10 August 2004

0015	not much going on - just watching system to nw moving nw and dissipating

0050	Boring, boring, just watching everying dying out.  Nothing new popping up.

0200	system to nw stratiform region (broad).  gusave seems to show evidence of mcv (cyclonic rotation) in velocity signature.  maybe in s-pol data as well?  not completely clear to me.  at 6.7 deg slice, ~ 20 dbz from stratiform clouds.  maybe switchup to climo shallow.

in reality, looking more closely at rotation, it appears as s-pol is seeing rotation in opposite direction (i.e. anticyclonic)!  but maybe velocities convention are different.  intersting to look at.

0253  	nothing much left on the scope - at full hour - switching to climoshallow.  note:  there is ~ 30 dbz echo due to bugs within ~ 10 km of s-pol!  yuk!

0315	time for climoshallow!

0400	Gustavo here

0500	stratiform region is exiting s-pol domain at n-nw.  all echoes topped at 3 degrees antenna angle.

0700	nothing out there.  NOTHING, except insects.

1200	Nesbitt here.  Some stratus deteched by radar, otherwise nothing.  insects seem less widespread than usual this am?  rebooting iq.

1315	absolutely no meteorological echo on scope.

1514	A few cells have popped up at far ranges over the ocean (looks to be along the LBF from last night).

1553	Tech has notified us that 2 a/c units are down as well as the generator.  We may have to shut down for some time as the transmitters cool down.  At least the weather is cooperating!

1625	a few more cells popped along the LBF, otherwise some cumulus mucho humilis out there!

1854	first signs of some convection at the furthest ranges to the NE

1907	power went out, back on.  waiting for transmitter to come back up.  scans between 19:08:16 and 19:09:43 are bad

1921	transmitter up. began climoshallow again.

1933	resynch. d'oh.

1945	resynch.  will do rain tilts and then yield radar to tech to examine problem with horizontal power (test pulse is off).

1948	antenna stopped.

1950	restarted. vertical power still down a few dB. need to resynch.

2000    James and Simona here

2030    Restarted climoshallow ontime.

2100    1921-now horizontal power was down 2dB. Data will need correcting. It's now fixed.

2220	Diurnal convection now developing over the SMO.

2322	Radar stopped to allow work on air-conditioning. Better to miss coverage now than being forced to turn it off later during an active period. Keeping an eye on the satellite to monitor convection over the mountains.

2357	Started back with the climoshallow sequence.