Original REMS Team and Ashima Research MSL Weather Record

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REMS Team/JPL Give Us a Moving Target for Mars Weather Data. (Updated 4/3/2014)

Accurate Weather Records Aren't Rocket Science; But Sloppy, Inaccurate Reports Hurt REMS & Ashima Research Credibility. Ashima Research and the REMS Team finally cease bogus wind reports and day length reports in May, 2013. In late June 2013 the REMS Team radically altered its previously published data, providing air and ground temperartures and even data for when Mars was in conjunction and no data was available. To see REMS Team and JPL revisions of this data see New MSL Weather.

On May 11, 2013 Ashima research caved in to agree with our daylight calculations, and apparently with our demand that wind be listed as n/a rather than 2 m/s from the east. All their daylight calculations were revised to be with a minute or two of our math.

Unfortunately the public is likely to be so impressed by the landing itself, and by the geology done to date, that it will remain unaware of exactly what shanegans have gone on with the meteorology on board unless we can succeed in landing a television documentary about it.

On the Tables 1, 2, and 3 below, cells colored in lavender have obvious errors or lacking information. There was never any variation in the wind recorded from the 2 m/s from the East, and it thus it is assumed that damage to Wind Boom 1 was fatal to obtaining correct winds. All reports of Martian sunrise and sunset times by Ashima were wrong (until May 11 as noted above). Our calculations of the correct daylight hours (within one to two tenths of a minute) are shown in yellow on Tables 2 and 3. The lack of relative humidity may suggest that there was also damage to wind boom 2 where the humidity sensor was located. A more detailed description of MSL weather reporting problems is HERE. After Table 1 we dropped the column on relative humidity and replaced it with two columns that show erroneous daylight hours given by Ashima, and our corrections for them. With the exception of Sol 56 (October 2, 2012) Ashima published all sunrise times as 6 am and all sunset times as 5 pm. For their sole exception on Sol 56 they indicated sunrise at 5:31 am and sunset at 5:09 pm. We have a page about how to correctly derive the times HERE.

The primary source of Pressure, Temperature, Relative Humidity and Wind Data was from a site maintained by the Centro de Astrobiologia (and the REMS Team) which is primarily responsible to NASA/JPL for this data at http://cab.inta-csic.es/rems/marsweather.html. Ashima, who worked with the REMS Team, was the secondary source.

The tables below also reveal frequent confusion from the REMS Team and Ashima about what Sol a day is, and what the Ls is. The correct location of Mars in its orbit (Ls) is taken from an on-line Mars calendar at http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mars/time/martian_time.html. A Julian date calculator is at http://www.onlineconversion.com/julian_date.htm. For November 25, 2012 Mars was at Ls 213.1, but Ashima incorrectly reported the Ls as 221. Often they forget to enter the calendar with the date on Mars being reported, and instead (incorrectly chose the current date - resulting in the higher Ls position). On November 12 both REMS and, strangely enough, Ashima first, went from a report of November 9, 2012 as Sol 92 to a report of November 10, 2012 as Sol 89. The data for the new Sol 89 did not match anything from the old Sol 89, which was on November 5, 2012. Almost nonstop chaos appeared to reign at both sites. In part as a result of sloppy reporting of results by Ashima Research, we reviewed a paper by them on the Ashima/MIT Mars GCM to see if there was a wider pattern of mistakes being made by their firm with regard to Mars. Our review is HERE.

A graph of pressures reported by the REMS Team is posted HERE for Ls 158.8 on August 22, 2012 to Ls 199.8 on November 3, 2012. Note: A regional dust storm was spotted growing southwest of the MSL on November 18, 2012 (see the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Report and photo). While there were reports on-line that for a regional dust storm (not yet at MSL), "A drop in air pressure and small rise in the overnight low temperature have been recorded by its Spanish-built Rover Environmental Monitoring Station," as you can see below for the period between November 18 and November 25, where pressures are not missing, the pressures continued to rise from 833.41 Pa to 847 Pa. Only the temperature statement just given correlates with their data. The dust storm did not go global. Note: Many of the errors written about above were admitted to by Ashima Research is their statement HERE.

