May I introduce the most hard-working girl of our group: The Meteo-Tower.
Day and night she busily measures a whole bunch of meteorological variables like wind speed, relative humidity, air temperature, incoming solar radiation, etc. always with the ambitious aim of providing enough data to estimate the evapotransipration of the three study areas surrounding her with the help of a nice little Python script.
Nearly two weeks ago, Hannes, Cristina and I built up the Meteo-Tower on a perfect open grass field with the help of Vincent and Michel. It took us a full day - especially connecting all those cables from the measuring devices (alias colored spaghetti) in the right way to the data logger and the calibration of the pressure transducer in the piezometer took quite some time (it was after 5 pm and Vincent's energy storage was running low in contrast to our Meteo-Lady who enjoyed her energy supply from the solar panel.)
BUT....at the end of a long day we managed to leave her alone in the field - hard working, not complaining and enjoyed a very delicious dinner in Maarten's favoured bar.
liebe Gruesse aus Praia De Barra,
Vanessa
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