Observatory Status
November 27, 2023
Week of 27 November 2023
Operations Status
Work at some field sites may be suspended due to major impacts including but not limited to natural disasters, severe weather, and extenuating circumstances.
Current restrictions to operations:
- D16 MCRA - Closed, site still streaming data. Closure from U.S. Forest Service due to Lookout Mountain Fire in the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. No access to NEON site within the Willamette National Forest closure zone.
Airborne Operations
The 2023 campaign season is now complete. It commenced in March with 2 aircraft payloads. The 2023 AOP data collection schedule is below. D16 data collections enabled a change to D17 SOAP and TEAK flight data collection schedules (see below). For more information, you can find the daily flight reports here.
The 2024 schedule will be published no later than January 1, 2024.
2023 AOP Deployment Schedule
| Payload 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | Sched Start Date | Sched End Date | Completed as scheduled |
| 17 SJER | 01 Apr | 04 Apr | completed |
| 03 | 18 Apr | 11 May | completed |
| 08 | 13 May | 29 May | completed |
| 07 MLBS | 31 May | 21 Jun | completed |
| 16 | 27 Jun | 08 July | completed early |
| 17 SOAP, TEAK | 07 July | 10 July | completed (added) |
| 19 | 13 Jul | 21 Aug | completed |
| Payload 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | Sched Start Date | Sched End Date | Completed as scheduled |
| 15 / 13 (MOAB) | 20 Apr | 04 May | completed |
| 11 | 06 May | 20 May | completed |
| 06 | 22 May | 02 Jun | completed |
| 17 SOAP | 07 Jun | 12 Jun | completed |
| 09 | 16 Jun | 03 Jul | completed |
| 12 | 05 Jul | 20 Jul | (updated) completed |
| 17 TEAK | 17 Jul | 20 Jul | cancelled |
| 10/13 | 22 Jul | 26 Aug | completed |
Not flown in 2023: Domain 1, Domain 4, Domain 5, Domain 7 ORNL & GRSM, Domain 10 CPER & STER, Domain 14, Domain 18, and Domain 20
Data Products Status
Observation System (OS) Products
- The collection of OS data and samples are dependent on human operators being in the field. Thus, collections at sites where conditions result in restricted access will be impacted.
- Includes DP IDs: DP1.1XXXX, subset of DP1.2XXXX, DP4.00131, DP4.00132
Airborne Observation Products
- Airborne Observation data collection for 2023 is now complete. The 2024 season will commence in March 2024.
- Airborne products are collected according to the schedule above; these data are all dependent on human operators traveling extensively and being in the field.
- Includes DP IDs: DPX.3XXXX
Instrumented System Products (Updated Tuesdays)
- Most sensors continually collect and communicate data to the centralized NEON database. Regular on-site maintenance may be impacted at sites where conditions result in restricted access.
- Includes DP IDs: DPX.0XXXX (except for DP4.00131, DP4.00132), subset of DP1.2XXXX.
- Unplanned power and/or communications outages occur as a normal part of operations. Please note that communications outages typically result in delayed delivery of data rather than data loss.
- Sites currently experiencing power outages or site-wide data loss:
- D11 BLUE - HVAC failure causing PDU issues, temporarily RESTORED 2023/11/20
- D13 WLOU - Power RESTORED 2023/11/15
- D07 GRSM (and hut-supported LECO) - Power down since 2023/11/20
- Sites currently experiencing communications outages:
- D08 TALL - Communication RESTORED 2023/11/17
- D13 NIWO - Communication RESTORED 2023/11/20
- D19 DEJU - Communication degraded, intermittent since 2023/11/08, currently up