Sample Photo 1

TABLE 1 - REMS Team and Ashima Research MSL Winter Weather Reports
DATE (IN WINTER AT MSL)	SOL	MAX TEMP C	MIN TEMP C	Roffman Corrected Pressure in Pa	Reported Press. Pa or hPa	WIND	Ls	% REL HUM	Ashima reported sunrise	Ashima reported sunset	ERRORS AT REMS & ASHIMA/COMMENTS
8/22/2012	15	-1	-78	730	7.3 hPa	E 2 m/s	158.8	7			Relative Humidity likely from a template
8/23/2012	16	0	-76	740	7.4 hPa	E 2 m/s	159.3		6:00 AM	5:00 PM
8/24/2012	17						159.9				Date conflict during missing data 8/23 to 8/24 (Sols 16, 17 and 18)
	18
8/25/2012	19	-18	-78	785	7.85 hPa	E	160.4	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Minimum temp. inconsistent with all others.
8/26/2012	20	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE		160.9	NONE			No Report issued
8/27/2012	21	0	-73	790	7.9 hPa	E 2 m/s	161.4	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
8/28/2012	22	3	-70	740	7.4 hPa	E 2 m/s	162	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
8/29/2012	23	0	-73	740	7.4 hPa	E 2 m/s	162.5	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	MONTH 3
8/30/2012	24	0	-75	740	7.4 hPa	E 2 m/s	163	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	MONTH 3
8/31/2012 NO REPORT	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	163.6	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	ADJUSTMENT FOR MARS DAYLENGTH?
9/1/2012	25	2	-75	742	742 hPa	E 2 m/s	164.1	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	MONTH 3;
9/2/2012	26	-1	-76	743	743 hPa	E 2 m/s	164.7	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Units reported hPa rather than PA100X too high Sol 25 to 29.
9/3/2012	27	-6	-75	745	745 hPa	E 2 m/s	165.2	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Units reported hPa rather than PA100X too high Sol 25 to 29.
9/4/2012	28	-7	-75	745	745 hPa	E 2 m/s	165.7	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Units reported hPa rather than PA100X too high Sol 25 to 29.
9/5/2012	29	-2	-75	747	747 hPa	E 2 m/s	166.3	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Units reported hPa rather than PA100X too high Sol 25 to 29.
9/6/2012	30	-3	-74	747	747 Pa	E 2 m/s	166.8	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Units fixed hPA
9/7/2102	31	NONE	-72	742	742 Pa	E 2 m/s	167.4	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	back to Pa
9/8/2012	32	-2	-73	748	748 Pa	E 2 m/s	167.9	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/9/2012 NO REPORT	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	NONE	168.4	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/10/2012	34	0	-75	748	7.48 hPa	E 2 m/s	169	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/11/2012	35	-2	-73	799	799 Pa	E 2 m/s	169.5	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/12/2012	36	5	-73	744	744 Pa	E 2 m/s	170.1	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	BACK TO MONTH 3
9/13/2012	37	0	-73	752	7.52 hPa	E 2 m/s	170.6	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	BACK TO MONTH 6
9/14/2012	38	-3	-73	748	748Pa	E 2 m/s	171.2	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/15/2012	39	-3	-75	757	757Pa	E 2 m/s	171.7	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/16/2012	40	2	-75	804	8.04 hPa	E 2 m/s	172.3	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/17/2012	41	2	-75	752	7.52 hPa	E 2 m/s	172.8	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/18/2012	42	5	-75	755	755 Pa	E 2 m/s	173.4	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/19/2012	43	3	-73	756	756 Pa	E 2 m/s	173.9	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima used Ls 175
9/20/2012	44	3.9	-75	754	754 Pa	E 2 m/s	174.5	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima used Ls 175 and max Temp 4 C.
9/21/2012	45	2.9	-74	757	757 Pa	E 2 m/s	175	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/22/2012	46	4	-74	759	759 Pa	E 2 m/s	175.6	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/23/2012	47	6	-75	758	758 Pa	E 2 m/s	176.1	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima used Ls 177
9/24/2012	48	4	-75	758	7.58 hPa	E 2 m/s	176.7	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/25/2012	49	4.4	-74	763	763 Pa	E 2 m/s	177.3	NONE		5:00 PM	Ashima used Ls 178 and max Temp 4 C.
9/25/2012	49	4.4	-74	763	763 Pa	E 2 m/s	177.3	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima used Ls 178 and max Temp 4 C.
9/26/2012	50	0	-72	760	760 Pa	E 2 m/s	177.8	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/27/2012	51	2.5	-76	766	766 Pa	E 2 m/s	178.4	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima used max Temp 3 C.
9/28/2012	52	7	-74	765	765 Pa	E 2 m/s	178.9	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
9/29/2012	53	5	-71	765	7.65 hPA	E 2 m/s	179.6	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	END WINTER AT MSL
9/30/2012	54	5	-73	764	764 Pa	E 2 m/s	180.1	NONE	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Month 7: MSL SPRING

