Today was the start of the AEOLEX-II campaign! We were welcomed on the beach by a 6 Bft wind, about 2 m high waves and quite a surge. The container in which we will store all our equipment was placed by M. Gul near beach pole 41.000. We then started to build the instrument array. After a hard day's work we had deployed three sonic anemometers from the dune foot to the top of the 18-m high foredune. These anemometers are set-up to collect wind data for the whole campaign with a sampling frequency of 10 Hz. Each anemometer is attached to a steel pipe for which we had to drill holes into the sand. That was an odd sight. There is the famous story about a small boy (Hansje Brinker) that safed a village by putting his finger in a dike, and here we are drilling holes in the foredune. Tomorrow we will continue with more anemometers and various ground water wells. Hopefully we will have most equipment installed by Wednesday.
AuthorGerben Ruessink is Professor of Coastal Morphodynamics at Utrecht University Archives
November 2017
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