7_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  109210 Jul 13 12:15 tc7_13b.dat*

Friday, July 10th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LA, CG, AJ, LL, R, +

Purpose of visit: swap out the LI-6262 for loaner from LI-COR.

Weather: warm with some wave clouds.

--------- Misc Notes:

*

*

---------

* span pressure = 1690 psi; N2 pressure 1600 psi.

* from 9:40-10:40 MST, swapped LI-6262, IRG3-638 out for re-cal
  (replaced with LI-6262 loaner, sn IRG3-224)

* some wiring notes:

LI-6262, IRG3-638                           loaner IRG3-224

      8          black co2                       8
      9          red co2                        10
     11          red h2o                        12
     13          green temp, 5V                 13
     14          3 black wires                  14
     15          white wire (aux, pressure)     15

* checked flows/pressure in LI-6262:

              flow             Pressure
sample        9.17              55.00
span          9.14              54.8
N2            9.00              54.00

* h2o dial = 5.18

* at approx 10:40 MST, test flow/blow/etc....ok.

* at 10:41 MST, back to sample....

* changed range for h2o.ec back to 1000 mV on "fast" cr23x logger (started
running "fast_09.csi").



* at the end of the day tried to install MATLAB on the computers for
the flux class...exchanged several emails with mathworks and was able
to install one one computer (with the license server), and then it
didn't work on one of the other laptops.  (note, this was due to the
firewall setting with the lic server laptop!)...

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LT, SL, LA

Purpose of visit: check out the cal of the LI-7500 (complete
from Monday).

Weather: Starting to warm up.  No rain very dry.

--------- Misc Notes:

* Utah was removing the west robot--on the first run one of the
tires blew out on the red cart.

* took an inventory of harnesses:  3 complete "belt" harnesses, one
partial (only the belt part), and two climbing harnesses.

---------

* Installed the OSU AmeriFlux KZ PAR-Lite sensor at the top of the
tower (note it is at an angle to the sun, same as it was left last
year).  Just like last year, it's, "PAR2.up".  Brought the box back to
campus.

The new calibration coefficient is:

------------------------------------------
Info about KZ Par Lite sensor (from OSU):

 % for 2009:
 %      Calibration Date :  March 19, 2009
 %         Calibrated by :  C. Hanson
 %          Manufacturer :  Kipp and Zonen
 %                 Model :  PAR LITE
 %         Serial Number :  060859
 %     Calib Coefficient :  150.94 +/- 0.00 umol m-2 s-1 / mV  (mean +/-1 SD)
 %             Impedance :  240 Ohms
 % Sensor Temp during Cal:  24.99 +/- 0.56 degC

 % for 2008:
 %      Calibration Date :  April 15, 2008
 %         Calibrated by :  C. Hanson
 %          Manufacturer :  Kipp and Zonen
 %                 Model :  PAR LITE
 %         Serial Number :  060859
 %     Calib Coefficient :  152.54 +/- 0.00 umol m-2 s-1 / mV  (mean +/-1 SD)
 %             Impedance :  240 Ohms
 % Sensor Temp during Cal:  24.45 +/- 0.00 degC

 % for 2007:
 %   Calibration Date:  Feb 7, 2007 (Corrected July 26, 2007)
 %      Calibrated by:  C. Hanson
 %       Manufacturer:  Kipp and Zonen
 %              Model:  PAR LITE
 %      Serial Number:  060859
 % Calib Coefficient : 157.60 +/- 0.01 umol m-2 s-1 / mV  (mean +/-1 SD)



* went through and did a recalibration of the LI-7500...the details
are in:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1897 Jul  7 14:09 li7500_2.5m_sn75h-0082_090707_post.l75*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     1893 Jul  7 11:33 li7500_2.5m_sn75h-0082_090707_pre.l75*

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster     3069 Jul  7 14:08 li7500_2.5m_090707_b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   217571 Jul  7 12:17 li7500_2.5m_090707.dat*

...(note, i accidentally "paused" the logging, so i don't have all the
data in li7500_2.5m_090707_b.dat!!)...

* 2.5m LI-7500, AGC=66%
  - at 11:42 MST, cleaned window with windex...
  - at 12:44 MST, connected calibration tube + temp sensor
  - at 12:50 MST, ran zero air into the sampling cell (w/ sleeve on it).
        co2 is approx -9.36 umol/mol
        h2o is approx -0.27 mmmol/mol

  - at 13:03:40 MST, slight increase in the zero air flow rate/pressure...

  for co2:  last zero is 22 Dec 2004  current value = 1.0017, new= 0.9995
  at 13:08:50 MST, realized the valve on co2 cylinder was closed!

  for h2o:  new value 0.7164 (?)

  - at 13:39 MST, done with span of co2.

  - dewpoint generator set to 15 degC...flow at 10x100 cc/min.

  - at 13:45 MST, flow 15 degC (dewpoint) air into the cell...previous
  span 0.995/22 Dec04...new span  0.9777....

  - at 13:51:15, down to Tdew=10 degC.

  - at 13:55 MST, up to Tdew= 20 degC.


* also note, here are the stats for the cal gas (JJ23865 at 1750 psi):

 bay:/users/sean>fgrep 23865 calfac_allcals_co2only.out
 JJ23865 060710 a 11 476.428 0.04 4

 bay:/users/sean>fgrep 23865 calfac_allcals.out
 11 JJ23865 476.794  0.041 476.428 0.040   4  -587.94  2.16   4 060710a 060710 a

  (for my cals i used 476.5 ppm).

* dowloaded logger data (time on nctc was a bit slow, others ok):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 771330 Jul  7 10:13 cnr7_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 939120 Jul  7 10:50 met7_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 395928 Jul  7 10:56 prf7_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 729688 Jul  7 11:04 nctc7_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 167605 Jul  7 14:23 uc7_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 242607 Jul  7 14:13 ucb7_7.dat*

Monday, July 6th, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB, LA, CG, AJ

Purpose of visit: check out the cal of the LI-7500.

Weather: Cool and dry.  high clouds in the morning that
turned into stratus in the afternoon.

--------- Misc Notes:

* Went by NCAR to grab the LI-610 borrowed from NEON.

* Russ was at the site with Anders Lindroth from Sweden.

* pumped up the tires on the red cart...

---------

* span pressure = 1710 psi; N2 pressure 1760 psi.

* spent most of the day messing around with the network to the TRAM
adam...here is a brief summary:

-----------------------------------------
Date:    Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:48:07 MDT
To:      Lynette Lee Laffea 
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, oncley@ucar.edu, semmer@ucar.edu,
         militzer@ucar.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: ADAMs


Hi,

i have some other things to take care of...here's a quick summary of
what i did:

1. arrived, network was not working.  port4 where the fiber optic
cable connects to the fiber-to-copper converter in the quacker box was
not lighting up.  I moved the fiber pair to port3 and then the lights
came on.  And i was able to get on the internet at the tram location.

2. i've rebooted the adam by turning the power switch on the outside
of the box on/off a few times now.  still can't ping isffa from
russter2.  lights are on in the viper so i know there is power
there...also the usb drive is lit up.  the network cable that goes to
the adam (ie, connected to the hub in the red tub) has two
lights---the green "lnk/act" light is rapidly flashing on/off...the
"100M" light is solid orange.  this cable connects to "eth1" on the
side of the adam...i would try a different network cable, but it needs
a special connector (though i do see some normal rj-45 connectors
inside the adam box)...

i'll check my email again before i leave, but i have some other
work to do...

thanks,

                                SpB.

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, CG, AJ, SO, L

Purpose of visit: swap N2 gas cylinder, add in-line surge protection.

Weather: Warm and sunny.  Some Cu clouds formed as the day went
on.  And it even rained (while I was at the top of the tower!)

--------- Misc Notes:

* I caught a ride up with Chris Gray after we picked up the 2.5 kVA transformer from NCAR.

* Steve O and his assistant (Long) were running TRAM more-or-less all day.

---------

* span pressure = 1800 psi; N2 pressure 200 psi.

* at ~10:30 MST, reconnected channel 200 (UC logger); added in-line
  surge protector at tower end.  S-H ch200, UC logger:

   Rx+ Green     Tx- red
   Rx- black     Tx+ black

* in-line surge protector:  black box, model sp603a (s/n  09043104)

* from 13:00-14:10 MST, switched N2 cylinder at the tower (new
  cylinder=CC199722 (2000 psi); old cylinder=CC198519 (200 psi))

* there are two zero air cylinders along the fence (cc153241 & cc140756)

* from 12:00-12:30 MST, made more adjustments to h2o.ec offset using
  dial  (the h2o offset dial was at approx 5.0, changed to 9.0)

* from approx 14:15-14:20 MST, checked flows/pressure in LI-6262:

              flow             Pressure
sample        9.13              55.01
span          9.11              54.98
N2            8.95              53.90

* from 13:20-13:45 MST, replaced domes on REBS Rnet sensor

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  248728 Jun 29 12:26 uc6_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  362546 Jun 29 12:31 ucb6_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1142587 Jun 29 14:49 soil6_29.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   77515 Jun 29 14:50 soil6_29b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1194420 Jun 29 15:01 tc6_29.dat*

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, SL, LL, R

Purpose of visit: change the h2o.ec range on fast logger program.

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* mosquitos have arrived.

* Lynette + two students were working at grove 3.

* the Aspens have fully leafed out...

---------

* span pressure = 1800 psi; N2 pressure 300 psi.

* from 10-10:50 MST, co2b.ec is now h2o.ec; made a drastic change to
  h2o.ec offset using dial; also changed range of h2o.ec to 5000 mV,
  now running fast_08.csi

* at 10:54 MST, adjusted offset for h2o.ec to dial = 5'0'' --> approx 1400 mV.

* wiring on the splitter for co2b.ec:

  G  +5V   H  L  H        H  Gnd

* at ~10:30 MST, removed channel 200 (UC logger) from the data system.

* on 6/24/09 updated the programs:

-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      19761 Jun 24 18:46 cal.co2.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      15980 Jun 24 18:47 cal.prof.q*

with:

if(t1 >= utime("09 jan 30 130000") & t1 < utime("09 jun 17 130000"))     {
 Cspan <- 408.13        #  cal cylinder is Airgas SG9151924BAL calib on 080515:
                        #  (408.42+407.7+408.27)./3 = 408.13 ppm
                        #  Airgas value:  401.8 ppm

                        }

if(t1 >= utime("09 jun 17 130000"))     {
 Cspan <- 417.70        #  cal cylinder is Airgas cc245057. calib on 081125
                        #  (418.78+417.63+416.71)./3 = 417.70 ppm
                        #  Airgas value:  416.9 ppm

                        }

then did:

make .fun.cal.prof
make .fun.cal.co2

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL, LY, RW, LL, CG, +

Purpose of visit: reconnect two logger channels, swap span cylinder.

Weather: Starting to feel a bit more like summer.  No snow at all
left.  Weak upslope.  It was sunny in the morning, but clouded up in
the afternoon.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* mosquitos have arrived.

* Lynette + two students were working at grove 3.

* the Aspens have fully leafed out...

---------

* span pressure = 2000 psi; N2 pressure 510 psi.

* at ~10:30 MST, added channels 200 (UC logger) & 202 (ucb logger)
  back to the data system.

* at ~11:15 MST, swapped span gas (old cylinder=SG9151924 at 150 psi,
  new cylinder= CC245057, at 2000 psi)

* from 12:25-12:30 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* power cable to east (robot):  seoprene 105, 14 AWG, 2.08 3/C SE00W UL, 
  600V water resistant

* from approx 12:05-12:15 MST, checked flows/pressure in LI-6262:

              flow             Pressure
sample        9.30              54.67
span          8.79              52.2
N2            9.01              53.4
............(then made adjustments)...

* turned fan in LI-6262 box back on....

* 2.5 kVA transformer details:

 input:   3kA/120V, output: 120/208/240 V, 2.5 kVA
 controlled power company, model 5DZZX-2.5K-8-PI

* offset on co2.b was approx 1260 mV.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  822649 Jun 17 13:30 soil6_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  803494 Jun 17 13:22 tc6_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  165150 Jun 17 11:23 uc6_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  243784 Jun 17 11:20 ucb6_17.dat*

* email about shorthaul modems:

Date:    Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:58:14 MDT
To:      "Betsy Owens" 
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: Quote 928294

Hi Betsy,

I was finally able to check the serial numbers of the short-haul
modems that are out in the field...one is a ME721A rather than a
ME800A, they are:

 Model      Serial Number    Logger
------      -------------   --------
ME800A-R2   sn 0202          UCB (logger end)
ME721A-M    717N0056         UC (logger end)

ME800A-R3   sn 0605          UCB (tower end)
ME800A-R3   sn 0405          UC (tower end)

If we can't add the ME721A to the "double diamond" protection plan,
then just do the three ME800A's....

If you need other information or have any other question let me
know...and please let me know what type of document i get that shows
the protection plan, etc...my understanding is that it is $17/unit for
three years of protection, correct?

thanks,

                                        SpB.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LL, LY, RW, RD

Purpose of visit: fix data system from lightning strike on Monday.

Weather: Forecast was 40-50% chance of rain.  Never happened except
for a few small ice pellets.  It was socked in down on the plains at
mid-day.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* not much snow left.

* Lynette + PAR crew was working at grove 1.

* Bob from UCAR safety was up visiting.

* the Aspens are leafing out...

---------

* span pressure = 250 psi; N2 pressure 705 psi.

* at ~9:30 MST, swapped out Edgeport/8, data system back up (note,
left channels 200 & 202 off system). And replaced short-haul for UC
logger.

* New Edgeport (from ebay):  PN (1P) 50001231-01, SN (S) V22116393

* to connect the ATI/ati sonic:  no null modem, 9600 baud, 8-N-1.

* based on the weather forecast, turned off the LI-6262 box fan.

* shut-off both the mrs cr10 and noahs snow depth logger.

* downloaded logger data (hit all loggers, reset the times on all
loggers):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  625766 Jun  9 09:47 ucb6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  765079 Jun  9 09:59 uc6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  921248 Jun  9 10:10 uc6_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  165063 Jun  9 10:13 uc6_9c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  359009 Jun  9 11:48 cnr6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  297404 Jun  9 11:54 prf6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  719031 Jun  9 12:01 met6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  551927 Jun  9 12:08 nctc6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  211472 Jun  9 13:22 soil6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  205134 Jun  9 13:26 tc6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   91892 Jun  9 13:27 noah6_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  165548 Jun  9 13:31 mrs6_9.dat*

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: fix fast cr23x data logger

Weather: It started snowing (ice pellets) when i arrived.  There were
some very big clouds around (mostly to the east).  It was a bit windy
at times, but also sunny and nice other times.  There was only one
distant rumble of thunder...as i left the clouds completely cleared
off.  And it was clear skies and sunny...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* still a few piles of snow "holding on".  Added a bit of salt to the
ground rod (plenty of water in there)...

* the Aspens are really leafing out...almost fully out.

---------

* span pressure = ? psi; N2 pressure ? psi.

* on sunday morning (7 June) i noticed the file sizes changed
  dramatically on the 6th, ie:

-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39049534 Jun  6 10:00 nwt090606.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39049502 Jun  6 18:00 nwt090606.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 24758060 Jun  7 02:00 nwt090607.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 24073532 Jun  7 10:00 nwt090607.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 34115462 Jun  7 18:00 nwt090607.160000

* it looks like at around 17:20 MST the fast logger (chan 201) stopped
spitting out data...ie:

data_stats < /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt090607.000000
Opened: 
chan   #points     start time            end time     delta time    freq
200     287903    00:00:00.040    07:59:59.930      28799.890    9.997
201      13165    00:00:00.052    00:21:56.446       1316.394   10.000
202      28799    00:00:00.863    07:59:59.137      28798.274    1.000
203      28800    00:00:00.067    07:59:59.032      28798.965    1.000
204      28800    00:00:00.290    07:59:59.448      28799.158    1.000
205      28800    00:00:00.746    07:59:59.802      28799.056    1.000
206     287991    00:00:00.076    07:59:59.956      28799.880   10.000
207      28800    00:00:00.316    07:59:59.956      28799.640    1.000
216     287989    00:00:00.076    07:59:59.966      28799.890   10.000

* after connecting to the "fast" cr23x logger the time seemed fine,
but when i tried to look at the data the numbers were not changing...i
tried re-sending the program (fast_07.csi), but this did not fix the
problem.  All the values then went to zero.  This indicated a problem
with the logger (and not somewhere downstream of the logger).  My
suspicion was that it was related to the internal batteries...which I
happened to have two spares of....swapped out the batteries and then
it worked ok.  The logger was fixed at aruond 11:27 MST, ie:

data_stats < /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt090607.160000
Opened: 
chan   #points     start time            end time     delta time    freq
200     287903    16:00:00.019    23:59:59.900      28799.881    9.997
201     193142    18:27:51.697    23:59:59.953      19928.256    9.692
202      28800    16:00:00.379    23:59:59.642      28799.263    1.000
203      28800    16:00:00.980    23:59:59.938      28798.958    1.000
204      28800    16:00:00.606    23:59:59.750      28799.144    1.000
205      28800    16:00:00.896    23:59:59.944      28799.048    1.000
206     287991    16:00:00.034    23:59:59.931      28799.897   10.000
207      28799    16:00:00.610    23:59:59.228      28798.618    1.000
216     287900    16:00:00.059    23:59:59.976      28799.917    9.997

* also grabbed both the tc and soil logger data, ie:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1206272 Jun  7 12:08 soil6_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   720852 Jun  7 12:20 soil6_7b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1282599 Jun  7 12:32 tc6_7.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   623585 Jun  7 12:37 tc6_7b.dat*

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, LL, SL, LY

Purpose of visit: change LI-6262 Nupro filters/work on PAR.

Weather: Mostly clear up in the mountains.  Not too windy.  Could see
a heavy cloud layer down on the plains from the tower.  Clouded up a
bit in the afternoon.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* still piles of snow "holding on".  But things are really starting to
open up now.

* the Aspens are leafing out...my camera ran out of battery juice, so
no photos of them!

---------

* span pressure = 300 psi; N2 pressure 900 psi.

* turned on fans in both the LI-6251 and LI-6262 boxes.

* at 11:00 MST, disconnected LI-6262 from side of box.

  - between 11:00-11:26 MST, replaced 2-micron filters both
    at the inlet and inside the LI-6262 box.

* rest of the day was spent helping with the installation of PAR.

Monday, June 1st, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL, L, L

Purpose of visit: replace batteries.

Weather:  Drizzly rain when we arrived.  This turned into a steady
rain by the time we left.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* Chris gray and his helper (Alyssa) were up there looking for a spot
to setup the PTR-MS and they also grabbed a few sampling chambers...

* there is still snow left, but you can get to the tower without walking
in it.  lots of water on the trail (it's been raining a lot).

* the Aspens are just starting to leaf out...

---------

* span pressure = 400 psi; N2 pressure 1080 psi.

* on Sunday night I noticed the tower data had stopped being
archived...when trying to reboot the quacker the edgeport was not
getting recognized...here's my email:

 Date:    Sun, 31 May 2009 22:35:58 MDT
 To:      nicole.trahan@Colorado.EDU, stanfield.lee@Colorado.EDU,
          amy.m.watson@Colorado.EDU, lynette.laffea@Colorado.EDU,
          loles@creaf.uab.es
 cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, oncley@ucar.edu, maclean@ucar.edu
 From:    Sean Burns 
 Subject: CU Tower on MOnday...


 Hi,

 fyi---it looks like the tower data system shut down this afternoon
 about 2:30pm.  And now the Edgeport is not getting recognized on
 reboot..i'm getting a message like:

 May 31 22:21:28 quacker kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
 May 31 22:21:28 quacker kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 542
 May 31 22:21:28 quacker kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
 May 31 22:21:28 quacker kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 3
 May 31 22:21:28 quacker kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)

 and this is supposed to look like:

 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker rpc.statd[736]: Version 0.3.3 Starting
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
 Oct 24 01:36:25 quacker kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2

 based on the timing, i'm guessing the problem is probably due to
 lightning....I just added my name to the jeep calendar to go up
 tomorrow.  It says there were 4 people going up in the jeep tomorrow
 so I assume one more person is ok (if not please let me know ASAP).
 It also says that you are leaving from campus at 9am...so i'll plan to
 be on campus before 9am.

 Gordon, i still have your edgeport and i'll bring that with me for a
 swap out if that is needed...

 thanks,

                                        SpB.

 
* at 10:15 MST, power-cycled the 2-d ati sonic (i think the serial port
on the back of the quacker died)....

* swapped out edgeport/8's (now using Gordons/eol's).  Tower data back up
and running, ie:

-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39049448 May 31 10:00 nwt090531.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 20042502 May 31 14:21 nwt090531.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 34135478 Jun  1 18:00 nwt090601.165911
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39049522 Jun  2 02:00 nwt090602.000000

* replaced the dri-rite for the profiler.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL, L, R, LSD, L, CG, LL, T, SO

Purpose of visit: replace batteries.

Weather:  Perfect day to be working up at the site.  The bugs have
not arrived yet, and temps are cool and pleasant.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* Lots of things happening at the site: Steve Oncley was working on
TRAM, Laura was showing plots to Loles/Chris, Lynette was moving stuff
around, Nicole had her whole crew with her...

* still a bit too snowy on the trail to use the cart.

---------

* span pressure = 400 psi; N2 pressure 1080 psi.

* visited the west robot (downloaded logger data and unplugged
everything in preparation for removal of the robot in June).

* replaced the battery on the Tripp-lite UPS backup power-strip (above
the LI-6262).  Note that getting this thing out of the box was rather
inconvenient...it has both velcro-type stuff and also two screws that
hold it in place.  To get it off the screws you need to slide it to
the right or left...i should have removed the velcro, but once i put
it back in place it was still very difficult to remove so i just left
it as-is.

* from approx 12:55-12:57 MST, checked flows/pressure in LI-6262:

              flow             Pressure
sample        8.52              50.39
span          8.33              49.50
span          8.52              50.56  (after needle valve adj)

* swapped profilter dessicant...details:

* from 13:00 - 13:19 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 13:04 MST, did zero (value is approx 0.006 mV).
    - at 13:16 MST,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx 0.000 mV).
    - at 13:19 MST,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~14.


* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 904524 May 27 10:35 cnr5_27.dat*

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get logger data.

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 30 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 55 cm
               farthest probe = 54 cm

* note:  the "quacker" is a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop

* span pressure = 600 psi; N2 pressure 1820 psi.

* from approx ?-? MST, checked flows/pressure in LI-6262:

              flow             Pressure
sample        8.65              49.4
span          8.70              49.2
span          8.65              49.5  (after needle valve adj)
N2            8.16              47.0



* logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1036747 May 19 10:47 met5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  168842 May 19 12:01 mrs5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  674660 May 19 10:55 nctc5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  113490 May 19 11:58 noah5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  428435 May 19 10:36 prf5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  491249 May 19 11:40 soil5_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1125392 May 19 11:36 soil5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  315360 May 19 11:55 tc5_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1311194 May 19 11:53 tc5_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  745664 May 19 12:17 ucb5_19.dat*

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: visit NWR (aircoa) + grab N2 cylinders.

Weather:  In general nice and (fairly) calm and sunny.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* hitched a ride on the snowcat up to T-van.

---------

* never had time to visit the CU/AmeriFlux tower.

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: reboot quacker.

Weather:

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my Jeep.

---------

* snow depths:
              closest to tree = 78 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 103 cm
               farthest probe = 107 cm

* span pressure = 600 psi; N2 pressure 1820 psi.

* plugged russter2 directly into the UPS and this seemed to fix the
rebooting "problem"??  Note, you cannot "daisy-chain" two UPSs
together to get twice the amount of time after an outage.  BOTH
batteries will kick on at the same time...

* logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  918940 May  3 12:19 soil5_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  929210 May  3 12:05 tc5_3.dat*

Friday, April 24, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT

Purpose of visit: reboot quacker. get logger data.  swap N2.

Weather: Blustery at times, but calm in the afternoon.  Mostly cloudy.
Warm and comfortable.  The snow is like mashed-potatoes.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU gray Jeep.

* Nicole installed the last set of thermocouples for sap flow...

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree =
       TP101 461 middle probe =
               farthest probe =

* span pressure = 600 psi (not much change, perhaps because it's so
warm?); N2 pressure 1820 psi.

* dug out ucb and uc23x loggers.

* at around 11:00 MST, power-cycled csat at 2.56m which seemed to get
it working again...

* downloaded logger data.  nctc time was about 3 minutes slow...all
other ok.  files:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1064056 Apr 24 10:30 ucb4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1190932 Apr 24 10:41 ucb4_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   105484 Apr 24 10:42 ucb4_24c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   496698 Apr 24 11:20 tc4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   201812 Apr 24 11:23 noah4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   169421 Apr 24 11:31 mrs4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1119587 Apr 24 11:45 soil4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   494394 Apr 24 11:50 soil4_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1192708 Apr 24 12:15 nctc4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    56060 Apr 24 12:16 nctc4_24b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1058573 Apr 24 12:45 cnr4_24.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   121603 Apr 24 12:47 cnr4_24b.dat*

Sunday, April 19, 2009 Visit:
-----------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: reboot quacker. get logger data.  swap N2.

Weather: Bright and sunny.  About 3 FEET of fresh snow.  The snow was
dripping and sloughing off the trees.  Very wet and heavy.  It was
mostly calm, with a few bursts of wind every now and then.  A few
clouds showed up in the afternoon...and there was a cloud up near the
divide...the temperature was well above freezing...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my Jeep.  First one to drive to MRS (which took a bit of
speed and power).  It looked like the road to MRS was last plowed on
Friday?  (or maybe sometime on Saturday).

* Kurt and Isabelle showed up and drove the snowcat up to cable gate
(and picked me up as I was trying to break trail along the road).

* it took me over an hour to get from the trailer to the tower....

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = covered.
       TP101 461 middle probe = could not read, above highest mark (see photo)
               farthest probe = could not read, above highest mark (see photo)

* span pressure = 600 psi;

* from 14:00-16:00 MST, switched N2 cylinder at the tower (new
  cylinder=CC198519 (1900 psi); old cylinder=CC264970 (0 psi)).  Note,
  left old cylinder at the tower...also, CC198519 was missing the
  valve, so removed the one from CC264970 and used that.

* on Friday I changed the forestcam photo rate from every 2 hours to
every 10 minutes...this is a good thing to do when/if there are
possible power outages...lost a few photos due to the storm...

* the data files are:

-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39042662 Apr 17 10:00 nwt090417.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 18975800 Apr 17 14:04 nwt090417.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 19046972 Apr 19 18:00 nwt090419.195140
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39034546 Apr 20 02:00 nwt090420.000000

* from 16:10-16:14 MST, adjusted flow/pressure at LI-6262.  slightly
increased so that the span and sample values agree with eachother:

                             cell
              flow (V)       pressure
              --------       ---------
   sample     8.89           51.22
     span     8.83           50.96
       n2     8.66           49.73

* downloaded logger data (no time problems, the batteries seemed to
  hold up just fine):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   551774 Apr 19 13:30 prf4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1082015 Apr 19 13:44 met4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   263698 Apr 19 13:49 met4_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1378170 Apr 19 15:09 tc4_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1025337 Apr 19 15:23 tc4_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1179693 Apr 19 15:52 soil4_19.dat*  (only a partial f\
ile!)

here is an email about the storm (before it hit):

Date:    Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:48:03 MDT
To:      russell.monson@colorado.edu, laura.scott@colorado.edu, jia.hu@colorado.e\
du,
         nicole.trahan@colorado.edu, amy.trowbridge@colorado.edu,
         stanfield.lee@colorado.edu, lynette.laffea@colorado.edu,
         Diego.Riveros-iregui@colorado.edu, bowling@biology.utah.edu
cc:      steven.seibold@Colorado.EDU, Kurt.Chowanski@colorado.edu,
         William.Bowman@colorado.edu, Duane.R.Kitzis@noaa.gov,
         Casey.Flynn@colorado.edu, sean@ucar.edu,
         jeffrey.beauregard@colorado.edu, John.Knowles@Colorado.EDU
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: MoCast...


Hi,

i'm sure most of you are well aware of this...some more details and
predictions for the storm are listed below....could this have some
potential for the record-setting snowfall in April 1921 (when 87" fell
in just over 24 hours!!)??...ie:

 http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0493\
(1953)081<0038%3ARSOAAS>2.0.CO%3B2

the timing seems about right...


                                SpB.




------- Forwarded Message

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:32:57 -0600
From: Morris Weisman 
To: staff@mail.mmm.ucar.edu, visitor@mail.mmm.ucar.edu, wakimoto@ucar.edu,
        Jina C Wakimoto , smetz@ucar.edu,
        src@ucar.edu, echapin@ucar.edu, Roy Rasmussen ,
        Tom Galarneau ,
        Angela Olivero ,
        michael Olivero 
Subject: Thursday MoCast:   Monumental Spring Storm!!!


Here is your MoCast update for Thursday, April 16, at 10:00 am

Monumental Spring Storm taking shape!!!!!!

The latest numerical guidance is all consistent in producing strong,
deep upslope across eastern Colorado and the Front Range mountains for
the next 60 hrs., with total precipitation likely reaching 3 to 5
inches (melted) by late Saturday.  The big question still is whether
surface temperatures will support deep snow accumulations at lower
elevations (e.g., downtown Boulder, Denver, etc.), but the current
guidance suggests it will be just cold enough.....

One aspect that seems quite certain is that the foothills above 7000
ft will likely see 24 to 48 inches of snow by Saturday, with some
areas possibly receiving 60 inches!!!  Roads may become impassable by
Friday morning, remaining such possibly till Sunday.

So, first, for the lower elevations (e.g., below 7000 ft), rain with
embedded thunderstorms is likely Thursday afternoon, turning to heavy
wet snow Thursday evening, and continuing, heavy at times, through
Saturday. The snow may mix at times with rain Friday, but will likely
turn back to all snow Friday night and Saturday.

Best guess at snow accumulations by Saturday:

 .....below 6000 ft  (e.g., Boulder, Denver, Longmont, etc.)   8 - 16 inches  (mo\
stly on the grass)

 .....6000 to 7000 ft     14 - 28  inches

For higher elevations (e.g., above 7000 ft), snow today, becoming
heavy Thursday night, and continuing heavy at times through Saturday.
Roads may become impassable by Friday morning, remaining such till
Sunday.

Best guess at snow accumulations by Saturday: 24 - 48 inches, with
some local areas reaching up to 60 inches!!

   happy spring!!!!

      Morris

------- End of Forwarded Message



on April 17th, power outage from ~1:30-14:30 MST...