REMS Team and Ashima Research MSL Spring Weather Reports

TABLE 2 - 2012 REMS Team and Ashima Research MSL Spring Weather Reports
2012 DATE (IN SPRING AT MSL)	SOL	MAX TEMP C	MIN TEMP C	Pressure in Pa	Wind	Ls	David Roffman Daylight Calculation	Ashima Daylight Post	Ashima Sunrise	Ashima Sunset	ERRORS at REMS & ASHIMA and COMMENTS
10/1/2012	55	-1	-74	768	E 2 m/s	180.8	12 hr 1.4 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/2/2012	56	-3.8	-73.5	770	E 2 m/s	181.3	12 hr 1.7 min	12 hr 22 min	5:31 AM	5:09 PM	ASHIMA ATTEMPTS TO FIX SUNRISE AND SUNSET TIMES.
10/3/2012	57	-3.8	-73	779	E 2 m/s	181.8	12 hr 1.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima is again back to its previous wrong sunrise and sunset times.
10/4/2012	58	-3	-74	779	E 2 m/s	182.3	12 hr 2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/5/2012	59	-1	-76	781	E 2 m/s	182.9	12 hr 2.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/6/2012	60	-2	-75	785	E 2 m/s	183.5	12 hr 2.2 min			5:00 PM	Ashima did not post any weather sunrise or sunset times
10/7/2012	61	-1	-72	779	E 2 m/s	184	12 hr 2.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima again returns to wrong sunrise and sunset times.
10/8/2012	62	-1	-72	782	E 2 m/s	184.6	12 hr 2.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 184.
10/9/2012	63	-1	-74	786	E 2 m/s	185.2	12 hr 2.8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 186
10/10/2012	64	-1	-74	785	E 2 m/s	185.8	12 hr 2.8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/11/2012	65	-2	-72	785	E 2 m/s	186.3	12 hr 3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/11/2012	66	-2	-73	785	E 2 m/s	186.3	12 hr 3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Day length adjustment? Earth still Oct 25 but sol up to 66.
10/12/2012	67	-5	-73	781	E 2 m/s	186.9	12 hr 3.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/13/2012	68	-1	-68	Not available	E 2 m/s	187.5	12 hr 3.4 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/14/2012	69					188.1	12 hr 3.6 min				Not reported
10/15/2012 NO REPORT	70					188.6	12 hr 3.6 min				Not reported
10/16/2012	70	1	-72	783	E 2 m/s	189.2	12 hr 3.9 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Was Sol 70 on Oct. 15 ot 16?
10/17/2012	71	-2	-71	785	E 2 m/s	189.8	12 hr 4.1 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima wrongly lists Ls as 191
10/18/2012	72	-2	-74	786	E 2 m/s	190.4	12 hr 4.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 192
10/19/2012	73	0	-70	788	E 2 m/s	191	12 hr 4.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima correctly lists Ls as 191.
10/20/2012	74	-5	-72	790	E 2 m/s	191.5	12 hr 4.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/21/2012 NO REPORT	Not available	Not available	Not available	Not available		192.1	12 hr 4.8 min				Not available
10/22/2012	75	-1	-73	791	E 2 m/s	192.7	12 hr 4.8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 193
10/23/2012	76	-1	-72	791	E 2 m/s	193.3	12 hr 5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 194
10/24/2012	77	-1	-72	793	E 2 m/s	193.9	12 hr 5.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/25/2012	78	0	-71	794-73	E 2 m/s	194.5	12 hr 5.4 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/26/2012	79	-2	-73	795.5	E 2 m/s	195	12 hr 5.6 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Pressure as 7.96 hPa (796 Pa)
10/27/2012	80	-1	-73	797	E 2 m/s	195.6	12 hr 5.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/28/2012	81	-1.5	-72	799	E 2 m/s	196.2	12 hr 5.9 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/29/2012	82	-0.4	-72	798	E 2 m/s	196.8	12 hr 6.1 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
