BALTEX cloud liquid water network

General Information

Objectives of CLIWA-NET include
- to contribute to the development and implementation of the Global Observing System with a focus on cloud observations;
- the implementation of a prototype of a European Cloud Observation Network. This network might also serve as an operational validation system for current and future satellite cloud missions (e.g. MSG, METOP, ENVISAT, CLOUDS);
- the development of an adequate observing system for the detection of icing conditions for aircraft;
- the objective evaluation and improvement of state-of-the-art cloud parameterisations for climate and weather forecast models, with a focus on integrated cloud liquid water and vertical structure of clouds;
- the design of a "low cost" microwave radiometer in co-operation with industry (SME);
- to contribute to BALTEX/BRIDGE.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP5-EESD-1999; Global change, climate and biodiversity, Better exploitation of existing data and adaptation of existing observing systems (1.1.4.-2.4.1)
Project Type	RTD
Contract Number	EVK2-CT-1999-00007
Co-ordinator	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (NL)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
2.612.500	341.350

Contact Person at Hereon

Markus Quante, Institute for Coastal Research, KSC Phone: +49-4152-87 1501, Fax : +49-4152-87 2020 E-mail contact

Participants

Chalmers University of Technology (SE), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE), CNRS (FR), Deutscher Wetterdienst (DE), Helsinki University of Technology (FI), Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (NL), Radiometer Physics GmbH (DE), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn (DE), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SE), University of Bern (CH)

Last Update: 16. April 2021