More TIROS and marking

Have answered some simple questions on TIROS

Plus recovered posters from old office

Marking Howarth

Moving, just keep moving...

The major part of the day was spent shifting from one office to another

Also had chat with Alan about final six months, though he seemed unprepared, which makes me wonder why he insisted on a chat (or at least did on Monday).

Got files off Alex giving temps, densities etc for pressure levels in the CTIP run. Need to find out the top altitude just to get a final feel for what is going on. Once that is done, run can be dun. Then on to the more complex bits... for Alex. Adjusting for dip angles, changing constituents, changing pressure level heights etc etc etc. In the dim and distant future, pitch angle spectra for the energy channels could also be dreamt up and a few runs could be used to angle those properly...

Then there's protons...

It'll make a good chapter and a good template for work to do with BAS and Steve.

Marking. Howarth.

Bits and bobs

Group meeting occured on the topics of the Move and the Rolling Grant, plus a little bit about computing.
The Move: The meeting took place in the new PhD office. People have been assigned to the office and a further meeting was to happen afterwards to decide desk allocation. This has happened, room has been rearranged, and asides from grabbing a couple of sofas and a coffee table, all is ready.
The Rolling Grant: All I heard was "moan, moan, moan" which translates as "they've changed the way the grants are assessed". Should be fun...
Computing: After yesterday's events, APL has threatened to withdraw funding from UCL's supercomputers by using the Miracle grant. We'll see how negotiations with getting serial jobs back on the fast processors go. Steve is all for trying to renegotiate everything back. Alan wants to pull us out...

Other things.

Howarth handed me more marking and left a message with my officemates about him mailing me the model answers later. This was not conveyed until Howarth returned and made them convey it...

Anasuya got her marking back in the group meeting. I wasn't missing a script.

One run finished, or rather hit the time limit... The only one that was ever likely to. It has been reset off on Rimmer, where it joins a long CMAT2 run already going, which means both of Rimmer's processors are now in use. Where's Alun...

Antionio Hales is our newest Dr

Grodent stuff moving along slowly.