10/30/2012	83	-0.5	-72.5	800.51	E 2 m/s	197.4	12 hr 6.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Pressure as 8.01 hPa, Ls 198. This is the 1st REM pressure given in Pa to 2 decimal places.
10/31/2012	84	-0.5	-70	800	E 2 m/s	198	12 hr 6.4 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Pressure as 199.
11/1/2012	85	-0.9	-71.4	805	E 2 m/s	198.6	12 hr 6.6 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/2/2012	86	-4	-71	808	E 2 m/s	199.2	12 hr 6.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/3/2012	87	-4	-70	808.7	E 2 m/s	199.8	12 hr 6.9 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/4/2012 NO REPORT	88	No rept.	No rept.	NO REPORT	No rept.	200.4	12 hr 7.1 min				NO REPORT for sol 88
11/5/2012	89	-1	-73	813.25	E 2 m/s	201	12 hr 7.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 202
11/6/2012	90	-0.4	-71.2	814	E 2 m/s	201.6	12 hr 7.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/7/2012	91	-0.8	-73.8	818	E 2 m/s	202.2	12 hr 7.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/8/2012	92	0	-74	820.29	E 2 m/s	202.8	12 hr 7.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/9/2012 NO REPORT	93	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	203.4	12 hr 7.8 min				NO REPORT for sol 93
11/10/2012 NO REPORT	94						12 hr 7.9 min	11 hr		5:00 PM	REMS AND ASHIMA RELABEL NOVEMBER 10 AS SOL 89!
11/10/2012	89	0	-71	822.43	E 2 m/s	204	12 hr 8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	ASHIMA CLAIMS THE NEW SOL 89 IS Ls 205
11/11/2012 NO REPORT	89	0	-71	815.53	E 2 m/s	204.6	12 hr 8.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/12/2012	96	2	-70	827	E 2 m/s	205.2	12 hr 8.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	After Nov 10 and 11 were mislabeled as Sol 89, REMS now reports that Nov 12 is Sol 96. .
11/13/2012	97	-3	-68	828	E 2 m/s	205.8	12 hr 8.6 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/14/2012	98	-1	-68	829	E 2 m/s	206.5	12 hr 8.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/15/2012	99	-1	-68	829.59	E 2 m/s	207	12 hr 8.8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Pressure recorded as 829.5 9 Pa. Ashima lists pressure as 8.30 hPa
11/16/2012 NO REPORT	100	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	207.6	12 hr 9 min				No report.
11/17/2012 NO REPORT	101	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	208.2	12 hr 9.2 min				No report.
11/18/2012	102	8	-67	833.41 Dust storm growing southwest of MSL	E 2 m/s	208.8	12 hr 9.4 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
11/19/2012 NO REPORT	103	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	No rept.	209.4	12 hr 9.4 min		No rept.
11/20/2012	104	5 (4.7 published later by REMS)	-67	839	E 2 m/s	210	12 hr 9.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	The first report posted was from Ashima, but it cited REMS. This is the first time that Ashima posted a report BEFORE REMS, indicating that they don't rely on REMS reports for their data. What Ashima posted is in blue. What is in black was posted later by REMS.
11/21/2012 No report						210.6	12 hr 9.8 min	11 hr
11/22/2012 No report						211.2	12 hr 9.9 min	11 hr
11/23/2012 No report						211.8	12 hr 10.1 min	11 hr
11/24/2012 No report						212.4	12 hr 10.2 min	11 hr
11/25/2012	108	5	-65	847	E 2 m/s	213.1	12 hr 10.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Both Ashima and REMS report Sol 108 as November 25, November 25 should be Sol 109. Ashima reports this Sol at Ls 221. In reality November 24 is Sol 108 at Ls 212.4 and November 25 is Sol 109 at Ls 213.1. There is no pressure or other data reported out for the previous 4 days when a regional dust storm was southwest of MSL.
11/26/2012 No report	109					213.7	12 hr 10.6 min	11 hr
