Cabauw status of instruments l Henk Klein Baltink
Cabauw - status of instruments l Henk Klein Baltink l Atmospheric Research Section
CABAUW: KNMI CESAR-partners 35 GHz Cloudradar CT 75 ceilometer IR-radiometers Windprofiler/RASS Surface Synop Surface Radiation (BSRN) Tower measurements (sonics) Total Sky Imager Video SPUV MICCY radiometer TARA RIVM Lidar GPS IWV Present Weather Sensor Video Disdrometer Rain Gauge network UV-Spectrometer (RIVM) “network”: LD 40, Radiosonde (De. Bilt) 20/21 October 2003 Cloud. NET Meeting Toulouse 2
Status instuments: • IRR (Heimann): • data collection in network stopped after BBC 2 • at Cabauw since November 2002 available @ 2 Hz • correction of sky brightness temperature needed • CT 12 data collection stopped since March 2003 • LD 40 cloudbase from 6 stations @ 1 min. since Feb/Mar 2003 • BSRN instruments installed during BBC 2 (data @ 1 min) • From BBC 2 till October METEK micro rain radars (4) , CT 25 (2) and disdrometer operational in Cabauw • expected shortly: microwave radiometer ESA • in April 2004 test: RPG scanning/profiling radiometer • MICCY poor operation last few months, upgrade expected in 1 month • 35 GHz Cloudradar, now 20000 operational hours, but no funding for TWT (yet) 20/21 October 2003 Cloud. NET Meeting Toulouse 3
20/21 October 2003 Cloud. NET Meeting Toulouse 4
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