HATPRO at BCO
Profiling radiometers like our HATPRO-G5 are mainly used to derive vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and humidity. The infrared radiometer extension allows to cloud base height and ice cloud detection. The radiometer covers high-resolution temperature profiling of the boundary layer and low-humidity applications. All models of the series provide accurate total amounts of atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water. The retrieval algorithms is custom designed and based on the long-term dataset of radiosondes at the GAIA-Airport. Two bands, 22-31 GHz (7-channel filter-bank humidity profiler and LWP radiometer) and 51-58 GHz (7-channel filter-bank temperature profiler) are used in this radiometer.
Retrieved data types:
- vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature
- vertical profile of atmospheric humidity (relative and absolute humidity)
- Liquid Water Path (LWP)
- Integrated Water Vapor (IWV)
Since 2011 to 2017 we installed a Hatpro (SUNHAT) from University Cologne at our site. In 2017 we installed the first HATPRO-G5 (BCOHAT1) at the site. Please see BCO Project Website