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3 Aug 2010
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Chris Westbrook
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Welcome to the radar group at the Department of Meteorology. Our group is involved in a wide range of remote sensing activities, using ground based observations from the Chilbolton Observatory (home to the worlds largest steerable meteorological radar), satellite measurements from CloudSat and CALIPSO, and operational rain radar measurements in collaboration with the Met Office. Our aim is to explore the microphysics and dynamics of clouds and precipitation, as well as developing retrieval techniques to measure cloud properties and turbulence from continuous Doppler radar and lidar measurements. We are also developing operational techniques to measure precipitation rates and near-surface wind & humidity fields from the UK's network of C-band radars.
Please browse through our web site using the button-bar on the left, and contact us if you have any queries or comments.
News
- Anthony Illingworth awarded the Mason gold medal
- Chilbolton lidars capture the moment when volcanic ash "touched down" in southern England
Introduction to radar
A quick guide to interpreting cloud radar observations 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 2000Doppler measurements of Kelvin Helmholtz billows
Data and real-time imagesA vertically pointing radar, along with a lidar ceilometer and Doppler lidar operate continuously at Chilbolton, and real-time quicklooks of this data can be viewed by clicking the plots on the right. Data from Chilbolton is available for download at the British Atmospheric Data Centre. The realtime 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. |
Recently updated pages
Radar Group publications since 1997 (Updated 2 Apr 2012)Real-time cloud images: yesterday (Updated 2 Feb 2012)Real-time cloud images: latest (Updated 2 Feb 2012)Real-time cloud images: today (Updated 2 Feb 2012)Storms from 28 July 2000 (Updated 23 Nov 2012)You are visitor to this web page since 15 March 2000.