11/27/2012 No report	110					214.3	12 hr 10.7 min	11 hr
11/28/2012 No report	111					214.9	12 hr 10.9 min	11 hr
11/29/2012	111	5	-66	850	E 2 m/s	215.5	12 hr 11.1 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima reports this Sol at Ls 216 after having Sol Ls 108 as Ls 221.
11/30/2012	112	3	-66	852	E 2 m/s	216.1	12 hr 11.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/1/2012	113	3	-66.11	857	E 2 m/s	216.7	12 hr 11.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/2/2012	114	3	-69	858	E 2 m/s	217.4	12 hr 11.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/2/2012	115	1.3	-67	857.26	E 2 m/s	218	12 hr 11.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Both Ashima and REMS report Sol 114 and 115 as December 2. For Dec 2 the Ls is 217.4, for Dec. 3 the Ls is 218 as shown on this line.
12/3/2012	116	5	-67	857	E 2 m/s	218	12 hr 11.7 min	1 1 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/4/2012	117	3.45	-66.37	862	E 2 m/s	218.6	12 hr 11.8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/5/2012	118	4.53	-65.19	864	E 2 m/s	219.2	12 hr 12 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/6/2012	119	3.12	-66.22	866.3	E 2 m/s	219.8	12 hr 12.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 221.
12/7/2012	120	5.91	-66.67	867.5	E 2 m/s	220.5	12 hr 12.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/8/2012	121	1.31	-64.1	865.4	E 2 m/s	221.1	12 hr 12.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 222
12/9/2012 No report	122				E 2 m/s	221.7	12 hr 12.6 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/10/2012	123	2.1	-65.7	875.96	E 2 m/s	222.3	12 hr 12.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/11/2012	124	5.4	-65.5	876.84	E 2 m/s	222.9	12 hr 12.9 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/12/2012	125	3.4	-63.8	875.25	E 2 m/s	223.6	12 hr 13 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 225
12/13/2012	126	-5	-67	880	E 2 m/s	224.2	12 hr 13.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 224
12/14/2012	127	2	-67	884	E 2 m/s	224.8	12 hr 13.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 225
12/15/2012	128	-4	-67	884	E 2 m/s	225.4	12 hr 13.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	Ashima lists Ls as 225
12/16/2012	129	-4	-66	894	E 2 m/s	226.1	12 hr 13.6 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	This was listed as the last unzipped Ashima report. It still erroneously shows sunrise at 6 AM and sunset at 5 PM. Later the unzip requirement was dropped.
12/17/2012	130	-6	-66	889	E 2 m/s	226.7	12 hr 13.7 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/18/2012	131	-7	-66	888	E 2 m/s	227.3	12 hr 13.9 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/19/2012	132	-6.8	-65.4	892.84	E 2 m/s	227.9	12 hr 14 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/20/2012	133	0.6	-65.4	891.21	E 2 m/s	228.6	12 hr 14.2 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/21/2012	134	-0.62	-66.79	893.99	E 2 m/s	229.2	12 hr 14.3 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/22/2012	135	-4.66	-64.88	894.34	E 2 m/s	229.8	12 hr 14.5 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/23/2012 No report	136					230.4	12 hr 14.6 min
12/24/2012 No report	137					231.1	12 hr 14.8 min
12/25/2012 No report	138					231.7	12 hr 14.9 min
12/26/2012 No report	139					232.3	12 hr 15 min
12/27/2012 to 12/30/2012 No report on Vacation?	140 to 143					233	12 hr 15.2 min
12/31/2012	144	-3	-64	907	E 2 m/s	235.5	12 hr 15.6 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM
12/1/2012 DATE ERROR	144	-1	-65	851	E 2 m/s	236?	12 hr 15.8 min	11 hr	6:00 AM	5:00 PM	The two Sol 144 reports make no sense unless the 851 hPa is a minimum rather than average pressure.

