Description

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Sondrestrom Lidar Operation Log

Operator(s) : E.Guðmundsson
Purpose : Routine data collection in conjunction with the IS Radar (Craig)
Date(s) : 000723 - 000724
File(s) : L7231 - L7231
Comments : Thin cirrus at startup, Late startup of dye laser, it got only 30min of warmup
before data collection.
Entire run with clouds interfering.
Logfile : l0007230.log

Setup:0

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[Variables]
Dye Power=
Rayleigh Power=

[0]
Iris=min_opening
Rayleigh System=On
Dye System=On
Daystar=In
Polarizer=In
HalfWave Plates=Tracking
Rayleigh Filter=2:532(.5nm)

Logsheet:0

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Sondrestrom Lidar Operation Log

Log Sheet 1 of 1
Operators : E.Guðmundsson
Date(s) : 000723 - 000724
File(s) : L7231 - L7231

Files	Time [UT]	Comments	Cnt	S	Ope
L7231	21:57:48	Start of experiment	1635	0	EG
L7231	22:33:33	Just inreased the chopping alt. on sodium by 10usec	1450	0	EG
L7231	22:45:15	There may be a sporadic sodium layer up there but it is		0	EG
		difficoult to tell for clouds.
L7231	01:01:43	Tuned dye from 589.161nm to 589.158nm	1316	0	EG
L7231	01:02:03	Lots of cirrus in the beams but I'm still getting a usefule signal	1306	0	EG
L7231	02:06:50	Wavemeter stable at 589.158nm	393	0	EG
L7231	03:30:08	Rayleigh Convergence mirror adjusted	327	0	EG
L7231	03:59:14	End of experiment	124	0	EG