UnivVienna Instrumentation

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UnivVienna Instrumentation update 4th COPS
workshop

• Manfred Dorninger and Reinhold Steinacker

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• Support two key research components
• Initiation of Convection (IC)
• Precipitation Processes and Life Cycle
• (PPL)

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I
II
III
IV
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• Site I (supersite III)
• 1 surface energy balance measurement system
  (SCINTEC)
• 1 disdrometer (OTT)
• 1 vertical pointing micro rain radar (METEK)
• 1 tethersonde system with 4 sensors (Vaisalaä)

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• Site II
• 15 temperature stations (Hobo)
• 3 automatic met. stations (Hobo)
• 4 3-d SONIC anemometers (GILL)
• 1 mobile station on a car (Vaisalaä)

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• Site III
• 50 automatic met. stations (Hobo)
• 3 automatic met. stations (MAWS)
• 50 automatic met. stations (Hobo)
• 10 high quality precipitation measurement systems
  (OTT Ahrens, Univ.Frankfurt)

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• Site IV
• 1 radisonde system (MeteoLabor)
• 60 sondes (Meteolabor)
• Further equipment
• -1 mobile vertical pointing radar (METEK)

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Thank you