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        45011 Apr 17 14:44 2009041714444901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        46597 Apr 17 14:34 2009041714344901t.jpg

on April 17-18, big upslope snowstorm at the site...changed the
forestcam photos to grab an image every 10 minutes to better record
the storm (note, times are in MST), ie:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        44782 Apr 17 09:00 2009041709000901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        50053 Apr 17 08:50 2009041708500901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        52246 Apr 17 08:40 2009041708400901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        44009 Apr 17 08:30 2009041708300901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        44827 Apr 17 08:20 2009041708200901t.jpg


on 3/13, reset the timing on the forestcam...it was showing:

lftp root@forestcam.colorado.edu:/tmp/alarmevents> dir
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Mar 10 13:34 .
drwxrwxrwt   5 root     root            0 Mar 10 13:34 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        69252 Mar 13 15:34 2009031315342901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        67635 Mar 13 13:34 2009031313342901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        62065 Mar 13 11:34 2009031311342901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        69182 Mar 13 09:34 2009031309342901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        68308 Mar 13 07:34 2009031307342901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        15811 Mar 13 05:34 2009031305342901t.jpg

reset this to be (note, it is still in MST which is what I want):

lftp root@forestcam.colorado.edu:/tmp/alarmevents> dir
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Mar 13 15:47 .
drwxrwxrwt   5 root     root            0 Mar 13 16:01 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        65986 Mar 13 16:01 2009031316011901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66405 Mar 13 16:00 2009031316001901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66319 Mar 13 15:59 2009031315591901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66650 Mar 13 15:58 2009031315581901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66790 Mar 13 15:57 2009031315571901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66696 Mar 13 15:56 2009031315561901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66908 Mar 13 15:55 2009031315551901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        67173 Mar 13 15:54 2009031315541901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66881 Mar 13 15:53 2009031315531901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66995 Mar 13 15:52 2009031315521901t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66916 Mar 13 15:51 2009031315511901t.jpg

--> downloaded on 3/16, and got:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        47590 Mar 16 08:02 2009031608015501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        47809 Mar 16 06:02 2009031606015501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        15407 Mar 16 04:02 2009031604015501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        15318 Mar 16 02:02 2009031602015501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        15224 Mar 16 00:02 2009031600015501t.jpg

[so the time is only slightly off, by ~ 2 minutes...]

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL

Purpose of visit: fix up russter2. (reboot + check BIOS).

Weather: Mostly overcast.  About 3-4" of fresh snow.  Still on the
trees.  A few bursts of wind caused snow to blow around everywhere.
But much better than expected...very dark clouds down on the plains
as we were leaving.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU (grey) Jeep.

*

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 70 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 94 cm
               farthest probe = 95 cm

* span pressure = 800 psi; N2 = 600 psi.

* swapped pcmcia cards at the MRS logger:

-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  1858114 Apr 19 10:10 mrs_090401.dat

* here are some details about messing around with the BIOS:

-------------------------------------------------
To: Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: work on russter2....
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:52:39 -0600
From: Orrie Gartner 

Sean,

  The S3 should have no affect as we don't put russter2 into a sleep
mode, ever.  The "AC Power Recovery" set to On is what we want but you
said it was already set to "On".  The "Remote Power On" won't help much
as we can't remotely turn it on from the LAN.

  If another power outage occurs and it does not come back, enabling
Auto Power On Mode will automatically turn the system back on at the
time you specify.  It should not be needed with "AC Power Recovery" set
to On but perhaps for some unknown reason the recovery isn't working.
We know for certain "Auto Power On" does work fine on this model as we
have a lab full of them where we enable this.

  Orrie

-------------------------------------------------
To: Erinn Looney-Triggs 
cc: sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: work on russter2....
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:34:24 -0600
From: Sean Burns 

Hi Erinn,

here is what the options look like for the BIOS:

 http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/090401/pic00015.jpg

note, that the "Remote Wake Up" was saved incorrectly...I meant this
to be "enabled".  I looked under "Power Management", ie:

 http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/090401/pic00016.jpg

this shows that "AC Power Recovery" as being ON.  And I thought this
would be what I wanted...I'm not sure what "Suspend Mode" does...the
options were "S3" and "S2" (i think).

Here are the details about "Low Power Mode",

 http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/090401/pic00017.jpg
 http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/090401/pic00018.jpg

(I left this as "disabled").

And here are the details about "Remote Wake Up":

 http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/090401/pic00019.jpg

(I set this to ON, which was the only change I made to
any of the settings).

Though "Auto Power On" sounds like it might be useful, here
is what it shows:

 http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/090401/pic00020.jpg

And the options are "Daily", "Weekly", Disabled.  And you can set a
time...it seemed to me this was if you wanted the computer to turn on
at a certain time each day or week...I left this in "Disabled" mode.

Anyway, that is a summary of what I did...if we get another power
outage we'll find out if it makes any difference (or not)....maybe
after things get a bit warmer up there and access is easier we can
figure this out more completely and do some tests...

thanks!

                                        SpB.

-------------------------------------------------
Date:    Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:18:10 MDT
To:      Sean Burns 
cc:      maclean@ucar.edu, tmr@Colorado.EDU
From:    Erinn Looney-Triggs 
Subject: Re: work on russter2....

Sean,

For the UPS stuff here are the instructions from the manual:

Arranging for Reboot on Power-Up

The final consideration for a automatic reboot after a full power down
is to ensure that your computer will automatically reboot when the
power is restored.

This is not the normal behavior of most computers as shipped from the
factory. Normally after the power is cut and restored, you must
explicit ly press a button for the power to actually be turned on. You
can test your computer by powering it down; shutting off the power
(pull the plug); then plugging the cord back in. If your computer
immediately starts up, good. There is nothing more to do.

If your computer does not start up, manually turn on the power (by
pressing the power on button) and enter your computer's SETUP program
(often by pressing DEL during the power up sequence; sometimes by
pressing F10). You must then find and change the appropriate
configuration parameter to permit instant power on.

Normally, this is located under the BOOT menu item, and will be called
something such as Restore on AC/Power Loss or Full-On. The exact words
will vary according to the ROM BIOS provider. Generally you will have
three options: Last State, Power On, and Power Off. Although Last
State should normally work, we recommend setting your computers to
Power On. This means that whenever the power is applied they are
on. The only way to shut them off is to pull the plug or to have a
special program that powers them off (/sbin/poweroff on Linux
systems).

If after making all the changes suggested above, you cannot get your
computer to automatically reboot, you might examine your halt script
(/et c/rc.d/init.d/halt in the case of Red Hat Linux) and see if the
final line that performs the halt or reboot contains the -p option for
powerin g down the computer. It should not with the logic used by
apcupsd, but if it does, the -p option could cause your computer to
power off while the UPS is still suppling power (i.e. before the UPS
kills the power). Depending on the setting of your BIOS, it may
prevent your computer fro m restarting when the power returns. As
already mentioned, this should not apply, but in case of problems it
is worth a try.

For the kernel stuff I am looking into it now.
-Erinn


-------------------------------------------------
Date:    Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:04:35 MDT
To:      trouble@Colorado.EDU
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, maclean@ucar.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Re: work on russter2....

Hi Trouble,

I changed the following in the BIOS on russter2:

Remote Wake Up...............On

(this was set to "Off"...the other option is, "On w/ Boot to NIC").

there is also,

Auto Power On.................Disabled.

this looks like a way to automatically reboot each day or
week so i left this as "Disabled".

Anyway, we'll see if this works or not.....at this time I don't want
to do more extensive testing of it (we can try that when the road is
open and i'm leaving town on Friday so don't want to mess with things
too much right now)...

One item which is of larger concern to me....when i tried to reboot
russter2, eth0 did not come up (had this same problem last time)....i
tried to reboot 3 times and it didn't work.  I eventually went back to
a previous version of the kernel and then it worked....which is how
i'm logged in right now.  I'm not sure if it worked due to "luck of
the draw" or using the previous version had something to do with
it....having eth0 not come up is a bit worrisome, because if the
computer reboots itself then the network does not come back up
properly...do you think this is a hardware or software issue?  I'm a
bit hesitant to reboot things because I don't want to not have eth0
come back up...but if you have some good idea about what is going on
please let me me know...I'll be here in the trailer waiting for a
response.  If you think it requires another reboot then let's go ahead
and do that now....

thanks,

                                        SpB.

Saturday, March 28th, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: get soil/tc logger data.

Weather: Partly-cloudy.  Pretty pleasant day.  A bit of fresh snow
from 1-2 days ago (should have brough my skiis!).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my own Jeep.

* a spring snowstorm in boulder on Thursday closed CU and NCAR.

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 69 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 85 cm
               farthest probe = 91 cm

* span pressure = 820 psi; N2 = 700 psi.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1192869 Mar 28 11:44 soil3_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  597991 Mar 28 11:50 soil3_28b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1367315 Mar 28 12:14 tc3_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  479099 Mar 28 12:18 tc3_28b.dat*

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: reboot russter2.

Weather: Clear and sunny.  It was a bit gusty, but I did manage to get
up to the top of the tower and grab CNR logger data.  The snowpack is
hurting.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my own Jeep.

* missed the wed lab meeting....

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 56 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 74 cm
               farthest probe = 75 cm

* span pressure = 1000 psi; N2 = 1150 psi.

* on the afternoon of Mar 10 there was a power outage...the power went
off at around noon, and the data system appears to have shutdown at
13:59 (which gives a rough estimate of how long the batteries will
keep things going).

-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39049506 Mar 10 02:00 nwt090310.000000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 39049574 Mar 10 10:00 nwt090310.080000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster 18590464 Mar 10 13:59 nwt090310.160000
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster    34904 Mar 11 10:21 nwt090311.162041
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster    48464 Mar 11 10:22 nwt090311.162131
-r--r--r-- 1 root  aster    48528 Mar 11 10:23 nwt090311.162231

* note, the quacker actually stayed up the entire time (the battery in
the laptop kept it alive for an extra hour or so).  Here are the logs
from the quacker:

Mar 10 13:07:27 quacker apmd[859]: Now using Battery Power
Mar 10 13:07:27 quacker apmd[859]: Battery: * * * (100% 3:20)
Mar 10 13:34:24 quacker apmd[859]: Now using AC Power
Mar 10 13:34:24 quacker apmd[859]: Charge: * * * (75% 2:30)
Mar 10 13:46:33 quacker ntpd[25368]: synchronisation lost

* note, i lost one weeks worth of photos from the "forestcam" due to
the extended power outage!

* downloaded logger data (all seemed ok):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  740849 Mar 11 11:02 soil3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  769018 Mar 11 11:10 tc3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   31910 Mar 11 11:12 noah3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  250426 Mar 11 11:24 met3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  101252 Mar 11 11:27 prf3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1147895 Mar 11 11:39 nctc3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1106996 Mar 11 12:26 cnr3_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  233875 Mar 11 12:28 cnr3_11b.dat*


* just before I was getting ready to leave i noticed the LI-6262 data
were way off on cockpit...SO, i made another trip out to the tower.
It turns out that the power for the LI-6262 is in a small grey box
just above the LI-6262 box...and the power is connected to a "Internet
Office 280, Tripp Lite Power Protection" power strip.  (basically, a
power strip with a small battery in it).  This battery must be dead.
So, I moved the power coord to the "surge-protected only" side of the
power strip...and then the LI-6262 started working again.


Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: RawSampleBuffer::run interrupted
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: IOException: DaqMonitorRPC: select: Interrupted system call
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: SensorPortHandler finished, closing remaining 9 serial ports
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB0
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB1
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB2
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB3
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB4
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB5
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB6
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyUSB7
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: Closing: /dev/ttyS0
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: deleting sampler
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: deleting relayParsers
Mar 11 09:26:42 quacker logger: sleeping 20
Mar 11 09:26:52 quacker logger: No sampler to signal!
Mar 11 09:26:52 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=RawSampleBuffer(id=4098), Non-RT, priority=0
Mar 11 09:26:52 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=SensorPortHandler(id=5123), Non-RT, priority=0
Mar 11 09:26:53 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB0
Mar 11 09:26:54 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB1
Mar 11 09:26:55 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB2
Mar 11 09:26:56 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB3
Mar 11 09:26:57 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB4
Mar 11 09:26:58 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB5
Mar 11 09:26:59 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB6
Mar 11 09:27:00 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB7
Mar 11 09:27:01 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyS0
Mar 11 09:27:01 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=DaqMonitorRPC(id=6148), Non-RT, priority=0
Mar 11 09:28:29 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=RawSampleBuffer(id=1026), Non-RT, priority=0
Mar 11 09:28:29 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=SensorPortHandler(id=2051), Non-RT, priority=0
Mar 11 09:28:30 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB0
Mar 11 09:28:31 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB1
Mar 11 09:28:32 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB2
Mar 11 09:28:33 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB3
Mar 11 09:28:34 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB4
Mar 11 09:28:35 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB5
Mar 11 09:28:36 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB6
Mar 11 09:28:37 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB7
Mar 11 09:28:38 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyS0
Mar 11 09:28:38 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=DaqMonitorRPC(id=3076), Non-RT, priority=0


not sure why, but all of sudden was able to find eth0:

Mar 11 10:19:50 russter2 kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd08e0f00, 00:c0:49:dc:75:eb, IRQ 201
Mar 11 10:19:51 russter2 kernel: eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JH, SL

Purpose of visit: Download logger data.

Weather: Extremely warm for this time of year.  Some gusty winds at
times, but actually not too windy.  The snow at the site is taking a
major hit.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* Stan and Jia were collecting air samples for at Nicoles plots.

* Duane/Bear were up at the site...

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 51 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 68 cm
               farthest probe = 69 cm

* span pressure = 1100 psi; N2 = 1400 psi.

* downloaded logger data (reset the time on MRS logger, it was off by
~1 minute, no other time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1254488 Mar  4 10:29 soil3_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1050730 Mar  4 10:38 soil3_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1404052 Mar  4 10:51 tc3_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   921413 Mar  4 10:57 tc3_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    93579 Mar  4 10:59 noah3_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   477495 Mar  4 11:20 prf3_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1143868 Mar  4 11:32 met3_4.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster   1425028 Mar 11 08:34 mrs_090304.dat

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: Swap N2 cylinder.

Weather: It was snowing lightly most of the day.  Most of the time not
much wind, but there was the occasional burst.  Snow in the trees was
nice.  About 3-4 inches of new snow overnight.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* the chain around our cylinders in front of the trailer was on the
  ground and the clip to hold the chain was gone...it also seemed like
  the chain on one side had been replaced with a different chain??
  i used a rope to hold the chain together...

* John Knowles was servicing the laser and clearing snow off the laser
  shed.

* saw some "cat" (lynx?) tracks between como creek and the tower...
---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 51 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 68 cm
               farthest probe = 72 cm

* span pressure = 1210 psi; N2 = 1850 psi.

* dragged a span cylinder from the front of the trailer out to the
  tower (cc153480).  Placed this next to the one currently running at
  the tower (both are under the blue tarp).

* from around 11:50-13:18 MST, swapped N2 at the tower.  (did leak
  check during that time).  (new cylinder=CC264970 (1850 psi); old
  cylinder=CC176242 (approx 0 psi)).  Dragged CC176242 back to C1 and
  put it in front of the trailer.  Tried to position my old shower
  curtain over the N2 cylinder to try and keep the snow off the
  regulator...

* at around 12:00 MST, adjusted the flow rates for the LI-6262:

                pressure    flow rate
   sample         52.07      9.09
       N2         51.59      9.02
     span         53.70      9.53

i used the needle valve in the li-6262 box to lower the flow rate of
both span and N2 (to make the span agree better, don't care as much
about N2).

* Checked on the rig for the REBS sensor at the top of the tower...my
kluge seemed to hold up during the strong winds of last week...might
need to get a turnbuckle at some point (or just leave as-is?).

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1292481 Feb 11 12:53 soil2_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    31664 Feb 11 12:54 soil2_11b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1346457 Feb 11 13:07 tc2_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    94725 Feb 11 13:11 noah2_11.dat*
-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster  1447798 Mar  4 09:34 mrs_090211.dat

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: Check on MET logger.

Weather: A bit blustery, but air temp was above freezing.  Lots
of new snow in the trees from last time I was at the site.  When
i was off-trail the snow was approx knee-deep.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* Dean Anderson (USGS) was kind enough to let me borrow a cr23x in
case I needed to swap out the MET logger.

* Can still walk up the power line without the need for skiis or
snowshoes.

---------

* pulled a pine needle out of the rain gauge.

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 54 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 71 cm
               farthest probe = 73 cm

* moved power for MET logger to 12 V power supply which is being used
for the NCTC logger.  MET logger up and running again at 13:42 MST.

Note:  red wire = +12V,  green wire = ground.


* note, met logger (chan 204) died on 1/25:

 data_stats < /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt090125.080000
Opened: 
chan   #points     start time            end time     delta time    freq
200     287903    08:00:00.029    15:59:59.911      28799.882    9.997
201     288001    08:00:00.028    15:59:59.954      28799.926   10.000
202      28800    08:00:00.084    15:59:59.311      28799.227    1.000
203      28800    08:00:00.609    15:59:59.505      28798.896    1.000
204       7297    08:00:00.035    10:01:36.050       7296.015    1.000
205      28800    08:00:00.451    15:59:59.557      28799.106    1.000
206     287992    08:00:00.045    15:59:59.953      28799.908   10.000
207      28799    08:00:00.915    15:59:59.605      28798.690    1.000
216     287989    08:00:00.025    15:59:59.931      28799.906   10.000

---------------------------
Date:    Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:27:43 MST
To:      SEAN.BURNS@COLORADO.EDU
From:    Craig Knox 
Subject: CR23X

Mr. Burns:
     You can reset the CR23X, as you stated in the *A Mode and the 5th
window type 98765 and hit the A key. It will take about 15 minutes to
reset, so walk away for a time. You can go on our web page and get the
latest operating system for the CR23X if you don't have it all
ready. OS 19 is the latest version. Use Device Configuration Utility
to down load the OS. If I can be of any assistance please contact me.

Rdgs,
Craig Knox
---------------------------

* N2 cylinder at tower at 400 psi.

* hauled N2 cylinder CC264970 from trailer front to tower.

* from 15:00-15:50 MST, switched span gas at the tower (new
  cylinder=SG9151924 (1400 psi); old cylinder=CC282376 (approx 100
  psi)).  Note that SG9151924 was originally going to be used at
  the east robot.

* from 15:24 - 15:44 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 15:24 MST, did zero (value is approx 0.001 mV).
    - at 15:42,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx -0.003 mV, span could not do since swapping cylinder).
    - at 15:44,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~13.

NOTE: need to re-do the swagelock fittings...the fitting one one side
is trashing the threads on the dessicant tube.  Need to REPLACE!!

* on 2/4/09 updated the programs:

-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      19464 Feb  4 11:28 cal.co2.q*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 sburns      15682 Feb  4 11:31 cal.prof.q*

with:

if(t1 >= utime("09 jan 30 130000"))     {
 Cspan <- 408.13        #  cal cylinder is Airgas SG9151924BAL calib on 080515:
                        #  (408.42+407.7+408.27)./3 = 408.13 ppm
                        #  Airgas value:  401.8 ppm
                        }

then did:

make .fun.cal.prof
make .fun.cal.co2

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL

Purpose of visit: Download logger data.

Weather: Almost, HOT.  Unseasonably warm air temps.  Clear blue skies.
As we were leaving a few high cirrus clouds were starting to form.
Some gusts of wind from the south, but generally pleasant.  Down in
Boulder it was in the 70s F.


--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* Nicole/Stan were collecting sub-surface air samples.

* moose tracks (and scat) all over the place near como creek crossing.

* a lot of the exposed areas are snow-free.  Walk up the power line
was half on dirt half on snow.

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 37 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 50 cm
               farthest probe = 32 cm

* gas cylinder pressures:  N2= 700 psi, span= 320 psi.

* confirmed that there is an extra dessicant tube in the bowling shed.

* noticed that the cable for the REB Rnet logger had come loose...need
a new turnbuckle.  probably need to re-do the way these booms are held
in place...

* downloaded logger data and reset cr23x clocks (no time problems, all
  were within 30 seconds).  files:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1265782 Jan 21 10:58 soil1_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   537110 Jan 21 11:03 soil1_21b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster  1405141 Jan 21 11:16 tc1_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   390029 Jan 21 11:19 tc1_21b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster    70645 Jan 21 11:22 noah1_21.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sburns aster   961131 Jan 21 11:48 cnr1_21.dat*
-rw-r--r--  1 sburns aster 1085171 Jan 30 10:55 mrs_090121.dat

Friday, January 16th, 2009 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: Travel to T-van for AIRCOA service.  Go
to tower to download logger data (if time).

Weather: Clear and sunny and warm.  Wind picked up as the day went on,
but a very nice day from mid-January.  Snow warmed up during the day.
There was an ice-crust coming down.

--------- Misc Notes:

* borrowed an EOL jeep liberty for the trip up.

* Andy Watt gave me the replacement micropump, crimper, + some
backup pins.  Grabbed podocarp from the trailer + misc tools.

* carried ski's up to C1 and then skied from there.  Snow coverage
above C1 was good, but there were a few bare spots.  The trip from C1
to T-van took a bit over 2.5 hours.  Coming down took about 1:15.

---------

* arrived at the site at around 13:00 MST.  Connected to AIRCOA-A via
  a serial cable.  Notes on the connection:

  - There is a separate network cable that goes from the AIRCOA to the
    network.  To connect to the AIRCOA with the serial cable (via port
    2), a null modem is needed.

  - Using hyperterm the settings need to be:

  - from the hyperterm window it was possible to log into external
    computers via ssh.  BUT, need IP addresses.
    Note: gate.ucar.edu = 192.43.244.60

* confirmed that the purple "flywheel" on the micropump was not
  turning.

* started the rrelay software with "./rr_job".  Note, at first this
  did not work because the aircoa software was not running (duh).  So,
  re-activate the aircoa program by:


* did a reboot to make sure everything re-started cleanly.

* after confirming the sample flow rate was zero (ie, sample voltage
  output is approx 1.0 V), did a "high-pressure" leak check with the
  current pump in place.  It worked out to be around

/data/aircoa # more /var/log/messages
Jan 16 21:08:03 aircoa1 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jan 16 21:08:07 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: ntpd 4.1.1c-rc1@1.836 Thu Feb 13 12:17:19 EST 2003 (1)
Jan 16 21:08:07 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: precision = 13 usec
Jan 16 21:08:07 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: kernel time discipline status 0040
Jan 16 21:08:07 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: frequency initialized 0.000 from /var/run/ntp.drift
Jan 16 21:08:07 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_restart' (0x01) status 'sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 1 event, event_unspec' (0xc010)
Jan 16 21:08:08 aircoa1 sshd[52]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jan 16 21:08:20 aircoa1 init: Starting pid 59, console /dev/ttyS1: '/bin/sh'
Jan 16 21:57:39 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: peer 129.6.15.28 event 'event_reach' (0x84) status 'unreach, conf, 1 event, event_reach' (0x8014)
Jan 16 22:03:00 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_peer/strat_chg' (0x04) status 'sync_alarm, sync_ntp, 2 events, event_restart' (0xc621)
Jan 16 22:03:00 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: time reset 0.488642 s
Jan 16 22:03:00 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: kernel time discipline status change 41
Jan 16 22:03:00 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: synchronisation lost
Jan 16 22:03:00 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_clock_reset' (0x05) status 'sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 3 events, event_peer/strat_chg' (0xc034)
Jan 16 22:03:00 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_sync_chg' (0x03) status 'sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 4 events, event_clock_reset' (0xc045)
Jan 16 22:03:14 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: peer 129.6.15.28 event 'event_reach' (0x84) status 'unreach, conf, 2 events, event_reach' (0x8024)
Jan 16 22:06:26 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_peer/strat_chg' (0x04) status 'sync_alarm, sync_ntp, 5 events, event_sync_chg' (0xc653)
Jan 16 22:06:26 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_sync_chg' (0x03) status 'leap_none, sync_ntp, 6 events, event_peer/strat_chg' (0x664)
Jan 16 22:06:26 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: system event 'event_peer/strat_chg' (0x04) status 'leap_none, sync_ntp, 7 events, event_sync_chg' (0x673)
Jan 16 22:07:32 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: kernel time discipline status change 1
Jan 16 22:08:08 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: offset 0.016555 sec freq 5.221 ppm error 0.016326 poll 6
Jan 16 22:30:20 aircoa1 init: Process '/bin/sh' (pid 59) exited.  Scheduling it for restart.
Jan 16 23:08:08 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: offset -0.015578 sec freq 7.655 ppm error 0.007500 poll 9
Jan 16 23:28:52 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: synchronisation lost
Jan 16 23:34:16 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: peer 129.6.15.28 event 'event_unreach' (0x83) status 'unreach, conf, 3 events, event_unreach' (0x8033)
Jan 16 23:45:44 aircoa1 sshd[84]: Accepted password for root from 198.11.18.37 port 42659 ssh2
Jan 16 23:49:16 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: peer 129.6.15.28 event 'event_reach' (0x84) status 'unreach, conf, 4 events, event_reach' (0x8044)
Jan 16 23:55:38 aircoa1 sshd[84]: syslogin_perform_logout: logout() returned an error
Jan 17 00:08:08 aircoa1 ntpd[40]: offset -0.002877 sec freq 3.027 ppm error 0.015164 poll 7

Monday, January 5th, 2009 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: Download logger data and check on the N2 cylinder.

Weather: Strong gusty winds.  Sometimes they were upslope or
from the south.  A nice wave cloud was sitting to the east of
the divide at various locations throughout the day.  Blowing
snow up at the divide.  At times clear and sunny.  At times
calm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* Happy New Year!

* a lot of the exposed areas are snow-free.  Walk up the power line
was half on dirt half on wind-crusted snow.  there was a layer of
needles/twigs just below the upper snow surface.

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 23 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 34 cm
               farthest probe = 36 cm

* gas cylinder pressures:  N2= 1200 psi, span= 500 psi.

* downloaded logger data and reset cr23x clocks (no time problems, all
  were within 30 seconds).  files:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1266777 Jan  5 11:42 soil1_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  877832 Jan  5 11:50 soil1_5b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1482950 Jan  5 12:03 tc1_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  658400 Jan  5 12:08 tc1_5b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster   86013 Jan  5 12:11 noah1_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  282296 Jan  5 12:24 prf1_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  668294 Jan  5 12:31 met1_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  561992 Jan  5 12:39 nctc1_5.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  584092 Jan  5 12:52 ucb1_5.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1305842 Jan  5 14:02 mrs_090105.dat

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: To swap out the N2 cylinder and download
some logger data.

Weather: a bit on the chilly side, but the winds were reasonable.
Some strong downslope gusts from time-to-time.  Still some fresh
snow in the trees that was blowing around at times....

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* snow is about mid-shin and fluffy.

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 25 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 36 cm
               farthest probe = 35 cm

* swapped N2 cylinder.  Old cylinder CC262287 at approx 0 psi.
                        New cylinder CC176242 at 1800 psi.

leak check from around 1:30-2:30pm...it didn't hold quite as well as i
would have liked.  initially there seemed to be a "major" leak...i
tried using snoop, but that does not work very well when it's so
cold...after using the snoop (could not find a problem) and re-doing
the fitting the leak seemed to go away ??.  i wondered if the leak was
not at the main connection to the cylinder...

* downloaded logger data (no time problems, updated the times on all
loggers; synched to russter2 time.  NCTC was off by approx 2 minutes,
slow):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  250336 Dec 17 11:50 cnr12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  401402 Dec 17 11:58 prf12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  941927 Dec 17 12:09 met12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  788677 Dec 17 12:20 nctc12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  119971 Dec 17 13:47 noah12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1016797 Dec 17 13:28 soil12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1029857 Dec 17 13:40 tc12_17.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  835819 Dec 17 14:19 ucb12_17.dat*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sburns aster 1844487 Jan  5 09:49 mrs_081217.dat

Monday, December 8th, 2008 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, JC

Purpose of visit: To upgrade the OS on russter2, swap flasks,
and download logger data.  Take some GPS pts.

Weather: Cool, but not bad.  It was snowing heavily as we left.


--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up a CU prius.

* there was not much snow at the site.

* this is Jeffs last day of work!!

---------

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 12 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 19 cm
               farthest probe = 18 cm

* we shutdown russter2 and then Jesse went to work on the OS upgrade.

* N2 cylinder at 400 psi, span at 700 psi.

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  499582 Dec  8 11:02 cnr12_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1251731 Dec  8 11:25 soil12_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  754427 Dec  8 11:32 soil12_8b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster 1436641 Dec  8 11:45 tc12_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sburns aster  564479 Dec  8 11:50 tc12_8b.dat*


* gps data collected (note these files are on my computer at NCAR as
  of 12/21!):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root  119087 Dec  8 15:48 081208b.cor*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root 1381453 Dec  8 15:39 081208b.ssf*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root  130966 Dec  8 15:46 081208.cor*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root 1456916 Dec  8 15:39 081208.ssf*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root    6292 Dec  8 15:46 Correct_2008-12-08_15-45.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root    6382 Dec  8 15:48 Correct_2008-12-08_15-47.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root     419 Dec  8 15:39 DTL1208a.TXT*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root    1245 Dec  8 15:48 RoverAudit_081208B-SSF_2008-12-08_15-47.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sean root    1269 Dec  8 15:46 RoverAudit_081208-SSF_2008-12-08_15-45.txt*

* ndaq did not need to be re-compiled....

* rebuilt the aster code (with help from Gordon)....see
  ~/tower_log.txt for details on command used!!

