Meteo day.

As a part of our fieldwork we built our own meteorological tower, equipped with different measurement devices to record wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity, incoming and reflected radiation and soil heat flux.
The main goal of setting up the tower is to calculate actual evaporation for our 3 catchments, one of the main components of the water balance.

With our ‘’meteo team’’: Reinert, Ruben and myself, under Maarten’s supervision, we were busy most of the day connecting devices, installing all the wiring and programming the data logger.

In spite of heat and working all day long, we still had lots of fun and achieved very satisfactory final goal: brand new meteorological tower, ready to work.

Ruben and Reinert working hard on the tower's base, while Maarten is pulling the strings…

Installing a tipping bucket can be so much fun....

…as well as the wiring, which I took care of.

And here is our team complete, pround to present a brand new tower.

Cheers,

Joanna