COPS Instrumentation Version 10 April 2007 Table of Contents 1 Airborne Platforms and Instruments .......................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 DLR Falcon with Water-Vapour DIAL, Wind Lidar, and Dropsondes ............................................................ 3 1.2 SAFIRE Falcon ................................................................................................................................................. 6 1.3 Research Aircraft DO 128 (IBUF) .................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 BAe146 ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.5 Learjet 35A...................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.6 Zeppelin NT with AirLIF ................................................................................................................................ 10 1.7 UltraLight ........................................................................................................................................................ 13 1.8 Dimona ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 1.9 Parternavia....................................................................................................................................................... 13 1.10 ATR ................................................................................................................................................................. 13 2 Sondes ...................................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.1 Graw Radiosondes of IMK ............................................................................................................................. 13 2.2 NERC Radiosondes ......................................................................................................................................... 15 2.3 AMF Radiosondes ........................................................................................................................................... 15 2.4 Radiosonde Sounding System of Météo France/CNRS .................................................................................. 15 2.5 Radiosondes of University of Vienna ............................................................................................................. 19 2.6 Drop-up Sondes of IMK .................................................................................................................................. 19 2.7 AIR Tethersonde System of University of Freiburg ....................................................................................... 22 2.8 Tethersonde of University of Vienna .............................................................................................................. 24 3 Lidars ....................................................................................................................................................................... 25 3.1 Scanning Water Vapor DIAL of University of Hohenheim ............................................................................ 25 3.2 Multi-Wavelength Lidar (MWL) of IfT .......................................................................................................... 27 3.3 RR Lidar of University of Hohenheim ............................................................................................................ 30 3.4 Raman Lidar BASIL ....................................................................................................................................... 33 3.5 IfT Wind Lidar (WiLi) .................................................................................................................................... 37 3.6 Doppler Lidar Wind Tracer of IMK ................................................................................................................ 39 3.7 NERC 1.5-micron Doppler Lidar of University of Salford ............................................................................. 41 3.8 TReSS ............................................................................................................................................................. 44 3.9 Ceilometer of Météo France/CNRS ................................................................................................................ 44 3.10 AMF Ceilometer and Micro-Pulse Lidar ........................................................................................................ 47 4 Radars ...................................................................................................................................................................... 47 4.1 POLDIRAD..................................................................................................................................................... 47 4.2 C-Band Radar of IMK ..................................................................................................................................... 50 4.3 Transportable Atmospheric Research Radar (TARA) ..................................................................................... 52 4.4 UHOH X-Band Radar ..................................................................................................................................... 55 4.5 Wind-Temperatur-Radar of IMK .................................................................................................................... 57 4.6 UHF Wind Profiler of Météo France/CNRS ................................................................................................... 60 4.7 Wind Profiler of University of Manchester ..................................................................................................... 63 4.8 Cloud Radar MIRA-36 of University of Hamburg ......................................................................................... 63 4.9 Cloud Radar MIRA36-S of IMK ..................................................................................................................... 66 4.10 Radar of University of Vienna ........................................................................................................................ 69 4.11 X-Band Radar of CNRS .................................................................................................................................. 69 4.12 K-Band Radar of CNRS .................................................................................................................................. 69 4.13 AMF Wind Profiler ......................................................................................................................................... 69 4.14 AMF Cloud Radar ........................................................................................................................................... 69 5 GPS Receivers ......................................................................................................................................................... 69 5.1 GPS Receivers of GFZ Potsdam ..................................................................................................................... 69 5.2 GPS Receivers of CNRS ................................................................................................................................. 72 6 Radiometers ............................................................................................................................................................. 72 6.1 Microwave Radiometer HATPRO .................................................................................................................. 72 6.2 NERC 14 Channel Microwave Radiometer of University of Salford ............................................................. 75 6.3 ADvanced MIcrowave RAdiometer for Rain Identification (ADMIRARI) .................................................... 78 6.4 Microwave Radiometer of CNR...................................................................................................................... 81 1 6.5 AMF Radiometers ........................................................................................................................................... 81 7 Sodars....................................................................................................................................................................... 81 7.1 Sodars of IMK ................................................................................................................................................. 81 7.2 Sodar of Météo France/CNRS ......................................................................................................................... 84 7.3 Flat Array SODAR of University of Freiburg ................................................................................................. 87 7.4 Sodar-RASS of University of Bayreuth .......................................................................................................... 90 7.5 NERC Sodars .................................................................................................................................................