Solar
alignment method for wind sensors
One of the best tools for learning technology and techniques
is interactive workshops with professionals that have been in the measurements
field for many years. This was the case when I met Tom Lockhart at Meteorological
Standards Institute. I had the privilege of working with him on several
projects in the mid 1980s that really made me appreciate the wealth of
experience and knowledge he had to offer. After conducting some data uncertainty
analyses for the South Central Coast Cooperative Aerometric Monitoring Program
with him, we began working more extensively together on various quality assurance
projects. In 1989 I attended his first quality assurance workshop presenting
his revisions to Volume IV of the EPA Quality Assurance Handbook on Meteorological
Measurements. Subsequent to the first workshop, I sponsored two more
workshops while I was working for AeroVironment. I then joined his
workshop faculty in 1993 presenting topics on upper-air measurement quality
assurance. Since then I have been a regular faculty member for the workshops
teaching the upper air as well as surface meteorological techniques and
quality assurance for air quality measurements. Our last workshop together
was in Napa, California in the summer of 2000. Later that year he became
very ill and passed away in January 2001. This was a major loss of
a good friend. In addition, the measurement community has lost the largest
pool of meteorological measurement knowledge in a single person. He will
be greatly missed.