Cloudlab

CLOUDLAB

Made with ❤️ in Switzerland by spirrobe

Plots of the various devices

Forecasts and nearby measurement stations

Missionplanning

Plan missions for UAVs

The project description and news page

Table of last data in files of available instruments

Fish eye camera on the trailer looking skywards

Lufft CHM15k measuring backscatter from aerosols/clouds for mixing layer height/planetary boundary layer height and cloud base (up to 3 and 4 levels respectively

Algorithm to classify clouds/atmosphere based on radar/ceilometer/microwave radiometer data. See cloudnetpy/Illingsworth 2007 for more information

Parsivel disdrometer that detects particles falling through a measurement path. Discerns particle velocity and size as well.

Table of the conducted seeding missions within CLOUDLAB with environmental parameters

RPG HATPRO microwave radiometer that derives atmopheric profiles of temperature and humidity. Also measures standard meteorological parameters at the ground with a Vaisala WXT536

Multi-angle Snowflake Camera that consists of several cameras with triggerd release to derive precipitation type/mass/fall speed

Pressure sensor that is sometimes mounted on HoloBalloon, useful for profiling

Vertical profiles either from UAVs that conduct a meteomission or from radiosondes

VPT/HTI plots of all the different radars that are available, in hourly/daily/threehourly and lasthourly resolution for different heightranges. Also includes wind speed/direction data based on VAD

Various scans of the different radar, be it PPI, PPIbb, RHI, CLOUDLAB elevation/azimuth scans

CNR4 radiation sensors, sampling on the ground

Windradar from MeteoSwiss, sampled only in winter campaign 2022/2023