Lucas Castro Research Meeting Notes

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Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro

• Time Sheets.
• Tasks - like lab work. Will come in on Sunday 11 pm.
• Remote Access - Need setup. Try to get VPN, SSH (Putty) and then VNC working to access aircraft.atmos.und.edu. See Wiki page for information - Remote Access

Meet Next Tuesday

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Drew Fitzgerald

• Lucas - Check to see if you can access the Linux computer in CH422.

Meet Next Tuesday

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro

• Having issue connecting to Aircraft via VNC.
• The issue was forwarding the right port in putty.

• Setup ADPAA software install. See Data Processing guide at http://aerosol.atmos.und.edu/DataProcessingGuide.pdf.

Meet Next Tuesday at 2 pm via Zoom.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Drew

• VNC should be setup. Working on getting Cplot to display data.

Same time next week. Won't be in on weekend.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Drew (No)

• NRL - Got the request for the letter of recommendation.
• Internship Spring - 1 credit next semester. How well is lab vented, in terms aerosol, and does it change with time of day / week.

• Talking about plotting CPC data. /nas/und/NorthDakota/2020/Clifford_423/Lab_Data/FlareEx202008/CPC_Data. We need to convert txt to raw files that you cplot. See Wiki about how to do.

Meet next week at 2 pm.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Drew Fitzgerald.

• Downloaded CoPAS and put in request to get more programs installed on Aircraft.

Same time next week, Meet next week at 2 pm.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Drew

• NRL - Talked about getting the material.

• Learn about vi and start using gvim.
• Try plotting data using cplot2.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Drew

* Question - Sunday lab work data. What next with the data we took on Sunday?

• Data stored local on the local computers. Next setup is process and analyse the data. Start with CPC data, see Wiki at http://wiki.atmos.und.edu/doku.php?id=atmos:citation:instruments:cpc:home. Can remote desktop into the computer.

• Read instrument manual that on on Aircraft /nas/Instruments. Look at presentation on Web site.

• Process the CPC from Sunday using Wiki page information. Then move on to the SMPS data.

Lucas will likely come to lab. If not there Michael Willette could help. Meeting next week at this time, but meet Drew at 2 pm.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro,

• Got CPC and SMPS data upload and processed.
• Still need to work on ASP.

• Start to a convert_asp2nasa.py script by using example of ${ADPAA_DIR}/src/scripts_python/convert_windsonictonasa.py
• Try to figure you. Make sure to run as python2.
• Files you can use are located at /nas/Surface/CH601/data/WindSonic/raw.
• To run example - python2 ./convert_windsonictonasa.py -h

Will come in at 11 am on Sunday. Meet next week.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Andrew Fitzgerald

• Lucas - Work on ASP Python Code.
• Lucas - Come in on Sunday at 2:30.
• Hours - Make Google Sheet Shared for keeping track.

Meet on Zoom.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro, Andrew Fitzgerald

• Has not heard about NRL Interneship.
• Still emailing hours.
• Python example - convert_PHIPS2nasa.py

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro,

• Balloon - March 21-27, Would be interested in helping out.
• Code Discussion

Will talk on Sunday.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro,

• Ordered SD cards.
• Sent email about SD card.
• Sent Grafana invite.

Meet in two weeks, spring break next. Will be gone on Sunday.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro,

• Ordered SD cards.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro,

• May have to update from 20201029 to Feb 2021 version.
• Work on that program some more.

Text to see about Friday afternoon, maybe about 4 pm. Meet next week.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro

* Talked about Met-trailer and going to ICE. * Asked about possible working on over seas projects. * Work on the code.

12:30 to 1 pm on Saturday. Start early on Sunday.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro

• Things to add to the Tether Balloon wiki, list of items to check that we have before planning a flight.
• Add details knot for attaching radar calibration sphere to tether line. Send document.
• Add Azimuth angles for different locations, Ray Richard's Golf Course, Masonic Park, and Sports Fields South. Add google-earth map with these locations and Clifford Hall radar.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro

• Working this summer some; have another job will work a few day in summer.
  • David - Try to work a few days.
• Would be good to for the summer? Let me know in May.

Likely Sunday, Also around Friday afternoon. Figure out about Helium tanks, maybe look.

Attending: David Delene, Lucas Castro

• Will look for Battery Pack for flow meter.
• Meet on Friday Afternoon and Sunday in lab.

Meet next week.