Cloud radar calibration transfer campaigns in Leipzig and Lindenberg

To ensure a high level of quality across the network, CCRES performs radar transfer calibrations on the various National Facilities sites. To achieve this, CCRES travels to the NFs with the BASTA-CCRES reference radar and conducts measurement campaigns lasting approximately two months.

Cloud radar calibration transfer campaigns in Leipzig and Lindenberg

In January 2025, the CCRES reference cloud radar (94 GHz BASTA) was installed by CCRES-FR team at LACROS station in Leipzig, Germany, to operate alongside the local radars of the LACROS (RPG 94 and Metek MIRA 35) and Melpitz (RPG 94 and Metek MIRA 35) stations for 2 months. As the campaign has just ended, analysis of the results will only be available in the coming weeks.
 

Installation of CCRES reference radar in Leipzig.

In mid-March, the CCRES-FR team returned to Leipzig in order to uninstall the CCRES reference radar and transfer it to Lindenberg, with much appreciated support from LACROS team. 
A second campaign then began in Lindenberg, with the aim of calibrating three radars : Lindenberg MOL-RAO’s RPG 94 and Metek MIRA 35, and Rzecin station’s (Poland) BASTA from where the PI transferred the instrument.
 

Further analysis will enable CCRES to detect the biases of radars at both locations relative to the CCRES reference radar, and to prepare an official calibration report.