IDRA: A new instrument for drizzle monitoring

Author

Figueras i Ventura, Jordi ; Russchenberg, H.W.J.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3301

Lastpage

3304

Abstract

IRCTR is currently developing a high resolution radar aimed at the observation of rainfall and drizzle parameters for use in hydrological studies and in studies of the effect of the increase in anthropogenic aerosols in the radiation budget. Much effort has been done at obtaining a high sensitivity to be able to detect low reflectivity phenomena like drizzle. The radar is placed in the Cabauw meteorological super-site, allowing synergy with other instruments to further improve its capabilities.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric radiation; meteorological radar; rain; Cabauw meteorological super-site; IDRA; IRCTR; anthropogenic aerosols; atmospheric radiation budget; drizzle monitoring; high resolution radar; hydrological studies; low reflectivity phenomena; rainfall; Aerosols; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Doppler radar; Instruments; Meteorological radar; Monitoring; Poles and towers; Radar detection; Radar polarimetry; Doppler polarimetric radar; IDRA; drizzle;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423550

Filename

4423550