New Look / First Look at the Cronyn Ceilometer
Blog has moved! (15 Jan 2023)
New science stuff in My Bobiverse is here.
New Blog, New ceilometer
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Hope you like the new blog look. Thanks to the awesome github community getting away from a commercial service and to a light, fast markdown blog was easy peasy. Thanks world.
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Also thanks to the Faculty of Science at Western, we were able to get a ceilometer for Cronyn Observatory. The image above shows off the ability of the ceilometer to characterise the troposphere. Much more on this to come.
Quick Ceilometer Facts
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It’s pronounced “see-lo-meter”. My Nouveau Joisey accent tends to put anywhere from 2 to 4 extra syllables between the see, the lo and the meter. Just ignore that.
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The ceilometer is identical in principle to a lidar. Here is a quick lidar tutorial.
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We will be collaborating with the Remote Sensing Group at MeteoSwiss to do some way cool studies with chains of these instruments. More later.
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It looks like a “plucky droid”. I like that.
