A cool, calm, mostly sunny day, although there was quite a bit of haze at times (for example see the photo below).
Some progress in sounding data ccommunication and plotting today. Isabel and Gary got the surface met data ingest in the MW41 system working today. This data is generated from the Lufft WS800 and Vaisala PTB220 instruments on the 3-meter tower whereby the DSM emulates a WXT and feeds the data via a serial line into the sounding computer. This system seemed to work well for this afternoons 2330UT sounding. We also corrected the sensor height parameters in the MW41 software, the GPS antenna height was very close but the pressure sensor was about a foot lower than initially specified. Isabel also got the plotting for the soundings working on the data manager computer back the ISFS base trailer, generating profile and Skew-T plots. The next step will be getting them onto our web site.
At the ISS1 trailer, I tracked down a bug in the RASS processing software and we are now generating consensus virtual temperature profiles. This too requires further work to get onto the website. The RASS returns continue to be strong, the profiles to the 1.3 to 1.6 km range, and winds to the 2 to 3 km range. The distributed amp power supply drew 2.48A at 50V and 1.74A at 31V in winds mode, and 2.90A at 50V and 1.89A at 31V for the RASS mode around 21UT.
There is a potential non-fog IOP starting Sunday afternoon (Jan 16) overnight into Monday.
Localized haze down the valley over the Deer Creek reservoir as seen around 1:30pm MST