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Field Notes

<--2001-01-05 10:30:00 | 2001-01-30 09:00:00-->

Vaira: 2001-01-16 00:00:00 (DOY 16)
Author: Dennis Baldocchi
Others: Mission, Gu

Summary: Communication wire between laptop and met station damaged.

Jan 16, 2001

Misson and Gu visited the Vaira site. The communication wire between the laptop and met station got chewed off by the cows. Temporarily recollected and restored it but need to be replaced later. The communication between met station and laptop worked fine. The cap of one of the battery boxes was off on the ground with ice on it (wind?). Found water inside that box. Punched several holes at bottom of the box to let water out. Downloaded data from c:\vaira (*.raw, *.nrt, *.err, *.flx, *.23x, *.10x) and moved these files to the corresponding subdirectories in c:\vaira_2001). Replaced the LI75-0035 by LI75-0042.
The 0-5 v outputs were set to 13-20 mmol m-3 of CO2.
Reboot the computer and everything worked fine.

Double checked channel connections by sensors:

Total solar: Channel 1
Net rad: Channel 2
PAR face up: channel 3
PAR face down: channel 4
Need to check the data reading programs to see if these channels are correctly used.

Took four leaf area samples. Canopy heights: 1.5 cm, 2.0 cm, 2.0 cm, 2.5 cm.

Did not visit Tonzi’s Ranch since forgot to bring the key.

Field Data

No tank data

No VR 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

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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