Wind erosion, meteorological and wind profile monitoring in a groundnut field in Bambey, Senegal, 2020-2021 (ENCAS project)

In a groundnut field of about 100 m x 100 m, we installed 5 anemometers (2 dimensional (2D) sonic anemometers WindSonicTM Gill Instruments Ltd) at 0.25m, 0.66m, 1m, 1.5m, and 1.9m agl, a rain gauge (ARG100 Tipping Bucket rain gauge Campbell® Scientific company), and a Saltiphone, that detects the impacts of saltating grains.

All these measurements were performed with 5-minute time resolution. Missing data were rare (less than 1%) over the whole year 2020 for these ENCAS dataset (wind speed and Saltiphone). Simultaneously, horizontal sediment flux was monitored using five masts of 5 sand traps each (Modified Wilson and Cooke – MWAC) set up downwind the main wind directions of the study plot, i.e. at its southwestern corner.