% LI-6262 work from 2007-2008
===============================================================================
2007 1 25 16 00  1 25 16 30; % replaced 2-micron Nupro filters, 15:50-16:20 MST
2007 4  3 13 00  4  3 13 30; % re-zeroed                        13:10-13:40 MST
2007 5  1 11 00  5  1 12 00; % adjusted the span/N2 flow rates, 11:15-11:50 MST
2007 5 30 11 30  5 30 12 30; % replaced ec pump, adjusted flow, 11:30-12:30 MST
2007 6  8 10 30  6  8 11 00; % replaced ec pump again           10:30-11:00 MST
2007 7 20 10 00  7 20 10:30; % re-zeroed, h2o.ec set to -30mV   10:14-10:16 MST                             
      

% desiccant swaps from 2007-2008
=============================================================================
2007   2   8  14  00     2   8  14  00; % desiccant swap from 13:52-14:05 MST
2007   3   9  15  00     3   9  15  00; % desiccant swap from 14:47-15:09 MST
2007   4  17  11  00     4  17  12  00; % desiccant swap from 11:30-12:15 MST
2007   5  21  11  00     5  21  11  30; % desiccant swap from 10:50-11:28 MST
2007   7   9  10  00     7   9  10  00; % desiccant swap from  9:50-10:08 MST
2007   7  25  10  00     7  25  14  00; % desiccant swap from  9:40-14:00 MST
2007   8   9  10  30     8   9  11  00; % desiccant swap from 10:28-10:54 MST
2007   9   6  xx  xx     9   6  xx  xx; % desiccant swap from xx:xx-xx:xx MST
2007  10  12  11  00    10  12  12  00; % desicaant swap from 11:00-12:00 MST
2007  10  16  14  00    10  16  15  00; % desiccant swap from 14:00-15:00 MST
=============================================================================
2008   1   9  14  00     1   9  14  30; % desiccant swap from 14:04-14:24 MST
2008   4  18  11  00     4  18  12  00; % desiccant swap from 11:18-11:38 MST
2008   6  19  14  00     6  19  15  00; % desiccant swap from 14:00-15:00 MST
2008   7  18  11  30     7  18  12  00; % desiccant swap from 11:32-11:48 MST
2008   8   4  12  00     8   4  13  00; % desiccant swap from 12:00-13:00 MST
2008   8  18  13  00     8  18  14  00; % desiccant swap from 13:00-14:00 MST
2008   8  26  12  00     8  26  13  00; % desiccant swap from 12:00-13:00 MST 
2008   9  16  11  00     9  16  12  00; % desiccant swap from 11:00-12:00 MST
2008  10  16  11  00    10  16  12  00; % desiccant swap from 11:00-12:00 MST
  

Site visit on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Weather: dark/overcast, windy
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* N2 @ 775 psi, span @ 850 psi 

* swapped 4 flasks

* calibrated last span cylinder, cc245057, ~416 ppm, ~2000 psi

* fiber switch info:

  Black Box brand, Miniature Media Converter, 10/100 Mbps. part # LHC013A, 
  telephone # 724-746-5500

  ODS (Optical Data Systems)
  ODS 471
  10Base-T/
  10Base-FL
  CONVERTER 

Site visit on Thursday, November 20, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Weather: inversion day, colder at C1 (and in Boulder), warmer with some sun 
above tree line, dead calm

Misc: road to C1 still clear
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* span @ 900, N2 @ 900

* downloaded data from the cnr, prof, met, ncar, ucb, uc, soil, tcs, noah 
  and mrs loggers

* snow depths; 0cm at all three probes

* created a new cal file in /home/staff/sburns/docs/calibrations_co2/ on 
  russter2...the file is called "cal_co2_081120.dat"

  did a post-cal on cc199497
  calibrated cc282360 and cc153480

Site trip on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Weather: Very windy; ~20 mph sustained at C1 with gusts up to 40 mph

Misc: rode to C1 still clear
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


* snow depths:

  L=5cm   M=7cm   short=1cm

* hauled three suitcases from the trailer to the robot -- now all five suitcases
  are at the robot

* N2 (cc262287) @ 1125 psi, span (cc282376) @ 975 psi

* swapped 4 flasks at the robot

* downloaded from noah, tcs and soil and swapped PC cards at the mrs logger

Date:    Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:12:59 MST
To:      jeffrey.beauregard@colorado.edu
cc:      sean.burns@colorado.edu, noah.p.molotch@jpl.nasa.gov
From:    "Sean Burns" 
Subject: soil11_12.dat


Hi Jeff,

thanks for taking care of the forestcam photos.  you'll have to show
me the program and also how you are archiving these data....or send me
an email with this info would be fine too.

i've been looking at the recent logger data...and it appears that
there is a large time gap in the "soil11_12.dat" file....ie, if you
look on russter2 at the file:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      589758 Nov 12 13:29 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/archive_2008/soil1
1_12.dat*

more /data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/archive_2008/soil11_12.dat

the data look like:

150,308,1230,338.1,-1.562,-.156,-.778,-.052,-2.276, [stuff deleted]
150,308,1235,338.2,-1.192,-.136,-.691,-.028,-2.164, [stuff deleted]
150,308,1240,333.6,-.804,-.11,-.587,-.004,-2.057, [stuff deleted]
etc, etc...
150,309,1420,259.4,1.99,1.722,3.561,1.098,1.404,1.893,1.945,
150,309,1425,245.2,2.012,1.621,3.436,1.039,1.357,1.813,1.86,
150,309,1430,237.6,1.967,1.525,3.328,.985,1.329,1.74,1.725,
150,309,1435,214.9,1.75,1.396,3.193,.905,1.286,1.665,1.448,
150,309,1440,211.5,1.426,1.231,3.008,.799,1.203,1.567,1.096,
150,313,535,139.4,-5.77,-4.608,-5.288,-3.23,-3.798,-3.505,
150,313,540,131,-5.79,-4.609,-5.312,-3.231,-3.812,-3.523,
150,313,545,137.1,-5.808,-4.621,-5.316,-3.234,-3.819,-3.527,
150,313,550,133.9,-5.827,-4.634,-5.331,-3.246,-3.821,-3.548,
150,313,555,138.4,-5.848,-4.638,-5.346,-3.254,-3.837,-3.555,
150,313,600,143.5,-5.871,-4.639,-5.363,-3.26,-3.848,-3.571,
150,313,605,142.1,-5.898,-4.644,-5.376,-3.261,-3.849,-3.584,
150,313,610,139,-5.919,-4.654,-5.388,-3.261,-3.86,-3.596,-4.845,
etc, etc...
150,317,1415,183.7,-3.425,-3.656,-2.961,-2.567,-2.819,-2.474,
150,317,1420,186.8,-3.445,-3.64,-2.99,-2.562,-2.816,-2.474,

Note that on day 309 (Tuesday 4 Nov) at 1440 there is a large gap in
the data...and/or the time jumps.  From the calendar it looks like no
one was up at the site that day...Did you happen to check that the
time/date is ok when you downloaded the data on Nov 12th (or on Nov
20th)?  Was there anything strange that happened with the download on
Nov 12th?  Based on the last row in the soil11_12.dat datafile you
should have downloaded these data on 12 Nov at around 14:20 MST.  Does
that sound approx correct?

the battery voltage for the soil logger looks ok, but this could also
be a warning sign that the soil logger battery is starting to have
problems...

Noah, i'm cc'ing you since it sounds like you are at the site on Tue
Nov 11th (day 316).  Can you confirm which days you were up at the
site so I can add this info to the calendar...also, a brief summary of
what you did would be nice so we can add this info to the logbook.

jeff, how did the map turn out?  i'm planning to stop by tomorrow
morning and we can take a look at this if you are going to be
around...

thanks,

                                        SpB.


Date:    Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:33:21 MST
To:      Sean Burns 
From:    Jeffrey Mark Beauregard 
Subject: Re: soil11_12.dat


Hi Sean.

I noticed this gap in the soil data when I was downloading the file on
11/12...Sorry about forgetting to mention this to you. Not sure what
to say about it. Nothing out of the ordinary happened and the
time/date looked fine on 11/12 and 11/20. And yes, you are correct
that I downloaded these data in the afternoon of 11/12, and I remember
checking on the "monitor" screen that the time of the last row in the
data file matched the time the file finished downloading.

I'll come by tomorrow too and we can look at the GPS data some more
and I'll give you the run down of how I process and archive the
forestcam photos.

Jeff

Site trip on Monday, November 3, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Nicole

Weather: decent day, a little chilly but mostly sunny
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* N2 @ 1450, span @ 1075

* grabbed soil and tcs data

* tried new snow temp probe with a terminal strip connection instead of the 
  amp connector (see details): there seems to be a problem with getting enough
  power through the smaller wires of the extension to the larger wires of 
  the probe, i.e. when everything was connected the probe worked only 
  intermittently

* got some GPS data around the tower (see details): borrowed the new Trimble 
  GPS from LTER and brought it out to the tower for the day. Got four corner
  points for each of the towers (main, canopy, north canopy); got several spots
  along the trail between the main tower and the north canopy tower, including
  one spot that is adjacent to the soil logger; got a point for each of the 
  sonic snow depth sensors. 

  Note: the GPS was not working too well today. It only worked in mid-afternoon.
  There is a desktop computer (from Todd Ackerman) in the LTER lab that should
  be used for downloading data from the new Trimble unit.

* brought the suitcase that was in the shed out to the robot

Site trip on Friday, October 31, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Sean

Weather: exceptional day; warm and calm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* brought up a new N2 tank from Ramaley, cc264970

* from 10:30-11:15 MST, removed csat 0438 at 21.5m, added csat 0328 at 21.5m 
  (w/ "rain" upgrade)

* at 14:30 MST, added csat 0438 at 5.7m

* at 14:30 MST, started ops49 (added a TC at 30cm AGL to UCB logger)

* at 14:30 MST, started running "ucb_10.csi" on UCB logger

Site trip on Thursday, October 30, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Maggie, Nicole

Weather: very windy in the morning then calm after midday; warm throughout
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* did all of Maggie's new growth collections

* helped winterize NT's plots

* checked on tanks running at the tower, both okay

* brought up a new N2 tank from Ramaley, cc264964 

Site visit on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Maggie, Nicole, Sean

Weather: very warm, calm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* N2 @ 1610, span @ 1150 

* cleaned the krypton

* transferred our last amp connector to the snow temp probe that is known to 
  be working; connected this probe to the mrs logger and sent mrs_03c.dld to the
  logger but the probe was not working; when we tested this probe during our
  last visit I wired the probe's leads directly into the logger; on this visit
  the probe was connected to the 75 foot extension I prepared for it...we
  checked the wires in the extension with the multimeter and found that two of
  the four wires have infinite resistance...something is wrong either with the
  cable itself or the connections at the amp connector pins...probably at the
  pins because the cable is new

    probe|  red    black    blue    brown
    ---------------------------------------
    cable| black   brown    green    red
    ---------------------------------------  
  pin_loc|  1        2        4        3
    ---------------------------------------  
  log_loc|  pwr     gnd       2H       C6

Site trip on Friday, October 24, 2008
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At the site: Jeff, Sean

Weather: cold, very windy
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* at 11:40 MDT, started ops48 (added extra co2 param, "co2b.ec," and removed 
  one accelerometer)

* N2 @ 1700, span @ 1100 

* got a snow temp probe working with mrs_03c.dld (see details for wiring)
  
  > wiring for "new" snow temp probe: red-->power, black-->ground, blue-->2H,
    orange--> C6

* start of a gas inventory...need to survey the site for most current info 
 
     Date	  JD	   Tank#        Gas	  location	  status
 ==============================================================================
     9/4/08       248     cc282376      span      tower           running 1700
                          cc193097      N2        tower           retired 225
                          cc125575      N2        tower           running 1925
                          cc199497      span      tower           retired
                          cc176242      N2        tower           ready
                          cc198519      N2        tower           ready
                          cc282352      span      trlr            ready
                          cc2622878     N2        trlr            ready
                          SG9151924BAL  span      trlr            ready
     9/9/08       253     cc193097      N2        trlr            return
                          cc199497      span      trlr            return 
    10/14/08      288     cc282360      span      trailer         needs cal
                          cc199722      N2	  trlr            ready 
    10/16/08      290     cc153480      span      trailer         needs cal
                          cc245057      span      trailer         needs cal
                          cc125575      N2        tower           retired, empty
                          cc262287      N2        tower           running 1850
    10/21/08      295     cc264924      N2        N324            ready
    10/24/08      298     cc125575      N2        N324            100 psi
                          cc262287      N2	  tower           running 1700
                          cc282376      span      tower           running 1150
    10/28/08      302     cc264924      N2        trlr            ready, full
                          cc282376      span      tower           running, 1150
                          cc262287      N2        tower           running, 1610
    10/30/08      304     cc264964      N2        trlr            ready, full
    10/31/08      305     cc199722      N2        trlr            ready
                          cc264970      N2        trlr            ready, full
    11/03/08      308     cc262287      N2	  tower           running, 1450
                          cc282376      span      tower           running, 1075	    11/12/08      317     cc262287      N2        tower           running, 1125
                          cc282376      span      tower           running, 975             
                             

Site trip on Sunday, October 19, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Maggie, Sean, Nicole, Stan, and Maggie's two dogs, Flurry
and Harley.

Weather: a pretty nice day with temps in the upper 50s and clear skies in the
morning, a very brief snow flurry mid-afternoon

Misc: Flurry and Harley helped Maggie carrie stuff around the forest while she 
was taking dendrometer band measurements
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Installed the new soil moisture sensors (cs-616s) and re-deployed some of 
  the cs-615 sensors in new locations so that each one is co-located with a 
  snow depth sensor (see details)...details are forthcoming 

* N2 cylinder was at approx 1830 psi (so leak is most likely in the N2 zero 
  cal of the LI-6262)

* made an amp connector extension with 75 ft. of cable for one of the new soil 
  temp sensors, but the sensor didn't seem to work...maybe not the same one 
  we tested at the mrs logger? We tested one new probe and it seemed to work. 
  I thought this probe was back in the shed but I couldn't find it there. We 
  had a different but similar probe out from the trailer but it didn't seem
  to work like the probe we previously tested. Need to figure out where the 
  first probe went...

 new cable==>amp conn pos==>snow temp probe cable
=============================================
  black ==> pos 1 ==> black
  brown ==> pos 2 ==> blue
  green ==> pos 4 ==> orange
    red ==> pos 3 ==> red

Site trip Thursday, October 16, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Sean, Lynette, Steve Oncley

Weather: cold and windy, still some snow on the ground around the tower

Misc. Steve Oncley ran tram for a few hours, about 20 non-consecutive laps 
around the track. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* brought up the last two cylinders from Ramaley, both span, CC153480 
  and CC245057

* N2 (CC125575) bled almost dry since Tuesday! a leak somewhere in the 
  system...retired this cylinder 

* see below for Sean's notes on the leak...

* started new N2 cylinder CC262287 at 1850 psi

* span @ 1250 psi 

* swapped the mag. perch. and indicator tube at the LI-6251 

* an e-mail from Sean to Andrew Turnipseed on Friday, 10/17/08:

  ...after taking a look in the LI-6262 box yesterday it looks like only one 
  of the two smaller parker valves on the left side of the box is actually 
  being used...I think this means we could replace the valve on the far 
  left side with an elbow and use that valve as a spare if we need to. I know 
  you are busy with lots of other things, but I wanted to give you a quick
  update about what happened yesterday and if you have any ideas/suggestions 
  I would be glad to hear them...unfortunately I forgot to bring your notebook 
  with all the diagrams (i'll try to remember to bring that next time i'm in 
  the trailer)...I think i was able to figure most of it out by looking
  at it...here are some details about what happened:

  1. when jeff went up on Tuesday the N2 calibrations "magically"
  started working again...the cals had been having problems for the past
  3-4 days where the flow rate would go way down during the N2 part of
  the cal.  the span part of the cal seemed to be ok.  the cal at 8 AM
  that morning had this same problem, but the one at noon was ok (which
  was before Jeff had done anything except go up the tower to download
  logger data).  After the noon calibration worked, jeff checked it
  manually at the box and it still worked fine.  The N2 cylinder was at
  700 psi on Tuesday.  I suspect when he walked up the tower it shook
  the box, so that some connection in the box moved and then it started
  working again....i don't have any other explaination for why it
  suddenly started working again...

  2. the cals appear to have kept on working fine since tuesday...but
  when we were at the site yesterday the N2 cylinder was near zero psi.
  (there was still 20 psi on the line side of the regulator).

  So it appears that we have a leak in the N2-part of the system
  somewhere...i have assumed this leak is not in the flow through the
  reference cells unless it is before (or at) the needle valve in the
  LI-6251 box....if there was a leak downstream of that needle valve
  then it would be the same as the normal flow that goes through those
  reference cells (plus the needle valve drops the pressure so most of
  those connections are at low pressure)...

  one other note that seems relevant/important: as i was tightening wa
  loose screw in the LI-6262 box i felt a buzz/burning in my hand...the
  entire back metal panel of that box is "hot".  So i suspect there is a
  short somewhere...this might explain part of what is going on.  We
  tested this by putting the multi-meter between the terminal strip (the
  one just to the left of the flow meter in the photo) and the back
  panel and it showed 120VAC.  testing the relays everything seemed to
  be ok (ie, the 120VAC would get passed through there as it should be)...

  in an effort to isolate the leak we left everything hooked up, but
  capped off the line before it went into the N2 line on the top of the
  LI-6262 box (see photo).  This was to check whether or not there was
  an internal leak or not in any of the fittings within the box....and
  it appears that N2 is typically within the line from the 2nd valve on
  the right up until the 2-way big blue galtek valve.  This is because
  the smaller parker valve is normally-open in this configuration. . .

  anyway, we are going to try and get the leak isolated and then we can
  better figure out what's going on from there...If we isolate the leak
  to somewhere inside the LI-6262 box and can't figure out where it is,
  we may pull the box and take it back to the trailer and then really
  start ripping it apart (depends on the weather)...i'll list a few more
  things we checked below...sorry for the long-winded email!


						SpB.




1. did a leak check on the tubing going from the N2 cylinder up to the
   boxes (capped the lines at the boxes).  This seemed ok, but maybe
   we did not let it sit long enough...at least there did not seem to
   be a major leak.

2. removed the dessicant/soda lime attached to the N2 regulator.

3. checked dekaron tubing running up the tower from the N2 for any
   obvious wear/cracks, etc...didn't notice anything obvious.

4. tried to snoop all the fittings with high-pressure N2. (didn't find
   anything obvious).

5. re-tightened all tees/fittings going from the N2 cylinder up to the
   LI-COR boxes.  Removed one extraneous tee for N2 that went into the
   LI-6262 box (I think this was probably a remanant of an old
   configuration of the system).  Rather than use this TEE/line ran
   the dekabon tubing directly in the fitting at the top of the box.

6. in an effort to isolate the problem we kept the system running with
   everything connected in the LI-6251 box, but with only the ref gas
   running through the LI-6262 box (capped the line going into the N2
   calibration).


* things left to do/check:

  1. replace all dekaron tubing.

  2. I have assumed that any leak behind the needle valve (in the
     LI-6251 box) would not bleed the N2 cylinder excessively (so do
     not need to worry about leaks downstream of this needle
     valve)....need to check the needle valve more carefullly...it's
     possible the leak could be at the needle valve or just before it.

  3. try to figure out why there is a short in the LI-6262 box.  Has
     it always been like this?

* 3-way Parker valve: 1-141-900, VAC 20 PSIG

* LI-6251 2-way valve, "General Valve Corp" 4-178-900, VAC 100 PSIG

Site visit on Tuesday, October 14, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Nicole

Weather: cold, about 28F when we got up to the trailer, and sunny until midday
when the sky became very overcast, looked like it might snow but never did

Misc: still about 4 inches of snow on the ground around C1 and the tower from
Sunday's snow storm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* brought up 1 new N2 cylinder and 1 new span cylinder to the trailer from 
  Ramaley

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot then changed it to "winter mode" 
  (i.e. 4 flasks every two weeks)

   - to do this I did *0, *4A, AAAAAAAAA (nine more As), 1A (this combo 
     switches from 15 flasks to 4 flasks, with 0 for summer and 1 for winter
   - then I did *0, *4A, 14A, *0 (in this combo the 14 is for bi-weekly
     sampling instead of weekly sampling, and the *0 at the end enters both
     new entries...notice how there is no *0 at the end of the first entry)
   - BE CAREFUL not to hit *0 until after both entries are made because *0 
     updates the program on the logger (effectively power cycling the logger 
     just as if you pulled the green power plug)

* downloaded from soil, UC, UCB, nctc and prof 

* fired up the mrs logger and Noah's logger, sent mrs_03b.dld to the mrs logger

* span @ 1250 psi, N2 @ 700 psi

* from ~1:55-1:58 MDT did a manual N2 calibration of the EC system to test 
  the N2 flow rate

* about the solenoid valves in the LI-6262 box:
  - Of the three smaller valves, two are identical and one is unique. This 
    unique valve is the one that sits between the two big blue valves. This 
    unique valve comes from Parker, with part number 9-823-900, VAC-100 PSIG. 
    The two identical, slightly larger valves, which sit in the upper left 
    corner of the box share the same part number (obviously) but I could not 
    read all of it. What I could see was Parker, 4-209-???. These also have 
    specs of VAC-100 PSIG. The rest of the part number on these two valves was 
    wrapped around to the far side of the valve so I couldn't see all of it.

    As for the two blue valves, there is no brand name on them. One of these 
    valves has part number 203-3414-415 with VAC 115 and s/n 1508019. The 
    other has part number 203-1414-415 with VAC 115 and s/n 1501018. 

Site trip Thurs, Oct 9, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Sean, Nicole, Maggie, Amy

Weather: Sunny and clear at the site (upslope winds). Socked in with clouds 
         down on the plains. nice, pretty calm and warm

Misc: Nicole drove up on her own and traded in the teal Jeep for the gray one
      later in the day
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* finished par wand removal at grove 3

* SpB connected all 8 new CS-616s to soil logger 416 mux, started IC 
 (see notes for details) 

* from 12:15-12:30 MST, removed 5.6m csat (sn 0328) from mini-tower 

* JB, MP and AW hauled most of the PAR equipment out of the forest and back to 
  CU (stored mostly in the "cool" room with the fridge)

  I think only one battery remains at the site, near grove 3

Site trip on Tues, Oct 7, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Sean, Maggie, Nicole, Amy Watson

Weather: cooler, some wind (especially at the top of the ladder), and now most
of the aspen leaves around the site have fallen. 

Misc: 2 robot suitcases in the shed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot

* finished par wand removal at grove 2

* SpB got 5 of the CS616s working and calibrating in some soil near the 
  soil logger

  -in the program he had to account for the addition of another mux, and I 
   think there was a grounding issue as well...Each probe has a ground wire and
   a shield wire that together go to a "shield" port on the mux, but it seems 
   that these shield ports also have to be physically grounded to the mux's 
   main GND port, which is located with the 12V, CLK and RES ports...so SpB 
   connected the shield port he used to the main GND port with some wire

Site visit on Friday, Oct 3, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: Jeff, Sean, Maggie, Nicole, Dave Bowling, Diego, Steve Oncley

Weather: seemed nice early then dark and raining later in the day

Misc notes: Steve Oncley was working on TRAM and did some test runs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* JB, SpB and MP finished removing the PAR wands from grove 1 and started 
  work on grove 2, hauled the adam and some other par equipment back to 
  the trailer 

* SpB troubleshot the CS616s some more...I think this has to continue because
  the probes still aren't working correctly. 

Site visit on Wed, Oct 1, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT, SpB

Weather: cooler, some sun, some clouds
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* tested the replacement laptop at the tower 

* tested some CS616 probes with the soil logger

  we followed the wiring scheme of the 615 for our test, i.e.
  
  you can group three probes together into one mux channel, i.e. 3 orange 
  wires into 1H, 1 green into 1L, 1 green into 2H, and the last green wire
  into 2L. 

  The black and clear wires go together to any shield or GND terminal, and the
  red power wire for each probes runs into a terminal strip which is connected
  to the 12V OUT terminal on the logger

  Here is how we connected the mux to the logger during the test:

        MUX                   WIRE                LOGGER
        ---                   ----                ------
        12V                   red                 power out 12V
        GND                   black               power out ground
        RES                   green               C2
        CLOCK                 blue                C3
        COM 2H                red                 SE 8
        COM 2L                black               SE 9
        COM 1H                white               C4
        COM 1L                green               SE 10   

  

Site visit on Tues, Sept 30, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT, SpB
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* span @ 1450, N2 @ 1200 

* swapped 15 flasks at west robot 

* added 2 accelerometers to the "fast" logger

* started running ops47 (added 2 accelerometers)

* started digging holes for the CS616 probes 

site trip on Tues, Sept 23, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB, NT

Weather: cool, sunny; Clear and cool (classic fall day). The Aspens around 
the site are near peak color. Very bright
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* from 10:10-11:50 MST, Replaced tubing, heat exchanger and Nu-Pro filters 
  in the LI-6262 flux system

* Tested a new snow temperature probe to the cr10 logger (note the wiring 
  needed re-doing) 

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB, NT.

Purpose of visit: try calibrating a LI-7500.

Weather: sunny and warm...clear skies.  classic fall
day.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the grey jeep.

* there was a pine tree that looked like it was a beetle-kill right by
como creek.  we took a few photos and the holes for the beetle (if
that's what they are) are quite small.

* nicole was doing soil respiration.

---------

* hauled an N2 cylinder (number??) from the trailer out to the tower

* from XX:XX-XX:XX, changed profiler (li-6251) desiccant
  from XX:XX-XX:XX, turned off pump

  from XX:XX-XX:XX, blow test

* tested out calibration of LI-7500 (using LI-610)

   - the LI-610 was borrowed from Dave Bowling (utah)

   - at 12:49 MST, LI-610 T= 17.62 degC.

   - when we tried to change the "temperature set" knobs on
     the front panel of the LI-610 nothing would happen...it
     was fixed at 0 degC.

   - created two files with 1-hz LI-7500 data (this is done with a
     data-logging feature on the LI-7500 software).  The datafiles
     are:

       69231 Sep 16 13:30 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/licor_cal.dat*
      146016 Sep 16 14:01 /data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/licor_cal_b.dat*

   - the events are:

        In file:  licor_cal.dat

        at 13:20 MST, started running zero air through the LI-7500

        at 13:25 MST, flowed co2 from s-m cylinder JJ23865, nominal 448 ppm)
                      through the LI-7500


        In file:  licor_cal_b.dat  (started at 13:32 MST)

        at 13:32 MST, flowed co2 from JJ23865

        at 13:36 MST, disconnected.  regulator at 2 psi (this might be N2?).

        at 13:38 MST, increased regulator pressure to 5 or 6 psi.

        at 13:39 MST, disconnected.

        at 14:42 MST, connected LI-610 at 27 mmol/mol h2o.
            Tdew started at 18 deg then went down to zero.  then
            overshot zero and came back up.  went down to around
            Tdew = -5 degC.

     - after returning to campus tried to use LI-610 again and still
       could not set the Temperature.  After consulting with Dave B.,
       we sent it back to LI-COR for a re-cal.

* re-made TC connected to soil logger (am25t mux, chan_20)

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot

site visit on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

* swapped 15 flasks at west robot

* downloaded from uc, ucb, cnr, prof, met, nctc, soil, tcs

* re-deployed the ATI 2-D sonic anemometer on the main tower

* span @ 1690 psi, N2 @ 1800 psi 

* hauled an old span cylinder and an old N2 cylinder back to the trailer, 
  hauled a new span cylinder out to the tower 

Site visit on Thursday, September 4, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

  this was a Merced work day but I new the N2 tank at the tower was getting
  low so I ran out to check on it and ended up swapping it with a fresh tank

* span @ 1700 psi

* swapped N2 tanks at the tower. retired N2 cc193097 at 225 psi and started 
  cc1255575 @ 1925 psi 

* cylinder info:

  at tower-span (running) CC282376; N2 (running) CC125575; N2, new, CC176242;
  N2, new, CC198519

  in Ramaley-1x N2, new; 3x ~400 ppm span, new; 

  in trailer, ready for tower-span, new, CC282352; span, new, SG9151924BAL;
  N2, new, CC262287 

Site visit on Tuesday, September 2, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT

* N2 @ 300 psi, span @ 1700 psi

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot

* JB helped NT with soil resp measurements

Site visit on Tuesday, August 26, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT

Weather: very windy
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* downloaded from soil and Tcs

* span @ 1850 psi, N2 @ 500 psi 

* removed KZ par sensor from the tower (cnr logger, diff channel 9, white wire
  goes to H, green wire to L, clear wire to ground)

* cleaned krypton

* changed out the magnesium perchlorate and indicator at the LI-6251 

Site trip on Monday, August 25, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT

* swapped 15 flasks

* removed ATI 2-D sonic from the tower and brought to ATI in Longmont 
  for test/repair 

* JB helped NT with soil respiration measurements in the afternoon

Site trip Monday, August 18, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB

Weather: sunny, cooler

* brought two more N2 cylinders up to the site from Ramaley and stocked 
  these at the tower 

* snapped new phenology pics

* started a leak check in the trailer with the new co2 regulator 
  (i.e. new stem and nipple) 

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot

* N2 @ 700 psi, span @ 150 psi 

* swapped span cylinders (retired cc199497, started cc282376 @ 1925 psi)

*  swapped moisture trap and indicator at the LI-6251 
   (zero was at 0.100, so I re-zeroed it to 0.000) 

Monday, August 11th, 2008 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB/JB, SH/SL.

Purpose of visit: swap out quacker (testing).  robot.

Weather: There were puddles on the road so probably some rain the
previous night---Big CuNimbus clouds around (esp up near the divide).
Thought it would rain, but it was actually a bit sunny and nice for
most of the day.  It did rain at around 2:30'ish...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the teal jeep---there was some slight problem where
anti-freeze/coolant came out while we were parked at MRS.  checked the
radiator and it seemed full there (though the res. was empty).

* stan was doing soil respiration.

---------

* started ops46; this was moving the 2-d handar from the UC logger to
the UCB logger.  New programs were written for each logger (need to
get details about the programs).  Here are some details:

ops46    2008 aug 11 18:32:00 - 2010 jan 01 16:00:00

-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster     6253338 Aug 11 11:33 nwt080811.160000 <- old quacker, ops45
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster      743108 Aug 11 12:07 nwt080811.174648 <- new quacker, ops45
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster      264878 Aug 11 12:14 nwt080811.181027 <- new quacker, ops45
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster      708712 Aug 11 12:32 nwt080811.182048 <- old quacker, ops45

-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster    20881790 Aug 11 18:00 nwt080811.183204 <- ops46
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster    31331258 Aug 12 02:00 nwt080812.000000

  first data file:       aster    20881790 Aug 11 18:00 /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt080811.183204
   last data file:

* moved the 2-d handar at 1.5m from UC logger (chan200 at 10-hz) to
  the UCB logger (chan202 at 1-hz).

* before starting ops46 a replacement quacker laptop (a dell inspiron
7500) was tested.  the files "nwt080811.174648" and "nwt080811.181027"
are using the replacement quacker laptop.  the data are not coming in
at quite a high enough sample rate, ie:

data_stats < /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt080811.181027
Opened: 
chan   #points     start time            end time     delta time    freq
200       2418    18:10:27.591    18:16:19.259        351.668    6.873
201       2408    18:10:28.733    18:16:19.232        350.499    6.867
202        240    18:10:30.256    18:16:19.260        349.004    0.685
203        241    18:10:30.805    18:16:18.805        348.000    0.690
204        240    18:10:31.857    18:16:18.839        346.982    0.689
205        237    18:10:32.857    18:16:18.856        345.999    0.682
206       2360    18:10:33.752    18:16:19.264        345.512    6.828
207        235    18:10:35.302    18:16:19.308        344.006    0.680

switching back to the old quacker gives:

data_stats < /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt080811.182048
Opened: 
chan   #points     start time            end time     delta time    freq
200       6331    18:20:48.627    18:31:21.928        633.301    9.995
201       6347    18:20:49.706    18:31:24.300        634.594   10.000
202        634    18:20:50.732    18:31:23.737        633.005    1.000
203        633    18:20:52.273    18:31:24.272        631.999    1.000
204        632    18:20:53.306    18:31:24.306        631.000    1.000
205        630    18:20:54.326    18:31:23.326        629.000    1.000
206       6296    18:20:54.748    18:31:24.270        629.522   10.000
207        629    18:20:55.784    18:31:23.794        628.010    1.000
216        628    18:20:57.221    18:31:24.244        627.023    1.000

* the data actually seemed to be sampled just fine at the new quacker, ie:

more ndaq_on_new_quacker_info.txt

[~] ndaqstatus quacker
*** System Status *********************************************************
Start time:   Mon Aug 11 12:10:26 2008
Restart time: Mon Aug 11 12:10:26 2008
                       Socket  Socket    Max    Min
  Time  Sample    Lost  Write    Temp Socket Socket Socket Buffered   Total Archive
  Diff    Rate Samples Errors Unavail  Write  Write   Rate  Samples Samples  BadTTs
  msec     #/s       #      #       #  bytes  bytes byte/s        #       #       #
     0   21.74       0      0       4  16380      0    735     1032    1074       0
***************************************************************************

*** A2D Status ****************************
A2D    Total    5min   Total   User
      Sample  Missed  Missed Intrpt
        Rate Samples Samples   Rate
         #/s       #       #    #/s
           0       0       0      0

    A2D Sample
channel   Rate MinV MaxV  VRes
      #    #/s    V    V    uV
*******************************************

*** Serial Port Status ****************************************************************************
port                           flow     Msg Sep Msg  read sampl  min  max readerrs writerrs overflow
name         chan   baud p/d/s cntl     Sep Loc Len  /sec  /sec read read 5min cum 5min cum 5min cum
/dev/ttyUSB0  200   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  28  9.94  9.94   30   30   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB1  201   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  34  9.92  9.92   36   61   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB2  202   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0 0.988 0.977   56   61   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB3  203   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  24     1     1   26   26   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB4  204   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  26     1     1   28   28   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB5  205   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  22     1     1   24   24   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB6  206   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0  9.91  9.91   30   38   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB7  207   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  26 0.988 0.988   28   29   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyS0    216   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0     0     0    0    0   0    0   0    0   0    0
***************************************************************************************************

so I'm suspecting the issue is getting the data from the quacker over
to russter2...this problem might be due to the old network pcmcia card
that we were using with the new quacker (it's my old card from the
late 1990s)???