2013 DATE

TABLE 3 - 2013 REMS Team & Ashima Research MSL Spring Weather reports

SOL

MAX TEMP C

MIN TEMP C

Pressure in Pa

Wind

David Roffman Daylight Calculation

Ashima Daylight Post

Ashima Sunrise

Ashima Sunset

ERRORS at REMS & ASHIMA and COMMENTS

1/1/2013

145

236.1

12 hr 15.8 min

No report

1/2/2013

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

Date listed by REMS and Ashima as 2 ene (Spanish for 2 January)

146

-2

-65

908

236.7

12 hr 15.9 min

11 hr

1/3/2013

No report

147

237.4

12 hr 16 min

1/4/2013

No report

148

238

12 hr 16.1 min

1/5/2013

No report

149

238.6

12 hr 16.2 min

1/6/2013 (6 ene)

-65

914

E 2 m/s

239.3

12 hr 16.3 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/7/2013 7 ene)

150

-64

913

E 2 m/s

239.9

12 hr 16.4 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/8/2013 (8 ene)

150

-65

915

E 2 m/s

240.5

12 hr 16.5 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/9/2013 (9 ene)

152

3.85

-62.55

914.5

E 2 m/s

241.2

12 hr 16.7 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/10/2013 (10 ene)

153

-65

916

E 2 m/s

241.8

12 hr 16.8 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/11/2013

154

1.45

-64.65

917.7

E 2 m/s

242.4

12 hr 16.9 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

(11 ene)

1/12/2013 (12 ene)

155

2.15

-64.45

917.5

E 2 m/s

243.1

12 hr 17 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

Ashima posts Ls as 244.

1/12/2013

156

1.86

-65.13

917.7

E 2 m/s

243.1

12 hr 17 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

Ashima posts Ls as 244. 2nd Sol for Jan (ene) 12. Is this Jan 13?

(12 ene)

probably this second 1/12/2013 entry should have been labeled 1/13/2013

1/13/2013 (13 ene)

156

See above

243.7

12 hr 17.1 min

1/14/2013 (14 ene)

157

1.75

-64.42

920.7

E 2 m/s

244.3

12 hr 17.2 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/15/2013 (15 ene)

158

2.68

-66.47

922.99

E 2 m/s

245

12 hr 17.3 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/16/2013

159

3.51

-65

918.47

E 2 m/s

245.6

12 hr 17.4 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

(16 ene)

1/17/2013 (17 ene)

160

1.98

-66.69

919.82

E 2 m/s

246.2

12 hr 17.5 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/18/2013

161

-65

920.3

E2 m/s

246.9

12 hr 17.6 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

(18 ene)

1/19/2013

162

-65

920

E2 m/s

247.5

12 hr 17.7 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

(19 ene)

1/20/2013 (20 ene)

163

-65

920

E2 m/s

248.1

12 hr 17.8 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

Ashima lists the Ls as 249

1/21/2013 (21 ene)

164

0,08 (0.08)

-64.72

919.46

E2 m/s

248.8

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

REMS confusion about decimal point (like ene for January, an English problem).

1/22/2013 (22 ene)

165

0.1

-64.66

923.09

E2 m/s

249.4

12 hr 17.9 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/23/2013

166

-65

922

E2 m/s

250

12 hr 18 min

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

Language back to English with Jan for January rather than ene.

11 hr

1/24/2013

167

-65

921

E2 m/s

250.7

12 hr 18.1 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/25/2013

168

-66

924

E2 m/s

251.3

12 hr 18.2 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/26/2013

169

-66

923

E2 m/s

251.9

12 hr 18.3 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/27/2013 No report

170

252.6

12 hr 18.3 min

1/28/2013 No report

171

253.2

12 hr 18.4 min

1/29/2013 Sol Number should be 171 on 1/28/2013

171

-66

925

E2 m/s

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

12 hr 18.5 min

253.9

11 hr

1/30/2013

172

-66

924

E2 m/s

254.5

12 hr 18.5 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

1/31/2013

173

-66

920

E2 m/s

12 hr 18.6 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

Ashima lists Ls as 254. Two sols provided for January 31.

1/31/2013

174

5.25

-67

924.47

E2 m/s

255.1

12 hr 18.6 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

2/1/2013 No report

255.8

12 hr 18.6 min

2/2/2013

176

-67

919

E2 m/s

256.4

12 hr 18.7 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

Ashima data published before REMS.

2/3/2013

177

5.2

-66.3

922.35

E2 m/s

257

12 hr 18.8 min

11 hr

6:00 AM

5:00 PM

2/4/2013

177 (Sol 178?)