TU Delft RPG-FMCW-94-DP (CLARA-94)

PID

https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.b9ff0d23964949f0

Owner

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Manufacturer

Radiometer Physics GmbH

Model

RPG-FMCW-94-DP-S

Instrument type

Doppler scanning cloud radar

Measured variables

radar reflectivity factor
spectral width
slanted linear depolarisation ratio
Doppler velocity
kurtosis of spectra
skewness of spectra
co-cross-channel differential phase
co-cross-channel correlation coefficient
liquid water path
linear depolarisation ratio

Description

CLARA (CLoud Atmospheric RAdar) is a FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) radar, dual-polarized (DP), operating at two frequency bands (KW) , K- and W- band or equivalently 35 and 94 GHz. CLARA is coupled to CLARIO (CLoud Atmospheric RadIOmeter). Customer name in file metadata: DELFT3_W

Locations

2023-03-17	–	now	Cabauw
2022-05-25	–	2023-03-17	Maintenance
2020-12-09	–	2022-05-25	Cabauw

Serial number

RPG-FMCW-20-016

Citation

(2025). TU Delft RPG-FMCW-94-DP (CLARA-94). ACTRIS Cloud remote sensing data centre unit (CLU). https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.b9ff0d23964949f0

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