Events documents

Introduction

1. CCRES and CLU updates
   1. DCR Calibration
   2. Labelling process : step 1b
2. Exchanges with the National Facilities
   1. Updates on MWR for labelling
   2. Feedback on the CCRES/CLU training school
3. National Facilities engagement session
   1. Status of the OPAR - St Paul Maïdo station in Reunion Island
   2. Doppler Radar’s Reflectivity Calibration using Disdrometer at MIM (LMU, Munich)
   3. L'Aquila :
      1. Update from L'Aquila NF
      2. Analysis of in-cloud vertical air velocity from W-band radar

   4. Status of the Lindenberg observations and upcoming plans

   5. Galati : Keeping up with cloud observations: hitches and glitches. Current status of the AGORA National Facility
   6. Current status of the AGORA National Facility
   7. Issues related to Mira Cloud Radar operation at RADO Bucharest
   8. Overview of CARO Limassol : Progress, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
   9. Status of the Payerne station; Doppler cloud radar experiences and activities
   10. Current status of Warsaw NF
   11. Possible misalignment of the internal leveling sensor of the LACROS RPG-94-FMCW cloud radar

Introduction

Lectures : 

1. DCR Introduction
2. Doppler Lidar
3. Doppler spectra
4. CLU products
5. Microwave radiometry
6. Dual-Field-of-View Lidar: a tool for assessing
   liquid-cloud microphysics
7. Lidar Radar synergy
8. EarthCARE
9. ABL heights

Hands-on : 

1. DCR calibration methods
2. DCR pointing calibration
3. HKD / ReOBS
4. Doppler spectra analysis with peako peakTree
5. MWR operational services
6. Disdrometer calibration monitoring
7. Raingauge calibration
8. Automatic low-power lidar and ceilometer QA/QC measurements

Conclusion

Introduction

1. DCR calibration campaigns

2. MWR data processing

3. Doppler Lidar data processing and monitoring

4. HKD monitoring

5. Labelling process

6. New developments at CLU

7. EarthCARE Cal/Val activities update

8. Disdrometer calibration monitoring

9. Presentation of L'Aquila National Facility

10. Estimation of aerial insects concentration with cloud radars on CloudNet sites

11. Tackling aliasing in Doppler Radar data

12. Conclusion

Introduction

Session 1 : Doppler Cloud Radar operational services

• DCR calibration methods

• DCR calibration constant monitoring with disdrometer

Session 2 : Microwave radiometer operational services

Session 3 : Doppler Lidar operational services

Session 4 : HKD operational services

Session 5 : Labelling operational services

Session 6 : New developments at CLU

Session 7 : Feedback from NF on CCRES/CLU services

Session 8 : New scientific results and technical developments

• Showcases of wind lidar, cloud radar and ceilometer synergy
• New dual-frequency cloud radar and Raman lidar at JOYCE: first observations and future perspectives
• Cloud Droplet Retrievals: Synergy of Ground-Based Remote sensing and In-Situ measurements at CloudNet Granada station
• Identifiying Haze echoes in CloudNet
• Updates and new developments at NF Lindenberg (disdrometer data acquisition, operation of the two CloudNet stations,..)

Session 9 : EarthCARE joint session with CARS

• EarthCARE Cal/Val pilot
• Evolution of ACTRIS aerosol and cloud remote sensing

Introduction

Session 1 : Doppler Cloud Radar operational services

• DCR : new RPG operation guidelines

• DCR calibration transfer campaign

• DCR calibration constant monitoring with disdrometer

Session 2 : First steps towards evaluating the Parsivel disdrometer calibration

Session 3 : Microwave radiometer operational services

• Introduction

• MWR activities

Session 4 : Doppler Lidar operational services

Session 5 : Labelling step 1b - ReOBS quality control procedure

Session 6 : Update from CLU and roadmap towards future developments

Session 7 : Presentations from ACTRIS Science Conference 2024

• Review of 20 years of Cloudnet observations at the Lindenberg Observatory

• Long-term statistics of water vapour and clouds from MWR observations in Jülich with focus on cloud properties

Session 8 : EarthCARE Cal/Val activities

• EarthCARE Cal/Val activities

• EarthCARE Cal/Val SOPs

Session 9 : Presentations from CRS community

• Cloudnet deficiencies caused by presence targets below first range gate

• Techniques for better exploiting cloud radar doppler spectra

• A novel approach to cloud classification

- Session 1 :

• Introduction

• Update on MWR data processing and retrieval development

• Monitoring of cloud radar stability with disdrometer

• Estimating radome and rain attenuation (with uncertainties) from disdrometer observations

• Monitoring of calibration, Radar comparison

- Session 2 :

• Technical parameters monitoring for cloud remote sensing NFs

• Scanning and non-scanning strategy

• QA/QC of ALCs within ACTRIS-CARS and CCRES - Dark measurements

• MWR calibration and SOPs

- Session 3 : Latest developments on Cloudnet data portal

- Session 4 :

• CRS NFs Labelling process

• CCRES SOPs for EarthCARE Cal/Val measurements

Introduction

Labelling process

Break-out session 1 : ALC

Break-out session 2 : DCR

Break-out session 3 : MWR

Break-out session 4 : DL

Session 1 : Introduction

Session 2: Technical highlights

Session 3: Scientific highlights

- Session 4: Breakouts sessions

• Break-out 01 ALC
• Break-out 02 Wind profiles
• Break-out 03 MWR 

- Session 5: Hands-on training Disdrometers

- Session 6: Labelling

- Session 7: Conclusions (all conclusions)

• Break-out session summary
  • ALC
  • Wind profiles
  • MWR
  • Monitoring of stability of DCR reflectivity using disdrometers

- Session 1: NF State of operations

- Session 2: Station data

- Session 3: Instruments calibration

- Session 4: Scientific and technical highlights

- Session 5: Data processing

- Session 6: Labelling process

- Session 1: CCRES National Facilities

- Session 2: Data processing

- Session 3: Calibration strategy

- Session 4: Data transfer activities

- Session 5: Quality Assurance strategy