Another hot clear day with light winds.
We started off the day with a safety briefing led by Will, followed by some tidying up and setup of the UVA Halo lidar and the CL61 ceilometer. The UVA Halo is on a pallet on the ground about 15 meters south of the MISS trailer, and the ceilometer is about 3 meters northwest from that. The UVA Halo will be mainly looking vertically during the campaign, although we do plan regular coordinated scans with the other lidars for intercomparison and calibration purposes. We got this lidar running this afternoon and for now (during testing) it is running the same scan strategy used during the 3-week test period at the FOB in May and is directly connected to a cell modem for monitoring. Isabel setup a Ubiquiti network link to the ISS1 trailer and we will transition the UVA Halo to that network. The CL61 hasn't yet been powered up, pending connection to the ISS1 network. Isabel also debugged a compilation issue with the LROSE analysis package, and tested it with some windcube lidar data we had collected in Boulder.
The Modular Profiler successfully ran overnight and we mostly left it in winds mode, although David did work on the RASS sound card (a USB dongle), amplifier, and speakers (they worked well but we haven't tested the data system in RASS mode yet).
David and Josh working on the UVA Halo lidar (left), Isabel and Bill working on the Ubiquiti data link (right)
Screenshots of measurements from the Modular Wind Profiler (left) and the UVA Halo lidar (right)