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Four 3-D Csat3 sonic anemometer / eddy
covariance systems along with Krypton
hygrometers set up near Kimberly, Idaho during
1999 as part of the RAPID study
(Regional advection perturbations in an
irrigated desert). Collaboraters included
Univ. Idaho, Wageningen Agricultural Univ., the
Netherlands, USDA-ARS,
Campbell Scientific, Utah State University.
The study also included two scintillometer
systems. Alfalfa field was owned by Kevin
Stanger, Hansen, Idaho.
Job Kramer of WAU, the Netherlands,
adjusting
an EC/3D sonic system
R.Allen and a Campbell Scientific Bowen
Ratio "Perils" of
Lysimetry. Rebuild of weighing
system during the RAPID study,
1999.
lysimeter in Logan, UT, 1992.
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ScinTech scintillometer used to determine
sensible heat over a large,
integrated area. The ScinTech is German
made and was used
as a part of the RAPID-Idaho study in
1999.. Large apparture
scintillometers (LAS) are manufactured in
Wageningen, the Netherlands
by MicroMet Scientific under the supervision of the
Dept. Meteorology
of WAU (Dr. Henk deBruin).
Kipp and Zonen four component net radiation
system. The glassed domed
instrument is a short wave pyranometer with
both upward and downward
looking sensors. The open black topped
sensor is a full-spectrum radiometer
with upward and downward looling sensors.
This unit was used as a part of the
RAPID-Idaho study in 1999.
Some preliminary
results and short description of the Idaho RAPID study are
available in pdf format.
2007: “THE” Dr. Henk de Bruin, Professor of
Meteorology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, alongside a
Kipp&Zonen large aperture scintillometer, in New Mexico. (Henk was instrumental in the LAS
development) (note his old orange coat hanging nearby)
Henk de Bruin
and Jan Kleissl (UCSD), 2007, tending a LAS on a bluff above the Rio Grande,
New Mexico, over salt cedar / cottonwood mix
Henk de Bruin,
Jan Hendrickx (New Mexico Tech), Jan Kleissel (UCSD) and Sung-ho Hong (NMT)
near an eddy covariance station along the MRG in 2007. Note that even the ‘experts’ can
let the grass get ‘unrepresentative’ (too tall and senescing) beneath the
radiometers!!! Also note that even
the ‘experts’ stand nearly underneath and trample the grass nearly underneath
the net radiometer system (here a K&Z) !!! (too busy talking about eddies).