Satellite Remote Sensing

Institute for Troposheric Research

Recent Radiation Measurements

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Measurements of global radiation are carried out by a pyranometer on the roof of our institute. This graphic displays the diurnal cycle of the incoming shortwave radiation measured at IFT with a temporal resolution of 1 minute.

Global Radiation measurements at IFT (provided by Rene Dubois, John Kalisch and Jonas Walther)

Global Radiation measurements at IFT

Furthermore, at our institute a total sky imager captures the sky conditions every 15 seconds. An example is shown here. The current Cloudcam Image as well as the latest Cloud Movie are available at http://polly.tropos.de/webcam/.

Total Sky Imager @ IFT. 12:00 UTC (provided by Rene Dubois and John Kalisch)

Total Sky Imager @ IFT. 12:00 UTC previous day.

News

2013-04-22 HOPE campaign

two weeks ago, John and colleagues successfully set up the 100 pyranometer network as our contribution to the HOPE campaign.

2013-04-09 Rapidly scanning Meteosat-9

At Tuesday Meteosat-9 started rapid scan at a 5-min interval on a routinely basis replacing the old Meteosat-8 which now will do the backup for the others.

2013-02-06 new postdoc position filled

On the 6th of february, Bomidi Lakshmi Madhavan joined us as postdoc in our part of the HD(CP)² project. Welcome!

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