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Field Notes

<--2011-03-22 09:30:00 | 2011-04-22 09:30:00-->
Other sites visited today: Mayberry | Sherman Island

Twitchell Rice: 2011-04-13 09:45:00 (DOY 103)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Jaclyn, Gavin

Summary: Soil sensors pulled on Monday, field disked and plowed, radiation boom rotated to south.

Twitchell
4/13/2011

I arrived about 9:45PDT with Jaclyn and Gavin. It was cool and windy with scattered showers. The wind was from the southwest. The field is being plowed with tractors working in the south and north checks while we were there. Directly upwind from the tower has been plowed.

Our ground sensors were removed by Jim probably on Monday. We swung the radiation boom 90 degrees to the south to encourage tractor work closer to our tower.

All was running when we arrived. The computer was on meaning there hasn’t been any long drops in power in the last three weeks. The LGR screen was left on last time.

The LGR read:
9:46PDT, 23.66C, 125.38Torr, 16.908usec, 10Hz, 1.857ppm

I adjusted the bypass valve until the pressure read 146.16Torr.

We copied data, and swapped cards.

The rain bucket was clear.

We met Frank who has moved his tower to the northwest corner of the west pond. I could see large differences in the amount of green tule in different areas of the pond. The current upwind area looks less green than the downwind area.

14 photos found

view of field site
20110413TW_PlowedField.jpg ( 2011-04-13 08:41:59 ) Full size: 2560x1920
view of field site

view of field site
20110413TW_TowerPlowedField.jpg ( 2011-04-13 08:41:35 ) Full size: 2560x1920
view of field site

view of field site
20110413TW_TractorPlowing.jpg ( 2011-04-13 08:41:14 ) Full size: 2560x1920
view of field site

view of field site
20110413TW_TractorPlowingZoom.jpg ( 2011-04-13 08:41:22 ) Full size: 2560x1920
view of field site

Tractor work
TW_plantcam_20110412_0700.jpg ( 2011-04-12 07:00:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Tractor work

Plowing 1
TW_plantcam_20110412_0730.jpg ( 2011-04-12 07:30:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 1

Plowing 2
TW_plantcam_20110412_0800.jpg ( 2011-04-12 08:00:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 2

Plowing 3
TW_plantcam_20110412_0830.jpg ( 2011-04-12 08:30:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 3

Plowing 4
TW_plantcam_20110412_0900.jpg ( 2011-04-12 09:00:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 4

Plowing 5
TW_plantcam_20110412_0930.jpg ( 2011-04-12 09:30:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 5

Plowing 6
TW_plantcam_20110412_1000.jpg ( 2011-04-12 10:00:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 6

Plowing 7
TW_plantcam_20110412_1030.jpg ( 2011-04-12 10:30:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 7

Plowing 8
TW_plantcam_20110412_1100.jpg ( 2011-04-12 11:00:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 8

Plowing 9
TW_plantcam_20110412_1130.jpg ( 2011-04-12 11:30:00 ) Full size: 2560x1920
Plowing 9

Graphs display:
6 sets found

12 TW_met graphs found

Soil Heat Flux

Solar Radiation

Air Temperature

Soil Temperature Set 1

Soil Temperature Set 2

Soil Temperature Set 3

Water Temperature

RH and Pressure

Soil Moisture

Rain and Water Level

Disolved Oxygen

LED NDVI Channels

5 TW_flux graphs found

Sonic Anemometer Winds

LI7700 CH4 and RSSI

Twitchell CH4

LI7500 CO2 and H2O

Twitchel Rice Flux Counts

Can't check TWSI_mixed
Can't check SIMBTWEE_met
1 TW_cam graphs found

TW Rice Autocam

Can't check TATWBABCSB_cam

 
 

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