On Sunday Matt Carney, the School of Meteorology instrumentation technician, and I will start our trip to Portugal for the Perdigao project. We have been preparing for this project for over a year now and are excited but also anxious to get to Portugal, set-up our instrumen
ts, and hopefully collect great data sets. The image on the right shows the new enclosure, or miniCLAMPS as we like to call it, that we built for our first international deployment of CLAMPS. It will house our data system while the 3 CLAMPS instruments (Doppler lidar, AERI, and Microwave radiometer) will be deployed in standard mode 
next to this trailer.
The future home of our instruments can be seen in the last two pictures. CLAMPS will be deployed in the centre of the valley, at the so-called orange site (red circle in pictures). The site got it’s name from the surrounding orange trees! The wind turbine on one of the ridges can be seen in the photo on the right.
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r objective is to collect wind, turbulence, temperature and humidity profiles in the valley and to study the interactions between the valley flow and the boundary layer flow aloft under different atmospheric stabilities and for different wind directions.
We are excited to be part of this project and will keep you posted about our progress and adventures!
Petra