ACTRIS Cloud Remote Sensing Workshop June 2024

09:00 – 09:15

Introduction and workshop agenda

09:15 – 10:45

Doppler Cloud Radar operational services 

• Introduction
• DCR : new RPG operation guidelines
• DCR Calibration transfer campaigns
• DCR calibration constant monitoring with disdrometer

New research investigations

• First steps towards evaluating Parsivel disdrometer calibration
• DIscussion

Microwave Radiometers operational services

• MWR activities

10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Doppler Lidars operational services  

• Doppler Lidar monitoring

Labelling operational services 

• Labelling step1b - ReOBS quality control procedure
• Access to operational services : new website

11:45 - 12:30

New developments at CLU (CloudNet Data Centre)

• Update from CLU 
• Roadmap for future developments

Feedback from NF on CCRES services/Discussion

12:30 - 13:00

New operational services

• HKD monitoring : Grafana Q/A

13:00 – 14:15

LUNCH BREAK 

14:15 – 14:45

Presentations

• Review of 20 years of Cloudnet observations at the Lindenberg Observatory and future directions to gain Cloudnet data consistency
• Long-term statistics of water vapour and clouds from microwave radiometer observations in Jülich with focus on cloud properties

14:45 - 15:30

EarthCARE Cal/Val activities

15:30 – 15:45

Break

15:45 - 16:30

Presentations

• Cloudnet deficiencies caused by presence targets below first range gate
• Techniques for better exploiting cloud radar Doppler spectra
• A novel approach to cloud classification: first results and challenges encountered

16:30 - 16:45

Discussion and buffer time

16:45 - 17:00

Concluding remarks