The TEAMx Observational Campaign has started on 15 Septempter 2024. The winter EOP (wEOP) will begin in:

(20 January 2025 - 28th February 2025)


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Latest News, published 01st October 2024

Novel Doppler lidar system resolves previously unattainable valley circulations during test flights in the Alps

14th September 2024

Karlsruhe Novel Doppler LidarThe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has conducted the first flights deploying their novel airborne Doppler lidar system ‘AIRflows’ aboard the TU Braunschweig Cessna F406 research aircraft. AIRflows implements a novel fixed-beam design by combining five compact and lightweight Doppler lidars into one system. The new multi-lidar system provides one order of magnitude improved spatial resolution compared to previously existing systems, which is especially valuable in complex terrain. “Initial analysis demonstrates spatially resolved wind profiles at 100 m resolution, allowing to resolve fine-scale 3D winds in complex terrain for the first time”, says Dr. Philipp Gasch, the lead developer of the new system from KIT. First measurements across Alpine valleys provide previously unattainable insight into vertical wind as well as valley circulations. Using the first data, flight paths and measurement strategies for upcoming deployments of AIRflows can be planned and optimized. More details on the test flights can be found here.

KLOCX deployment at Kolsass

25th September 2024

Karlsruhe Low Cloud ExploratoryThe Karlsruhe Low Cloud Exploratory (KLOCX) Platform was set up at Kolsass in the Inn Valley Target Area for the TEAMx Observational Campaign. The remote sensing instruments will measure until spring 2025 and will provide valuable insight into the life-cycle phases of low-level stratiform clouds in the Inn Valley.

The TOC has started

16th September 2024

Lidar setup at InnsbruckThe TEAMx Observation Campaign has officially started, with the one-year long campaign running until mid-September 2025. The first instruments for the TOC were deployed over the summer and a number of smaller test campaigns are currently being conducted both in the Inn Valley Target Area and in the Adige Valley Target Area in preparation for the big summer EOP next year.

Nafingalm site panorama

Nafingalm site snowThe start of the TOC is accompanied by an extended period of precipitation and snowfall down to relatively low altitudes over Austria, necessitating the postponement of some of the test campaign activities, such as test flights with UAS and with the TU Braunschweig Cessna. As the saying goes, a bad dress rehearsal results in a good performance, so let’s hope that this is a good sign for our two upcoming EOPs.

We will be using this site to continuously publish information about new and ongoing TOC activities, including soon more detailed information about the ongoing test campaigns. So keep checking in.

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