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The schedule of l'ROBE site removal is not'ed in Table II.6. The clerical staff updated inventory records during the PROlaE removal phase. It took an estimated 850 person--hours to remove all PROBE platforms, instruments and fence enclosures from field locations, transport them to the Miles City project headquarters, and update inventory records. On-site disassembly time ranged near 2 1/2 hours per station. A minimum of 2 people was required to dismantle a station. Combined travel, disassembly, transport, and handling time for each station totaled about 9 person-hours per site. The time required for each site disasselnbly, and return transport are estimated in Table II.7. As noted in Table II.6 the total mesonet disassembly was accomplished in less than 4 weeks to allow for preparation of the PROBE inventory for assignment of equipmE!nt to other Reclamation projects. All PROBE equipment was returned to the Miles City headquarters before 17 September 1981. D. "PROBE" DATA HANDLING AND ANALYSES 1. DATA ACCESSING A PROBE station ~1as originally designed to monitor pressure tendency, temperature, humidity, wind direction and speed, precipitation (Knudsen, et a1., 1981), and later modified to collect solar radiation data as a seventh parameter, Solar radiation data were collected as an additional parameter at 10 of the PROBE siteE; in Montana during 1981. PROBE monitoring was continuous, with five minute scans stored by a microprocessor. Every hour each respective station transmitted its' previous hour's five-Yllinute scans through a satellite to a downlink computer facility at Reclamation"s Engineering and Research Center in Denver, Colorado. Each station was assigned a minute or a transmit time as well as an identification code for data transmission purposes. Because there were more stations than there were minut(~s in an hour, two channels (028 and 146) were required for satellite transmission purposes. Each stations's respective transmit time is listed in Table II.8 along with its DCP identification (ID) code. Other information listed in Table II.8 include latitude and longitude coordinates, site elevation, standard station pressure, number of sensors, and general station location information. The site identification codes, as established during network planning and design activities (Knudsen, et a1., 1981), were different from DCP ID codes. The DCP ID codes were assigned to respective sites during 1981 as part of the preparations for CCOPE. If a DCP malfunctioned and required changing during field operations, the replacement DCP was assigned to the same DCP ID code for downlink accessing and computer filing. At Reclamation's downlink facility in. DenVE!r, the satellite information was collected on the CybE~r computer system and was made accessible for field sites such as Miles City for retrieval and storage (Politte and Engel, 1982). PROBE data would be transferred to the local Perkin-Elmer 3220,minicomputer in Miles City via a Computer Data Corporation UT200 computer link facility.. In Miles City the PROBE data would be reviewed and analyzed for ,problems with the local Perkin-Elmer 3220. Basic software routines used for PROBE data 'review 19