Chris onsite today with Rick taking the day off.
Weather was mostly sunny in the morning with gradually building clouds. In the afternoon we were mostly cloudy, with rain late in the day.
Stephan and Nathan's students were again flying UAVs on the west end of the array ( same location and stations as yesterday).
Equipment generally looked good. Stephan took some time to look at his lidar, and noticed an issue with the vertical profiles. It looked like horizontal profiles were good, but vertical ones were misbehaving. He was discussing this with Bill and was doing some trouble shooting.
For some reason the sounding computer rebooted this afternoon, and then initially had an issue connecting to the Vaisala sounding equipment. With Josh's help we got it sorted out prior to the 3:00 sounding.
The Purdue students again performed both balloon releases for the soundings.
The below photo credit goes to Stephan De Wekker:
