ACTRIS Marketplace

Short and long-term experimental Cal/Val campaigns at RADO premises, using RADO’s infrastructure and user’s own instrumentation. The infrastructure at RADO combines ACTRIS compliant aerosol remote sensing, cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ instrumentation, along with complementary measurements for meteorological parameters and radiation. Additional instruments from the users can be accommodated indoor or outdoor, as needed. Overflights with small research aircrafts possible.

The service includes:
·        Support from the technical staff to install and operate the instruments
·        Support from the scientific staff to set the measurements schedule coincident with satellite overpasses
·        Support from the scientific staff to collect, process and analyze the data.

Training through hands-on operation of instruments and data analysis. The service applies to aerosol remote sensing, cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ measurement techniques and variables as defined in ACTRIS. 

The service includes:
·        Hands-on training for operation and calibration of instruments
·        Training for setting up data processing environments
·        Training for using advanced processing algorithms (NATALI, GRASP)

The Cabauw site offers expertise, service and training for cloud radar calibration as part of the ACTRIS topical center for cloud remote sensing (CCRES).

The Cabauw site offers expertise, service and training for UV-VIS trace gas remote sensing intercomparisons as part of the ACTRIS topical center for trace gas remote sensing (CREGARS).

Deployment of a mobile aerosol lidar for short-term campaigns and/or direct comparisons with similar instruments. The instrument operates at 1064, 532 and 355 nm wavelengths, with polarization at 532 nm and nighttime extinction capabilities at 532 and 355 nm. It can be operated inside a van (provided by RADO on request) or accommodated in the user’s laboratory (specific conditions to be discussed in advance).
The service includes:
·       Deployment and installation of the instrument at the user’s premises
·       Calibration, and operation of the instrument
·       Provision of the raw measurements
·       Provision of the processed data 

Testing of aerosol lidar prototypes by direct comparison with the reference Aerosol High-power Lidar operated at RADO premises by the ACTRIS Centre for Aerosol Remote Sensing (CARS). The instrument operates at 1064, 532 and 355 nm wavelengths, with polarization and daytime extinction capabilities, including HSRL at 532 nm. The user can either send the instrument, or accompany the instrument at RADO’s premises.
The service includes:
·       Support from the technical staff to install and operate the instruments
·       Support from the scientific staff to select and implement the testing scenarios
·       Support from the scientific staff to perform the comparative measurements and analyze the results

Weather forecast for Mt. Hoher Sonnblick: From permanently updated very short range forecasts (Nowcasts) over day-to-day forecasts to long-term and trends over weeks

Climate scenarios and climate change information for Sonnblick, for different altitude levels by the year 2100

Individual consulting on meteorological topics of any kind associated with Mt. Hoher Sonnblick (in particular weather briefings)

Availability period: All year round 24/7

Access to avalanche warning system and individual consulting on avalanche topics associated with Sonnblick

Measurement guidelines for NFs for instruments dealing with aerosol physical properties (for observational and exploratory platforms)

QA/QC according to ACTRIS reccommendations and operation guidelines

Calibration of the instruments according to ACTRIS and TC recommendations

Site performance tests with reference device serve for regular on-site instrument performance check. The TC reference instruments is shipped to NF and measures according to corresponding SOP parallel to the instrument(s) being checked.