====== Barbados ====== {{:sites:barbados:p1000895_cropped.jpg?500}} ===== Scientific Goals ===== The **[[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation.html|Barbados Cloud Observatory]]** operated by the [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/|Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology]] aims to collect continuous observations of shallow marine cumulus clouds. Specific goals are: * to develop a long term database of shallow cumulus cloud statistical properties * to investigate frequency and intensity of rain due to trade cumulus * to compare ground based and satellite based measurements of cloud statistical properties and associated precipitation * to understand interaction between aerosols and cloud properties ===== Location ===== [[http://maps.google.de/maps?q=deebles+point&hl=de&sll=33.930983,-77.997451&sspn=0.13488,0.169773&t=k&z=15|{{ :sites:barbados:barbados_google.png?300}}]]

The site is located on the east coast of the island of Barbados, on a site called Deebles Point, where it is exposed to the relatively undisturbed easterly (trade) winds.





===== Instruments ===== * [[instruments:sunhat:sunhat|HATPRO-SUNHAT]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/cloud-radar.html|Cloud radar]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/raman-lidar.html|Ramar lidar]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/wissenschaft/atmosphaere-im-erdsystem/initiativen/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/water-vapor-dial.html|Water vapor DIAL]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/micro-rain-radar.html|Micro rain radar]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/ceilometer.html|Ceilometer]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/allsky-imager.html|All sky imager]] * [[http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-atmosphere-in-the-earth-system/initiatives/barbadosstation/instrumentation-and-data/ground-base-information.html|Weather sensors]] * [[http://barbados.zmaw.de/|Cloud observatory blog]] ===== Product examples =====