Location

Address: Couturier Rd, Saint-Joseph Parish, NB

Points of reference: 6.2 km north of the confluence of the Madawaska and Saint John rivers

Lat/Lon: 47°25'00.8"N; 68°19'32.9"W (47.416899, -68.325813)

Elevation: 151 m.a.s.l

Timeline

30 November 2020:

Install all tripods, instruments, and power to the site.

Ensure all connections are functioning correctly.

Begin script for K63 Hotplate.

1 December 2020:

Returned to the site to check that all instruments are mounted and set-up correctly.

Began the timelapse camera, taking 4 mp photos hourly.

Showed Charles, Amelie, and Kathleen around the site, and gave instructions to Amelie regarding re-starting procedures.

2 December 2020:

Changed Campbell scientific data to collect onto MicroSD card. Requires custom collect in LoggerNet.

Hotplate coefficients amended as per recommendations from Pond.

e0 = 1.0
e1 = -0.05
E_min = 0.25
Serial commands:
for e0:   W70,1.0\r\n
for e1:   W71,-0.05\r\n
for E_min:   W75,0.25\r\n
Save Vars:   W20,728.3\r\n

5 March 2021:

Flux tripod installed adjacent to main Fixed Station instruments, north of the other tripods.

Flux tripod remained there for the duration of the IOP, with Dominic Boisvert swapping the 12v 100Ah LiFEPO4 battery every 4-5 days

7 May 2021:

Met tripod removed and FLuix tripod put in place in line with MRR and Hotplate tripods. Parsivel installed on top of Flux tripod

Flux tripod now running from PS100 AC-12v converter

11 July 2023:
Micro rain radar (Metek MRR2) changed to capture data at two seperate reolutions (50 m and 300 m).

This reults in a slightly smaller file size (109 MB vs 164 Mb), depsite both resolutions being writtern to a single file. Each resolution captures approx. 0.5 to 1 minute of data and then switches resolution.

The switching results in a short period (perhaps 10-20 seconds) of no data.

Data proccessing being undertaken at UQAM. Raw files are tranferred to UQAM using rsync once daily.

9 October 2023:

Flux tripod instruments removed and replaced with Stn_1 instruments. Stn_4 datalogger was not responsing or recording anymore, and Stn_4 instruments need calibration and maintenance

Instruments installed:

CR1000x datalogger

HMP155 Air Temp/RH p[robe

SR50A snow depth sensor

SI-411 radiometer

CRN4 net radiometer

Goodrich Ice detector

Instruments left inplace (mainly due to frozen ground):

Soild flux plates, CS655 soil temp and misture probe, soil thermistor set

Modem from Stn_4 swicth swapped into the enclosure of Stn_1 so all networks remian the same as before

Also removed was the K63 Hotaplte. Pond is recalling all units for processor and firmware updates.

Instruments

Tripod	Parameter	Instrument	Height	Resolution
~~Tripod 1~~	~~Precipitation~~	~~K63 Hotplate~~	2.4 m*	~~1 min T1 output~~

Tripod 2	Temp/RH	HMP 155	2.0 m	1 min avg
	Surface temp	SI-411 infrared radiometer x 2	1.55 m	1 min avg
	Soil temp/conductivity/moisture content	CS655 soil probe	surface (vertical)	1 min avg
	Net Radiation	CNR4 with CNF vent	1.55 m	1 min avg
	Snow depth	SR50A	1.53 m	1 min sample
	Disdrometer	OTT Parsivel² disdrometer	2.8 m*	1 min polling
	Ice	Goodrich Ice detector	2.0 m	1 min
Tripod 3	K-band micro rain radar	Metek MRR 2	2.8 m*	1 min output

*estimated

Miscellaneous:

2 x Minix mini PC with 128Gb micro SD cards:

One mounted on Tripod 1, connected to the K63 Hotplate and the MRR 2, running python script for the hotplate, and MRR service and MRR control software

One mounted on Tripod 2, connected to the Parisvel disdrometer, running OTT ASDO Parsivel software

Campbell scientific CX100x datalogger for Tripod 2 meteorological instruments (i.e., not the disdrometer)

Bulletplus cellular modem connected to the CS CX1000x datalogger, with Telus IoT SIM card and data connection. Both Minix mini PC's connected to the WiFi network, "Station1"

Campbell scientific PS12 115AC to 12DC power supply, mounted on Tripod 2 providing power to the CX1000x and meteorological instruments