Partners
The Barbados Cloud Observatory is a joint project of the:
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, and the
Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology.
A number of additional institutes are contributing to our study through their supply of instrumentation or intensive field campaigns on Barbados:
- Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology;
- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Physics, in particular the CARRIBA campaign with measurements by ACTOS and HELIOS, led by Dr. Holger Siebert;
- Remote sensing group of Prof. Susanne Crewell (University of Cologne);
- Aerosol group of Prof. Joseph Prospero (University of Miami, Rosenstiel School)
- ACTOS gets pushed by its CARRIBA team
Links
Our most useful link is the Barbados Blog, where you can find the most recent status updates to the instruments and their quicklooks. Also useful is the Barbados FTP server that stores the images of the webcams on Deebles and Ragged Point.
The only instrument on Deebles Point not maintained by MPI is the Microwave Radiometer (HATPRO-SUNHAT) from the University of Cologne Remote Sensing Group.
Measurements and Data collected at Ragged Point:
- AERONET data obtained from the sun photometer
- GAWSIS data entry: includes the greenhouse gas measurements performed at the Ragged Point station
- The Micro Pulse Lidar on Ragged Point (MPLNET)
- Trajectory calculations for Ragged Point: backward trajectory calculations initialized every 4 hrs on 6-hourly ECMWF analysis fields
Basic weather data:
- Barbados Meteorological Services: includes among others the latest images of the S-Band Precipitation Radar deployed on Barbados.
- Ministry of Agriculture Barbados webpage: includes links to satellite and radar imagery
- The NOAA Hurricane Center: they don't come by often, but when they do, we better be prepared.