CESAR rainfall experiment 2002 (C-Rex'02) - Experimental setup and first results

The Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research (CESAR) is a consortium of major universities and research institutes in The Netherlands involved in research regarding ground-based remote sensing of the atmosphere and of the land surface. The Cabauw site, with its 213 m tower for atmospheric boundary layer observations, has been the center of experimental research of the atmospheric research group at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) since the early 1970s. In the framework of CESAR, an important collection of ground-based remote sensing devices has recently been added to the original configuration of in situ instruments. Additional information about CESAR can be found on the CESAR web site (http://www.cesarobservatory.nl/). The CESAR project plan, an overview poster and an overview article can be downloaded from the IRCTR / TU Delft web site (http://irctr.et.tudelft.nl/projects/cesar/).