OK - we've been madly driving around getting all this data (balloon soundings and RAWS data), but haven't looked at it much! So today we are analyzing data. This has the side effect of NOT having to drive madly around all day! And maybe we can sneak in some pool time at the hotel.
The grad students were dispatched to download data from yesterday's RAWS site (and several undergrads volunteered to accompany them!) Meanwhile, the faculty dutifully hunched over their laptops engaged in the business of: developing tasks for the students ("look at sounding X and compute Y" etc.); developing questions for today's MIDTERM (YES - we ARE mean!!!); blogging (Alison); proposal writing (Craig); and keeping the department IT functions running remotely (Mike).
We're trying a different approach today. We're having the midterm from 4-5, and then the forecasting session from 5-6:30. And then dinner and a "free" evening - not ending at 10:30!
HOWEVER - tomorrow we plan a sunrise balloon launch back at the RAWS site. We will also set up the SODAR for the morning. The science goal is to watch the development of the boundary layer from sunrise (when we expect a shallow cool layer and inversion) to noon (by which time the boundary layer should have mixed up and developed). Bottom line is we gotta be wheels-rolling by about 5am - eeek! Hence - no late forecasting session today!
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