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29 Jul 2008
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The Radar Group is situated at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. The group has access to the largest steerable meteorological radar in the world, which is located at Chilbolton in Hampshire. Many aspects of the microphysics of clouds and precipitation are being explored, and the Doppler capability of the radar is being used to study mesoscale dynamics. Chilbolton is also involved in a number of field experiments.
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Introduction to radar
Radar observations of
thunderstorms, overview of a case study from 28 July 2000Radar observations of
a cold front, overview of a case study from 20 October 2000
Data and real-time imagesRadar, lidar and other data from Chilbolton is available for download at the British Atmospheric Data Centre. The cloud radar and lidar quicklooks are available on our quicklooks page. This site has real-time images from the following instruments: These images are also available at the Chilbolton Weather Web (hosted at RAL), along with images from the Chilbolton weather radar, cloud camera and meteorological instruments, and from the RAL radar in Singapore. |
 
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| Cloudnet is an ongoing
project to use data obtained at European and US remote sensing stations for
the development of retrieval algorithms and the evaluation of clouds
in forecast models. Quicklooks of measurements, meteorological products and model data for each sites BAMS paper describing the Cloudnet project. |
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