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2024 CUES TLC

  • SNARL locker inventoried and cleaned up
  • Tipping bucket replacement completed
  • Lysimeters cleaned
  • Added additional camera tour stops + optical image stabilization for webcam
  • Raritan installed on Nube (VZ400 Stealth) and running
  • Improved remote desktop access for CUES mini
  • Arduino upgraded
  • Replaced pivots and added 4 additional guy wires to adj albedo arm to prevent bending
  • Cables spliced and fixed that were damaged over sharp edge at end of arm
  • Sommer fluidless SSG-2 snow pillow installed
  • Thousands of feet of spare cable removed from bunker and moved to SNARL locker
  • BSU Infrasound array installed for winter of 2024
  • Database queries checked and verified
  • CIMEL checked and working with Aeronet
  • DRI SP2 spring sampling for carbon and dust planned
  • 2025 TLC plans: 4” conduit junction CDEC data acquisition Soil moisture, temp, radiometer sensor calibration
New tipping buckets
BSU infrasound array
Jerry Mock, Conduit fish
HP Marshall and Ned Bair, Snodar install
l to r: Ned Bair, Niklas, Joe Meyer, Jerry Mock
Mike Colee getting snow pillow from SNARL
Stabilized adj albedo arm
Nikals Griessbaum splicing adj arm cables
Sommer SSG-2 pillow installed
South view
New tipping bucket close-up
Liquid electrical tape
Niklas dusting SSG-2
Preventing twisting on IRGASON by putting in extra through bolt on upper cross-member – already done on lower
New steps for better bunker entry & exit
SNARL locker looking good