* logfiles from the new quacker on russter2 in ~sburns, ie:

-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster     3434869 Aug 11 12:10 cuff.log.newquacker
-rw-rw-r--    1 sburns   aster      718304 Aug 11 12:10 messages.log.newquacker

an example of these messages:

tail -100 cuff.log.newquacker

Aug 11 11:46:47 quacker logger: socket to russter2 port 8000: getSendBufferSize()=16384
Aug 11 11:46:47 quacker logger: RawSampleBuffer(id=3086597008,Non-RT,prior=0,joinable,cancel=deferred) run...
Aug 11 11:46:47 quacker logger: SensorPortHandler(id=3076107152,Non-RT,prior=0,joinable,cancel=deferred) run...
Aug 11 11:46:48 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB0
Aug 11 11:46:49 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB1
Aug 11 11:46:50 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB2
Aug 11 11:46:51 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB3
Aug 11 11:46:52 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB4
Aug 11 11:46:53 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB5
Aug 11 11:46:54 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB6
Aug 11 11:46:55 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB7
Aug 11 11:46:56 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyS0
Aug 11 11:46:56 quacker logger: DaqMonitorRPC(id=3065617296,Non-RT,prior=0,joinable,cancel=deferred) run...
Aug 11 12:06:17 quacker logger: IOException in main: IOException: socket to russter2 port 8000: connect: No route to host
Aug 11 12:07:20 quacker logger: IOException in main: IOException: socket to russter2 port 8000: connect: No route to host
Aug 11 12:08:23 quacker logger: IOException in main: IOException: socket to russter2 port 8000: connect: No route to host
Aug 11 12:09:26 quacker logger: IOException in main: IOException: socket to russter2 port 8000: connect: No route to host
Aug 11 12:10:26 quacker logger: socket to russter2 port 8000: getSendBufferSize()=16384
Aug 11 12:10:26 quacker logger: RawSampleBuffer(id=3086728080,Non-RT,prior=0,joinable,cancel=deferred) run...
Aug 11 12:10:26 quacker logger: SensorPortHandler(id=3076238224,Non-RT,prior=0,joinable,cancel=deferred) run...

tail -100 messages.log.newquacker

Aug 11 12:09:24 quacker kernel: eth0: coax cable problem
Aug 11 12:09:29 quacker kernel: eth0: flipped to 10baseT
Aug 11 12:09:45 quacker system-config-network[2575]: -+ //etc/modprobe.conf     eth0 alias 3c589_cs
Aug 11 12:09:45 quacker modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting radio_maestro (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-maestro.ko):\
 Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Aug 11 12:09:45 quacker modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting radio_maestro (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-maestro.ko):\
 Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Aug 11 12:09:45 quacker kernel: radio_maestro: Unknown parameter `index'
Aug 11 12:09:45 quacker kernel: radio_maestro: Unknown parameter `index'
Aug 11 12:09:46 quacker system-config-network[2575]: chmod 0644 //etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
Aug 11 12:09:46 quacker system-config-network[2575]: chmod 0644 //etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0.bak
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Withdrawing address record for 10.0.0.2 on eth0.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.0.0.2.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: iface.c: interface_mdns_mcast_join() called but no local address available.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::260:97ff:fe91:7b3d on eth0.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::260:97ff:fe91:7b3d.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: iface.c: interface_mdns_mcast_join() called but no local address available.
Aug 11 12:09:50 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Interface eth0.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Aug 11 12:09:55 quacker kernel: eth0: flipped to 10baseT
Aug 11 12:09:56 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Aug 11 12:09:56 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::260:97ff:fe91:7b3d.
Aug 11 12:09:56 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Registering new address record for fe80::260:97ff:fe91:7b3d on eth0.
Aug 11 12:09:58 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Aug 11 12:09:58 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.0.0.2.
Aug 11 12:09:58 quacker avahi-daemon[2110]: Registering new address record for 10.0.0.2 on eth0.
Aug 11 12:10:05 quacker kernel: eth0: flipped to 10baseT

( note there are some issues with the pcmcia network card )....


* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1027391 Aug 11 11:41 uc8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      807209 Aug 11 12:29 ucb8_11.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster          72 Aug 11 12:30 ucb8_11b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster         294 Aug 11 12:49 ucb8_11c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1028307 Aug 11 13:11 nctc8_11.dat*

Friday, August 8th, 2008 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, LL.

Purpose of visit: swap out quacker (testing).

Weather: Sunny at the tower; socked in down on the plains
for most of the day.  A HUGE cap cloud up on the divide.  Thought
it might rain, but the weather stayed nice all day.

--------- Misc Notes:

* Took up the teal jeep (grey jeep still at the shop).

* LL was working on PAR/Tsoil network.

---------

* at 10:00 MST, put an approx 4 deg angle on KZ PAR sensor (low
end toward North, high end toward South).

* at approx 11 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer.

* used sextant to site prop-vanes.  (add details here):

* tried to check on soil moisture probes N1/N2 (to confirm which one
was at which depth).  They are buried very deeply and this was not
going to be easy without completely digging up these sensors.  So rather
than completely disturb the soil we left them as-is.  The connections
at the soil logger are:

  N1 = chan23
  N2 = chan24

* strung up a section of steel cable over the MRS snow temp
probes (the fishing line had broken).

* tried to figure out where the problem was with the broken probe
(probe#2/Tb/"far sensor from tree").  the clock port was showing 5V
(and the other two sensors showed approx 0.4 V).  When we disconnected
the wires then the clock port was fine...we found a short between the
clock wire (black) and power/+5V wire (red).  So we disconnected the
sensor from the wire and the short dis-appeared.  (this indicates the
short is internal to the sensor).

called MRC (253.851.3200) and talked to Pat Martka (who sent the
original fax to Mark Loseleben).  They still make these sensors and
are going to get back to me with some other ideas about possibly
fixing this one.

* tried to check on the intermittent TC connected to soil logger
am25t, but they all appeared to be working??

     21,     at +20cm, located closest to tree snowT probes, 48cm North of "tree" probe (A3537).
     22,     at -20cm, located between tree and mid snowT probes, 118cm North of "tree" probe and -35cm from mid probe (A3537).
     channels added on 10/30/07:
     23,     at 0cm, located between mid and far snowT probes, 67cm from "mid" probe (A3537).
     24,     at -20cm, located closest to tree snowT probes, 48cm North of "tree" probe (A3537).
     25,     at -20cm, located between mid and far snowT probes, 67cm from "mid" probe (A3537).

 * when i was checking the am25t, chan20 had a loose wire which i
   re-attached.  Also, reconnected chan21 since this was giving
   intermittent data.

* brought N2 cylinder CC262308 back to campus.

Monday, August 4th, 2008 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB/JB, SH/SL.

Purpose of visit: swap out quacker (testing).  robot.

Weather: There were puddles on the road so probably some rain the
previous night---Big CuNimbus clouds around (esp up near the divide).
Thought it would rain, but it was actually a bit sunny and nice for
most of the day.  It did rain at around 2:30'ish...

--------- Misc Notes:

* We went to use the grey jeep in the morning---it was sitting in the
parking lot with a FLAT tire (that had clearly been driven on).
details:

 Date:    Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:01:21 MDT
 To:      jia.hu@Colorado.EDU, amy.trowbridge@Colorado.EDU,
          Nicole.Trahan@Colorado.EDU, Stanfield.Lee@Colorado.EDU,
          chelsea.bear@Colorado.EDU, samual.hagopian@Colorado.EDU,
          Lynette.Laffea@Colorado.EDU, Maggie.Prater@Colorado.EDU
 cc:      jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU, Sean.Burns@Colorado.EDU
 From:    Jeffrey Mark Beauregard 
 Subject: gray Jeep


 Hi everyone.

 A few of us met on campus this morning (Mon. 8/4) to take the Jeep to
 Niwot Ridge and discovered two flat tires. The front right tire is
 totally deflated and the rear right tire is on its way. Does anyone
 know anything about this? Did anyone use the Jeep over the weekend
 and/or notice low tire pressure at any time recently ?

 We are bringing the Jeep down to the motor pool in a little bit so the
 two tires can be repaired. We'll have the green Jeep for today and
 most likely will have to return it tomorrow morning and get the gray
 Jeep back (which should be fixed by then).

 Jeff

the "mystery" as to what happened has not been solved.

* stan and sam were doing soil respiration.

---------
* at approx 12:30 MST, Changed profiler (li-6251) dessicant

* note, my watch is around 10 seconds slow (relative to russter2 time).

* from 11:30-11:45, messed around with the 16m prop-vane.  From approx
  11:50-11:55 the prop vane was pointed directly along the boom.

  -- note, we were connected to the met logger with a laptop so we
     don't have any WD data for the time period we did this.  (need
     to re-do).

* from 12:23-12:24 MST, fixed the 25m prop-vane.  at 12:24 MST, held
  prop to create a short period of zero WS.  a look at the
  WD data shows the stats to be:

  mean(WD) = 379.407 = 19.407 (if remove 360), std dev= 0.975

* once we know the direction relative to the boom then we just
  need to determine boom directions (with Steve Oncleys sextant).

* from 12:44-12:50 MST, messed around with flow rates and pressures
  for the LI-6262/EC system.  details:

                             sample     span     N2
  at 12:44 MST,  Pres         54        54.9     60.3
                 Flow        8.55       8.72     9.84

  decreased N2 pressure slightly (from 20-18 psi) then get:
  (and maybe a small tweak to the needle valve??)

                             sample     span     N2
  at 12:49 MST,  Pres        54.2       55.13    55.29
                 Flow        8.52       8.72     8.81


* slow ozone (TECO) pump was dead...here's the info:

 Date:    Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:13:21 MDT
 To:      Andrew Turnipseed 
 cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU
 From:    Sean Burns 
 Subject: Re: Pump for "slow" ozone system...


 HI Andrew,

 on june 12th we turned on the TECO system and it was running
 fine...looking at the co-var voltages the pump died 10 days later
 early in the morning on 22 june.  you can double-check it, but it was
 definitely not moving air yesterday...

 that pump seemed a bit pricey to me, so thanks for the warning about
 this.  there's a slim chance i'm going up on thursday, but i will
 definitely be up on friday.

 if you need me to order anything or do something else to help
 with the ozone replacement pump just let me know...

 thanks,

                                 SpB.

  > Sean
  > Surprised to hear the pump went out - last time i was up there, i
  > thought I checked on the TECO and it seemed to be running fine.  Oh well.
  > I have usually replaced the pump myself.  Don't get one from Thermo -
  > they mark it up about a factor of 3.  I may have a spare around here -
  > but I usually get them directly from KNF (the one in there is not the
  > original).  I'm actually probably going to go up there with Romain on
  > Thursday - I'll see if I have a replacement and switch it out.  I'll
  > also look for the tensiometers when I'm up there.
  > thanks.
  >
  > andrew
  >
  >
  > Sean Burns wrote:
  > > Hi Andrew,
  > > fyi--i took a quick look a the slow ozone sensor yesterday...and it
  > > looks like the pump for the ozone (TECO) sensor (sn 49C-57678-314)
  > > died around June 22nd.  I called Thermo Environment Instruments, Inc
  > > (508-520-0430) and a new pump (it's a KNF 8550) would cost $652.00.
  > >
  > > Do you think we should try and gerry-rig something with our extra GAST
  > > pump...or does this cause problems since there is a calibration or
  > > anything else that the TECO does?  if we use the gast pump, would we
  > > need to reduce the flow rate at all?
  > >
  > > also, i was going to email you about the cable tensiometer...i forgot
  > > to look for it yesterday..do you want me to bring it down to ncar??
  > > i can get it on friday if that makes it easier for you...
  > >
  > > thanks,
  > >
  > >                                    SpB.
  > >
  > >


* downloaded logger data (no time problems, but screwed up and
  had to do "download all" of "prf" data):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      968475 Aug  4 11:22 prf8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      967572 Aug  4 11:35 prf8_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      300009 Aug  4 11:38 prf8_4c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff     1127947 Aug  4 11:50 met8_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      663716 Aug  4 12:19 cnr8_4.dat*

* swapped flasks at the west robot,

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       41896 Aug  4 13:39 080804w.dat*

Monday, July 28th, 2008 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB/JB, MP/SH/BH/NM, NT/SL.

Purpose of visit: PAR wands and robot.

Weather: Cool and overcast in the morning.  Some rain in the
afternoon.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the "old school" suburban (extended the rental one week).

---------

* more wand work at grove 2.

* grabbed the soil and TC logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1182790 Jul 28 13:06 soil7_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      133490 Jul 28 13:08 soil7_28b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1219069 Jul 28 13:19 tc7_28.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      183202 Jul 28 13:21 tc7_28b.dat*

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot.

* note, need to fix up the snowtemp probes, also need to fix a few of
the TCs connected to the soil logger--and check on the cs-616 probes.

* here is an email from Kurt about upcoming power work along Niwot
Ridge (not supposed to cause us any problems):

 Date:    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:05:35 MDT
 To:      "Lara Kueppers" 
 cc:      "William D Bowman" ,
          steven.seibold@colorado.edu, Kelly.Matheson@colorado.edu,
          "Scott Ferrenberg" ,
          "Mark Williams" ,
          "Todd M Ackerman" ,
          "Hope Humphries" ,
          "Detlev Helmig" ,
          "Jacques Hueber" ,
          "Molly Brodin" ,
          "Andy Watt" , "John Miller" ,
          "Sam Oltmans" ,
          "Marrie Sleziak" , "Karl Hudnut" ,
          SG-24 ,
          "Casey Joseph Flynn" ,
          "Sean Burns" ,
          "Peter Blanken" ,
          "John Knowles" 
 From:    "Kurt Chowanski" 
 Subject: Re: Scheduling electrical work


 Hi all
 A new warming experiment is being started at the MRS this summer.  It
 requires a few changes to our current power setup, these changes are
 estimated to take about 6 weeks durring which time there will be many power
 outages above C1.  I have been told that nothing at C1 will be affected.
 Below I have made a short list of users who may be affected by these
 outages.  Please respond with any concerns you may have regarding timing and
 duration of these power outages, and pass along to anyone I may have missed.

 The equipment I have at the Soddie, and Saddle can have a maximum power
 outage of 2 days and still be operational.

 Cheers
 Kurt

 Soddie
 Detlev Helmig ,
 Jacques Hueber ,
 Molly Brodin ,

 TVAN
 Andy Watt ,
 John B Miller 
 Peter Blanken 
 John Knowles 

 Saddle
 Sam Oltmans 
 Marrie Sleziak 
 Karl Hudnut 
 

 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Lara Kueppers wrote:

 > Dear Bill, Kurt, Steve and Kelly,
 > We've submitted the first PO for electrical work up the hill, and I expect
 > to submit other requests shortly. Rainbow is starting to put together a
 > schedule for the work and John Laydon had the following request:
 >
 > "If you could get everybody on the mountain to give their concerns (maximum
 > outage, is one day better than another, are they even needing power at all,
 > ect.). Understand that nobody at C-1 will be affected other than vehicle
 > traffic. It is all from cable gate up."
 >
 >
 > I know Bill and Kurt have started to discuss this, but I just wanted to
 > pass along the more detailed request from John, and ask who should be the
 > liaison between other power users and Rainbow in terms of scheduling. I can
 > certainly take the lead, but I think it would be good to have someone on
 > site involved in case anything unexpected come up. At the very least, I
 > think several of us should have the list of affected locations and who the
 > primary contacts are for those locations.
 >
 > John has said he expects the work to be done over a period of ~6 weeks.  It
 > will mostly be him and one other person. For locations where we will be
 > housing equipment in small sheds, there will be a third individual just to
 > build the shed.
 >
 > Finally, Bill, if any concerns have come up about the new design, please
 > let us know as soon as possible.
 >
 > Thanks everyone!
 > Lara
 >
 >

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MP/JH/CB, NT/SL.

Purpose of visit: PAR wands.

Weather: Overcast in the morning.  Then some rumbles of thunder in the
afternoon and a quick rain shower.  (we hid out in the USGS "hut").

--------- Misc Notes:

* Jeff is on vacation.

---------

* tried to help with the wands.  We swapped out a card at Grove 1, and
then moved the ladder over to grove 2 (and got started on one of the
trees there).

* note, Gordon set things up so the "grove" data are archived on
russter2.  Then each night (or morning) they are copied down to NCAR.

the files look something like:

dir /media/isff1/projects/NIWOT08/raw_data/ | grep 'Jul 28'
drwxr-xr-x 2 maclean eol     4096 Jul 28 18:00 ./
-r--r--r-- 1 maclean eol 23047776 Jul 28 06:00 grove1_20080728_000000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 maclean eol 23668348 Jul 28 18:00 grove1_20080728_120000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 maclean eol 24700336 Jul 28 06:00 grove3_20080728_000000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 maclean eol 24699379 Jul 28 18:00 grove3_20080728_120000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 maclean eol  9194904 Jul 28 06:00 tram_20080728_000000.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 maclean eol  9100256 Jul 28 18:00 tram_20080728_120000.dat

not sure why grove2 data is missing?

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MP/SH/CB/RaM, NT/SL.

Purpose of visit: replace filters in EC/li-6262 system.

Weather: hot in the morning and then cool and cloudy in
the afternoon (seems like the Monsoon has started).


--------- Misc Notes:

* Jeff is on vacation.

---------

* messed with the flow rates/filters for the LI-6262.

   - at 11:38 MST, the flow rate was around 6.45 (lpm?).
     disconnected the pump at the side of the LI-6262 box.
     disconnected the tubing from sample IN/OUT and connected
     these together (to prevent dust, etc from entering sample cell).

   - from 11:40-12:02 MST, replaced the 2-micron NuPro filters
     at the inlet and also in the LI-6262 box.  Note, I first
     did the inlet and that did not make a big change in the flow
     rate.  However, replacing the one in the box caused the
     flow rate to increase dramatically.

   - at 12:07 MST, i re-adjusted the needle valve for the N2/span
     to increase the flow during cals (which i had decreased on
     friday).

   - at 12:09, back to sample...results from 12:10 MST cal:

             Pressure mV         Flow
  sample       54.2              8.59
    span       58                9.75
      N2       56.6              8.65

* swapped flasks at the west robot.

* dave bowlings info about the shed:

Date:    Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:26:56 MDT
To:      russell.monson@Colorado.EDU, jia.hu@Colorado.EDU,
         lynette.laffea@Colorado.EDU, nicole.trahan@Colorado.EDU,
         jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU, maggie.prater@Colorado.EDU,
         amy.trowbridge@Colorado.EDU, michael.wilkinson@Colorado.EDU,
         stanfield.lee@Colorado.EDU, samuel.hagopian@Colorado.EDU,
         chelsea.bear@Colorado.EDU
cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, maclean@ucar.edu, militzer@ucar.edu,
         oncley@ucar.edu, golub@ucar.edu, schwenz@ucar.edu, turnip@ucar.edu,
         Kurt.Chowanski@Colorado.EDU, molotch@seas.ucla.edu,
         John.Knowles@Colorado.EDU, John.B.Miller@noaa.gov, semmer@ucar.edu,
         blanken@Colorado.EDU, Chris.Gray@Colorado.EDU,
         bowling@biology.utah.edu, William.Bowman@Colorado.EDU,
         markw@culter.colorado.edu
From:    Sean Burns 
Subject: Info about Niwot Forest Shed, etc...


Hi All,

see below for important info from Dave Bowling about the shed at the
base of the Monson AmeriFlux tower...please forward this email to any
others that might use the tower/shed that I'm not aware of...Andrew, I
don't have the email for your assistant from France...

also, I wanted to make sure everyone is aware that Jeff and I put a
new fire extinguisher out in the shed last month...it's very
dry/crispy right now up at the site so please be aware of where the
extinguisher is located so you can find it in a hurry....

thanks,
                                        SpB.

-----------------------------------------------
Info from Dave Bowling about the shed and laser:

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:44:46 -0600
From: Dave Bowling 
To: Sean Burns 
Subject: shed rules at Niwot


Sean - can you please forward this to anyone you can think of who might
be users of the shed?
Thanks,
DB


Hi all,

We have had some inadvertent problems with users of the shed at the CU
flux tower.  The shed is there for one reason - to house the TDL so that
high-quality measurements can be made.  The quality of measurements is
being compromised by users of the shed, so hopefully some information
will help.  Please share this email with anyone in your group who might
be inclined to use the shed.

1) You may store things in the shed.  It's ok to be inside - your
presence does not cause problems.  It's ok to use the internet
connection inside (labelled "outside world").  If you're at the site
overnight you are welcome to sleep inside (if you can fit), you can use
it to get out of the rain, eat your lunch, etc.  But you _must _follow
the rules below.

2) Please NEVER leave the doors open.  This causes temperature-related
problems and most data are bad when the doors are open.  Please don't
second-guess me on this because you think it's too hot inside or
something.  Keep the doors shut unless you are moving through them.

3) Please NEVER touch the TDL (the big white instrument inside).  NEVER
set anything on it, bump it, kneel on it, sit on it, etc.  Bumping by
shed-users recently caused the TDL to be knocked out of optical
alignment, which is a problem that requires me to visit from Utah to fix.

4)  If you do accidentally bump it, please email me immediately and tell
me so.  I can check the alignment from Utah and I'd much rather know
about it than lose a month of data.

5) Be very careful not to kick the regulator pressure knobs on the gas
tanks that are on the floor inside.

6) Please minimize vibration while inside the shed.

Thanks for your help!

--
Best,
Dave

Dave Bowling
Dept. of Biology
University of Utah

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Visit:
------------------------------
At the site: SpB, DB, SO, LL.

Purpose of visit: change out MgClO4 for prof system.

Weather: cool and overcast.  some clouds.  i think it was
fairly pleasant...don't fully recall.


--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU suburban (extra one for the flux class).  Duane
  had his sign up and was running his pump.  Parked below C1 (near the
  meadow).

* D. Bowling was improving the ventilation in the shed and also moving
  around some of the laser inlets.

* Jeff is on vacation.

---------

* from 11:30 - 11:48 MST, swapped out the dessicant on the profiler (li-6251).
    - at 11:30 MST, did zero (value is approx 0.006 mV).
    - at 11:46,  did zero + blow test (ok).
                (zero is approx 0.001 mV, span is approx 1.378 mV).
    - at 11:48,  back to auto mode.  flow rate at ~15.

* at 11:51 MST, tightened up the span/N2 valve in the LI-6262
  box..this brought down the flow rate during the LI-6262 cals to
  approx 6.45 which is what it is during the sampling (and seems too
  low).

* did a (very) short stint of work on tram (SO was also there working
  on tram).

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, RkM, DB, JH, MP/SH/CB, NT/SL, etc.

Purpose of visit: The "flux" class was visiting the AmeriFlux tower.

Weather: cool and overcast.  some rain while on the tower, but not
a big storm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU suburban (extra one for the flux class).

* D. Bowling was giving a tour of the laser instrument (out in
  the shed).

* Jeff is on vacation.

---------

* hung out no the tower while the students came up in pairs.

* did a (very) short stint of work on tram.

* listened to the classroom lectures in the afternoon.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MP/SH/CB, NT/SL, JM, etc.

Purpose of visit: listen to campbell demonstration.

Weather: hot.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU suburban (extra one for the flux class).

* checked bowling shed for the pressure bomb hose/connector.

* Jeff was working for UC Merced.

---------

* listened to campbell presentation of the flux instruments setup
outside the trailer (9-noon).

* from 11-11:30 MST, replaced N2 cylinder at the tower:

   N2 removed = CC262308 at 150 psi.
   N2 added = CC193097 at 1900 psi (note this cylinder was quite
   warm having been in the sun.

  leak check seemed fine---also snooped for leaks and seemed
  fine.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, MP/SH/CB, NT/SL, JM

Purpose of visit: hear a few lectures, clean up the trailer, etc.

Weather: Probably warm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU suburban (extra one for the flux class).

* worked on TRAM for a short time.

* we brought the jeep in to have the brakes checked in the
morning (turns out they were fine).

* there was a mountain lion spotted in camp at MRS recently.  it
did not seem too afraid of the people.

* checked bowling shed for the pressure bomb hose/connector.

---------

* listened to Ray Leuning and also Larry Jacobson give talks in
the afternoon.

* did a (very) small bit of work on TRAM around lunch.

* tried to fix up one of our regulators (need to test it):

 Date:    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:19:00 MDT
 To:      jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU
 cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
 From:    Sean Burns 
 Subject: new cga 590 stem and nipple...


 jeff,

 i just attached a new cga 590 fitting for one of the regulators up
 here in the trailer (it's replacing the nipple that would not spin or
 move last week)...sometime next week i'll set up a leak check in the
 trailer to check it for leaks...for now i'll leave it behind
 russter2...


                                        SpB.

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, SO, LL, Mike

Purpose of visit: robots, some tower stuff, help with TRAM.

Weather: Don't recall.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU suburban (extra one for the flux class).

* helped SO at tram in the afternoon

* the summer "flux" class at MRS started this morning.

---------

* brought the N2 cylinder (CC193097) from Como Creek out to the flux
  tower, and brought a new span cylinder (CC282376) from the trailer
  to the tower.  Note that CC193097 belongs to Kurt Chowanski---need
  to check if he wants it back or we should return it to airgas
  ourselves??

* also brought co2 cylinder (CC282376) airgas value= 405.3 ppm out
  to the tower (it's lying on the pallete inside the fence).

* from 10:30-11:15 MST, replaced the ec gast pump.  The old pump is still
  usable, but Andrew said the GAST pump with the ozone flux system was
  fried so thought that he could use the old pump and we'll use the
  new one (note, the flow rate is still rather low for the EC system).

* at 11:30 MST, cleaned the krypton optics

* at 11:45 MST, connected power to fan for 2.5m REBs Rnet sensor (used
  a regulated 12V ac/dc cube for this to try and minimize stressing
  the ucb cr23x logger and battery).

* downloaded data from the soil and tc loggers:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1009828 Jul 14 10:49 soil7_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1077667 Jul 14 11:03 tc7_14.dat*

* swapped 15 flasks at the west robot

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Visit:
-------------------------------
At the site: SpB, RkM, DM, etc.

Purpose of visit: meet with campbell folks, finish setting up matlab
for flux class.

Weather: Hot.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU jeep.

---------

* met with campbell folks (Ed Swiatek, Larry Jacobson, ?) to make sure
  they had what they needed to run the demonstration setup.

* finished the installation of MATLAB on the MRS lab computers that only
have CD drives.  (note, I left our USB DVD drive up in this room in case 
other people need it).

Site visit on Tues, July 8, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SH, NT, CB, SL

Weather: HEAVY hail/rain storm 12:15-12:45 MDT 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* swapped flasks at the robot

* checked the flow meter for the prof pump...moved back up to "15" (prof 
  "flow-meter" ball was at ~13, increased the flow to 15) 

* N2 @ 490, span @ 530

* between 13-14 MST, chan 204 (met logger) was dropping data points 
  (seems ok now) 

Site visit on Thursday, July 3, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB, NT, SL, SH, JH

Purpose: NT and crew to deploy sap-flow sensors, JB and SpB to do some tasks
at the main and mini towers.

Misc. notes: drove up to C1 in the Jeep; encountered a large black bear on the 
road heading down from C1, down by the "short steep section," in some aspens
near a clearing on the north side of the road. This was a healthy looking bear 
but it did not seem aggressive. When we got closer for a better look it 
quickly made its way to the far side of the clearing and headed for the woods 
to the north of the road. Great sighting so close to the trailer. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* span @ 610 psi, N2 @ 675 psi

* at approx 10:00 MST, increased flow in prof system from "9"
to "14".

* 10:15-10:45 MST, changed domes on 26m REBS Rnet sensor

* at 11:00 MST, check LI-7500 at 12m (sn 75H-0084).  AGC= 62%.

* downloaded from cnr, prof, nctc, met, soil, tcs, ucb and uc loggers
no time problems:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       49513 Jul  3 12:43 080703w.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      828956 Jul  3 10:01 cnr7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      419217 Jul  3 10:55 prf7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1067786 Jul  3 11:19 met7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      553048 Jul  3 11:25 nctc7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1194699 Jul  3 11:54 soil7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      195194 Jul  3 12:02 soil7_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1304362 Jul  3 12:15 tc7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      178219 Jul  3 12:21 tc7_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      311461 Jul  3 13:35 ucb7_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      400710 Jul  3 13:50 uc7_3.dat*

* changed internal chemicals in the LI-7500 on the main tower 

* swapped 15 flasks at the robot

* prof pump (KNF UN828 KNI)at the base of the main tower was dead, we replaced
  it with a new pump.  wiring details:
   
    2 black wires
    |    white wire
    |    |    grey and red wires
    |    |    |
    o    o    o       [this is a 6-pin connector that comes
    o    o    o         with the pump].
    |    |     
   "L1" "N" (white wire)
     |
     black

* note, the new pump had a slightly smaller footprint so we 
  drilled new holes in the bottom frame that holds the pump.

To: Jeffrey Mark Beauregard 
cc: sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: June 19th...
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:07:52 -0600
From: Sean Burns 


Jeff,

My question was whether you noticed any air flow in the tubing while
you were changing the inlets??  (assuming the big pump was left
"on")...if you did notice air getting sucked into the tubing then that
would tell us that the knf pump at the base of the tower was running
at that time...if you did NOT notice air being drawn in, then that
would indicate the pump was probably dead at that point...the suction
is not super-strong, but can be noticeable (you can check it for
yourself sometime by putting your finger over an inlet)...

anyway, i was just trying to pin-point what date the KNF pump died...


