14may.txt

IHOP is underway!

The UWyoming King Air flew along its 3 boundary layer flight tracks
yesterday, just to check them out prior to more substantive operations.
They are being referred to as the eastern, central and western tracks.
See the operations plan on-line for a map of these tracks.

No lidar-bearing aircraft are on-site yet, though the NRL P-3 with
Eldora (doppler radar) and LEANDRE (French DIAL) is due very soon
(might be there now?).

CO2 measurements are running at 2 of 9 NCAR flux towers, thanks to
Scott's efforts with assistance from Ankur.  Scott is in Norman.
I leave for Norman on 16 May.

Data is being posted on-line
ALEXI surface flux estimates are at:
http://kang.ssec.wisc.edu/~alexi/USAlexi_home/

NCAR flux tower data (posted in near real-time) is at:
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rtf/projects/ihop_2002/isff/

Lots more is available via the IHOP web page:
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rtf/projects/ihop_2002/

...more notes...

Surface flux towers show very large Bowen ratios at the western
towers, and ratios < 1 at the central towers.  The eastern towers
are not working well so the Bowen ratio there is not clear.

This pattern matches ALEXI maps from the previous 5 days that
showed a similar pattern over the entire OK/KS/TX region.