INSTRUMENT STATUS: The MWR and AERI are still chugging along. The DL is scanning as programmed a few days ago, but the less than 15 minute scan is resulting in the scans occurring off the even hour. Dave was in the system today helping us get the plots back up and running. The RHI scans are being put into a file called “DL_other” since they don’t fit Dave’s processing scripts. The RHI netcdfs are being pushed through this way, but Dave still needs to do some tweaking to get these files to flow to Norman. The quick-VAD scans (file names include wind_profile) are being ignored by his script so we can keep them for the halo software wind profiles, but they won’t kill Dave’s code.
The “data” drive (i.e., the RAID) was somehow ejected from the MMs. Eventually, powercycling the raid brought it back onto the system and data could begin flowing again. It was ejected from sometime on the evening of May 6 to mid-day May 8. No data were lost during this time, but the processing code did need some nudging to get the data ingested. Dave taught us some new tricks to reprocess data when the ingest doesn’t do it on its own. This info has been added to the troubleshooting document.
Other news: The spectral files for May 6-8 were pulled today (about 49GB). The internet was moved to UPS power… still working on a power loss alert.
Finally, it appears the DL quicklook plots quit updating about 15Z today… not sure why. Hoping Dave can figure it out. Will check again in the morning.
WEATHER INFO: Today was very warm and mostly cloud free except for high cirrus. Tomorrow is expected to be cooler and a little windier. A cold front approaches tomorrow night. Rain chances begin Tuesday night with a chance for some elevated convection. Wednesday will be rainy with chances of thunderstorms, then rain chances will decrease but still remain on Thursday. The temperatures drop behind the front and stay low on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday through next Wednesday look clear and have a trend of warming. This period looks promising for a potential supersonde IOP.
PREVIOUS DAY OPS: New towers are going up. The CU team flew the tethersonde at the George site. No extra balloon went up.
SITE PHOTOS:
NEXT DAY OPS: Tonight the tethered balloon will be flown again at the George site by CU group with possible extra balloon release there by ND group. Tomorrow we will continue to work on finding a solution to UPS alerts for power outages. We will also move forward on making a backup on the second external HD.
AUTHOR: Liz