Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2008-12-11 12:00:00 (DOY 346)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Hideki

Summary: Showing Hideki the site, Standard field work, check Floor batteries, wind profile removed

12/11/2008 (346) Tonzi

Joe and Hideki arrived about 12:00pm. Climbed tower to show Hideki and check on removing wind profile system. Hideki made soil moisture measurements. Joe made spectrum measurements and collected grass sample to the east of the tower.

Spectrum measurements done about 2:30pm in sunny patches to the east of the Tower. Integration time 275ms. Three rep in three locations.
Location height files
1 ~100cm (not recoded) tz_1_1 to tz_1_3
2 102cm tz_2_1 to tz_2_3
3 98cm tz_3_1 to tz_3_3

Phenology: maybe 5 to 10% leaves on trees mostly brown. Ground tinged with green, cm or two new grass dew in shady areas even at noon.

Tower:
Fence in yellow, system tested fine when not connected to fence. Walked fence and found to wire touching fence post in one location. Fixed â€“ full power when we left.
Batteries: 13.4V
Load: 4.6 Amps

Time
Path/File name	D:\Data\T08_346.flx D:\Data\TW083461230.raw
	mean	std		mean	std
w	0.58	0.328	Ts	15.05	0.392
u	0.600	0.473	H₂O	1.602	0.014
v	-0.13	0.958	CO₂	2.065	0.017

Data checked and downloaded
Fan on to HMP45 not working
Rain gage clear little bit of water in tipping bucket
Radiation sensor dirty, especially pyranometer â€“ cleaned about 3pm
Bird protection on sonic kind of sideways â€“ lowered, straightened, raised about 3pm
Gas cylinders:
CO2 700 psig; flow 22 psi
N2 1800 psig; flow 22 psi
Did manual zero of CO2 profile system. Started to do span but didnâ€™t see how to tell the LI800 what the concentration of the span gas is so did not span. When flow the span gas (431.80ppm) the LI800 read 428ppm.

MD9 connections
X13 â€“ okay â€“ data file is 75MB â€“ usual or needs attentionâ€Œ
X15 â€“ okay
X11 â€“ okay
X10 â€“ okay
CR10X7 â€“ okay

Pump running â€“ yes

Hideki removed wind profile system. Mounting arms left in place. Power cable for 10x disconnected in power box and left on tower.

Gate closed and power up

Floor:
System was running, no problems with power even with screen and usb hard drive. I disconnected all the batteries and ran the system on a single spare battery while I let the batteries rest. After resting, all batteries tested good in voltage and under load. Reconnected all batteries and torqued connections with wrench.

Fence: +12V
Batteries: 12.9V
Panels: 19.6Amps
Load: 3.3Amps with screen and USB drive

Time	13:14
Path/File name	D:\Data\F08_346.flx D:\Data\FL083461310.raw
	mean	std		mean	std
w	0.170	0.322	Ts	15.05	0.876
u	-0.840	0.563	H₂O	2.293	0.165
v	0.120	0.555	CO₂	2.180	0.126

Data downloaded and checked
MD9 connections:
CR23X3 â€“ floor-Met - okay
CR23X5 â€“ soil CO₂ profile - okay
CR23X6 â€“ tower-Met - okay
CR10X2 â€“ floor-Met - okay
CR10X4 â€“ sap-flow - failed
CR10X8 â€“ wind profile - removed

Fence closed and powered.

Soil CO2 site:

Door on tree instrument box ajar. Under tree charge controller batteries: 28.4V, panels 1.3 amps, load 0.0amps

Reading from data logger

Panel temp		17.669
Battery voltage		13.218
CO2E_1	654.9	TCE_1	15.29	CO2W_1	631.8	TCW_1	19.826
CO2E_2	524.0	TCE_2	14.93	CO2W_2	640.6	TCW_2	15.85
CO2E_3	879.47	TCE_3	13.93	CO2W_3	1134.5	TCW_3	20.46
CO2E_4	608.59	TCE_4	11.23	CO2W_4	1336.7	TCW_4	13.18

Reading from panels of analyzers

depth	Open	order	depth	Tree	order
2cm (1%)	710	1	2cm (1%)	1290	1
4cm	1060	2	4cm	1300	4
8cm	1660	3	8cm	2290	2
16cm	2460	4	16cm	5410	3

Mr. Tonziâ€™s ATV is in the shop because it wonâ€™t go into reverse and a Forestry officer returned to him and sign from when he used to drive cows up into the mountains to graze. It is now mounted near his house â€œTonzi Cow Camp ->â€.

Field Data

No tank data

No TZ Well data found

No TZ Moisture Point data found

No VR Moisture Point data found

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

No TZ Tree DBH found

No water potential data found

No TZ Grass Biomass data found

No TZ OakLeaves Biomass data found

No TZ PineNeedles Biomass data found