PG Data from Voss Campaign

A 500 meters tall thermal intersecting the LIDAR scanning planes has been recorded on the 16th of May. We are now figuring out what the LIDARs make of this day.

Summer School

Everyone from the gLidar project will be involved in the CHESS Summer School on land–atmosphere interaction processes and convection. We are already organizing the shipping and the placement of our LIDAR instruments at the Starmoen airfield. We are also preparing talks and data analysis from Voss to share with our international colleagues during the summer school.

New Intern

Tom Rémond comes from the National School of Meteorology in Toulouse and will take his internship with the gLidar-project. He is already set up and working on collecting the data from various meteorological stations deployed around the Voss campaign site.

Packing up at Voss

Thanks to the amazing people at Voss that were hosting our instruments, we were able to prolong our stay for a week into the month of June with some beautiful convective days. Thank you, everyone that was involved in the Voss campaign!

It’s now time to pack up and drive the LIDARs home. Next deployment will be in July at Starmoen.

First Data

We have found one! The smoke-like structure you can see in the animation is a slice of a thermal. We are working on combining this one-sided measurement with the data from a second LIDAR scanning the same area to extract the velocity fields.