OVERVIEW OF INSTRUMENTS OPERATIONAL DURING BBC2


Last update: November 19, 2003

During BBC2 a suite of instruments was operated on the ground, in the tower, under tethered balloons and on airplanes. For instruments that were located in Cabauw for the BBC2 Campaign only we have listed the (planned) date of arrival in Cabauw. Instruments that are (semi-)permanent operational in Cabauw are listed with a "P". For instruments for which we have additional information already available a link to a detailed data-sheet is provided.

We encourage the responsible persons of the different instruments to submit data on their instruments as well and/or a link to an existing data-sheet page. You may use a template of the "data-sheet.html" for this purpose. Send the (partial) completed data-sheet with image(s) and/or internet address to Henk Klein Baltink or Wouter Knap.

For some of the instruments their position in lat,lon coordinates has been measured, click here for the list.


RADARS

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
1.29 GHz Windprofiler/RASS Henk Klein Baltink KNMI P
3 GHz FMCW Radar TARA Herman Russchenberg TUD P
35 GHz Cloud Radar Henk Klein Baltink KNMI P
95 GHz Cloud Radar MIRACLE Markus Quante GKSS 1 May
24 GHz Micro Rain Radar (2x) Susanne Crewell Univ Bonn 22 April
24 GHz Micro Rain Radar Christoph Reudenbach Univ Marburg ?? May
24 GHz Micro Rain Radar Remko Uijlenhoet WUR ?? April
Sodar/RASS Holger Siebert IfT Leipzig 22-24 April

LIDARS

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
LD40 Ceilometer Henk Klein Baltink KNMI ? April
CT75K Ceilometer Henk Klein Baltink KNMI P
1064 nm Backscatter Lidar HTRL Arnoud Apituley RIVM P
Raman Aerosol Lidar ARAS Felix Theopold GKSS 1 May
CT25K Ceilometer Susanne Crewell Univ Bonn 29 April
CT25K Ceilometer Markus Quante GKSS 29 April

MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
22 Ch. Radiometer MICCY Susanne Crewell Univ Bonn 29 April
20, 30 GHz Radiometer Susanne Crewell Univ Bonn 29 April
36, 95 GHz Radiometer Arkady Koldaev Attex Company 12 May(?)

RADIATION

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
BSRN-type instruments (dif, dir, glo, lw) Wouter Knap KNMI ??
SPUV Piet Stammes KNMI ?
IR Radiometer on MICCY Susanne Crewell Univ Bonn 29 April
IR Imager Jean-François Millot CELAR ??
UV Spectrometer Peter den Outer RIVM 9 April
Albedometer Manfred Wendisch IfT Leipzig 30 April
Spectrometer Manfred Wendisch IfT Leipzig 30 April
FUBISS-ASA Spectrometer Jürgen Fischer FU Berlin 3 May
FUBISS-Polar Spectrometer Jürgen Fischer FU Berlin 3 May
FUBISS (zenith rad.) Jürgen Fischer FU Berlin 3 May
Sunphotometer CIMEL Gerrit de Leeuw TNO-FEL ?? April
Oxygen A-band Spectrometer Klaus Pfeilsticker Univ Heidelberg 30 April
IR radiometer upward looking Fred Bosveld KNMI P

BALLOONS

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
Tethered Balloon MAPSY Holger Siebert IfT Leipzig 2 May
Tethered Balloon with 5 PTU-probes Han van Dop IMAU 28 April
RS90 Radiosondes Henk Klein Baltink KNMI/Army 28 April

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTATION

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
Partenavia Manfred Wendisch IfT Leipzig  
PCASP-X (0.1 - 1.0 µm)      
Fast FSSP GKSS ( < 40 µm)      
PVM-100A GKSS ( < 20 µm)      
AFDM (305-700 nm, 2-3 nm)      
Albedometer (290-1000 nm, 2-3 nm)      
       
Dornier Adam Edgar NERC  
CASI (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager) Jürgen Fischer FU Berlin  
FUBISS (FUB Integrated Spectrographic System) Jürgen Fischer FU Berlin  
Infrared Movie Camera Jürgen Fischer FU Berlin  
Airborne version of POLDER Frederic Parol Univ Lille  
MiniMIR (polarization at 1.6 and 2.2 µm) Frederic Parol Univ Lille  
Backscatter lidar POLIS (355 nm) Birgit Heese Univ München  
       
Merlin IV Jean-Louis Brenguier Meteo France  
Fast FSSP Jean-Louis Brenguier Meteo France  
PVM Christian Abonnel Meteo France  
King probe Christian Abonnel Meteo France  
Various pressure, temperature, humidity, radiation Christian Abonnel Meteo France  
PMS and LWC probes: Dagmar Nagel GKSS  
 OAP 2D2-C (25-800 µm)      
 OAP 2D2-P      
 Nevzorow probe      
 FSSP 100 (extended range)      
Fast temperature probes Szymon Malinowski Uni Warsaw  
DIRAM Keith Wilson IMAU  
       

TOWER INSTRUMENTATION

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
Principal and other masts Fred Bosveld KNMI  
 Tabs,Tdpt @ 200,140,80,40,20,10,1 m     P
 FF,DD @ 200,140,80,40,20,10 m     P
 Turbulence: Sonic+IFM @ 180 m     P
IR radiometer downward looking @ 213 m Wim Kohsiek KNMI P
X-LAS Scintillometer @ 40 m Wim Kohsiek KNMI P
Volatility (PMS PCASP-X) @ 20 m Marcel Moerman TNO-FEL ?? April

SURFACE INSTRUMENTATION

Instrument Responsible person Institute Arrival
Energy balance terrain Fred Bosveld KNMI  
 Shortwave in, out     P
 Longwave in, out     P
 Soil heat-flux     P
 Ground-water level     P
 Precipitation     P
Turbulence: Sonic+IFM @ 5m   KNMI P
IR radiometer downward looking Wim Kohsiek KNMI P
Scintillometer Clemens Simmer Univ Bonn 7 April
GPS receiver Hans van der Marel TU-Delft P
Total Sky Imager Henk Klein Baltink KNMI P
Digital video camera Henk Klein Baltink KNMI P
Present weather sensor Remko Uijlenhoet WUR ?? April
Disdrometers Remko Uijlenhoet WUR ?? April
Tipping bucket rain gauges (7x) Remko Uijlenhoet WUR ?? April
Aerosol counters (CSASP 200 and 100-HV) Marcel Moerman TNO-FEL ?? April