                                                SpB.




 > Hi Sean.
 >
 > Tomorrow (Friday, July 25), is a CU work day for me. I am just checking all of my
 > CU-related e-mails right now. I do not yet know whether I'll go to campus or to
 > the site. I saw an e-mail from Maggie about PAR work this week, so I was
 > thinking I'd e-mail her to offer my help tomorrow (if they are even going up
 > tomorrow to continue this). Are you going up tomorrow?
 >
 > About the co2 profile, the day when we were working around the mini tower
 > and I swapped all but one of the inlet filters we had the KNF pump off (I don't
 > recall if the other pump was stopped). Last week (or the week before) I
 > discovered that I missed swapping one of the inlets on the mini tower (about
 > head height), so when I did this swap both pump were still running (because the
 > swap took about 3 seconds).
 >
 > Does this answer your question?
 >
 > Jeff
 >
 > ---- Original message ----
 > >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:05:05 -0600
 > >From: Sean Burns 
 > >Subject: June 19th...
 > >To: jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU
 > >Cc: sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
 > >
 > >
 > >Hey Jeff,
 > >
 > >quick question: when you changed out the gelman inlet filters on Jun
 > >19th (day 171) do you happen to recall if there was air being sucked
 > >into the inlets??  when you did this swap, i assume you disconnected
 > >the knf pump in the LI-6251 box, but left the main KNF pump (at the
 > >base of the tower) running?  if you are ever messing around with those
 > >inlets it's a good idea to double-check whether or not air is being
 > >pulled in the lines...
 > >
 > >I was just looking at the prof co2 data and trying to figure out when
 > >the profile pump died..it's a bit difficult to judge, but there seems
 > >to be a distinct change in the co2 data around day 172...i thought
 > >there would be less diffferences in co2 between the levels with the
 > >main pump off...
 > >
 > >to look at this do:
 > >
 > > load /data2/matfiles/profile_2008_raw.mat
 > > plot(s_jd_mst,[s_co2_2 s_co2_3 s_co2_6])
 > > set(gca,'xlim',[150 200]); grid on
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >                                        SpB.
 > >


--------------------------------------------

* rolled up some extention cords, ie:

  Date:    Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:07:43 MDT
  To:      lynette.laffea@Colorado.EDU, oncley@ucar.edu, maggie.prater@Colorado.EDU
  cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, russell.monson@Colorado.EDU,
           jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU, militzer@ucar.edu, semmer@ucar.edu,
           ramesh.muralimanohar@Colorado.EDU, nicole.trahan@Colorado.EDU,
           bowling@biology.utah.edu, Kurt.Chowanski@Colorado.EDU,
           jia.hu@Colorado.EDU, deander@usgs.gov
  From:    Sean Burns 
  Subject: extention cords at the CU tower...


  Hi,

  quick update--today we coiled up four 100' extention cords that were
  running from the North canopy tower out to the PAR site from last
  summer (i'm not sure who these belong to, eol or maggie?)...if they
  need to be returned to eol let me know and i'll bring them back to
  NCAR.  i assume that these cords were not needed in that location and
  probably better to take them out of the weather, etc.

  we also coiled up three 100' extention cords that were running east of
  the tower (jia was using these).  note: there is still one cord that
  runs to the east of the tower (it's a thick black cable)...and one
  orange 100' extention cord sitting out by the end of the black
  cord...if you follow the black cord east from the tower you will find
  the end in a tree, ie:

    http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/080703/pic00026.jpg

  the seven coiled 100' extention cords are in a green garbage can that
  is right behind dave bowlings shed, ie:

    http://urquell.colorado.edu/photos/080703/pic00029.jpg

  bottom line: we have LOTS of extention cords at the site and you
  probably don't need to buy any new ones....also, i did not move the
  extention cords that are going from the main tower to the "north
  tower" (ie, the tower that lynette installed last summer).  i assume
  these are going to be used at some point...i noticed that this string
  of extention coords (i think it was at least six 100' cords) was not
  running anything, but it was plugged in...i unplugged it.  if you are
  not using a power cable, it's probably best to unplug it...

  Jeff and i also found what looked like a dog bowl along the trail near
  como creek..it had what looked like a mix of dog food and pine needles
  in a plastic bag in the bowl...not sure where it came from, but we
  threw away the dog food/pine needles and left the dog-bowl in the
  trailer.  i suggest that we not leave dog food, people food, etc
  anywhere that is accessible by the wildlife in the area...

  also, as we were leaving, jeff, stan and i saw a fairly large-size
  black BEAR just before the steep part of the road (a bit below
  C1)...so there is a bear in the neighborhood.  i have a few photos of
  the bear which i'll upload next time i'm up in the trailer...


                                           SpB.

Site visit on Friday, June 27, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SO, SO*
*=Sascha Oncley

Purpose: continue tram work

Misc. notes: drove up in an EOL vehicle 

Site visit on Thursday, June 26, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SO, MP, NT, CB, SL, SH

Purpose: JB and SO for tram work; MP & Co. started testing the ladder method 
         for wand deployment

Misc. notes: JB and SO drove up in an EOL vehicle

Site visit on Wed, June 25, 2008
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SO

Purpose: work on tram setup

Weather: warm, with afternoon thunder and lightning

Misc. notes: drove up in an EOL vehicle

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB

Purpose of visit: swipe krypton, move 2.5 REBs sensor and finish the
setup of in-canopy radiation sensors.

Weather: Hot.  It felt like July...there were a few gusts of wind, but
generally calm weather.  Some nice Cu clouds in the afternoon...

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU suburban (grey jeep is in alamosa with Amy).

* Hauled up the 40' ladder that is going to get used this summer...we
carried it out to near the tower.

* had a short discussion with Duane about calibrating gas cylinders...

---------

* was able to connect to the LI-7500 at 2.5m...note, you need a null
modem to go along with the connection cable they give you (or you need
the special cable from LI-COR).  We check the AGC value (around 65).
Cleaning the optics did not change this value much.  We swapped the
small desiccant/soda lime canisters as per the instruction manual.

* moved the 2.5m PAR sensors at the mini-tower (since tram plans to
use this tower).  We decided to put some cross-bars in a tree and then
mount the radiation sensors across these bars.  It's not ideal, but
it's the best solution we could come up with and still use the same
logger, not mount a new tower, etc.

* tested out Steve onlceys sextant...it seemed to give values that
were in very close agreement with angles from the map i made of the
area.

* cleaned krypton optics

* replaced all of the profiler inlet filters

* swapped desiccant at the profiler, blow test and zero both good

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, SL, SH

Purpose of visit: mess around with the LI-7500, power
for forestcam and swap flasks.

Weather: Calm and pleasant.  Clouds built up in the
afternoon and there was a brief rain shower.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU suburban (grey jeep is in alamosa with Amy).

* Stan and Sam were finishing up some soil respiration measurements.

* the snow is basically gone.  it is still possible to find a few
patches in the forest.  the mosquitos have arrived.

* ran into John Knowles who saw a mooose right after we talked
to him.

* Forest service people (MIke Ryans group) were out doing stuff.

* there is a bunch of crap in the trailer from Noah Fierers group...no
on told us about this??...

---------

* connected with "plumwood" to the network at the bowling shed.
worked with no problems.

* was able to connect to the LI-7500 at 2.5m (sn 75H-0082)...note, you need 
a null modem to go along with the connection cable they give you (or you need
the special cable from LI-COR).  We check the AGC value (before 69%, after 
64%). Cleaning the optics did not change this value much.  We swapped the
small desiccant/soda lime canisters as per the instruction manual.

* moved the 2.5m PAR sensors at the mini-tower (since tram plans to
use this tower).  We decided to put some cross-bars in a tree and then
mount the radiation sensors across these bars.  It's not ideal, but
it's the best solution we could come up with and still use the same
logger, not mount a new tower, etc.

* swapped a full set of robot flasks (done=1).  I believe this
is the first full swap of the season.

* disconnected power from both the cr10x and the MRS logger cr10 (at
the North Canopy tower).

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      306696 Jun 18 10:44 ucb6_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      392539 Jun 18 10:51 uc6_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1173069 Jun 18 14:01 soil6_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      252812 Jun 18 14:03 soil6_18b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      130489 Jun 18 14:06 noah6_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1283176 Jun 18 14:18 tc6_18.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      216272 Jun 18 14:20 tc6_18b.dat*
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster      900251 Jun 19 10:30 mrs_080618.dat

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, DB, MP, NT, CB, SH

Purpose of visit: mess around with the LI-7500, power
for forestcam and swap flasks.

Weather: Pretty windy.  Clear and cool.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU grey jeep.  Nicole and her gang went up in the CU
blue jeep.

* the snow is almost all gone.  there are still some spots with
drifts.  the trail is quite dry.  the small "first creek" is flowing.
No bugs yet.

* Dave bowling is servicing the last and also doing some work on the
shed...

---------

* span @ 750 psi, N2 @ 1290 psi

* robot, done=2, swapped four flasks

* turned on AT's slow O3 sensor

* snow depths at snow temp probes:  (according to jeff=0).

* moved the power for the forestcam to the UPS in the action-packer at
  the first level of the tower (plugged right into the back of the UPS
  with the blue extention cord).

* set up an internet cable in dave bowlings shed.

* sent an email about the CU network (see "Stuff at CU site for this
  summer, etc..."  from June 13th, 2008):

* downloaded NCTC logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      237740 Jun 12 12:25 nctc6_12.dat*

Site visit on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (JB)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Purpose of visit: perform maintenance on the robot, start summer weekly 
sampling, cal and post-cal some co2 cylinders

Weather: rain on and off, cool

Misc. notes: drove to C1; Duane good-naturedly criticized our trailer 
calibration system and procedure, and gave us a high-quality standard to 
test the accuracy of our system...plan to do this next visit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* span @ 840 psi, N2 @ 1525 psi 

* brought 2 empty N2 cylinders back to Ramaley from the trailer

* performed some maintenance on the robot, started summer weekly sampling:

  > replaced all o-rings in the ultra-torr fittings, replaced a few missing
  ultra-torr ferrules, loaded the robot with 15 flasks, started summer weekly
  sampling

  > to go from winter (i.e. 4 flasks) to summer (i.e. 15 flasks) sampling, do:
    *0, *4A, AAAAAAAAA (that's nine), 0A, *0

  > to go from bi-weekly to weekly sampling, do:
    *0, *4A, 7A, *0

  > NOTE: The "*0" command saves whatever changes were just made and restarts 
    the logger, thus the program. So, if making both changes together,
    omit the "*0" following the first change, then enter it following the
    second change and the program will be updated with both changes 
    simultaneously. After entering "*0" the logger will hang for about 1
    minute while it updates the program. You'll see "MODE 00" on the screen. 
    This is okay. Eventually the logger will start running Table 1 again and
    you are good to go. DO NOT ALSO POWER CYCLE THE LOGGER WITH THE LITTLE
    GREEN PLUG...The "*0" command effectively does this. 

* post-calibrated airgas cylinder CC18996, calibrated airgas cylinders 
  CC282352, CC282376:

  > for these cals I created the file cal_co2_080604.dat, and this is located
    on russter2 in /home/staff/sburns/docs/calibrations_co2/

  > we now have 3 co2-in-air cylinders in the trailer calibrated and ready 
    for the tower: Airgas SG9151924BAL (was already in the trailer), and the 
    2 new ones I brought up Tuesday and calibrated Wednesday (Airgas CC282352 
    and CC282376)

   
* here are the results from the calibrations run in the trailer
        (see ~sburns/docs/calibrations_co2/cal_co2_080604.dat)

       Post-cals:
       ----------
       at 300 psi, CC18996 values= (417.17+416.24+416.58)./3= 416.66 ppm.

       Pre-cal:
       --------
       at 2150 psi, CC282352 values= (398.76+397.42+397.36+397.54)./4= 397.77 ppm.  (airgas co2 value = 397.7 ppm)
       at 2150 psi, CC282376 values= (406.49+405.5+405.62+405.35)./4= 405.74 ppm.  (airgas co2 value = 405.3 ppm)

Site visit on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (JB, NT)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT

Purpose of visit: grab logger data, bring up some new co2 in air cylinders

Weather: rain on and off, cool

Misc. notes: drove to C1; lock has been moved to the upper gate but combo 
remains the same
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
* snow depths:

              closest to tree = ground
       TP101 461 middle probe = 17 cm
               farthest probe = 14 cm


* downloaded from cnr, prof, met, nctc, ucb, uc, soil, tcs, and swapped pc 
  cards at the mrs logger

                1 beaurejm staff      820272 Jun  3 10:54 cnr6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      421774 Jun  3 11:03 prf6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff     1025010 Jun  3 11:18 met6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      805761 Jun  3 11:29 nctc6_3.dat*

                1 beaurejm staff     1150038 Jun  3 13:22 soil6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      148372 Jun  3 13:24 soil6_3b.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      685054 Jun  3 13:38 tc6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      727738 Jun  3 13:45 tc6_3b.dat*

                1 beaurejm staff      627781 Jun  3 12:07 ucb6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      622723 Jun  3 12:20 ucb6_3b.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      308571 Jun  3 12:25 ucb6_3c.dat*

                1 beaurejm staff      468116 Jun  3 12:33 uc6_3.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      583616 Jun  3 12:39 uc6_3b.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      601041 Jun  3 12:53 uc6_3c.dat*
                1 beaurejm staff      636542 Jun  3 13:00 uc6_3d.dat*

* turned on fans in both licor boxes and the quacker box

* checked prof flow rates, looked good
 
* span @ 850 psi, N2 @ 1625 psi 
  
* snapped phenology photos 

* brought 2 new co2-in-air cylinders to the trailer from Ramaley 
  (CC282352, CC282376) 

[corner]     {pos}     [6/28/05] [10/4/07]       
==============================================================================
NE        outer   lo     700        625
NE        outer   hi     900        615
NE        inner   lo     550        525
NE        inner   hi     600        590
SE        outer   lo     500        530
SE        outer   hi     600        625
SE        inner   lo     500        530
SE        inner   hi     450        550
SW        outer   lo     550        530
SW        outer   hi     550        575
SW        inner   lo     500        470
SW        inner   hi     525        510
NW        outer   lo     500        575
NW        outer   hi     525        505
NW        inner   lo     525        575
NW        inner   hi     500        525

at the site: JB, SO
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
purpose of visit: continue TRAM setup

weather: cold, thunder, lightning, hail

misc. notes: drove to C1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

* more work on TRAM setup 
    
* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 41 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 61 cm
               farthest probe = 65 cm

* at 10:15 MST, Tower data system down (russter2 monitor not working)

* at 14:55 MST, Tower data system back up

* the monitor appears to be ok now

    * email from Orrie about crash:

Date:    Fri, 23 May 2008 11:34:26 MDT
To:      Sean Burns 
cc:      Orrie , jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU
From:    Orrie 
Subject: Re: monitor for russter2...


This has nothing to do with power but with the fact I stopped the
graphics interface so that Jeff could see if the monitor works in
command-line mode.  I totally forgot this does not work with the
UPS and the ups clearly decided to shut the system down after I
did this.

So, Erinn's message, although absolutely true, is irrelevant here.

  orrie

>
> Hi Orrie,
>
> Erinn and i had an email conversation about this...he thought the
> software would reboot things once the power came back...it looks to me
> like the power is back (since i can access the forestcam which is out
> at the tower)....here is the email exchange with erinn:
>
>
> emails about UPS softwar on russter2:
>
>
>
> Date:    Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:36:05 MDT
> To:      Erinn Looney-Triggs 
> cc:      sean.burns@Colorado.EDU, jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU
> From:    Sean Burns 
> Subject: Re: Russter2 UPS
>
> Erinn,
>
> that's very cool (assuming it works).  we'll find out sooner or
> later...lightning (ie, power outage) season is just around the
> corner...
>
>
>                                         SpB.
>
>
>  > Sean,
>  > No problem at all. This is actually very interesting, I did a bit of
>  > research and came up with this:
>  >
>  > http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/Shutown_Sequenc_its_Discont.html#Shutdown-Sequence-_003c1_003e
>  >
>  > The short of it is that it "should" do the right thing and after powering
>  > off the system, when the power returns to the UPS the system should
>  > power up again because of the settings in BIOS.
>  >
>  > The long story if you are interested is that when a shutdown event occurs
>  > that is a result of a poweroutage, i.e. power goes out, battery kicks on,
>  > UPS drops below the threshold defined for apcupsd, then a flag is set that
>  > gets noticed by that halt script. The halt script is the last script that
>  > is run as the system is, fittingly, being halted. When this flag is set
>  > one of the last actions of the halt script is to signal the UPS to kill
>  > power to the system. This creates the effect of having a total power loss.
>  >
>  > The UPS then is not outputting any power but still has battery reserves
>  > for its own operations. When power is restored to the UPS, the UPS waits
>  > a predefined amount of time (set in eprom) for the battery to charge
>  > up a bit and to make sure it is not a power flicker, it then restores
>  > outbound power to the systems.  The systems having been set to power on
>  > after a power loss in BIOS should at this point start up again.
>  >
>  > That last sentence though is the kicker, we haven't tested this, but I
>  > have to tell you, everything else about this software has just worked,
>  > as advertised so I have a bit more faith than usual that this would do
>  > the right thing.
>  >
>  > Anyway interesting stuff, we will just leave it as is for now. By the
>  > way the UPS, at current load levels, has 42 minutes of battery power. You
>  > can get this from apcaccess.
>  >
>  > -Erinn
>  >

at the site: JB, SO
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
purpose of visit: work on TRAM setup; for JB to swap N2 cylinders at the tower

weather: cold, thunder, lightning, hail

misc. notes: drove to C1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* more work on TRAM setup

* N2 at tower replaced:

  > 9:09 MST retired N2 CC198701 @ 290 psi

  > started N2 CC262308 @ 1900 psi

  > leak check: 9:26 MST 1900 psi...11:44 MST 1900 psi 

* hauled empty N2 cylinder (CC198701) back to trailer
                 

at the site: JB, SO, SpB
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
purpose of visit: work on TRAM setup

weather: warm, some sun/some overcast skies

misc. notes: drove to C1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* more work on TRAM setup

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 42 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 63 cm
               farthest probe = 69 cm

* SpB hauled an empty N2 cylinder back to the trailer

At the site: JB, SO
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Purpose of visit: work on TRAM setup

Weather: sunny, warm

Misc. notes: drove to C1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* more work on TRAM setup

* snow depths:

              closest to tree = 48 cm
       TP101 461 middle probe = 70 cm
               farthest probe = 75 cm

* cleaned krypton optics

* downloaded from soil, tcs, mrs logger and Noah's logger

   -rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      126452 May 20 11:31 080520w.dat*
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff     1249580 May 20 12:03 tc5_20.dat*
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      385783 May 20 12:07 tc5_20b.dat*
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff       73803 May 20 12:10 noah5_20.dat*
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      882195 May 20 12:23 soil5_20.dat*
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      598587 May 20 12:29 soi5_20b.dat*
   -rw-r--r--    1 beaurejm staff      990051 May 20 15:51 mrs_080520.dat


* N2 @ 350 psi and span @ 1000 psi

At the site: JB, SO
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Purpose of visit: work on TRAM setup

Weather: sunny, warm

Misc. notes: Steve Oncley had an EOL Jeep Liberty for the week; drove to C1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* work on TRAM setup

Thursday, May 15, 2008 site visit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB

Purpose of visit: To start cleaning the trailer and hauling out garbage; to set
up the LI-6251 for cylinder calibrations in the trailer; to fix T3 on the tower;
to bring some cylinders up to the site from Ramaley

Weather: mostly cloudy skies, with some heavy intermittent snow

Misc. The road to C1 is open! Drove to the trailer with Kurt in the back with
the cylinders

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* at 14:18 MST, fixed T3 on the tower--the wires had come uncoupled

* snow depths:

         closest to tree = 77
  TP101 461 middle probe = 100
          farthest probe = 108

* started massive cleaning of the trailer

* here are the results from the calibrations run in the trailer
        (see ~sburns/docs/calibrations_co2/cal_co2_080515.dat)

       Post-cals:
       ----------
       at 450psi, CC240435 values= (402.34+403.68+403.51+404.02)./4= 403.38 ppm
       at 350psi, CC187116= (405.04+404.76+404.89+404.53)./4= 404.805 ppm
       at 400 psi, CC66823= (333.37+333.7+333.74+333.76)./4= 333.64 ppm.

       Pre-cal:
       --------
       at 1700 psi, SG9151924BAL = (408.42+407.7+408.27)./3 = 408.13 ppm.


* Brought some old cylinders back to campus, brought some new cylinder up to 
  the trailer, calibrated and post-calibrated some cylinders, Here's the skinny:

  brought up:
  ==================================================
  CC262308, airgas, N2
  CC68888, airgas, co2 in N2? 412.9 ppm +/- 2%

  brought down to return to Airgas
  ==================================================
  CC199706, airgas N2
  CC125555, airgas N2
  CC240435, airgas, co2 in air, 407.8 ppm
  CC187116, airgas, co2 in air, 400.0 ppm
  CC66823, scott-marrin, co2 in air, 334.86 ppm

  the co2 concentrations are nominal ones from airgas

  we also did a cal on a new co2 cylinder that was already in the trailer
  (#?), and this is ready to go out to the tower

  

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Visit:
----------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: download logger data, check on the
li-6262 flux system.

Weather: Very Sunny and warm.  A few wind bursts, but generally
calm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my own jeep.  hiked up the powerline.

* the snow is really starting to go fast---the powerline is nearly
snow-free.

* Kurt and Todd A were up there...trying to get the tundracam up and
running...

---------

* snow depths at snow temp probes:

              closest to tree = 73 cm (assuming top tape is 80cm--need to double check)
       TP101 461 middle probe = 93 cm
               farthest probe = 101 cm

* noticed that the support cable holding up the 25m REBS Q*7 sensor
was detached...it was just loose and had blown over near the boom for
the CNR-1 sensor...it looks like maybe the clip holding the cable to
the boom had come loose (since no parts were missing).  I reconnected
and tightened it---this will probably have some small effect on the
alignment of the REBS sensor.

* from 11:42-12:30 MST, swapped out the 2-micron nupro filter at the
inlet for the LI-6262 ec system.  the plastic nalgene cover over the
inlet was completely trashed/gone.  So, I found a nalgene in the shed
and used that to replace the cover...disconnected the lines in/out of
the LI-6262 so no flow was passing through the li-6262 during filter
swap.  ran for about 10 minutes after swapping to try and avoid dust,
etc getting into the cell...sequence:

 - at 11:40 MST - did zero, then disconnected LI-6262
     with N2, co2 = 175 mV
              h2o = 179 mV
     sample flow approx 7.77

 - from 11:45-12:20 MST made changes, swapped filter
      with N2, co2 = 189 mV
               h2o = 190 mV
     sample flow approx 8.26

 - at ~12:30 MST, back to sample


* downloaded all logger data except for UC and UCB (reset time on
all loggers--most all were within 30 sec of russter2 time):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1173607 May  4 10:53 cnr5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       42896 May  4 10:54 cnr5_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      403922 May  4 10:57 cnr5_4c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      251625 May  4 11:09 met5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      270918 May  4 11:06 prf5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      421996 May  4 11:13 met5_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      527745 May  4 12:10 nctc5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1221573 May  4 12:54 soil5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      278359 May  4 12:59 soil5_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1342236 May  4 13:11 tc5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      657908 May  4 13:17 tc5_4b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      150201 May  4 13:19 noah5_4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      175929 May  4 13:24 mrs5_4.dat*

-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster     1215190 May  4 16:33 mrs_080504.dat


webcam photos, dates/times:

on 5/6/2008 at 11:00 MDT (10:00 MST) i logged in and set
the photo rate to 30 sec..got:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        64253 May  6 10:00 2008050609595501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        64202 May  6 09:59 2008050609592501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        63342 May  6 09:59 2008050609585501t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        64053 May  6 09:58 2008050609582501t.jpg

then reset the photo rate to 2 hours...i think this should now work...



checked at 14:32 MDT (ie, 13:32 MST),

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        49120 May  5 13:02 2008050513021401t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        61506 May  5 11:02 2008050511021401t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        66644 May  5 09:02 2008050509021401t.jpg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        63386 May  5 07:02 2008050507021401t.jpg
etc, etc.

Site visit on Friday, April 18, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Purpose of visit: a few routine tasks (e.g. get snow depths, swap flasks at the
west robot, swap desiccant at the LI-6251, check on the gas cylinders at the
tower), collect needles for Jia, haul some cylinders around, try to make the 
21x in the trailer save 5-min avg. data

Weather: warm, sunny, breezy, snow very heavy and very wet

Misc: Drove a Jeep to the Marr Lab and hiked to C1

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* swapped 4 flasks at the west robot, hauled back a suitcase to mail to Utah

* hauled empty N2 cylinder CC193045 back to the trailer

* snow depths at snow temp probes:

              closest to tree = buried
       TP101 461 middle probe = 121 cm
               farthest probe = 130 cm

* span @ 1250 psi, N2 @ 1325 psi

* swapped desiccant at the LI-6251:
            11:18 MST, 0=0.002
            11:38 MST, 0=0.001

* downloaded from soil logger...didn't know if it had been done earlier in the
  week so I figured it was worth investigating...soil data had been grabbed on
  Tuesday, so there is a small soil file from Friday

* put the SC32B in Noah's logger box
  in addition, there is one SC32A on campus, and another SC32A in the trailer

* tried to connect to the 21x in the trailer but couldn't...spent almost 30
  minutes trying all possible combinations of serial cable, SC12 cable and
  SC32A interface but couldn't connect...power at the logger was fine and the
  battery was fine...had trouble connecting to this logger the last time I 
  wanted to work with it but after about 5 minutes could finally connect...

* brought the storage modules and pcmcia card up to the trailer

* dug out the lowest prof inlet

* NO snow on the 2m REBS Rnet sensor

Site visit on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB, JH

Purpose of visit:

(JH/JB) Needle collections, snow pit, soil collection, 99% 13C experiment

(SpB) a few routine site tasks (e.g. clean krypton optics, get snow depths,
adjust the flow rates in the LI-6262 sample cell), maybe set up the LI-6251 in
the trailer, maybe set up the accelerometers on the tower

Weather: very warm, a bit breezy

Misc: Drove the gray Jeep to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1. Saw a robin on the road
about 200m from the trailer.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =  covered
TP101 461 middle probe =  111 cm
        farthest probe =  118 cm

* at 10:30 MST, fixed power connection for NCTC logger.  When the
power supply was moved (on 3/19) from the 1st tower level up to the
platform level (right next to NCTC logger) the wires were still
connected to the green plug at the logger---the far end of the wires
must have touched, shorting out the power.  after these wires were
removed from the green plug, everything came back and worked normally.

* at 11:35 MST, swiped krypton hygrometer

* at 11:45 MST, moved 12.5 li-7500 closer to ati sonic

* from ~11:50-11:55 MST, adjusted flow rates in the LI-6262 sample cell

* collected needles from all 18 of Jia's "collection trees"

* dug a snow pit to get a soil sample

* completed one cycle of Jia's 99% 13C experiment on the 10m platform on the
  tower

* dumped a pcmcia card at Lucas's computer before hiking up to C1

* swapped pcmcia cards at the mrs logger and dumped those data at Lucas's
  computer before leaving the MRS

* logger data downloaded:

 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      249339 Apr 15 11:02 met4_15b.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1142380 Apr 15 11:00 met4_15.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      183321 Apr 15 12:54 mrs4_15.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      777091 Apr 15 10:40 nctc4_15.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      570054 Apr 15 10:48 prf4_15.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       63099 Apr 15 12:36 soil4_15b.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1182296 Apr 15 12:35 soil4_15.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       37767 Apr 15 12:49 tc4_15b.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1409160 Apr 15 12:48 tc4_15.dat*
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       32244 Apr 15 13:16 trlr4_15.dat*

 -rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster      882111 Apr 15 14:50 mrs_080415.dat
 -rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster      959540 Apr 15 09:13 mrs_080402.dat

* note, the MRS logger was off by about 3 minutes, ie:
    MRS time = 12:49:14 MST
   true time = 12:52:00 MST.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 site visit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SL, NT, Nate M, Chris

Purpose of visit:

(JB) To swap N2 cylinders at the tower (priority), download some logger data, 
swap flasks at the west robot, and do a few other small tasks.

(NT, SL, Nate M, Chris--a huge Alaskan) To remove all of the snow exclusion 
fencing and do some snow manipulation.

Weather: warm, sunny, calm, but very wet from melting/dripping snow.

Misc. Packed five people (including a huge Alaskan guy named Chris) into the
gray Jeep. Parked at the Marr Lab and hiked to C1.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* downloaded from soil, tcs and noah loggers, and swapped pcmcia cards at the 
  mrs logger

* snow depths at snow temp probes:
                closest to tree =  100 cm
         TP101 461 middle probe =  110 cm
                 farthest probe =  118 cm

* swapped N2 cylinders at the tower:

  Retired cylinder CC193045 @ empty
  Started cylinder CC198701 @ 1900 psi

  Leak check info:
  
  2:15 MDT 1900 psi
  4:15 MDT 1900 psi

* dug out the lowest prof inlet on the mini tower

* confirmed that the new Gelman filters are in a cupboard in the trailer (down
  by russter2)

* confirmed that the Gelman filter (new 1/2008) is on the co2 prof inlet on the
  tower (but there is no cover over it)...still need to add a soda bottle

   

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 site visit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB, NT, EB, SLS, AW

Purpose of visit: 

(JB, SpB) to swap flasks at the west robot, download some logger data, move the
NCTC logger's charging system into the empty Campbell box next to the NCTC
logger, and replace the repaired cr23x UCB logger (remove Jia's 10x).

(NT, EB, SLS, AW) to work at NT's snow manipulation plots in the eastern
forest

Weather: very windy most of the day, but mostly clear and sunny

Misc. notes: Drove the purple Prius to the Marr Lab and hiked to C1. Erin
skinned up to C1 on his K2 Piste Stinx 180s. Duane drove up to C1 in the snow
cat, so we got to walk Bear back down to the Marr Lab at the end of the day
because he doesn't like the snow cat. Steve Siebold was back in his office at
the Marr Lab after a ~6 week hiatus.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* swapped four flasks at the west robot

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =   82 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =  102 cm
        farthest probe =  110 cm

* replaced the UCB 10x (Jia's) with the repaired cr23x; the soil moisture
  sensor seemed to be working fine once the cr23x was swapped back into place 

* moved the NCTC logger's charging system into the empty Campbell box next to 
  the NCTC logger on the tower platform

  --> For the 2-D sonic's power, we used a 300mA 120VAC to 12VDC adaptor. The
      adaptor end is plugged into a power strip in the quacker's box, and the
      bare wires are wired into a small terminal strip (the bare wires coming
      from the sonic are wired into the other side of this terminal strip).

