After 5 weeks spent in Australia for the AACES campaign, Arnaud Mialon, Claire Gruhier and Delphine Leroux are back in Europe at Cesbio. During these 5 weeks, we have met different soil types : very dry and flat with low vegetation in the western part and even smooth green grass with trees in the eastern part (as mentioned before in Ahmad and Arnaud’s articles, several rain events occured after the 5th of February).For each focus farm, we walked a 5 km transect and every 50 meters we did 3 soil moisture measurements with the hydra probe. Moreover, we took some vegetation, gravimetric and dew samples, LAI, surface reflectance (ASD) and roughness measurements. 1 TIR and 1 monitoring stations were installed as well (temperature sensors, theta probes, TIR, rain gauge, leaf wetness).This was also the occasion to see many beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
In a nutshell, this was an amazing experience for all of us ! Many thanks to the University of Melbourne and especially to Jeff, Chris and Sandy for the organization of this campaign !Arnaud, Claire & Delphine