Students in Mathematical Models of Climate have begun to build the instrumentation we will deploy on Matanuska glacier to measure the interaction of the valley wind and the glacier driven wind regime. More details will be provided in later posts.

Instruments we will be using are R.M. Young Wind Monitors (http://www.youngusa.com/products/7/5.html) and Onset analog thermometers. All signals are voltage based and will be logged with Onset’s new style UX120 4-channel data logger (http://www.onsetcomp.com/products/data-loggers/ux120-006m). We need to configure the loggers and soldier all the wires in the correct places. We also need to build two towers and two logger enclosures to keep the electronics dry.