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  • Instrumentation
    • Ground Instrumentation - (Ground Sensors)
    • Disdrometers: 2DVD (2) and Parsivel (6-10)
    • 10 rain gauges
    • 5 SWE probes
    • ADMIRARI Radiometer (total LWP)
    • 3 C-band Doppler radars (fully adaptable scanning geometry)
    • 2 Precipitation Occurrence Sensing Systems (POSS)
    • UHF Wind Profiler
    • 3 Micro Rain Radars (MRR)
    • SMEAR aerosol/flux tower
    • 6 Ceilometers
    • Sounding system and expendables at Jarvenpaa (twice daily soundings from St. Petersburg, Tallinn, and Jokioinen)

    Aircraft - (Wyoming King Air)
    • W-band cloud radar
    • Water content: DMT, Gerber, Nevzorov
    • Microphysics: 2D-P, CIP, CDP (FSSP/2D-C)
    • Aerosol: PCASP-100X, UWYO CCNC-100A
    • Ancillary: RH, T, altitude, wind speed

    Research Vessel - (RV Aranda)
    • Weather mast with disdrometers installed
    • Vaisala sounding system
    • Oceanographic measurements (conductivity, temperature, depth, Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), etc.)

    Experiment Layout

    Field Site Locations
    • Emäsalo: 60.203802 N, 25.625454 E
    • Harmaja: 60.104436 N, 24.974771 E
    • Järvenpää: 60.484466 N, 25.081996 E
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