  --> the charging unit that was previously located on a lower level of the
      tower was moved into the empty Campbell box that sits right next to the
      NCTC logger's box on the ~10m platform. The dead battery in the charging
      unit was replaced with a new YUASA 12 VDV 7.0Ah battery. AC power for the 
      charging unit still comes from the lower gray "power box" on the tower,
      but is now carried up to the charging unit via the blue extension cord
      that had been sitting unused in the shed. This extends up and into the 
      Campbell box on the platform, and the original AC-DC adaptor from the
      gray power box plugs into it. The adaptor's bare wires wire directly into
      the 2 "chg" terminals on the charging unit's terminal strip. Another
      length of wire runs from one each of the "+12V" and ground terminals to
      the little green plug on the logger.

* downloaded from NCTC, UCB, soil, Tcs, and swapped pcmcia cards at the mrs 
  logger

* hauled 2 empty cylinders back to the trailer

  --> there were two empty gas cylinders (I think one N2 and one span?) inside
      the tower fence that got hauled back to the trailer and secured in front
      of the trailer. In addition to the N2 cylinder currently running at the
      tower, there is one new tank waiting in the trailer and another new tank
      waiting out at Como Creek (where hydra used to reside)

* helped Nicole and Co. shovel snow for a little while at her snow manipulation
  plots in the eastern forest

* logger files:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      100258 Mar 19 10:58 ucb3_19_strg_area1.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      479694 Mar 19 11:04 ucb3_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      373972 Mar 19 12:11 nctc3_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1202848 Mar 19 12:54 soil3_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       91288 Mar 19 12:56 soil3_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1450805 Mar 19 13:14 tc3_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       52424 Mar 19 13:36 080319w.dat*
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster      885613 Mar 19 17:14 mrs_080319.dat


* info about march 18th 2008 changes to ntp on quacker:

the only file changed on the quacker was:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2831 Mar 18 13:25 /etc/ntp.conf

the line:

restrict russter mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery

was commented out, and one line (taken from russter2) was added, ie:

# -- CLIENT NETWORK -------
# Permit systems on this network to synchronize with this
# time service.  Do not permit those systems to modify the
# configuration of this service.  Also, do not use those
# systems as peers for synchronization.
# restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap
restrict 10.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap


# --- OUR TIMESERVERS -----
# or remove the default restrict line
# Permit time synchronization with our time source, but do not
# permit the source to query or modify the service on this system.
# restrict russter mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery
server russter

then we did:

[root@quacker root]# /etc/init.d/ntpd stop
Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@quacker root]# /etc/init.d/ntpd start
ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:                      [  OK  ]
Starting ntpd:                                             [  OK  ]


to check that ntp is running do (on russter2):

ntpq -p quacker
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*russter2-gw     tcom-gw-loop.co  3 u  416 1024  377    0.600    0.014   0.369

and on ruster2 this is:

ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*tcom-gw-loop.co india.colorado.  2 u  488 1024  377    4.183   -1.224   0.711

Thursday, March 6, 2008 site visit
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At the site: JB

Purpose of visit: to download from all of the tower loggers, the soil and tcs
loggers, and swap pcmcia cards at the mrs logger; to swap flasks at the west
robot, download the data and change the fudge day (a.k.a. work day); re-connect
the 21x in the trailer, re-send the program to it and make sure it is connected
to the edgeport; get "ucb10x_2.csi" (the program currently running on the ucb
logger) off the usb key and into /data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/logger_programs/;

Weather: cold but calm and sunny most of the day

Misc. notes: Drove the gray Jeep to the Marr Lab. The digging in the parking lot
is finished and the bathrooms are open again. The Jeep didn't have a driver's
side windshield wiper so I couldn't use the wipers at all. The rear wiper didn't
work. Hiked to C1. Quite a bit of new snow at the site. About 6 inches new on 
the way out to the west robot.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* downloaded from cnr, prof, met, nctc, soil, tcs, and swapped pcmcia cards at
  the mrs logger
  
  cnr was ~2 minutes behind russter2 time; prof was 1.5 minutes ahead of
  russter2 time; met was ~1 minute behind russter2 time; nctc was ~2 minutes
  behind russter2 time; west robot cr23x was 2 minutes ahead of russter2 time;
  soil was 3 minutes behind russter2 time; tcs was ~3 minutes behind russter2
  time

* logger files:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff       41724 Mar  6 12:17 trlr3_6.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff     1092390 Mar  6 13:31 cnr3_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      327457 Mar  6 13:35 cnr3_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      679175 Mar  6 13:53 prf3_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff       70165 Mar  6 13:55 prf3_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      998790 Mar  6 14:09 met3_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      813122 Mar  6 14:19 met3_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff     1043212 Mar  6 14:34 nctc3_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      484947 Mar  6 14:40 nctc3_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff       59537 Mar  6 15:12 080306w.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      726162 Mar  6 15:42 soil3_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      704084 Mar  6 15:48 soil3_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      705176 Mar  6 15:54 soil3_6c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      120576 Mar  6 15:56 soil3_6d.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      796922 Mar  6 16:14 tc3_6.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      806105 Mar  6 16:20 tc3_6b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      686729 Mar  6 16:26 tc3_6c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 beaurejm staff      216476 Mar  6 16:28 tc3_6d.dat*
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster     1526569 Mar 19 09:41 mrs_080306.dat

* swapped 4 flasks at west robot, downloaded data and changed the fudge day 
  from 5 to 4, so work days are now Wed/Thurs 

* span @ 1525 psi, N2 @ 1025 psi

* re-connected the 21x in the trailer, re-sent "21trlr.dld" then captured some
  data in hyper-terminal (the *.txt file of this data is in the logger data
  directory on russter2

* added "ucb10x_2.csi" to the logger programs directory on russter2

* hauled the dead ucb battery from the shed to the trailer

  ** when I replaced the entire battery/charging system for the ucb logger back on 2/22/08, 
     I needed a known functioning charger so I took the one that had
     been running with the 21x and its battery in the trailer. Thus, in order to
     re-connect the 21x today I needed a functioning charger. There were two
     chargers in the trailer: one that SpB had noted "might be broken" and the
     one I pulled from the ucb logger on 2/22, also noted (by me) "broken?"
     Both of these chargers tested out to be broken. Luckily I found a good
     charger in the shed (this charger was in the action packer that also 
     housed the good battery I swapped for the dead ucb battery on 2/22). With 
     only one good charger that I could find, I couldn't try charging the dead
     ucb battery--this is something to try when we buy a few new chargers, or 
     we could use the one that is kept next to porter in JB's/MW's/SpB's office,
     but it is nice to have one always on hand in the lab...

* snow depths:

            closest to tree = 92 cm
     TP101 461 middle probe = 105 cm
             farthest probe = 109 cm  

 * Calibration coefficients for the re-calibrated LI-6251:

       LI-6251 CO2 Analyzer:
       Serial Number:  IRG1-308
          Date:  28 Feb 2008

 # recal on 28 Feb 2008 (cell cleaned).  new values:
                To <- 36.3+273.15               # K
                K <- 18572
                A <- 0.1379
                B <- 1.875E-05
                C <- 2.560E-09
                R <- 0.0
                Po <- 101.3             # kPa
                p.slope <- 0.01517      # kPa/mV
                p.offset <- 58.912      # kP

    

Friday, February 22, 2008 site visit:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Purpose of visit: address the possibility of a power problem at the ucb logger,
abd try to get that data streaming into the data system again

Weather: warm, sunny, mostly calm

Misc. notes: drove my car up to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* tested the cr23x (ucb) in the trailer and confirmed that it is unresponsive

* replaced the entire battery/charger system for the ucb logger 

* got the data from ucb (Jia's cr10x) going back into the data system again (was a matter of sufficient power to the logger) 

* started running "ucb10x_2.csi" at the ucb logger (this program uses 
  instruction P138 for the cs616 water content reflectometer), although there 
  still seems to be something going on with this sensor; investigate when the 
  cr23x is returned 

Thursday, February 21, 2008 site visit:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB

Purpose of visit: swap flasks, swap sonics at top of tower, mess with the ucb 
logger

Weather: cold, snowing

Misc. notes: drove the teal Jeep to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* swapped 4 flasks

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =   67 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =   83 cm
        farthest probe =   91 cm

* upgraded the firmware on jias cr10x, ie:

cr10x (jias), from *B, get:  02: 2706 1  (this was AFTER the firmware upgrade, ie, cr10x_firmware22.exe)
cr10x (jias), from *B, get:  02: 5931.0  (this was before the firmware upgrade, ie, cr10x_firmware22.exe)

* here is what the data were looking like from ucb (chan 202) at the end of the day:

  rserial quacker 202
  *** use ^d or ^c to terminate rserial
  send socket open to quacker
  1,1262,.155,.214,1.1317,2015.4,125.4,.992,-6999,6999,-.755\r\n
  1,1262,.141,.191,1.0984,2018.7,122.8,.992,-6999,6999,-.755\r\n
  1,1262,.155,.197,1.0652,2019.3,122.8,.992,-6999,6999,-.755\r\n
  1,1262,.138,.194,1.0652,2024.6,122.8,.992,-6999,6999,-.755\r\n
  1,1262,.138,.191,.99858,2021.9,125.4,.992,-6999,6999,-.745\r\n

* swapped second re-calibrated sonic (sn 0438) with the EOL sonic (sn
  0536) @ top of tower, SpB brought the EOL sonic back to NCAR.  Note that
  the csat that was originally at 2.5m (from 2004-2007) is now at 21.5m and
  vice versa.

* adjusted span gas flow rate

* swapped the broken ucb logger (cr23x micrologger) with one of Jia's cr10x 
  loggers; still couldn't get the logger to send the data to the data system 

* the following code should work for the cs616 water content reflectometer using
  instruction P138:

  9:  CS616 Water Content Reflectometer (P138)
   1: 1        Reps
   2: 23       SE Channel
   3: 1        C1 is first of sequential Control Ports used
   4: 8        Loc [ period_1  ]
   5: 1.0      Mult
   6: 0.0      Offset


  10:  Polynomial (P55)
   1: 1        Reps
   2: 8        X Loc [ period_1  ]
   3: 9        F(X) Loc [ vwc_1     ]
   4: -0.0663  C0
   5: -0.0063  C1
   6: 0.0007   C2
   7: 0.0      C3
   8: 0.0      C4
   9: 0.0      C5

* wiring info for the ucb logger(s):

  sensor       cr23x        cr10x
-------   ----------   ----------
par_up    ch1 (diff)   ch1 (diff)
par_dn    ch2 (diff)   ch2 (diff)
rebs      ch7 (diff)   ch4 (diff)
gmp343    ch24 (SE)    ch12 (SE)
257-l     ch7 (SE)     ch11 (SE)
cs616     ch23 (SE)    ch5 (SE)
cs107     ch5 (SE)     ch9 (SE)
ASCX15AN  ch22 (SE)    NaN


wiring connections for each sensor:
-----------------------------------
par sensors:
             blue wire = L
            green wire = H

par sensors:
             blue wire = L
            green wire = H

rebs sensor:
                orange = H
          blue (white) = L
          white (blue) = signal GND

** note, there is also a 12V fan for the rebs sensor (one red and one
black wire)...let's leave this unconnected for now...

gmp343 (note, casing around wires is orange):
           yellow wire = SE channel
            metal wire = signal ground
             pink wire = +12V
             grey wire = power ground

257-l soil matrix water sensor
                black = excitation port, eg, ex1
                clear = power grnd
             red wire = se chan 
           white wire = signal gnd

cs616
        orange wire = control port, eg, C1
         green wire = SE channel
           red wire = + 12V
              black = signal ground
              clear = power ground

cs107
        black wire = excitation port, eg, ex2
          red wire = SE channel
       purple wire = "AG" or signal ground
        clear wire = "G" or power ground


  

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 site visit:
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At the site: JB, NT

Purpose of visit: diagnose/fix the problem with the ucb logger/chan202 (data 
stopped coming through this channel around 1:40 UTC on 2/19, which would be 
around 18:40 MST on 2/18), i.e.

data_stats < /data/projects/NIWOT/raw_data/all/nwt080219.000000 
Opened: 
chan   #points     start time            end time     delta time    freq 
200     287902    00:00:00.009    07:59:59.988      28799.979    9.997
201     288001    00:00:00.063    07:59:59.968      28799.905   10.000
202       6027    00:00:00.028    01:40:26.071       6026.043    1.000
203      28800    00:00:00.496    07:59:59.359      28798.863    1.000
204      28800    00:00:00.014    07:59:59.173      28799.159    1.000
205      28800    00:00:00.424    07:59:59.545      28799.121    1.000
206     287992    00:00:00.063    07:59:59.946      28799.883   10.000
207      28799    00:00:00.591    07:59:59.294      28798.703    1.000
216      28799    00:00:00.724    07:59:59.816      28799.092    1.000

Also, to download from the uc logger and check on the new span and N2 cylinders

Weather: very warm, sunny, calm

Misc. notes: helped NT haul a piece of 4-by-6 plywood out to her snow exclusion
plot in the eastern forest

Drove to the Marr Lab with NT in the gray Jeep, hiked to C1

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* span @ 1750 psi (dropping 25 psi/week, seems good); N2 @ 1700 psi (dropping 
  ~200 psi/week, seems okay)

* downloaded from the UC logger

* downloaded from the UCB logger

* Opened the ucb logger box and saw that the logger's LCD was "blacked out."
  Fortunately, I was able to connect to it and download the data. There
  was no new data coming in though. Checked the power at the logger and saw only
  10.2 VDC. Before messing with the power I downloaded from the uc logger. 
  Power here seemed fine, at 12.8 VDC. Next I went over to the action packer
  with the batteries for these loggers and checked power there. The uc battery
  was outputting 13.75 VDC. The ucb battery was outputting only 11.5 VDC. I 
  noticed that the charger didn't look solidly plugged into the power strip so 
  I fixed this then re-tested the battery output. It was a few tenths higher. 
  I then disconnected the ucb logger from the battery and re-checked the battery
  output, which jumped to 13.5 VDC. It seemed to be taking a charge so I
  re-connected the ucb logger and re-checked the battery output, which showed 
  12 VDC...Still an increase over the last time I checked with the logger 
  connected, although there is obviously some drainage by having the logger 
  connected. Went back over to the loggers to check power and try connecting 
  again. Power and connection at uc were fine (i.e. nothing went hay wire when 
  I was tampering with the batteries). When I re-opened the ucb box I noticed 
  that the cells on the LCD had become much darker, just like the screen on the
  nctc logger a few months back. And this time I couldn't connect to it, 
  even after ten+ tries. 

  Seems like there is definitely something wrong with the logger (reminiscent 
  of the problem with the nctc logger back in October '07), but there could 
  also be something going on with the power.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 site visit:
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At the site: JB

Purpose of visit: grab snow depths and data from the mrs, soil, tcs and noah
loggers; bring a suitcase of flasks back to campus; get pressure bomb equipment
for Mick; swap gas cylinders at the tower; continue work on Noah's snow sensors

Weather: beautiful day, unusually warm, mostly clear skies, some gusty wind at
times

Misc. notes: dug a huge hole in front of the trailer door, although it will
probably be filled in by next visit; on Sunday (2/10/08) the female moose and
her calf were spotted by Stan in the far eastern forest near Nicole's snow
fence plots (no duel ensued); noticed there was no extension wire for snow 
sensor #2, thus couldn't connect this sensor (the other snow sensors I've been 
working on have extensions coming from Noah's logger/multi-plexer, and this one
was also supposed to have one...)

Drove a Chevy Malibu to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* retired N2 cylinder CC125555 (~empty), started N2 cylinder CC193045 (1900 psi) 

* retired span cylinder CC18996 (~empty), started span cylinder CC199497 
  (~1775 psi)

* swapped pcmcia cards at the mrs logger 

* downloaded from the soil, tcs, and noah loggers 

* connected snow sensor #3 (this is the northern of the two locations in the big
  clearing just a few meters to the east of the north canopy tower)

* hauled a suitcase full of flasks back to campus to mail to Utah

* brought the pressure bomb's regulator, mag glass and stopper kit back to 
  campus for Mick

* leak check info for the new N2 and span cylinders at the tower:

  N2 leak check         Span leak check
  --------------        ---------------- 
  12:27 1900 psi        12:27 1775 psi 
  2:30  1900 psi        2:30  1775 psi

* snow depths:

            closest to tree = 72 cm
     TP101 461 middle probe = 90 cm
             farthest probe = 95 cm  

Thursday, February 7, 2008 site visit:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB

Pupose of visit: swap flasks at the west robot and make sure the change of fudgeday for 2008 was accepted by the logger without any trouble (it was); download
from Noah's logger; try to install all three of Noah's new snow sensors; check 
on the N2 and span at the tower.

Weather: pretty cold and snowing most of the day; despite the NOAA forecast
calling for wind gusts up to 85 MPH, I felt little wind while in the forest 
around the tower, although the hike up to C1 from the Marr Lab was very 
blustery.

Misc. notes: Only got one of three snow sensors connected. Tried using the butt connectors supplied and recommended by Noah to crimp his snow sensor wires...I 
don't think these worked very well. Should devise an alternate method. The butt connectors are very difficult to crimp. There might be a specific tool? 

The sensor I connected is located ~30 yards SW of the north canopy tower, next
to a tree bole near Jia's sap flow site.

Drove a Chevy Malibu to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* N2 @ 200 psi, span @ 100 psi 

* swapped 4 flasks at west robot

* downloaded from Noah's logger

* connected one of Noah's snow sensors (next to a tree bole ~30 yards SW of the
  north canopy tower, "beneath-canopy", near Jia's sap flow site; not sure if it  is working properly) 

Friday, February 1, 2008 site visit:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SLS, NT

Purpose of visit: to switch the SDM setting on the re-deployed, re-calibrated 
c-sat3 (2m); to reinforce the flagging around the mini tower; investigate the
gmp343 probe (off scale on cockpit); check how the span and N2 cylinders at the 
tower are doing; get snow depths

Weather: not too bad, warmer and pretty calm

Misc. notes: When there are two or more sonics on the same logger, each has to
have a different SDM setting (on the mini tower, the sonic at 2.5m is set to 
SDM 4, and the sonic at the top of the mini tower is set to SDM 3); the gmp343
probe is wired into SE channel 24 on the UCB logger...

yellow wire -- channel 24 low

metal wire -- ground

pink wire -- +12V

gray wire -- ground

Drove the gray Jeep to the Marr Lab, and hiked to C1 from there

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

* switched the SDM setting on the re-calibrated sonic from 3 to 4; this got it 
  working fine

* reinforced the flagging around the mini tower

* power cylcled the gmp343 probe and got it back on scale in cockpit 

* span @ 200 psi; N2 @ 190 psi; retired the N2 (CC198536 @ 190 psi, started 
  N2 CC125555 @ 400 psi -- this was Jia's summer pressure bomb cylinder)

*now depth at the snow temperature probes:
         closest to tree = 70 cm
  TP101 461 middle probe = 80 cm
          farthest probe = 86 cm

  

   

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 site visit:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB

Purpose of visit: to re-deploy the re-calibrated sonic at 2 meters on the mini
tower and remove the sonic at 2 meters on the mini to send in for re-cal

Weather: BRUTAL; -20 C and peak wind gusts ~25 m/s

Misc. notes: SpB flagged off an area containing subterranean sensors around the mini tower...fortify this with rope/string next visit; JB and SpB helped 
Duane/Dwayne? load NT's snow blower onto the snow cat; didn't get the 
re-calibrated sonic working yet, need to change SDM settings... 

Drove the gray Jeep to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1 along the main road 

----------------------------------------------------------------------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =  53 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =  70 cm
        farthest probe =  77 cm

* re-deployed the re-calibrated sonic sn0226 at 2 meters on the mini tower,
  removed the 2.5 meter sonic (sn 0438) to send back for re-cal 
 
* JB and SpB helped Duane/Dwayne? load NT's snow blower onto the snow cat 
  
* SpB flagged off an area containing subterranean sensors around the mini 
  tower...fortify this with rope/string next visit  
 
* info from eol Chris about csat sn0438:

>??
ET= 10 ts=i XD=d GN=201a TK=1 UP=5 FK=0 RN=1 IT=1 DR=102 rx=2 fx=038 BX=0 AH=1
AT=0 RS=0 BR=0 RI=0 GO=00000 HA=0 6X=3 3X=2 PD=2 SD=0 ?d sa=1
WM=o ar=0 ZZ=0 DC=6  ELo=020 021 020 ELb=020 021 020 TNo=dee d TNb=ede JD= 007
C0o=-2-2-2 C0b=-2-2-2 RC=0 tlo=8 9 8 tlb=8 9 8 DTR=01740 CA=1 TD=  duty=028
AQ= 10 AC=1 CD=0 SR=1 UX=0 MX=0 DTU=02320 DTC=01160
RD=o ss=1 XP=2 RF=018 DS=007 SN0438 08aug00 HF=005 JC=3 CB=3 MD=5 DF=05000 RNA=1 rev 3.0a cs=45278 &=0 os=

here are the settings they change when they use the rs-232 output:

>rs=1
>ri=1
>sr2718
 Ld 1 ok. Ld 2 ok.>

Friday, January 25, 2008 site visit:
---------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, NT

Purpose of visit: to haul some gas cylinders to/from the tower; check current
pressures of gas cylinders running at the tower; swap flasks at the west robot
and change the logger program to account for the correct fudge day; download 
from some loggers and swap pcmcia cards at the mrs logger; dig out lowest 
profiler inlets at the mini tower and dig out the uc and ucb logger boxes; grab snow depths

Weather: cold, some snow 

Misc. notes: lost part of an ultra-torr fitting for one of the flasks not 
currently in use...there weren't any spare parts in the robot (only spare 
o-rings)...need to get a few replacements to have on hand

Drove the gray Jeep (two Prius cars are booked through March, and Trans.
Services is not allowing their new Prius to go to the MRS) to the Marr Lab,
hiked to C1 from there

Nicole was at the trailer for a few hours to mess with her broken snow blower

----------------------------------------------------

* re-calibrated csat3 returned to CU 

* hauled new span cylinder (CC199497) to the tower 

* hauled old N2 cylinder (CC199706, 100 psi) to trailer

* current N2 @ 400 psi

* current span @ 250 psi

* swapped 4 flasks as west robot, changed logger program to account for correct   fudge day (now=5, previously=6) 

* downloaded from soil, tc, uc, ucb, and swapped pcmcia cards at mrs logger; all  data files given correct post-processing name and moved to 
  /data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/

*  dug out the lowest profiler inlets at the mini tower and the uc/ucb logger 
   boxes

* snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
         closest to tree = 50 cm
  TP101 461 middle probe = 65 cm
          farthest probe = 72 cm

Monday, January 14, 2008 site visit:
---------------------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB

Purpose of visit: remove the 24m sonic anemometer to return to Campbell for its
first re-cal in a decade; swap it with a loaner sonic from EOL; download data
from the loggers; do a cal and some post-cals on new/old span cylinders; look
for a SC532(A) 9-pin Peripheral to RS232 converter box

Weather: calm and warm early; wind picked up during the afternoon

Misc. notes: did not download from the UC and UCB loggers, and did not swap
pcmcia cards at the mrs logger; the LI-6251 used for cals in the trailer was
acting flakey so we couldn't do the cals and post-cals we had hoped to do
(fortunately we have one new, calibrated span cylinder in the trailer awaiting
transportation to the tower)

Drove the purple Prius to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1 via the road so we could
drag EOL's sonic (in its caryying case) in a sled borrowed from the Marr Lab.
About half-way up the road Kurt ferried SpB and the sonic to C1 via his new 
wagon towed behind the snow mobile. 

---------------------------------------------------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =   46 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =   63 cm
        farthest probe =   68 cm


* downloaded logger data from all loggers but UC and UCB (and did not swap
  pcmcia cards at the mrs logger).  data files are:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      296611 Jan 14 12:35 cnr1_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      378212 Jan 14 12:49 met1_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      317909 Jan 14 12:53 nctc1_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      148409 Jan 14 14:04 noah1_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      155355 Jan 14 12:43 prf1_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1123627 Jan 14 13:43 soil1_14.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      699721 Jan 14 14:02 tc1_14b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      545130 Jan 14 13:50 tc1_14.dat*


* between 1* between 11:45-12:30 MST, removed the 21.5m sonic anemometer (csat,
  sn 0226), to return to Campbell for its first re-cal in a decade;
  swapped it with a loaner sonic (csat3, sn 0536) from EOL.  A dump of
  the sn0226 information is:

??
ET= 10 ts=i XD=d GN=637a TK=1 UP=5 FK=0 RN=1 IT=1 DR=102 rx=2 fx=038
BX=0 AH=1 AT=0 RS=0 BR=0 RI=0 GO=00000 HA=0 6X=3 3X=2 PD=2 SD=0 ?d
sa=1
WM=o ar=0 ZZ=0 DC=6  ELo=020 021 020 ELb=020 021 020 TNo=776 d TNb=677 JD= 005
C0o=-2-2-2 C0b=-2-2-2 RC=0 tlo=8 9 8 tlb=8 9 8 DTR=01740 CA=1 TD=
duty=029 AQ= 10 AC=1 CD=0 SR=1 UX=0 MX=0 DTU=02320 DTC=01160
RD=o ss=1 XP=2 RF=018 DS=007 SN0226 22dec97 HF=005 JC=3 CB=3 MD=5 DF=05000 RNA=1 rev 3.0a cs=18441 &=0 os=
>

* note, csat sn 0226 was later checked at the EOL wind tunnel (thanks
  to Tom Horst and Chris Golubieski) and offsets were found to be less
  than 4 cm/s.

* looked for a CS SC532(A)9-pin Peripheral to RS232 converter box in the trailer  but didn't find one

* SpB set up a CS 21x logger to test in the trailer (only outputting 
  battery voltage and reference temp and some junk)

* at around 13:30 MST, replaced the gelman filter on the 10m profile inlet.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 site visit:
--------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SL

Purpose of visit: re-start west robot (which had been off during the holiday
season), grab snow depths, change span cylinders, swap desiccant at the 
LI-6251, swap 2-micron Nupro filters at the EC inlet, swap pcmcia cards at the
mrs logger. 

Weather: cold, breezy, snowing for part of the day

Misc. notes: encountered 2 moose, a large female and her calf, along the main
trail from the tower to C1. No male in sight. The mother and calf were pretty 
close to the bridge, and seemed to be heading in that very direction when I 
stumbled upon them (this is interesting because SpB photographed moose tracks
and scat near the bridge just a week earlier; maybe the moose like the willows
near the brige). I was dragging an old cylinder along the trail, not really 
paying attention to the surroundings, and I startled the mother, which caused 
her to move...and it was her movement that I caught from the corner of my left
eye. Had she not moved when I approached I never would have seen them. She was 
just a little bit off the main trail, her calf deeper in the woods, but when I 
startled her she moved deeper into the woods to position herself directly 
between me and her calf. They blended in with the trees so well. I hung out for a few minutes to observe them. They didn't seem too worked up by my presence. 
Eventually the mother must have stopped feeling threatened because she started 
moving north again and revealed her calf to me. The calf was pretty big too, 
but probably only half the size of the mother. In sum, they didn't seem 
aggressive, but it is probably worthwhile to be on the lookout for the male, 
who could be an aggressor. 

Drove the gray Jeep to the Marr Lab, hiked to C1
----------------------------------------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
        closest to tree = 44 cm
           middle probe = 61 cm
         farthest probe = 68 cm

* re-started the west robot, everything seemed fine

* swapped pcmcia cards at the mrs logger; dumped the data into the new 
  common data directory on russter2 (/data/projects/NIWOT/data_logger/)

* N2 cylinder at the tower @ 900 psi

* @ 1:32 MST, stopped the GAST pump at the base of the tower, swapped 2-micron
  Nupro filters at the inlet for the EC system, then re-started the GAST pump
  @ 1:53 MST

* changed the desiccant for the LI-6251 between 2:04 and 2:24 MST

* retired Scott-Marrin span cylinder CC66823 @ 150 psi (hauled it back to the 
  trailer), started Airgas span cylinder CC18996 @ 400 psi

Friday, January 4th, 2008 Visit:
--------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL

Purpose of visit: return russter2 to the trailer.

Weather: very windy.  But warm (for this time of year).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove myself up, NT/SL rented a jeep from CU.

* Nicole and Stan were working out at their plots.

---------

* UnixOPS/Orrie were able to extract all the data from the old disk in
russter2 and put it on a new HD that i bought in Boulder.

* it wasn't clear if they were going to be able to finish this by the
end of the day, but they contacted me around 2pm and said it was
ready...so i had time to pick it up (with the new disk) and haul it
back up to the trailer.  plugged it back in at the trailer and it
worked.  The data system was running again at 16:30 MST.

* see "equipment purchases" for details about the western digital
EIDE hard disk.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: check on russter2, download logger data, and (maybe)
replace the motherboard.

Weather: overcast.  some wind bursts, but not too windy.  much warmer
than it has been recently.

--------- Misc Notes:

* rented a prius from CU.

---------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =   38 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =   52 cm
        farthest probe =   58 cm

* tank pressures:

            N2 @ 1150 psi
          span @ 200 psi.

* when i arrived in the trailer russter2 had a frozen screen...it
looks like it locked up as Jia was trying to log out (her window was
still on the screen).  it rebooted just fine (had to reboot with the
power button).

* note, on russter2: the "outside world" network cable goes into the
LOWER NIC card (eth0) and the tower network cable goes in the UPPER
nic card (eth1).

* orrie started the backup process at around 10:45am.  i connected
russter2 directly to the outside world (ie, bypassing the D-Link hub
on the right-side of russter2).  it looks like these are the backup
processes:

root      4898  3.9  0.6  7140 1756 ?        S    10:48   1:14 sshd: root@notty
root      4908  0.0  0.3  5508 1008 ?        S    10:48   0:00 csh -c /usr/local/python/bin/rdiff-backup --server
root      4925  0.7  3.7 19580 9492 ?        S    10:48   0:13 /usr/local/python/bin/python /usr/local/python/bin/rdiff-backup

* messages from the logs...

is this "abnormal status" normal??

