Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Maintenance Update

A complete cleaning of the CREWS station in La Parguera, Puerto Rico was performed on August 10, 2007 by Wess Merton, Stephanie Williams and Katie Flynn.

The validation CT was installed at 8:45am and removed at 12:00pm. The station was cleaned between 10:05 and 11:30am.

The optical sensors of the radiometers were cleaned, there is some calcareous algae overgrowing such sensors.

The CTDs were cleaned and three of the copper screens were replaced, the fourth remains inaccessible.