GEOG 5231/4231 - Fall 2001

Professor Konrad Steffen
CIRES Ekeley Building, S264
Tel o: 492 4524; h: 494 6276
e-mail koni@seaice.colorado.edu

Schedule for lab reports:

Oct 11   LR1: Reaction time of radiation sensors
Nov 8   LR2: Energy balance Niwot Ridge
Nov 15   LR3: Aerodynamic and eddy correlation method comparison
Dec 6   Graduate student report

The lab reports should contain the following:

1. Introduction
General information on the topic. What relevance has the experiment for field measurements, in particular in the context of boundary layer climatology. 

2. Equipment
 Summarize the technical details of the instruments used in the experiment.  Compare the instruments with other models of similar design or different design.

3. Experiment
Describe the experimental setup, including the data logger programs.  Be specific so that the same experiment could be repeated based on the explanation.  Give a sketch of the setup including the connections with the data logger.  Discuss the recording interval if appropriate.

4. Results
Analyze the data set statistically and present the results in table and graph format.  Do not include the raw data set in this report.  Document the analysis tools used to reduce the raw data. 

5. Discussion
Draw your conclusion from the analysis.  How useful are the instruments for certain kind of measurements.  Put the experiment in a larger perspective; e.g., are pyranometer instruments appropriate for albedo measurements from moving platforms (airplane), to what accuracy can the radiation balance be measured with Epply pyrano-, and pyradiometers. 

6. References
You should demonstrate that you have consulted the literature, therefore, include all the references where appropriate.

Remarks:  keep the report to less than 15 pages include only the most important graphs (don't graph all the measurements), make complete sentence (no telegram style)