Jan  2 10:36:57 russter2 kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 9
Jan  2 10:36:57 russter2 kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 9
Jan  2 10:36:57 russter2 kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0xFF on port 0xFE07
Jan  2 10:36:58 russter2 kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0xFF on port 0xFE27

Jan  2 10:37:48 russter2 kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Jan  2 10:37:48 russter2 aster: ] Change machine where you receive e-mail  -  use the "mailhome" command
Jan  2 10:37:48 russter2 kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Jan  2 10:37:49 russter2 aster: ]
Jan  2 10:37:49 russter2 kernel:  unable to read partition table

note, it took a while for me to be able to login..ie:

Jan  2 10:38:26 russter2 nut:
Jan  2 10:38:26 russter2 rc: Starting nut:  failed
Jan  2 10:51:37 russter2 named[3413]: check_hints: A records for L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records
Jan  2 10:52:53 russter2 sshd[3777]: Accepted password for sburns from 128.138.220.181 port 32795 ssh2
Jan  2 10:52:53 russter2 sshd(pam_unix)[3786]: session opened for user sburns by (uid=0)

here is starting aster:

Jan  2 11:24:02 russter2 ingest[5212]: ingest started, listening on 8000
Jan  2 11:24:15 russter2 adamserver[5208]: Set OPS period: OPS=ops1
Jan  2 11:25:40 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: mlockall failed: Cannot allocate memory
Jan  2 11:25:40 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: quacker beginning connection on port 3081, stnNumber=11
Jan  2 11:25:40 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: quacker rpc services started, rpc prog#536870939, stnNumber=11
Jan  2 11:25:46 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: russter2 port 32942: setsockopt SO_SNDBUF=16384
Jan  2 11:25:46 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: quacker STREAM socket connected to russter2:32942, 1 active connections
Jan  2 18:25:46 russter2 archive(quacker)[5294]: Connected to ingest quacker@russter2, port=32942
Jan  2 18:25:46 russter2 archive(quacker)[5294]: archiving started for quacker@russter2
Jan  2 18:25:51 russter2 nc_server[5210]: Cpened Connection, Id=0, heap=2772992
Jan  2 18:25:51 russter2 covar[5300]: Opened nc_server connection on server russter2, Id=0, writeTimeout=20, otherTimeout=100, batchPeriod=30\
0 secs
Jan  2 18:25:51 russter2 covar[5300]: Connected to nc_server: connectionId = 0
Jan  2 11:25:51 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: russter2 port 32947: setsockopt SO_SNDBUF=16384
Jan  2 11:25:51 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: quacker STREAM socket connected to russter2:32947, 2 active connections
Jan  2 18:25:51 russter2 covar[5300]: Connected to ingest quacker@russter2, port=32947
Jan  2 11:25:56 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: quacker: SIGCHLD received
Jan  2 18:25:56 russter2 archive(quacker)[5294]: Opened: ./all/nwt080102.182531

jia logs in:

Jan  2 12:38:33 russter2 gdm(pam_unix)[3687]: session opened for user huj by (uid=0)
Jan  2 12:39:28 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 12:39:48 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 12:39:58 russter2 kernel: hda: error waiting for DMA
Jan  2 12:39:58 russter2 kernel: hda: dma timeout retry: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan  2 12:39:58 russter2 kernel:
Jan  2 12:39:58 russter2 kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Jan  2 12:40:00 russter2 kernel: ide0: reset: success
Jan  2 12:40:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: socket write to russter2 port 32942: Resource temporarily unavailable, blocked:1, unreachable\
:0, errors:0
Jan  2 12:40:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: socket write to russter2 port 32947: Resource temporarily unavailable, blocked:1, unreachable\
:0, errors:0
Jan  2 12:40:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: russter2 port 32942, 1 lost samples due to blocked writes
Jan  2 12:40:00 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: russter2 port 32947, 1 lost samples due to blocked writes

more errors and then it crashes at 13:21:

Jan  2 12:45:52 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 12:46:20 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 12:46:20 russter2 kernel: hda: error waiting for DMA
Jan  2 12:46:21 russter2 kernel: hda: dma timeout retry: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan  2 12:46:22 russter2 kernel:
Jan  2 12:46:22 russter2 kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Jan  2 12:46:23 russter2 kernel: ide0: reset: success
Jan  2 12:46:23 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 12:48:53 russter2 last message repeated 2 times
Jan  2 12:52:25 russter2 sshd[6900]: Accepted publickey for orrie from 128.138.196.85 port 33046 ssh2
Jan  2 12:52:25 russter2 sshd(pam_unix)[6909]: session opened for user orrie by (uid=0)
Jan  2 12:53:38 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 12:54:11 russter2 ingest(quacker)[5284]: quacker russter2.32778 socket closed, 3 active connections
Jan  2 13:07:24 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  2 13:07:43 russter2 sshd[7087]: Did not receive identification string from 128.138.238.150
Jan  2 13:18:19 russter2 sshd(pam_unix)[6909]: session closed for user orrie
Jan  2 13:21:06 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan  3 10:19:17 russter2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jan  3 10:19:17 russter2 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Jan  3 10:19:17 russter2 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns    1303760 Jan  3 13:03 soil1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     869023 Jan  3 13:10 soil1_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns    1422337 Jan  3 13:23 tc1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     942204 Jan  3 13:30 tc1_3b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     416786 Jan  3 13:42 ucb1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     554937 Jan  3 13:48 uc1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     579323 Jan  3 14:05 cnr1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     310567 Jan  3 14:16 prf1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     733754 Jan  3 14:24 met1_3.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 sburns     633304 Jan  3 14:31 nctc1_3.dat*
-rw-r--r--   1 sburns    1448714 Jan  3 17:55 mrs_080103.dat

* logger time check: (my watch= 13:10:00, specialk= 13:09:27 MST) [so
  my watch is fast by ~30 seconds.]  Didn't modify the times of any of
  the loggers.


   Data Logger    Logger Time          Watch Time        MST Time
   -----------   ----------------     -------------   -------------
   soil         1/3/08, 13:08:56    1/3/08, 13:10:00    13:09:30 MST
   tc           1/3/08, 13:19:05    1/3/08, 13:20:00    13:19:30 MST
   ucb          1/3/08, 13:42:04    1/3/08, 13:43:00    13:42:30 MST
   uc           1/3/08, 13:47:15    1/3/08, 13:49:00    13:48:30 MST
   cnr          1/3/08, 14:05:38    1/3/08, 14:05:30    14:05:00 MST
   met          1/3/08, 14:20:00    1/3/08, 14:21:00    14:20:30 MST

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: JH, RJ

Jia went to the site...she rebooted russter2 which had apparaently crashed
the night before...ie:

-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster    32252176 Jan  1 09:00 nwt080101.080000
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster    32252272 Jan  1 17:00 nwt080101.160000
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster    32252228 Jan  2 01:00 nwt080102.000000
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     aster    12255232 Jan  2 04:02 nwt080102.080000

the reboot worked, but for some reason the data system did not restart...i
get the following:

check_aster
Wed Jan  2 11:13:41 MST 2008

            ------------- Environment -------------
PROJECT = NIWOT, OPS=ops1

            ------------- Server tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    4286 11:04 ? 00:00:00 adamserver
russter2    sburns    4288 11:04 ? 00:00:00 nc_server

            ------------- Ingest tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    4290 11:04 ? 00:00:00 ingest

            ------------- Archive tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Covar calcs --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- X processes --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Ingest Statistics ----------
russter2: RPC: Program not registered
No ingest process running on russter2 for quacker
 
            -------------- Living adams  --------------
quacker
 
 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              5162828   1188072   3712496  25% /usr/local
/dev/hda8             51088492  41603536   6889660  86% /data
            -----------------------------------------
Wed Jan  2 11:13:42 MST 2008

[~] ndaqstatus quacker
*** System Status *********************************************************
Start time:   Mon Dec 17 10:48:04 2007
Restart time: Mon Dec 17 10:48:04 2007
                       Socket  Socket    Max    Min
  Time  Sample    Lost  Write    Temp Socket Socket Socket Buffered   Total Archive
  Diff    Rate Samples Errors Unavail  Write  Write   Rate  Samples Samples  BadTTs
  msec     #/s       #      #       #  bytes  bytes byte/s        #       #       #
 10592       0 1054137      4    1423      0999999999      0      358     375       0
***************************************************************************

*** A2D Status ****************************
A2D    Total    5min   Total   User
      Sample  Missed  Missed Intrpt
        Rate Samples Samples   Rate
         #/s       #       #    #/s
           0       0       0      0

    A2D Sample
channel   Rate MinV MaxV  VRes
      #    #/s    V    V    uV
*******************************************

*** Serial Port Status ****************************************************************************
port                           flow     Msg Sep Msg  read sampl  min  max readerrs writerrs overflow
name         chan   baud p/d/s cntl     Sep Loc Len  /sec  /sec read read 5min cum 5min cum 5min cum
/dev/ttyUSB0  200   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  28    10    10   30   30   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB1  201   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  34    10    10   36   36   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB2  202   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0  1.01     1   28   60   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB3  203   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  24     1     1   26   26   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB4  204   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  26     1     1   28   28   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB5  205   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  22     1     1   24   24   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB6  206   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0    10    10   34   34   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyUSB7  207   9600 n/8/1 none \0xfc01 BOM  26 0.997 0.997   28   28   0    0   0    0   0    0
/dev/ttyS0    216   9600 n/8/1 none   \0x0a EOM   0  2.68     1    8   23   0    0   0    0   0    0
***************************************************************************************************

so i did a "ndaqrestart quacker" (on russter2)....it took around 5-10
minutes to work, but eventually everything came back up...here is what
the logs on the quacker looked like:

[cuff@quacker ~]$ more /var/log/local/cuff.log
Jan  2 04:04:11 quacker logger: lost 126001 samples on socket to russter port 8000
Jan  2 04:04:39 quacker logger: lost 127001 samples on socket to russter port 8000
Jan  2 04:05:07 quacker logger: lost 128001 samples on socket to russter port 8000
Jan  2 04:05:34 quacker logger: lost 129001 samples on socket to russter port 8000
Jan  2 04:06:02 quacker logger: lost 130001 samples on socket to russter port 8000
Jan  2 04:06:29 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=RawSampleSocketReOpener(id=7173), Non-RT, priority=0
Jan  2 04:06:29 quacker logger: Closing RawSampleSocket
Jan  2 04:06:34 quacker logger: RawSamplerSocketReOpener: IOException: socket to russter port 8000: connect: Connecti
on refused
Jan  2 04:07:09 quacker last message repeated 7 times
Jan  2 04:08:14 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:09:19 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:10:24 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:11:29 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:12:30 quacker last message repeated 12 times
Jan  2 04:13:35 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:14:40 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:15:45 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:16:50 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:17:55 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:19:00 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:20:05 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:21:06 quacker last message repeated 12 times
Jan  2 04:22:11 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:23:16 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:24:21 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:25:26 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:25:56 quacker last message repeated 6 times
Jan  2 04:26:01 quacker logger: RawSamplerSocketReOpener: IOException: socket to russter port 8000: connect: Interrup
ted system call
Jan  2 04:26:06 quacker logger: RawSamplerSocketReOpener: IOException: socket to russter port 8000: connect: Connecti
on refused
Jan  2 04:26:41 quacker last message repeated 7 times
Jan  2 04:27:46 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:28:51 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 04:29:52 quacker last message repeated 12 times
Jan  2 04:30:57 quacker last message repeated 13 times
[stuff deleted]
Jan  2 05:04:16 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 05:05:21 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 05:06:26 quacker last message repeated 13 times
Jan  2 05:06:31 quacker logger: RawSamplerSocketReOpener: UnknownHostException: russter
Jan  2 05:06:31 quacker logger: RawSampleSocketReOpener(id=7173) destructor
Jan  2 11:24:29 quacker logger: doRestart
Jan  2 11:24:29 quacker logger: ndaq: received signal Hangup (1), thread:  (1024) si_signo=1, si_errno=0, si_code=0
Jan  2 11:24:29 quacker logger: thread DaqMonitorRPC(id=3076) received signal User defined signal 1(10) si_signo=10 s
i_errno=0 si_code=0
Jan  2 11:24:29 quacker logger: IOException: DaqMonitorRPC: select: Interrupted system call
Jan  2 11:24:29 quacker logger: __get_myaddress: socket: Too many open files
Jan  2 11:24:29 quacker logger: RawSampleBuffer::run interrupted
Jan  2 11:25:30 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=RawSampleBuffer(id=1026), Non-RT, priority=0
Jan  2 11:25:30 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=SensorPortHandler(id=2051), Non-RT, priority=0
Jan  2 11:25:31 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB0
Jan  2 11:25:32 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB1
Jan  2 11:25:33 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB2
Jan  2 11:25:34 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB3
Jan  2 11:25:35 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB4
Jan  2 11:25:36 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB5
Jan  2 11:25:37 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB6
Jan  2 11:25:38 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyUSB7
Jan  2 11:25:39 quacker logger: Opening: /dev/ttyS0
Jan  2 11:25:39 quacker logger: Thread::run, name=DaqMonitorRPC(id=3076), Non-RT, priority=0

and now (on russter2) i get:

check_aster
Wed Jan  2 11:30:04 MST 2008

            ------------- Environment -------------
PROJECT = NIWOT, OPS=ops1

            ------------- Server tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    5208 11:24 ? 00:00:00 adamserver
russter2    sburns    5210 11:24 ? 00:00:00 nc_server

            ------------- Ingest tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    5212 11:24 ? 00:00:00 ingest
russter2    sburns    5284 11:25 ? 00:00:00 quacker 


            ------------- Archive tasks -------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    root      5294 11:25 ? 00:00:00 archive quacker .

            -------------- Covar calcs --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process
russter2    sburns    5300 11:25 ? 00:00:00 covar -S -a quacker

            -------------- X processes --------------
host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Ingest Statistics ----------
station     port                    status   up since   sample/sec serialErrs
quacker     3081                    open   Jan 02 11:25     36.00         0
 
            -------------- Living adams  --------------
quacker
 
 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              5162828   1188068   3712500  25% /usr/local
/dev/hda8             51088492  41603808   6889388  86% /data
            -----------------------------------------
Wed Jan  2 11:30:06 MST 2008

note, after it was working then everything crashed again...ie:

Date:    Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:57:20 MST
To:      Sean Burns , Orrie 
cc:      jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU, Looneytr@Colorado.EDU
From:    Jia Hu 
Subject: Re: whoops... 

Hi,

I just got back from the site.  I restarted the computer.  It took a
while since it said that the computer was turned off suddenly.  After
rebooting, I could not log onto the internet.  In fact, t he computer
froze as I tried to do get on the internet and there was a weird
clicking coming from the computer.  I just left things on as is, since
after the computer rebooted it kept asking if I wanted to reconfigure
anything.  I figure since you are going up there tomorrow, Sean, you
could figure out.

Sorry I couldn't make the problem go away...

Jia


Jia Hu
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado
Campus Box 334
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 492-5796

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:14:13 -0700
>From: Sean Burns 
>Subject: Re: whoops...
>To: Orrie 
>Cc: sean.burns@Colorado.EDU,jia.hu@Colorado.EDU,jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU,Looneytr@Colorado.EDU
>
>
>
>Hi Orrie,
>
>it's too bad that the backups didn't finish...did it get close to
>finishing (or is this more of an all or nothing situation)?  Jia might
>have some insight about the situation, ie, how easy it was to reboot,
>etc...
>
>anyway, i'm going up there tomorrow and will attempt to reboot it
>first thing when i get there....if it reboots ok in the morning, could
>we do one more try at making the backups?  (i'll need to visit the
>tower for 3-4 hours which might be enough time to make the
>backups??)...maybe it's impossible to make the backups with this
>hardware issue.  but it's probably worth another try...what do you
>think?
>
>thanks,
>
>                                       SpB.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > russter2 appears to have crashed yet again.  backups have not completed.
> >
> >   orrie

Saturday, December 29th, 2007 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, EL-T

Purpose of visit: check on russter2 and replace the motherboard.

Weather: very cold.  some wind bursts, but not too windy.  squeaky
snow.

--------- Misc Notes:

* met Erinn (from UnixOPS) at settlers and carpooled up in my jeep.

* two snowmobiles went zooming past the trailer while we were there.

---------

* russter2 started having problems on 12/20 at 23:16 MST.  we were
able to log into russter2, but then there were I/O errors doing the
simplest commands, etc.  The errors in the log look something like:

 Dec 30 14:40:53 russter2 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
 Dec 30 14:40:53 russter2 kernel: hda: error waiting for DMA
 Dec 30 14:40:53 russter2 kernel: hda: dma timeout retry: status=0xd0 { Busy }
 Dec 30 14:40:53 russter2 kernel: 
 Dec 30 14:40:53 russter2 kernel: hda: DMA disabled
 Dec 30 14:40:53 russter2 kernel: ide0: reset: success

* Rebooted russter2 and everything came back up just fine.  Erinn
swapped out the motherboard, but when we tried to reboot russter2 with
the re-furbished board and tried to boot nothing happened.  We could
not even get a prompt or start of the boot (the power button stayed
"amber").  After trying this, we went back to the original
motherboard...which is most likely why the above error messages are
still showing up on Dec 30.

* we started to go out to the tower, but it was quite cold and there
didn't seem to be too much to do there (mostly brush the snow off the
instruments, etc).

* here's an email with some of the details about the problem:

  ----------------
  Date:    Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:33:30 MST
  To:      "Sean Burns" 
  cc:      jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU, tmr@Colorado.EDU
  From:    Jesse Caldwell 
  Subject: Re: russter2... 

  Hi Sean,

  Something is seriously wrong:

  matrix:~ > ssh russter2
  jesse@russter2's password: 
  Last login: Fri Nov 11 08:49:30 2022 from , :/home/staff/oncley:/bin/tcsh

  Could not chdir to home directory /home/systems/jesse: No such file or directory

  So it prompted me for my password, which means it didn't find my
  authorized_keys file in my home directory. It says my last login was
  from ", :/home/staff/oncley:/bin/tcsh", which is a piece of the passwd
  file and not the lastlog, and then it failed to find my home directory.
  It's a good bet that there's a fair amount of data corruption on
  russter2. No telling if it's caused by a bad controller or a bad drive,
  but something is definitely bad.

  I can try to reboot russter2, but there's a good chance russter2 will
  not come back. That may or may not be a problem -- if it doesn't
  reboot, it won't be usable, but it really isn't usable at the moment
  either. 

  russter2 has hardware support from dell, so we can order parts (disk
  and maybe controller/motherboard) and go up there. The trick is going
  to be getting parts and getting in to the trailer this time of year.
  How much downtime can you have on russter2? It's likely going to take a
  day to get parts and a day up there to have any hope of fixing this,
  and we are /very/ short on staff until 2008.

  Jesse

  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > it looks like our computer in the trailer (russter2.colorado.edu) is
  > not responding to some commands...ie, when i tried:
  > 
  >  [~] sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now
  >  Password:
  >  sudo: unable to execute /sbin/shutdown: Input/output error
  > 
  > and the "reboot" command would show a similar problem...is there
  > anyway this computer can be rebooted remotely??  i'm currently in NY
  > and won't be able to visit it until next week...
  > 
  > also, it seems that there is something seriously wrong with this
  > computer (see email below from Orrie)...can you suggest or tell if
  > this is a hardware problem and/or if there is something we can do to
  > repair it (ie, can we bring up a new hard-drive, etc)...
  > 
  > thanks,
  > 
  >                                       SpB.
  > 
  > To: "Sean Burns" 
  > cc: Orrie.Gartner@Colorado.EDU, Jason@Colorado.EDU,
  >         jeffrey.beauregard@Colorado.EDU
  > cc: jesse@Colorado.EDU, looneytr@Colorado.EDU
  > Subject: Re: russter2... 
  > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:26 -0700
  > From: Orrie 
  > 
  > 
  > Sean,
  > 
  >   I too am leaving town starting this evening and will not return until
  > the 1st.  It is too soon to tell if the change to the kernel made
  > yesterday will resolve the hangup russter2 had over the weekend.  The
  > errors you outline below did not occur at the same time as the lockup
  > so it is not conclusive that these are related (as you say, there are
  > thousands of reasons that could cause a system to "lock up").  We have
  > seen these    errors on others systems during high I/O and there were
  > usually two causes.  One is a failing hard drive and the second is a
  > kernel problem.  Lots more testing needs to be performed to determine
  > the cause here but it would definitely be odd that if this is the cause
  > of the hang, why did it just suddenly occur after all this time?  That
  > would lend itself to more of a hardware problem rather than a sudden
  > kernel issue which came out of nowhere.  Again, more testing needs to
  > be done.
  > 
  >   Orrie
  > 
  >   

site visit on Monday, Dec. 17 2007 (JB)

very windy, but not very cold

purpose of visit was to reboot/diagnose the trouble with russter2 (although this
was taken care of by Kurt Chowanski before I arrived at the trailer), check on 
the span and N2 cylinders at the tower (which were fine), and swap flasks/
download data at the west robot

* span @ 425 psi

* N2 @ 1700 psi

* swapped 4 flasks at west robot; 071213w.dat is on the Bowling web page

* rebooted russter2 ~1:15 pm MST for a minor OS upgrade; russter2 and the data
system came back without any trouble

* took a brief inventory of gas cylinders in the trailer; confirmed that 
"CC199497 Airgas 407.9 ppm cal_co2_070503.dat" and "SG9151924BAL Airgas 401.8 
ppm still needs cal" are both in the trailer; also, there is one new, full N2
cylinder in the trailer (this is new from summer '07, CC125575)

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: JB, SpB

Purpose of visit: check on profiler KNF pump.  download
logger data.  swap gas cylinders.

Weather: cold and calm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up CU jeep.  hiked up the snowmobile trail.

---------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =   30 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =   48 cm
        farthest probe =   52 cm

* from 12:30-13:15 MST, cleaned krypton optics (first time the q-tip
  was starting to wear-out...so re-did this with a new/better q-tip).

* changed the profiler pump; swapped the UNMP30 KNI (s/n 1/761551) for a new
  UNMP30 KNI (s/n 1/950199).  details:

  wiring:  pins 1 and 4, black wires (AC power)
           pin2 = ground wire (soldered to pump).

  - at 12:04 MST, shudown the prof sample pump.
  - at 13:06 MST, new pump installed and running.
  - at 13:15 MST, zeroed li-6251, at 0.009 mV.
                  set flow to ~13-15 "ball" units.

* hauled N2 cylinder CC198536 to the tower.

* swapped N2 cylinder CC125555 @ 400 psi with CC198536 @ 1750 psi

* swapped airgas span cylinder CC240435 @ 200 psi with Scott-Marrin, CC66823 @ ~450 psi
  (note, for a short while CC18996 at 400 psi was connected)...but at
  14:30 MST, went to CC66823.

* hauled CC240435 back to the trailer for a post-cal.

* when we swapped span cylinders we noticed a leak in the cal system, possibly
at the regulator or somewhere downstream of the regulator. Plan of attack for
next site visit is to replace the cal system's dekabon tubing, maybe fittings
and unions also, or at least check that they are tight.

* swapped pcmcia cards at the mrs logger

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      659985 Dec 13 10:30 cnr12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      838949 Dec 13 11:02 met12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      350634 Dec 13 10:48 prf12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   staff      203556 Dec 13 14:38 soil12_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   staff     1238986 Dec 13 14:35 soil12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      813945 Dec 13 14:31 tc12_13b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      752164 Dec 13 14:24 tc12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      634965 Dec 13 15:22 uc12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      485559 Dec 13 15:14 ucb12_13.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      111191 Dec 13 15:34 noah12_13.dat*

Sunday, December 9th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB

Purpose of visit: re-connect the csm1 pcmcia card storage module
and add a card.   brush snow off of everything.

Weather: There has been about a foot of new snow over the past few
days.  But this was a classic winter day---calm in boulder, but windy
and clear up in the mountains.  a few turns below barker res the wind
started blowing...lots of blowing snow at the site as the lower
brances of the trees were still loaded with snow.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up my jeep.  the road to MRS was unplowed (since last week?)
  and i was the first car/truck to drive up the road.

* as i was leaving MRS, a jeep was stuck in a hole near the turn-off
  to the peak-to-peak highway.  a truck was there getting ready to
  pull him out...

* there was quite a bit of snow on the tower(s)...brushed it off.

* saw a red fox (crushed) on the side of the road approaching
  nederland.

---------

* Snow depth at the snow temperature probes:
       closest to tree =   37 cm
TP101 461 middle probe =   55 cm
        farthest probe =   58 cm

* downloaded the mrs logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x  sburns   aster      190519 Dec  9 12:19 mrs12_9.dat*

* this file starts on day 340...so we lost about a weeks worth of
  data...the logger by itself is good for storing about 3 days worth
  of data...

   more mrs12_9.dat
   131,340,1905,-5.886,-5.895,-5.929,-5.931,
   131,340,1910,-5.887,-5.898,-5.929,-5.927,
   etc, etc...

* re-connected the csm1 card reader and added a card to it.  (for
  future reference, it would have been better to leave the other card
  in the reader rather than removing it!).

* the profiler sample pump (ie, the one in the box with the LI-6251)
  was not moving much air (the flow meter shows a level of around
  "5").  we usually want this to be "15"...and it's good if it's above
  "10".  there is a chance the flow level is low due to a leak in the
  system??...but i didn't see anything obvious.  and this pump has
  been running since 8 Aug 2006, so it's probably running out of
  life...i checked and there is a spare pump in the trailer (in the
  pump cupboard).  we also have a kit to replace some of the parts in
  the box with new pump...i have not used this before so i'm not sure
  how much that will improve the performance.  anyway, let's go ahead
  and order a new pump so we have a spare on hand...it's a KNF UNMP30
  KNI pump (115 VAC, 60Hz)...

   KNF phone: 609.890-8600
   KNF webpage:  www.knf.com

  this pump is squeezed into the box rather tightly...we'll probably
  need to remove the one there and then bring it back to the trailer
  to do the connections (unless we get some warm weather).  i probably
  have some notes about doing this somewhere...i'll look around on
  Monday.

* next visit we should replace both the span gas and the N2.  even if
  there is some N2 left let's go ahead and replace it...we should
  bring out another N2 cylinder (or is there a full one buried under
  the snow at the tower??)....it looks like on 11/16 you hauled out N2
  CC193045...is this the one standing up next to the one currently
  running?  Or, how many full N2 cylinders do we have out at the
  tower?  (i know there is one by como creek)...

Thursday, Nov 29, 2007 visit: JB, JH

cold and windy

drove aquamarine Jeep half-way up the road to C1

tower tasks:

* downloaded from the soil and tc loggers, swapped the pc card at the cr10_mrs 
  logger

* snow depths: facing north, l=9cm, middle=10cm, r=4cm

* swapped 4 flasks at the west robot

* checked on the span and N2 cylinders at the tower (span@350 psi, N2@850 psi)

* brushed snow off of quacker's box, the soil, tc, noah and mrs logger boxes, 
  and some other boxes on the cuff tower

* confirmed the Netgear switch is in the trailer

* checked the network cable connections for the tower network and the network to the world at russter2 

misc:

* Jia was collecting needle and phloem samples 

* map of hydra inlet (US1, US2, UN1, UN2) locations



                        *US2
                                                                         *US1                         
                                               
                               
                                Como Creek
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HYDRA 

                *UN2

                                                                         *UN1

Monday, November 19th, 2007 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, NT, SL, MW, CW

Purpose of visit: re-install 25m prop-vane.  upload some
logger programs.

Weather: Clear blue skies and rather windy.  But very warm
temperatures for mid-November.  A cold front is headed our way (thus
the wind).

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the aquamarine CU jeep (to the trailer).

* the weekend of nov 18/19 noah re-installed his snow depth sensor
  network and dave bowling re-started the the undersnow TGA system.

* NT, SL, MW, and CW were at NT's plots digging trenches

---------

* from ~10-12 MST, swapped out the RM Young 09101 "SE" prop-vane at
25m.  note, that we are using the Voltage output so the J1 jumper can
be in either RMY NCAR or NMEA protocol (these setting are for serial
output).  For voltage output, the "J3" jumper should have the far
right pins open to set the output to be calibrated 0-5 VDC.

Here is some of the RM Young prop-vane wiring:

 on 09101    wire color     on cr23x MET logger
 --------    ---------      --------------------
 / +PWR ---- red wire ----> +12V
 \  Ref (next to power) ---- black wire --> Ref

 /  Ref ---- black wire  -- diff CHAN9 (L)
 \    A ---- white wire  -- WD voltage -- logger diff CHAN 9 (H)

 /  Ref ---- black wire  -- diff CHAN1 (L)
 \    B ---- green wire  -- WS voltage -- logger diff CHAN 1 (H)

  Earth --- bare wire   ----  ?

for more details see:

-rw-rw-r--  sburns  1074255 Nov  7 09:21 docs/instruments/manual_rmyoung_09101-90d.pdf

* from 13:30-13:45 MST, modified the orientation of the LI-7500 at 2m
(note, it can be oriented any way, but upright is the recommended way
since all wind directions are then ok, see manual).

* re-deployed the repaired CSM1 card reader module at the mrs logger

* at 12:35 MST, sent a new program to the PROF logger:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       15561 Nov 19 09:11 prf_01.csi*

   changes:  - stopped saving of the 1-minute co2 LI-6251 data

             - also no more "sec" in output, ie:

              1: 0111     Day,Hour/Minute,Seconds (midnight = 0000)

              changed to:

              1: 110      Day,Hour/Minute (midnight = 0000)


* at 12:47 MST, sent a new program to the CNR logger:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster        9036 Nov 19 11:47 rad_03.csi*

   changes:  - stop saving the sw_net, lw_net, albedo, rad_net parameters.
             - no more "sec" in output

* found noahs new logger program on our laptop, ie,

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       28564 Nov 16 16:13 noah_m.csi*

and a data file he downloaded,

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster        4330 Nov 18 12:01 noah11_18.dat*

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      730045 Nov 19 10:39 met11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      516088 Nov 19 11:24 prf11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      419666 Nov 19 11:29 prf11_19b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      307943 Nov 19 11:33 prf11_19c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      392217 Nov 19 11:48 cnr11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      541247 Nov 19 11:56 nctc11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      179096 Nov 19 12:40 ucb11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      295780 Nov 19 12:44 uc11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      161190 Nov 19 13:16 mrs11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster        4553 Nov 19 13:32 noah11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1113863 Nov 19 13:48 tc11_19.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      858915 Nov 19 13:59 soil11_19.dat*

(note the times shown for these logger files are actually 1 hour later
 for MST, so the prf11_19c.dat was downloaded at 12:33 MST (not 11:33).

Friday, Nov 16th, 2007 visit: JB

very windy, but clear

drove Jeep up to the trailer

Tasks:  

*retired N2 cylinder CC198686 @ ~100 psi, checked pressure of then 
 retired N2 cylinder 9149741 @ ~300 psi, hauled these back to Ramaley;

*started Jia's old pressure bomb N2 cylinder CC125555 @ ~1275 psi 
 (leaked checked it between 12:15 and 2:30 MST) 

*hauled fresh N2 cylinder CC193045 out to the tower as back up 

*attached new 12 foot orange parachute cord to the tree pruner at the shed 

*downloaded data from mrs logger (Jia's cr10), then swapped it out and 
 re-deployed the repaired cr10wp 

*swapped 4 flasks at the west robot, hauled out a suitcase to ship back to Utah

*grabbed 5 clamps for SO, brought back to Ramaley 


notes from the webcam from 11/14:

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007:
-------------------------------

% note about webcam time---it's still on PDT!, ie:

 lftp :/tmp/alarmevents> dir

 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        27585 Nov 14 12:05 2007111412055301t.jpg
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        27516 Nov 14 12:04 2007111412045301t.jpg
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        28861 Nov 14 12:03 2007111412035301t.jpg
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        28100 Nov 14 12:02 2007111412024801t.jpg
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        28328 Nov 14 12:02 2007111412024301t.jpg
 etc, etc

but on russter2 the date/time is,

 date
 Wed Nov 14 11:05:58 MST 2007

so, need to fix the time on the webcam...can use a ntp server..which
would be nice to do.

