Daily Implementation Bulletin for HUBEX Field Observations

Daily Implementation Bulletin

for HUBEX Field Observations

No. 10

HUBEX Headquarter June 17, 02:00 to June 18, 02:00(UTC), 1998

1. Condition Inventory of Observation Platforms and Data Collection

Name of the Platforms		Platform Condition	Data Collection
Intensive radiosonde observations ( 36 stations, 4 times/day ) The signal can not be received at around 5500 meters for radiosonde observations at Anqing station on 12, 15 and 16 June.		Normal (1 station problem)	Normal
Intensive surface meteorological observations (12 stations within g -scale region make observation 24 times/day, the others observe 4 times/day)		Normal	Normal
Automatic Rainguage Obs. (59 stations in total) The rainguage recorder of Huoqiu station paused because of the run out of ink.		Paused	Partly
Satellite Observations (GMS-5, FY-2, NOAA, TRMM, etc.)		Normal	Normal
Weather Radar ObservationsThese radars will do weather-event observations continuously. 4 times/daily observations will be carried out for clear days.	Xuzhou	Normal	Normal
	Yancheng	Normal	Normal
	Nanjing	Normal	Normal
	Lianyunguang	Normal	Normal
	Fuyang (24 times/day)	Normal	Normal
Doppler Radar Observations	Shouxian (Nagoya Univ.)	Paused*	Partly
	Huainan (Hokkaido Univ.)	Normal	Normal
	Fengtai (Nagoya Univ.)	Normal	Normal
	Rain-intensity guages and a Distrometer (at Huainan) near Doppler radar sites	Normal	Normal
Hydrological Observations	River water Level & River current	Normal	Normal
	Evaporation	Normal	Normal
	Underground water	Normal	Normal
	Soil water content	Normal	Normal
Shouxian Comprehensive Observation Station	Basic climate observations (Shouxian)	Normal	Normal
	Microwave radiometer (PKU)	Normal	Normal
	Flux fluctuation obs. (PKU)	Paused	Partly
	Near-surface tower obs. (PKU)	Normal	Normal
	Radiation obs. (IAP/Tohoku Univ.)	Paused*	Partly
	Bowen ratio obs. (IoG)	Normal	Normal
	Flux fluctuation obs.(IoG) reactivated on the afternoon of 17 June.	Paused	Partly
	KU-AWS (Kyoto Univ.)	Normal	Normal
	PAM-III (Kyoto Univ.)	Under repair	No
Note: PKU: Peking University, IAP: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, IoG: Institute of Geography

2. Important activities and events of HUBEX

1)The weather: The rainfall band mainly located at Sichuan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, and the rainfall amounts are from medium to heavy. It was no significant rainfall within Huaihe River Basin.

2)Re-sounding: The headquarter decided and announced that for the radiosonde that sounding height below 300 hPa must do re-sounding.

3)Coordination: Headquarter dispatch a person to contact with local Government for power supply.

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