SGP Site Weekly Coordination Meeting


January 10, 2006, 11:00 am Central Time

Attending: Dave Breedlove, Don Bond, Dave Groff, Brad Orr, Dan Rusk, Karen Sonntag, Pete Lamb

Not Attending: Dick Eagan

 

Site Operations Status 

  1. Data Availability
    1. Preliminary data availability for last week is 97.7%.
    2. Reports are available on OMIS at: http://www.ops.sgp.arm.gov/
  1. Outstanding Availability Issues:
    1. EBBR, SMOS:E13 - On 1/6 the coms locked up and was reset on 1/9. Missing data should be recovered.
    2. MFR10, MFRSR:C1/E13 - On 1/6 the coms locked up and was reset on 1/9. Missing data may not be recovered.
    3. MWR:B1 - On 1/3 found the computer locked up and remotely restarted at 1419 GMT. Missing data is not recoverable.
    4. RWP915:IF3 - On 1/5 found the instrument powered on but no program running. Restarted at 1623 GMT. Missing data is not recoverable.
    5. SIRS:E18 - On 1/9 the SDS collector computer was restarted. Missing data may be recovered.
    6. SWATS:E19 - On 1/5 tried to upgrade the data logger OS program at 1703 GMT with some problems but the instrument seemed to be operational upon completion. Missing data may be recovered.
    7. VCEIL:B1 - On 1/3 found the computer powered off and it was restarted at 1812 GMT. Missing data is not recoverable.
    8. VCEIL:B4 - On 1/ 4 replaced the computer for upgrades at 1736 GMT.
    9. VCEIL:B5 - On 1/5 replaced the computer for upgrades at 1905 GMT.
    10. VCEIL:B6 –  On 1/ 4 replaced the computer for upgrades at 2134 GMT.
  1. Offline:
    1. MFRSR: E2, E5, E10, E15, E19, E20, E22
    2. SWATS: E18
    3. AERI01: C1
    4. RWP915: C1, I1
    5. UVSR: C1
    6. NIMFR: E13
    7. MWR: B4

 

Site Data Quality Status

  1. I prepared a report regarding the unusual wildfires in Oklahoma. This report was sent to the PRB via email. At this point evidence that the smoke has affected the data is inconclusive.

 

SGP SDS Status 

  1. Preparations are being made for integration of TDMA data.  

 

ECR Status 

  1.  Nothing right now.

 

Site Development Status

  1. Storage expansion construction continues. Dan Nelson is monitoring this activity.

Field Campaigns

  1. AIRS: The second phase of AIRS launches begins this week.
  2. AURA/TES: Francis Schmidlin is interested in planning ozone launches at the CF. 
  3. CO2 LIDAR Validation: I have delivered additional meteorological information to Mike Dobbs concerning January and February precipitation. We are still awaiting word as to when the ITT campaign will take place. Nothing new from ITT as of right now.  
  4. HydroKansas: Dan Rusk is still waiting for site maintenance procedures. Craig Webb, Dan Nelson and others have visited HydroKansas sites to prepare for stream gauge installations.

Issues/Other Items/Action Item Review

  1. Earthstorm will come to the Central Facility on June 22 for a tour/presentation of the site. We were contacted by Andrea Medlin. Andrea expects 30-50 teachers to participate. 
  2. David Groff will work with Rolanda Jundt to create a link for unusual weather events (i.e. wildfires, snowstorms, severe weather etc.) on the ARM SGP website. 

 

Next Meeting

The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at  11:00 a.m. (CST).