---> at 12:00 MST on 11/14, I reset the clock on the forestcam to be
in MST...so now i have:

 drwxrwxrwt   5 root     root            0 Nov 14 12:00 ..
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        28098 Nov 14 11:58 2007111411583201t.jpg

which was taken around:  Wed Nov 14 11:55:49 MST 2007

(there may be a few minute descrepancy between the camera time and russter2 time).

dir webcam_0711_hires/ | grep '11:59'
-rw-rw-r--    1 sburns   aster       47225 Nov 14 11:59 2007111411565901t.jpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 sburns   aster       47478 Nov 14 11:59 2007111411573201t.jpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 sburns   aster       28190 Nov 14 11:59 2007111411575901t.jpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 sburns   aster       28933 Nov 14 11:59 2007111412575301t.jpg
-rw-rw-r--    1 sburns   aster       28165 Nov 14 11:59 2007111412585301t.jpg

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Visit:
------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, NT, SL

Purpose of visit: check on the 2m Rnet sensor (again), install
FC6 on quacker2 (inspiron 7500).

Weather: very nice day for Nov 10th.  there were some bursts of wind
from time-to-time.  started spitting snow lightly as we left (but
the skies were blue).


--------- Misc Notes:

* Nicole drove her car up.  And then we walked the powerline.

* Nicole/Stan were digging trenches around Nicoles plots.

---------

* checked the serial number of the lower (4.6m) TRH sensor (TRH5).
  it's HMP35C #10091, s/n s0630018 (maybe s06300128?), LT# 415758

* quacker2 was sitting in the trailer waiting for disk2 to be
inserted.  did this and then finished the installtion of FC6.  Made
sure that I selected all the programming tools.  And also tried to
install ntp (which doesn't seem to be working).

on quacker:

 fgrep russ /etc/ntp.conf
 restrict russter mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery
 server russter

on quacker2:

 fgrep 10.0.0.4 /etc/ntp.conf
 server 0.10.0.0.4
 restrict 0.10.0.0.4 mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery

modified this file to be:

 fgrep 10.0.0 /etc/ntp.conf
 server 10.0.0.4
 restrict 10.0.0.4 mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery

* N2 cylinder at tower was at 200 psi.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       40228 Nov 10 11:36 ucb11_10.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster        1333 Nov 10 13:15 ucb11_10b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      192769 Nov 10 13:35 soil11_10.dat*

* from 11:30-13:00 MST, repaired the 2m Rnet sensor (note: after
looking at the data a few days later it seems ok).  Removed the AMP
connector and replaced it with a small junction-type connector where
the wires can be screwed into terminal-type connectors.  Note, when i
held my hand over the top (or bottom) of the sensor it would react,
but no-where near as quickly as it was on Friday (which seems more
like what I expected).  Never determined what the problem was...but
we've lost around 10-days of data (see web calendar).

Sat Nov 10 16:07:54 MST 2007

rserial quacker 202
*** use ^d or ^c to terminate rserial
send socket open to quacker
\r\n
1,6999,.031,.01,-.00656,1904.1,6.617,.869,20.02,.088,.227\0xffffffff\r\n
1,6999,.026,.01,0,1915.7,6.615,.869,20.02,.088,.227\0xffffffff\r\n
1,6999,.026,.01,0,1917.7,6.615,.869,20.02,.088,.222\0xffffffff\r\n
1,6999,.026,.008,0,1907.4,6.615,.869,20.02,.088,.211\0xffffffff\r\n
1,6999,.033,.008,0,1924.9,6.615,.869,20.02,.088,.232\0xffffffff\r\n
1,6999,.031,.012,0,1922.3,6.613,.869,20.01,.088,.217\0xffffffff\r\n

* on plumwood: moved the pc208w directory to be right off the C:\
drive...i've re-associated all the programs that needed to be changed
except the west robot program since i'm not sure which program is
currently associated with it (since you can't see the program name).
i was getting annoyed that i couldn't see the name of the program in
the "Associated Program File Name" box...so that's why i changed it
(hopefully you don't mind this change).  i also changed the default so
with explorer you see the extention name + the file details..if you
don't like these changes feel free to change them back.

* also, noticed the amp connected for the fan for TRH sensor #5 did
not have any tape or backing on the backside of the amp
connnector...this could potentially allow water to get down into the
leads and short out the power...i added tape to one side and then
arranged it so it is under the PVC fitting which houses the fan (to
give it some protection from water).

* also, on quacker2, tried to install emacs, but get some weird
messages and then it doesn't exist...ie:

rpm -qip emacs-21.4-17.3.src.rpm  | more
warning: emacs-21.4-17.3.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Name        : emacs                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 21.4                              Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 17.3                          Build Date: Thu 11 Jan 2007 11:25:48 AM MST
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: js20-bc1-11.build.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Editors          Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 27817117                         License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 29 Jan 2007 08:27:53 AM MST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. 
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Summary     : GNU Emacs text editor
Description :
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.

This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.

[root@localhost cuff]# rpm -ivh emacs-21.4-17.3.src.rpm
warning: emacs-21.4-17.3.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
   1:emacs                  warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root
ect, etc.

...(maybe this is only the "src" code for emacs??)...because
i see a bunch of files in:

ls -lag /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root      549 Sep  8  2004 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs-21.2-alloc-blockinput-83600.patch
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root      636 Sep  8  2004 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs-21.2-menubar-games.patch
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root    10587 Sep  8  2004 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs-21.2-s390.patch
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root      363 Sep  8  2004 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs-21.2-s390x.patch
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root      613 Sep  8  2004 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs-21.2-sticky-bit-80049.patch
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root     4999 Sep  8  2004 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/emacs-21.2-x86_64.patch
etc, etc.

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, JH, NT, SL

Purpose of visit: check on the 2m Rnet sensor, swap out the N2, do
some final checks of the sensors connected to the soil logger.

Weather: Awesome (for Nov 8th).  A bit blustery at times.  And in the
afternoon a howling wind storm hit the site...but generally clear blue
skies and pleasant.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up the CU grey jeep.  (jia made the res).

* Nicole/Stan drove up separately and left earlier than us.

* time changed from MDT to MST last weekend.

---------

* brought up the disks to re-install Fedora on the insp 7500.  (it
needed the software development packages on it).  note, we ran out
time to do the full install...it was taking too long to copy all the
info from disk1.  So, it's sitting there waiting for disk2 to be
installed...

* from 10:45-11:40 MST, messed around with the 2m Rnet sensor.
  swapped the "+" to "-" wires into the diff channel...it seemed to be
  working when i left (but it actually was NOT working, see logbook
  entry from Nov 10th).

* from 11:30-12:00 MST, swapped out the N2 cylinder.

* from 13:08-13:20 MST, did a "warming" test of the snow temp probes (data
  are saved in the file, "mrs11_8b.dat").

  - from 13:08-13:13 MST, warmed up level 4 on the Td (ie, tall) probe...
  - from 13:15-13:19 MST, warmed up level 3 on the short snowtemp probe.

* checked the location of the soil moisture probes (note, also did this on Oct 25, 2005):

  CS615/616   Data Quality   Orientation/Depth   Snowdepth Sensor   Location
  ---------   ------------   -----------------   ----------------  ----------------
    #1          noisy           horiz at 5cm          02389         far east side of area

    #N1          ok.            horiz at 5cm          02392         profile pit (sn = ?)
    #N2          ok             horiz at 15cm         02392         profile pit (sn = ?)
    #3           ok             horiz at 35cm         02392         profile pit

    #2           ok             horiz at 5cm          02389         near old ncar sample spot,
                                                                    co-located with tc#11 (am25t)

    #4           noisy          45 deg, 0-10cm         NaN          near profile pit  (in clearing, but
                                                                    not a very open clearing, ie, lots
                                                                    of branches, etc).

    #5           ok             45 deg, 0-10cm         NaN          in trees, near short snow Tprobe

    #6           a bit high     horiz at  ~3cm        02391         on west side, near stump

    #7           noisy          horiz at 5cm           NaN          between tall snowT probes,
                                                     near tc#3

    #8           way high!      45 deg, 0-10 cm        NaN          near mid snowT probe.

    #N3          ok             horiz at 5cm           NaN          at mini-tower, in a clearing.
                                                                    connected to ucb logger.  (sn= ?).

* put out some new dessicant packs in all the logger boxes
that are on the ground.

* downloaded logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1067461 Nov  8 11:29 cnr11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       19701 Nov  8 12:21 mrs11_8b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      569554 Nov  8 11:59 mrs11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      875390 Nov  8 12:38 soil11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      915315 Nov  8 11:51 tc11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      239268 Nov  8 10:51 uc11_8.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      179565 Nov  8 10:45 ucb11_8.dat*

note: "mrs11_8b.dat" has a 10-sec sample rate to test the conductivity
of the snow temp probes.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, JH, NT

Purpose of visit:  finish setup of thermocouples at the N Can tower, work
with 2m Rnet sensor.

Weather: Blustery and cool.  Significantly more snow had melted since
last Friday.  There is almost no snow left...however, a small system
passed through after we had departed the site and left a dusting of
fresh snow.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU white suburban (Nicole extended the rental and
needed to exchange the jeep to have some brake work done).

* Nicole/Jia were working on snow-fencing stuff...

---------

* at 9:30 MST, power-cycled the eol tram data system (per Steve
  Oncleys request).

* messed around more with the 2m Rnet sensor:

  old 2m Rnet sensor wiring scheme (up until today):

  white pin 1 7H
  brown pin 3 7L
  black pin 4 7G

  new wiring scheme as of today:

  orange pin 1 7H
  blue (white) pin 3 7L
  white (blue) pin 4 7G

* setup 9 more thermocouple sensors connected to the soil logger am25t
  multiplexer.  channels 17-22 were setup as a TC "intercomparison"
  since last Friday.  Today added channels 23,24,25 (which fills up
  the am25t).  details:

 * when i was checking the am25t, chan20 had a loose wire which i
   re-attached.  Also, reconnected chan21 since this was giving
   intermittent data.


* downloaded logger data (it was difficult to connect to the cr10
logger??):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      233425 Oct 30 09:47 mrs10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster        2466 Oct 30 10:53 mrs10_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      421629 Oct 30 11:18 ucb10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      551577 Oct 30 11:25 uc10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      109312 Oct 30 11:47 nctc10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      672821 Oct 30 12:00 met10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      530028 Oct 30 12:11 prf10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      749430 Oct 30 12:20 prf10_30b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      377836 Oct 30 12:41 soil10_30.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      603847 Oct 30 12:49 tc10_30.dat*

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, SO

Purpose of visit:  setup some thermocouples at the N Can tower.  Check
on the MRS cr10 "wp" logger.  re-install the nctc 23x logger.

Weather: Warm and sunny.  Most of the snow in the trees has melted,
but there are still patches of snow around.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep (Nicole extended the rental).

* steve oncley was out working on the tram line.

* there was still a fair amount of snow near the soil logger which
made it a bit difficult to find all the Ttcs and check them.

---------

* re-installed the repaired NCTC cr23x logger (according to the
  report, the "crystal in location Y17N was bad")

* dumped all the water out of the CR10 logger box (note, that the MRS
  cr10 is a cr10 "WP" logger (sn 18657) and the calibration date was
  from 1986!)...there was still some ice in there that was more
  difficult to remove.

* when we tried to connect to the logger a "can't connect to logger"
error occurred.  There was not much else to try at the logger to make
things work (it had power, but 5V was not coming out of the 5V
terminals).

* there was a solid-state relay (a CRYDOM D1D07) that might have
been damaged (but turns out it is ok).
   input = 3.5 - 32 VDC
   ouput = 100 VDC, 7A.

   (i don't fully understand the function of this relay since one
    of the output ends seems to be connected to the 5V terminal on
    the logger??).

* the action packer with the pressure sensors (and one short-haul
modem) was off and sitting on the ground...why did this happen?

* switched out the MRS cr10 logger for a spare cr10 that jia removed
from her site yesterday...so the timing was good.  with jia's cr10
connected things started working again.

* in the morning steve oncley installed his fiber-optic media
converter box in the quacker box.  In doing this the MET logger became
temporarily disconnected from the short-haul modem...and we lost about
3 hours of hi-rate data from the MET logger.  I screwed the short-haul
connector together which should stop this from happening again.

* we did a quick check of how much conduction is in the those green
snow temp probes (tried to save 1-hz data with mrs_02a.csi):

 - at 13:04 MST, jeff put his hand on Td_4 (4th level from the
   top of the long probe)

 - at 13:10 MST, jeff stopped having his hand there and moved it to
   the short probe (under the tree).  He put his hand at the 2nd
   sensor from the top on this probe.

 - at 13:22:20 MST, the original (30-min) program, mrs_02.csi, was
   sent back to the cr10 logger.

* note, the status light on the card storage module (CSM1) was a solid
red color.  (is it usually like this?).  If we have an extra storage
module we should bring it out just in case this one has a problem...

* added 6 thermocouples to the soil logger am25t mux.  these are
channels 17-22.  For now they are tied together for a
"intercomparison" before setting them up near the snowtemp probes
(which should be done next time).

* at the soil logger started using, "soil_02.csi".  Here we've stopped
saving the "tdr" data and only save the "h2o_soil" data...since there
is a polynomial relationship between these two there is no reason to
save both of them...also started saving all 25 channels of the am25t
mux...the main change in the program is at:

 44:  Average (P71)
  1: 15       Reps
  2: 1        Loc [ HFT_1     ]

 45:  Average (P71)
  1: 8        Reps
  2: 25       Loc [ TDRwat_1  ]

 46:  Average (P71)
  1: 3        Reps
  2: 42       Loc [ PanelTemp ]

 47:  Average (P71)
  1: 25       Reps
  2: 47       Loc [ Tc_1      ]


which used to be (in soil_01.csi):

 44:  Average (P71)
  1: 32       Reps
  2: 1        Loc [ HFT_1     ]

 45:  Average (P71)
  1: 3        Reps
  2: 42       Loc [ PanelTemp ]

 46:  Average (P71)
  1: 16       Reps
  2: 47       Loc [ Tc_1      ]


* checked the 21.5m csat and it seemed to be aligned ok (after
the strong winds of a few weeks ago).

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: JB, JH, MP

Details:
--------
Date:    Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:20:25 MDT
To:      Sean.Burns@Colorado.EDU
From:    Jeffrey Mark Beauregard 
Subject: critical site updates from 10/24

Hi Sean.

1. I downloaded from the soil and tc loggers, and these data files are
in my h ome directory on russter2.

2. The N2 cylinder at the tower still has 400 psi of pressure, and the
 span cylinder at the tower still has 700 psi of pressure.

3. I set up the cr23x but wasn't able to actually start it up because
I didn't have the green power plug with me...this was still on campus
from when I brought it down the other week...but I have located it
here and will bring it up to the site on my n ext visit.

4. Jia was up on the top of the north canopy tower today and called me
over to "chec k something out"...Noah's data logger box was wide
open. It looked like it had been left open ever since it was last
visited. The whole thing was in bad shape...everyth ing was sitting in
a few inches of water and ice. I didn't know what to do about it,
because it seemed that tipping over the box to empty the water would
have been a ba d idea...plus the logger seemed to be sitting a bit
above the water. Not sure how th is happened. I am guessing that at
some point everything in the box was covered in s now, so there might
be water damage to stuff that is now dry. Our "cuff" SC32A that you
put in there was totally submerged in water, so I took this out, dried
it off an d brought it back to campus this afternoon. My plan is to
test it with one of the av ailable 21x loggers at some point to see if
it still works.

5. There isn't that much snow on the forest floor, and today was
pretty warm up ther e.

If you do decide to go up tomorrow instead of Friday and can possibly
call me let me know, that would be ideal because I might not be able
to check my e-mail at home to night...Otherwise I will plan on Friday.

Jeff

-----------------------------
Date:    Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:49:49 MDT
To:      Sean Burns 
From:    Jeffrey Mark Beauregard 
Subject: Re: critical site updates from 10/24

Hi Sean.

Right-o...this wasn't Noah's box then, sorry for the confusion. It was
the MRS logger box. Anyway, I assume we will meet at 8:30 tomorrow
morning in Ramaley?

Jeff

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:28:54 -0600
>From: Sean Burns 
>Subject: Re: critical site updates from 10/24
>To: Jeffrey Mark Beauregard 
>Cc: sean.burns@Colorado.EDU
>
>
>Hi Jeff,
>
>sounds good.
>
>are you sure that was Noahs logger??  was it on the first level or the
>2nd level?  i ask since i checked in noahs box (on the first level) a
>few weeks ago and it was empty....and i left our sc32a in the mrs
>logger box (on the 2nd level).  so i'm a bit confused by this...it
>sounds like noah might have been there and re-installed everything?
>
>yes, let's plan for friday...
>
>thanks,
>

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, NT, C, LL

Purpose of visit:  setup some thermocouples at the N Can tower (never
happened).

Weather: Colder than it has been.  About 5" of new snow on the ground
from the storm on Sunday.  The road was ok.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep.

* Nicole/Charlie were putting up snow fencing down by her plots.

---------

* Jeff and I helped Lynette collect soil samples along the tram
line in the morning.  We also pulled out all of her soil moisture
and temperature probes.

* at ~13:45 MST, turned off the slow ozone sensor (TECO).

* at 13:40 MST, disconnected the KZ PAR-Lite sensor.

* there was a cylinder of zero air (CC153241) that was outside the
fence at the tower...this cylinder had around 1300 psi of pressure.
moved it inside the fence and put it on the pallete.

* brought down the empty cylinder of zero air that was at HYDRA (CC?).

* brought up a full cylinder of N2 (it's on the floor of the trailer).

* checked the snowprobes and tape marking the hts.

  tree = ok.
   mid = 3cm too high, ie, a 40cm reading is ACTUALLY 37cm.
   far = ok.

* left a spool of TC wire out by the N Canopy tower.


we visited the old hydra and TRAM site at Como Creek to remove LL's soil gear, 
and also visited cuff

Friday, October 12th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, RaM, SO + NCAR Crew

Purpose of visit: help move tram.

Weather: Awesome Fall weather continues.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep.

---------

* spent part of the morning moving Tram stuff from Como creek up to
near CUFF tower.

* at 12:45 MST, shutdown HYDRA for the year.  Packed it up and moved
it down to NCAR for the winter.  Note, on 10/10 all the inlets at
different heights on the tram towers were moved together for a mini
comparison.  There are data from the night of 10/11 and the morning of
10/12 to compare these.

* the final pressures of gas cylinders at HYDRA:

    Cylinder Pressures:
    ===================

             JA02103  JJ21180 JJ14766 JJ16850 JJ23865  0 Air   N2
    Date  JD   349/C2  375/LC  384/C4  417/LC  476/LC    Ref   LC
    ----  ---  ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------ ----
    8/6   218  1800    1790    1720     890    1790     1500  1750
    8/9   221  1800    1790    1720     890    1400     1500  NaN
    8/16  228  1700    1790    1690     850     975     1450  NaN
    8/23  235  1600    1790    1550     850     775     1300  NaN
    8/27  239  ?       1790    1500     850     700     1200  NaN
    9/6   249  ?       1775    1400     750     575      900  NaN
    10/12 285  1350    1775     810     100     575      100  NaN

* the steps for re-starting the isff.colorado.edu data system (all
  done as root):

  /etc/rc3.d/S99isff start
  adamserver
  nc_server (don't think this matters)
  rtrun -r 5 serial_ingest -z  (probably not needed?)
  kill -HUP  (ingest process 1)
   something like:   aster    12415  0.0  0.5  4832 1528 pts/4    S    23:28   0:00 -tcsh -c /home/aster/bin/Linuxi686/ingest -z; /home/aster/projec
  kill -HUP  (ingest process 2)
  ingest (start ingest again).

then you should get something like:

  CheckAster
  Thu Oct 11 23:47:21 MDT 2007

            ------------- Environment -------------
  PROJECT = NIWOT07, OPS=ops3

            ------------- Server tasks -------------
  host            user   pid    start exectime process
  aster       aster    12563 23:30 ? 00:00:00 adamserver
  aster       root     12762 23:31 ? 00:00:00 nc_server

            ------------- Ingest tasks -------------
  host            user   pid    start exectime process
  aster       root     12995 23:33 ? 00:00:00 ingest

            ------------- Archive tasks -------------
  host            user   pid    start exectime process
  aster       root     12468 23:28 ? 00:00:00 archive aster .

            -------------- Covar calcs --------------
  host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- X processes --------------
  host            user   pid    start exectime process

            -------------- Ingest Statistics ----------
  station     port                    status   up since   sample/sec serialErrs
  aster       59958                   open   Oct 11 23:28      1.46         0

            -------------- Living adams  --------------
  aster


  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/hda3             14807880  10162008   3893652  73% /
  /dev/hda3             14807880  10162008   3893652  73% /
            -----------------------------------------

* tried to connect with the NCAR TC 23x data logger.  Could not make
any kind of connection...tried to use the CSI Dev Config Utility...but
the following error would occur:

  Device Disconnected
  "Clock check with the data logger failed"

  11:04:10.35 Fault
  "Classic ::  CmdClockSet"

when we tried to do *B at the keypad we would get an error, "Mode 11".
The other * inputs seemed to work ok (for example, *5 showed the clock
was working ok).  we tried doing, "*AAAAA98765" to reset the logger
memory.  After waiting about 10 minutes the screen went "black"...ie,
all the small cubes on the panel showed up as dark areas.  And then we
couldn't do anything else with the logger.

* when we couldn't get anything to work with the cr23x we disconnected
all the thermocouples and removed it from the tower.  The wiring is:

              purple wire = High
                 red wire = Low
                    black = signal ground.

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Visit:
-----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, NT, A, SO + NCAR Crew

Purpose of visit: help move tram.

Weather: Awesome Fall weather.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep.

---------

* spent most of the day moving Tram stuff from Como creek up to
near CUFF tower.

* tried to re-start the isff.colorado.edu data system, but it wasn't
working.  tried again later that night (the network was ok) and got it
going (see notes on 10/12/2007 about this).

* swapped four flasks at the west robot.

* hydra/TRAM site

* hydra/TRAM site

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 Visit:
---------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, MP, NT, SO + NCAR Crew

Purpose of visit: add back the re-furbished prop-vane (16m).
Add KZ PAR-Lite sensor.

Weather: Absolutely beautiful.  Clear.  Warm.  Sunny.  Calm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep (rented for a week since we
are moving TRAM later this week).

* Steve Oncley was up here yesterday getting ready for the TRAM move.

---------

* there were two bugs (some kind of pine beetle?) stuck in the rain
  gauge sensor...removed them.

* in the morning (~9:30 MST) installed KZ PAR-LITE sensor:

Info about Kipp and Zonen PAR LITE sensor:
------------------------------------------
white wire = +
green wire = -
shield = GND.

* replaced the 2 micron Nupro filters for the LI-6262 (both at the
inlet and in the box).  details:

  at 11:17 MST, flipped the LI-6262 to manual and did zero.

   original:
   co2 at 89 mV  dial = 2.70
   h2o at 64 mV  dial = 1.90

   after:
   co2 at 0 mV  dial = 1.35
   h2o at 0 mV  dial = 0.80

  -- changed Nupro Filters ---

    h2o at 130 mV  (i think there is still a little room to zero?).

  at 11:55 MST, back to sample.

* checked the heights of some instruments on the CU tower:

         T4/RH4 = 10.4 m  (see email from jeff on 12 july 2007)
         T5/RH5 = 4.6 m
   2d ati sonic = 9.3 m
         P_baro = 12.0 m
"16m" prop-vane = 15.0 m

* note, to check Tref_A on TC logger...i did this and it seems that
this box must get some afternoon sun (which is why the reading was so
high when i was downloading the logger data).

* at HYDRA did a swap of the inlets (this is to help identify any
problems with internal leaks, etc).  The inlets swapped are:

at 9:30 MST, doing a cal.  Turned off the gast pump.

A1 <--> B1
A2 <--> B2
A3 <--> B3 (note, the nut for B3 (T4-L) was a little loose before the swap)
A5 <--> B5
B4 <--> B6
A7 <--> B7
A8 <--> B8
A9 <--> B9

at 10:00 MST, gast pump back on.

* also checked the timing of the valve switches versus my watch
time....
     HYDRA switches to S9 (B9) at 10:03:55 MST (by my watch time)
     HYDRA switches to Sx+D+S1 (A1) at 10:08:27 MST (by my watch time)

* at HYDRA, cylinder pressures: zero air at 100psi, 384ppm at 890 psi,
  417ppm at 100psi.

* downloaded logger data (no time problems):

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      502230 Oct  9 10:09 cnr10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      996921 Oct  9 10:19 cnr10_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1177762 Oct  9 10:30 cnr10_9c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      245935 Oct  9 10:33 cnr10_9d.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      784717 Oct  9 11:07 prf10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      450805 Oct  9 11:17 met10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      715455 Oct  9 11:33 nctc10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1236810 Oct  9 12:40 soil10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1287054 Oct  9 13:18 tc10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       78551 Oct  9 13:19 tc10_9b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      544297 Oct  9 14:10 ucb10_9.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      718655 Oct  9 14:18 uc10_9.dat*
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster      318449 Oct 11 09:37 mrs_071009.dat

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Visit:
----------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, MP, NT, SL

Purpose of visit: move ati 2-d sonic from the
ground up to the tower (9m).

Weather: Clear.  Warm.  Sunny.  Calm.

--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep.

---------

* started collecing data from the cr10 MRS snowprobes.  started using
mrs_02.csi which includes saving of the Tref data, ie:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       13193 Oct  4 10:39 mrs_02.csi*

* moved cylinder CC18996 from outside the fence, next to the span
gas---this is the cylinder calibrated by Britt/Andy.  We should use
this cylinder next...it is probably at around 1100 psi??

* Jia's N2 cylinder (CC125555) has 1300 psi.

* moved the 2d ati SPAS/2Y ati sonic from the ground up to a height of
  9.3m on the tower.  notes before moving the sonic:

 - the small circle (which seemed to be a mark with a sharpie on our
   sonic) is the "u1" transducer pair and should point North.

 - with our setup on the ground the transducers with the dots were
   in the vertical direction while the other pair were horizontal
   (aligned approx along the 50-230 deg from North).

 - jeff and i tried to point this pair of transducers toward true north
   at 9.3m on the tower.

* finished the blow tests of the HYDRA inlets...the final results are:
(note, some of the info is from sep 20th)

opto       Inlet      Inlet         Times in MST             lag time
Code  ID  Location    Ht(m)  Exhale Puff  Reach Li-7000     (seconds)
----- --  --------   ------ -----------  -------------      ---------
9 0   A1    T1-L       1.22   13:46:00    13:46:40             40
9 1   A2    T4-U       4.9    13:48:30    13:49:07             97
9 2   A3    T11-L      1.22   10:20:30    10:23:00            150
9 3   A4    NaN (leak) NaN
9 4   A5    T11-U      3.58   10:24:30    10:26:45            135
9 5   A6    NaN (leak) NaN
9 6   A7    UCOMO-2    1.22   13:58:30    14:02:50            320
9 7   A8    CUFF       1.00                                  ~300+ (did a test during setup)
9 8   A9    US2        1.22   10:41:15    10:45:45            270
  0   B1    T1-U       3.38   13:43:30    13:44:33            133
  1   B2    T4-M       3.23   13:50:00    13:50:42             42
  2   B3    T4-L       1.22   13:52:00    13:52:27             27
  3   B4    UCOMO-1    ?      13:54:00    13:55:09             69
  4   B5    US1        1.22   10:47:00    10:51:45            285
  5   B6    UN-2       1.22   14:04:30    14:05:40            130
  6   B7    UN-1       1.22   14:08:00    14:13:20            320
  7   B8    T9-L       1.22   10:28:00    10:29:35             95
  8   B9    T9-U 30m   5.89   10:30:30    10:32:05             95


* at HYDRA, cylinder pressures: zero air at 200psi, 384ppm at 950 psi,
  417ppm at 250psi.

***photo diode wand tree; removed the wands

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 Visit:
-------------------------------------
At the site: SpB, JB, MP

Purpose of visit: add T/RH sensor #5.  change to winter
mode for fast logger.

Weather: An excellent fall day.  Chilly with a few wind gusts.  Nice
in the sun.  The Aspens have either dropped all their leaves or are
yellow.


--------- Misc Notes:

* drove up in the CU grey jeep.

* Jeff/Sierra were planning for a pre-dawn tomorrow morning.

* apparently a bow hunter that was near our towers had an "encounter"
with a Mt Lion sometime recently.  The lion did not run away
immediately and approached the hunter.

---------

* at ~10:00 MST, shutdown the fast ozone system.

* resent the tc_12.dld logger program to the TC logger...but it turns
out what i needed to do was redo the "association" with the logger
program (since the file structure of PC208W is different on plumwood
than the old gateway).

* at 11:00 MST, i reconnected power to the cr10 MRS logger..but I
didn't have a sc32a so i couldn't connect to the logger!!

* the tubing connecting the pressure sensor to the pressure port was
severed.  Probably just exposure and age.  Patched it up using one of
the tubing sections.

* checked the locations of the TCs connected to the am25t (sn 2283) and
  the soil logger:

     mux
   channel   sensor location + misc
   -------   ------------------------------------------------------------------
     1,      on ground ~ 50cm from AM25T box. (T-type tc, omega blue wire)
     2,      on ground, by one of middle snowprobes (T-type tc, campbell A3537).
     3,      ~1cm deep, between the two long snowprobes (T-type tc, campbell A3537).
     4,      ~1cm deep, near cs615 WCR probe #3 and temp probes (T-type tc, campbell A3537).
     5,      ~1cm deep, closer to tree than ch4 (T-type tc, campbell A3537).
     6,      ~2cm deep, near cs615 WCR probe #4 and near 35cm pit (A3537).
     7,      ~2cm deep, between 2 trees (A3537).
     8,      in air, ~1cm off ground, near "tree" snowT probe (A3537).
     9,      ~4cm deep, near clump of trees, not too far from profile, photo includes shoes (III.5, A3537).
     10,     ~4cm deep, in clump of trees near ch9 (A3537).
     11,     ~4cm deep, in clearing, far side, near rtd probe #2 (A3537).
     12,     ~4cm deep, in clearing 2m SE of am25t box, under snowdepth sensor #02393 (A3537). no photo
     13,     ~4cm deep, in clearing 6m SE of am25t box, just past ch12 (A3537). no photo
     14,     at 1.54m in tree, on the sunny side (omega blue wire).
     15,     at 1.54m in tree, on the shady side (A3537).
     16,     at -20cm, co-located with snowT probe (middle) (A3537).


* downloaded some logger data:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1341172 Sep 26 10:45 tc9_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1026955 Sep 26 11:21 soil9_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster     1238119 Sep 26 11:40 soil9_26b.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      633232 Sep 26 11:53 soil9_26c.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster         965 Sep 26 12:03 soil9_26d.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      444214 Sep 26 14:01 met9_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster      790448 Sep 26 14:19 prf9_26.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 sburns   aster       73741 Sep 26 14:21 prf9_26b.dat*