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<--2011-12-18 00:00:00 | 2012-01-06 09:00:00-->

Tonzi: 2012-01-04 09:30:00 (DOY 4)
Author: Siyan Ma
Others:

Summary: Grasses look stressed by dryness, bird droppings on Tonzi Tower 7500, tower hmp45 fan dead, tram not moving.


Pond When: Date: 1/4/2012 , Day: 4 , Watch Time: 9:30 am .
Where: Tonzi/Vaira Ranch
Who: Siyan
Weather: clear, perfect temperature for outdoor. Saw Mr. Tonzi.
Phenology: grass experiences a dry winter; ~30% grass leaves turned into yellow due to the drought; grasses at Vaira looked stronger and showed dark red color on the edges, probably due to the drought too.

Tonzi



Vaira:



Problems:
  1. Bird craps on the Li-7500 at the Tonzi tower again.
  2. the fan for Ta&RH sensor on the top of Tower was not running.
  3. IRGA for CO2 profile system was still in the lab.
  4. Tram system did not move when I was there.


Summary
  1. checked and downloaded data at Tower, Floor, and Vaira
  2. Swapped Li-7500 at Vaira.
  3. Collected grass samples for LAI
  4. Read dendrometers
  5. Measured soil moisture
  6. Measure groundwater well:

Date

DOY

Location

Depth without the black thing (feet)

1/4/2012

4

Floor

39.2



Tower

39.0



roadside

37.6

Vaira_Grass Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: 12.9 v; 12.1 amps; 3.2 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
  2. Check the fans of air temp. and relative humidity sensors at Vaira. YES!
  3. Check MD-9 system connections YES!
  4. Check CR23X with two multiplexers

  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: 13.8 v; 0.0 amps; 3.8 amps.
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

Bird craps on the Li-7500 at the Tonzi tower again.


After cleaning-up:
  1. downloading data YES!
  2. check the fans of air temp. and relative humidity sensors on the tower and the floor. YES!
  3. Check rain gage, make sure not clogged. YES!
  4. IRGA for CO2 profile system was still in the lab.
  5. close gate and set up fence. YES!


Toniz_Floor Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: 14.7 v; 16.2 amps; 1.7 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.)
  4. downloading data YES!
  5. Check MD-9 system connections YES!

CR10X2 – floor-Met
CR23X3 – floor-Met
CR23X5 – soil CO2 profile
CR23X6 – tower-Met

  1. Soil CO2 profile:

Reading from panels of analyzers

depth

Open

order

depth

Tree

order

2cm (1%)

950

1

2cm (1%)

1450

1

4cm

810

2

4cm

1520

4

8cm

1000

3

8cm

1550

2

16cm

880

4

16cm

2700

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


tonzi

7931AFE

402165

574B4B

402FF3

574632

7A432E

7A3C6E

7A3B40

7A4AAA

1/4/2012

4










sm









0-15

9.9

5.0

#DIV/0!

9.4

11.1

11.1

13.5

5.0

6.2

15-30

14.0

10.0

22.8

14.2

12.1

10.9

19.1

17.3

3.9

30-45

19.6

11.5

11.9

13.7

10.8

10.1

15.6

18.2

13.7

45-60

#DIV/0!

1.9

13.2

11.6

#DIV/0!

11.6

130.0

22.5

10.2












A6D882B

A3D04E8

A6D72F5

















0-15

14.7

8.8

4.9







15-30

14.5

3.5

14.6







30-45

17.3

16.8

15.1







45-60

16.2

17.9

8.8

















vaira

57318a

7933dee

00000128B97F3

00000128B8072

00000128BDDE8




0-15

broken

8.8

9.7

2.5

2.4





15-30

broken

14.1

11.35

10.4

10





30-45

broken

17.9

5.15

11.1

16.2





45-60

broken

28.1

14.7

17.0

16.35







Tonzi






Dendrometer











Date

Day

Tag #

Reading (mm)



1/4/2012

4

72

6.9





79

6.5





102

7.6





245

19.5





250

X

(reset to 10.5 on May 7, 2009)




1

17.0





2

14.6





3

12.9





4

19.0





5

23.5





7

14.1

133




8

6.1

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)
2012-01-04TZ_floor28.5
2012-01-04TZ_road37.6
2012-01-04TZ_tower33.6

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)
2012-01-04117
2012-01-041027.6
2012-01-04214.6
2012-01-0424519.5
2012-01-04312.9
2012-01-04419
2012-01-04523.5
2012-01-04714.1
2012-01-04726.9
2012-01-04796.5
2012-01-0486.1

No water potential data found

No TZ Grass Biomass data found

No TZ OakLeaves Biomass data found

No TZ PineNeedles Biomass data found

0 photos found

Graphs display:
16 sets found

No data found for TZ_Fenergy.
11 TZ_tmet graphs found

Tonzi Tower Met: Temperature and Power

Tonzi Tower Met: Solar Radiation

Tonzi Tower Met: IRT Sensors

LED Sensor Incoming

LED Sensor Outgoing

4-Band Solar Radiation

Air Temperature Profile

Relativity Humidity Profile

Tonzi Tower PRI

SRS PRI/NDVI

SRS NDVI

11 TZ_soilco2 graphs found

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Open (East) CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Tree (West) CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Open (East) Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Tree (West) Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Upper CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Lower CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Upper Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Lower Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Power and Temperature

Tree 2 Soil CO2

Tree 2 Soil Temperature

Can't check TZ_mixed
3 TZ_mixed graphs found

Tonzi PPT

Tonzi CO2 and H2O Densities

Air Pressure

1 TZ_fflux graphs found

Tonzi Wind Speed

8 TZ_fmet graphs found

Soil Heat Flux

Tonzi Soil Temperature Set A

Tonzi Soil Temperatures Set B

Tonzi Soil Temperatures Set C

Tonzi Soil Temperature Set D

Well Level

Well Water Temperature

Soil Water Potential

No data found for TZ_tram.
3 TZ_co2prof graphs found

Tower CO2 Profile Concentrations

Tower CO2 Profile Cell Pressure

CO2 Profile Sensor Temperature

No data found for TZ_irt.
No data found for TZ_windprof.
1 TZ_tflux graphs found

Tower CO2 and H2O

2 TZ_sm graphs found

Floor Solar Radiations

TZ Soil Moisture

Can't check TZ_met
1 TZ_met graphs found

Floor and Tower RH

Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for TZ_osu.
No data found for TZ_fd.
Tonzi Z-cam data

plot of Tonzi z-cam LAI

plot of Tonzi z-cam gap fration

 
 

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