Morning 500 mb chart:
Wednesday Sept 20 Bruce arrived at REAL and worked on the software to enable direct control of the flashlamp voltage. The automatic increase that was in the software was increasing the voltage too high and it was difficult to keep the eye-safe energy at 130mj. The direct control of the flashlamp voltage was implemented and now the voltage in the init file is the value that will be set into the laser. The value of 1.49kV gives an eye-safe energy of 120-125mj.
Clouds looking East at 0900 PDT
Clouds looking West at 0900 PDT
The winds are calm and the sky has a few high cirrus. No coherent dust structures observed in the lidar data.
Coherent structures starting to appear in the lidar data after 1100 PDT
PPI and Winds from a vehhicle driving out to the array.
Flashlamp voltage increased to 1.50kV at 1200 PDT and the energy per pulse at 1.54 is now 130mj.
MPD03 aerosol and watervapor profile
Clouds looking East 1545 PDT
Clouds looking West 1545 PDT
Note from the New York Times today with visible satellite image:
Evening 500 mb chart (0 UTC on the 21st)
