Brent leaves Kanpur for Varanasi, then on to fix the Cimel at Ghandi College. He will return here on the 12th.
#444 and #3 had new components installed that were brought by Alex. #444 still does not work. #3 seems to work properly, but apparently this control box is unreliable so we have either broken even on this chip switch or even lost something if #3 is less dependable now.
#158, #137, #83 and #328 are running on the roof now. #328 (dual polar) did not seem to have as much data as it should have after yesterday’s test. We’ll evaluate again after today. It is downloading automatically to the PC, but not uploading to Aeronet as it should. I don’t believe this ever worked for us back in May either, so it will need to be uploaded manually. Tomorrow, either #328 or #158 will be replaced with #3 for further testing.
#137 was found to have a small blemish on it’s direct sun window. It’s not clear if this was there before the June 7th deployment or not, since it’s subtle. We can see if it has any apparent effect on AOD in comparison with the other Cimels on June 8th and 9th. I will run them in BCLSUN mode for a while today to facilitate this, if the sky is suitable.
We are intending to have a spatial variability study around Kanpur on the 11th, but it has not been confirmed yet since Sachi is on travel. I’ll try to firm this up with him by phone tonight if I don’t hear back from him. It might be that some or most of the students will be unavailable after the 12th, so we must take advantage of their availability before this.
Brent will go North on the 13th and replace the DCP battery at Bareilly and retrieve the pyranometers at Pantnagar and Nainital so that we can get a post-deployment calibration on them at GSFC soon.
