Cloudnet remote sensing network

Cloud observing stations

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Chilbolton, UK 51.1445 North 1.4370 West Operated by CFARR, RAL

SIRTA, Palaiseau (Paris), France 48.713 North 2.204 East Operated by CNRS/IPSL

Cabauw, The Netherlands 51.971 North 4.927 East Operated by KNMI

Remote sensing instruments

3-GHz Doppler/polarisation radar (CAMRa) 94-GHz Doppler cloud radar (Galileo) 35-GHz cloud radar (Copernicus) 905-nm lidar ceilometer 355-nm UV lidar 22.2/28.8 GHz dual frequency radiometer See radiometers' technical report.(printable version here) View real-time images from these instruments: CFARR | University of Reading.

5-GHz Doppler Radar (Ronsard) 94-GHz Doppler Radar (Rasta) 1064/532 nm polarimetric lidar 10.6 Ám Scanning Coherent Doppler Lidar 24/37-GHz radiometer (DRAKKAR) 23.8/31.7-GHz radiometer (RESCOM) See BSRN standard radiometer procedure report. View real-time images from these instruments: at Sirta (Palaiseau).

3.3-GHz FM-CW radar TARA (TUDelft) 35-GHz cloud radar (KNMI) 1064/532-nm lidar(RIVM) 905 nm lidar ceilometer (KNMI) 22 channel MICCY (UBonn) IR radiometer (KNMI) See TARA processing technical report. View real-time images from these instruments: at Cesar (Cabauw).

All sites are equipped with standard meteorological instruments, rain gauges and disdrometers.