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Field Notes

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Other sites visited today: Sherman Island | East End | Twitchell Rice | West Pond | Mayberry

Twitchell Alfalfa: 2014-03-07 10:35:00 (DOY 66)
Author: Cove Sturtevant
Others: Sara

Summary: Alfalfa growing. Updated 7500A/7550 firmware. Low readings on SHF3 to check out. Rad 10x needed restart.

Twitchell Alfalfa
2014-03-07

We arrived about 10:35 PST It was partly cloudy, windy, and cool. The alfalfa is growing anew, you couldn’t even tell the sheep had been here last week. We checked the readings and updated the 7500A/7550 firmware (downloaded GHG data first).

7500 readings:
CO2 = 393 ppm (400 after cleaning)
H2O = 440 mmol m-3 (409 after cleaning)
SS = 77.9% (78.4% after cleaning)
sos = 346 m s-1

MET looked good except for some low readings from SHF3. Check data. Ants have taken an interest in the solar controller in the Met box. It’s not too bad yet.

The radiation 10x had to be restarted by cycling battery power at the solar controller. This happened last week so we should keep an eye on whether this is resulting in data loss. Cleaned radiation sensors.

1 photos found

nice sunset
TA_autocam_20140306_1815.jpg ( 2014-03-06 18:15:02 ) Full size: 1920x1440
nice sunset

Graphs display:
7 sets found

Can't check TA_met
11 TA_met graphs found

Alfalfa Temperatures

Alfalfa Soil Heat Flux

Alfalfa Soil Moisture

Alfalfa Soil Temperatures Set A

Alfalfa Soil Temperatures Set B

Alfalfa Soil Temperatures Set C

NDVI Narrow Band Radiation

Soil CO2 Flux

Relative Humidity and BattV

SRS NDVI and PRI

PRI Narrow Band Channels

Can't check TA_rad
3 TA_rad graphs found

Alfalfa Radiation

Alfalfa LED NDVI Sensor

Alfalfa PAR

Can't check TA_flux
5 TA_flux graphs found

Alfalfa Sonic Wind

Alfalfa CO2 and H2O

Alfalfa Methane

Alfalfa Pressure

Alfalfa Flux Data Counts

Can't check TA_soilco2
7 TA_soilco2 graphs found

Set A Soil CO2

Set B Soil CO2

Soil CO2 Soil Moisture

Forced Diffusion CO2

Alfalfa Forerunner Soil CO2

Alfalfa Forerunner Temperatures

Alfalfa Forerunner Probe RH

No data found for TA_arable.
1 TA_cam graphs found

GCC

Can't check TATWBABCSB_cam

 
 

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