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<--2010-02-10 09:30:00 | 2010-04-13 09:00:00-->
Other sites visited today: Tonzi

Vaira: 2010-04-02 06:00:00 (DOY 92)
Author: Siyan Ma
Others:


When: Date: 4/2/2010 , Day: 92 , Watch Time: 6:00 am .
Where: Tonzi/Vaira Ranch
Who: Siyan
Weather: cloudy, slight wind, a lot of dews, started raining at noon.
Phenology: green grass, green oak leaves expanding

Tonzi



Summary
  1. Pre-dawn leaf water potential: oak leaf= -3.4 bar; pin needle=-6.1 bar.
  2. Power showed “OFF” at Vaira.
  3. calibrated Li-800 in the field.
  4. collected samples of oak leaves and pin needles
  5. dendrometers
  6. soil moisture
  7. groundwater well:

Date

DOY

Location

Depth from NO black thing (feet)

4/2/2010

92

Floor

23.30



Tower

27.62



roadside

31.75

Vaira_Grass Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: 13.5 v; 0.0 amps; OFF amps.

NO POWER! NO RUNNING!




  1. Check levels of Radiation sensors, clear up surfaces. YES!
  2. Check rain gage, make sure not clogged. YES!
  3. Closed gate and set up fence. YES!

Tonzi_Tower Site

  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: 12.7 v; 0.0 amps; 3.7 amps.
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

  1. downloading data NO!
  2. check the fans of air temp. and relative humidity sensors on the tower and the floor. NO!
  3. Check rain gage, make sure not clogged. YES!
  4. Check calibration cylinders;

CO2 700 psig; flow 30 psi; 418.8 ppm.
N2 300 psig; flow 20 psi.
Manually calibrate Li-800. Following Ted’s instruction: H:\IoneSavanna_2004\Tower_2004\CO2Profile\LI800_Calibration_Procedure_2Nov04.txt
Is the pump running‌ Pump wasn’t working. Click it and it worked.

before zero 4.6 ppm
after zero

before span

after span
  1. close gate and set up fence. YES!

Toniz_Floor Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: 12.3 v; 1.5 amps; 1.9 amps. (about 7:00 am local time)
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

LOOKS OK, BUT THE POWER DIDN’T ALLOW ME TO SAVE “PRINT SCREEN” .
  1. downloading data NO!
  2. Check MD-9 system connections NO!
  3. Soil CO2 profile: no power when I got there. I unplug and re-plug fuses, then the system back to work.

Reading from panels of analyzers

depth

Open

order

depth

Tree

order

2cm (1%)

1320

1

2cm (1%)

3270

1

4cm

1560

2

4cm

3700

4

8cm

2280

3

8cm

3600

2

16cm

1210

4

16cm

8420

3
  1. Close gate and set up fence. YES!

tonzi

7931AFE

402165

574B4B

402FF3

574632

7A432E

7A3C6E

7A3B40

7A4AAA

4/2/2010

92










sm









0-15

39.6

17.3

39.3

29.4

32.3

26.7

23.2

21.4

16.8

15-30

37.9

30.1

37.4

34.1

34.7

24.9

26.1

29.5

16.4

30-45

39.9

41.9

42.1

37.4

43.5

27.6

26.5

31.0

32.4

45-60

38.5

55.1

62.9

49.7

42.0

32.8

36.8

46.6

28.2












A6D882B

A3D04E8

A6D72F5

















0-15

26.7

17.9

19.1







15-30

25.2

13.6

31.9







30-45

33.8

29.3

40.7







45-60

40.8

45.4

42.3

















vaira

57318a

7933dee








0-15

21.5

12.7








15-30

23.7

24.0








30-45

19.0

26.5








45-60

35.7

34.0











Tonzi






Dendrometer











Date

Day

Tag #

Reading (mm)



4/2/2010

92

72

7.5





79

10.9





102

X





245

10.1





250

21

(reset to 10.5 on May 7, 2009)




1

18.1





2

9.9





3

16.2





4

7.4





5

10.5





7

14.9

133




8

16.6

11828




71

X





77

X





78

X





248

X

broken




255

X





‌252‌

X





6

X



Notes: “X” means not working any more.
Dendrometers installed by Gretchen group

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

DateLocationDepth (feet)
2010-04-02TZ_floor23.3
2010-04-02TZ_road31.75
2010-04-02TZ_tower27.62

No TZ Moisture Point data found

No VR Moisture Point data found

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

Tree DBH

DateTag#Reading (mm)

No water potential data found

No VR Grass Biomass data found

No VR OakLeaves Biomass data found

No VR PineNeedles Biomass data found

0 photos found

Graphs display:
9 sets found

16 VR_met graphs found

Temperatures

System Power Voltage

Soil Temperatures Set 1

Soil Temperatures Set 2

Soil Temperature Set 3

Soil Temperature at -4cm

Soil Heat Flux

Soil Moisture

Photosynthetic Active Radiation

Short/Long Wave Radiation

LED sensor

Vaira PPT

Peltier SHF Plates

Peltier SHF Temperatures

LED NDVI

NDVI SRS Raw Data

2 VR_flux graphs found

CO2 Density

Sonic Wind

No data found for VR_soilco2.
No data found for VR_pond.
Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for VR_fd.
No data found for VR_processed.
No data found for VR_arable.
No data found for VR_soilvue.

 
 

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