Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2012-09-05 05:30:00 (DOY 249)
Author: Siyan Ma
Others: Joe

Summary: Predawn water potential - new tank, standard field work, swapped new CR1000 card at Vaira, removed two SHF plates for cal, co2 profile down for IRGA service.


When: Date: 9/5/2012 , Day: 249 , Watch Time: 5:30 am .
Where: Tonzi/Vaira Ranch
Who: Siyan, Joe
Weather: cloudy, a few of rain drops
Phenology: golden grassland, oak leaves turned into light brown and dropped.

Pretty clouds a dawn over oak savanna Oak leaves silouetted on blue sky
Pretty clouds over golden grass field Grass seeds in front of pretty clouds

Summary
  1. checked and downloaded data at Tower, Floor, and Vaira
  2. Joe swapped the data card on CR1000 datalogger.
  3. Predawn water potential: oak -40~-58 bar (Joe brought a new air tank to the field and brought the almost-empty nitrogen tank back. )
  4. IRGA Li-800 gave numbers were out of Datalogger’s range in the field. Joe took it back to the lab.
  5. Joe uninstalled one soil heat flux sensor at each site for calibration that will be done by Sebastian in Canada.
  6. Read dendrometers
  7. Measured soil moisture
  8. Measure groundwater well:

Date
DOY
Location
Depth without the black thing (feet)

9/5/2012
249
Floor
28.2



Tower
32.7



roadside
36.8

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

Vaira Gill sonic plots screen before downloading data
Readings from CR1000
Screen shot of Vaira flux data logger table
  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

Screen shot of Vaira soil co2 data logger table
Screen shot of Vaira met data logger table
  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: - v; - amps; - amps.
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

Tower Gill sonic plots screen before downloading data
  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. No calibration was performed for CO2 profile system because IRGA Li-800 gave numbers were out of Datalogger’s range in the field. Joe took it back to the lab.
  5. close gate and set up fence. YES!

Toniz_Floor Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: - v; - amps; - 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.)

Floor Gill sonic plots screen before downloading data
  1. downloading data YES!
  2. Check MD-9 system connections YES!

CR23X3 – floor-Met
CR23X6 – tower-Met
CR10X2 – floor-Met
CR23X5 – soil CO2 profile
Screen shot of floor met data logger table
Screen shot of soil co2 data logger table
Screen shot of tower met data logger table
Screen shot of sap flow data logger table
Screen shot of soil moisture data logger table
  1. Close gate and set up fence. YES!

9/5/2012
249

sm

0-15
8.3
2.0
0.7
3.6
11.1
0.8
1.3
#DIV/0!
3.8

15-30
12.3
8.1
17.3
14.6
6.8
8.1
14.5
12.3
2.8

30-45
19.8
10.8
11.9
17.5
9.4
9.9
14.1
16.8
13.3

45-60
#DIV/0!
1.5
20.2
15.0
11.1
10.9
15.6
23.7
10.5

A6D882B
A3D04E8
A6D72F5

0-15
3.9
0.3
1.0

15-30
6.8
0.2
10.9

30-45
16.2
15.8
14.7

45-60
16.7
18.9
12.5

vaira
57318a
7933dee
00000128B97F3
00000128B8072
00000128BDDE8

0-15
broken
2.1
1.35
0.2
0.7

15-30
broken
8.3
5.4
4.2
2.15

30-45
broken
13.6
2.25
8.9
10.75

45-60
broken
26.6
14.65
8.1
16.9



Tonzi




Dendrometer








Date
Day
Tag #
Reading (mm)

9/5/2012
249
1
21.6



2
14.5



3
18.2



4
3.2



5
24



7
6.8



8
15.4



72
11



79
10.6



102
13.9



245
10

Diagram of dendrometer tree locations

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

DateLocationDepth (feet)
2012-09-05TZ_floor28.2
2012-09-05TZ_road36.8
2012-09-05TZ_tower32.7

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)
2012-09-05121.6
2012-09-0510213.9
2012-09-05214.5
2012-09-0524510
2012-09-05318.2
2012-09-0543.2
2012-09-05524
2012-09-0576.8
2012-09-057211
2012-09-057910.6
2012-09-05815.4

Water Potential - mode: raw

TimeSpeciesTreereadings (bar)
2012-09-05 05:05:00 OAK UNKNOWN -58 -44 -48 -17.5 -25 -42 -42 -53 -40
2012-09-05 05:05:00 PINE UNKNOWN -9.5 -4 -14.5 -43 -23 -23 -21
2012-09-05 10:00:00 OAK UNKNOWN -55 -35 -47 -35 -47 -36.5 -22 -40
2012-09-05 10:00:00 PINE UNKNOWN -4 -17 -24 -18 -21 -15 -15 -13
2012-09-05 12:00:00 OAK UNKNOWN -40 -39 -39 -35 -35 -40 -40 -37 -35
2012-09-05 12:00:00 PINE UNKNOWN -20 -16 -15 -20 -5 -26

No TZ Grass Biomass data found

No TZ OakLeaves Biomass data found

No TZ PineNeedles Biomass data found

5 photos found

Nice sunset over the oak woodland
20120905TZ_Dawn.jpg ( 2012-09-05 06:49:44 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Nice sunset over the oak woodland

Predawn view of the oak woodland from the tower top
20120905TZ_PredawnSite.jpg ( 2012-09-05 06:37:45 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Predawn view of the oak woodland from the tower top

View of Mt Diablo and Rancho Seco from Tonzi Tower
20120905TZ_RanchoSecoDiablo.jpg ( 2012-09-05 06:38:14 ) Full size: 1920x1440
View of Mt Diablo and Rancho Seco from Tonzi Tower

Depth to recovered soil heat flux plate
20120905TZ_SHFPlateDepth.jpg ( 2012-09-05 10:04:36 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Depth to recovered soil heat flux plate

Location of a soil heat flux plate
20120905TZ_SHFPlatePosition.jpg ( 2012-09-05 10:05:10 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Location of a soil heat flux plate

Graphs display:
16 sets found

No data found for TZ_Fenergy.
11 TZ_tmet graphs found

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11 TZ_soilco2 graphs found

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Can't check TZ_mixed
3 TZ_mixed graphs found

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1 TZ_fflux graphs found

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8 TZ_fmet graphs found

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1 TZ_tram graphs found

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3 TZ_co2prof graphs found

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

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2 TZ_sm graphs found

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Can't check TZ_met
1 TZ_met graphs found

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Can't check TZVR_mixed
8 TZ_osu graphs found

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No data found for TZ_fd.
Tonzi Z-cam data

plot of Tonzi z-cam LAI

plot of Tonzi z-cam gap fration