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Current Events

Sea-Pol pedestal maintenance (26 Mar, 2024)

The Sea-Pol radar pedestal is undergoing maintenance and repair in support of an upcoming field campaign.

Website redesign (15 Jan, 2024)

The CHILL website has extensive changes, both in appearance, as well as with the underlying technology. We are committing a greater effort towards keeping the site updated with current activities and changes to the instrumentation.

Sea-Pol radar base foundation pour (21 June, 2016)

Concrete pour for the Sea-Pol radar's home-base. The concrete pad will serve as a location to hold the containers down for the Sea-Pol radar when not deployed on a ship.

Sea-Pol containers arrive (17 June, 2016)

Two 20 foot containers that will house the Sea Pol radar equipment have been delivered to the CSU-CHILL radar site.

Data Collection for FRONT PORCH (22 May 2014)

Data collection begins for a component of the FRONT PORCH (Precipitation Observations and Research on Convection and Hydrometeorology) program with the Radar Observations of Storms for Education (ROSE) project with North Carolina State University CP3G. This is an NSF-funded project using the FRONT facility. Principal Investigator: Dr. Sandra Yuter.

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Recent Changes

An automatically generated list of recent changes to the CSU-CHILL website is available here

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 ==Current Events==
-;'''Site photographs from the GXY traffic pattern: Dec 27, 2010'''
-[[Image:Brenda 27dec2010 3 ed 2.jpg|center|thumb|300px|CSU-CHILL radar site]]
-[[Image:Brenda 27dec2010 2 ed 1.jpg|center|thumb|300px|NASA N-Pol radar]]
-[[Image:Brenda 27dec2010 4 ed 1.jpg|center|thumb|300px|NASA N-Pol radar: closer view]]
-:Dr. Brenda Dolan (research scientist in the CSU Atmospheric Science Department) took photographs from an aircraft in the traffic pattern at the Greeley-Weld County Airport (GXY).  The CSU-CHILL radar and the temporarily-visiting NASA N-Pol radar are located on opposite sides of the main runway at GXY.
-;'''Radar calibration sphere flight: Dec 2, 2010'''
+<!-- Note to editors: articles should be in reverse chronological order. -->
-[[Image:2dec2010 sphere.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Balloon-borne calibration sphere]]
+===Sea-Pol pedestal maintenance (26 Mar, 2024)===
-:A light weight foil-covered sphere provides a target with a known backscattering cross section that is used as a reference during a radar calibration experiment.
+[[Image:20240326_seapol_pedestal_repair.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Sea-Pol pedestal repairs]]
+The [[Sea-Pol]] radar pedestal is undergoing maintenance and repair in support of an upcoming field campaign.
-;'''N-Pol Radar Antenna Installation: Oct 21, 2010'''
+===Website redesign (15 Jan, 2024)===
-[[Image:21oct2010 NPOL ant 1.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Rigging for antenna lift]]
+The CHILL website has extensive changes, both in appearance, as well as with the underlying technology. We are committing a greater effort towards keeping the site updated with current activities and changes to the instrumentation.
-[[Image:21oct2010 NPOL ant 2.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Lowering antenna onto pedestal]]
-:The new center-fed antenna was mounted on the N-Pol radar at GXY on 21 October 2010.
-;'''VCHILL Utilization at the ERAD  conference in Romania: Sept 4, 2010'''
+===Sea-Pol radar base foundation pour (21 June, 2016)===
-[[Image:ERAD project.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Live video from the CSU-CHILL site]]
+[[Image:Sea-Pol radar base.jpeg|center|thumb|300px|Sea-Pol radar base foundation]]
-[[Image:ERAD replay.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Students examining example archive data cases]]
+[[Image:Sea pol pad surface pour.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Pouring the top layer of the foundation]]
-:Prof. Chandrasekar included various VCHILL services as a part of a short course taught at the ERAD 2010 conference in Sibiu, Romania.
+[[Image:Sea Pol completed pad.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Completed Sea-Pol radar base foundation]]
+Concrete pour for the Sea-Pol radar's home-base. The concrete pad will serve as a location to hold the containers down for the Sea-Pol radar when not deployed on a ship.
-;'''N-Pol Radar Site Survey: Jul 26, 2010'''
+===Sea-Pol containers arrive (17 June, 2016)===
-[[Image:NPOL site.JPG|center|thumb|300px|N-Pol at GXY]]
+[[Image:Sea Pol container arrival.JPG|center|thumb|300px|20ft containers modified for Sea Pol]]
-:Mike Watson (L) and John Gerlach (R) gather soil strength data at a candidate operating site for the NASA N-Pol radar on the property of the Greeley- Weld County Airport.
+Two 20 foot containers that will house the Sea Pol radar equipment have been delivered to the CSU-CHILL radar site.
-;'''CMMAP Interns Visit: Jun 25, 2010'''
+===Data Collection for FRONT PORCH (22 May 2014)===
-[[Image:CMMAP 2010.JPG|center|thumb|300px|CMMAP]]
+Data collection begins for a component of the [https://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/front-porch/Front-Porch.html FRONT PORCH] (Precipitation Observations and Research on Convection and Hydrometeorology) program with the Radar Observations of Storms for Education (ROSE) project with North Carolina State University [http://precip.meas.ncsu.edu/ CP3G]. This is an NSF-funded project using the [[Facilities#FRONT|FRONT]] facility. Principal Investigator: Dr. Sandra Yuter.
-:Participants in the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP) program at CSU took a tour of the CSU-CHILL radar facility.
-;'''UCAR 50th Anniversary Open House: Jun 6, 2010'''
-[[Image:UCAR 50.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Open House at NCAR]]
-:NCAR hosted an open house in honor of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).  Real time displays of data from the CSU-CHILL and EOL S-POL radars were presented to the open house visitors.
-;'''REU 2010 Program: Jun 1, 2010'''
-[[Image:REU2010.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Summer 2010 REU]]
-:Students in Prof. Chandra's REU program received a technical introduction to meteorological radars during their visit to the CSU-CHILL radar.
-;'''NSF Users' Workshop: Jun 15-17, 2009'''
-:The CSU-CHILL Facility will be represented at the NSF Users' Workshop with a poster and a live demonstration of remote radar operation.
-;'''CSU-CHILL Open House: Jun 14, 2009'''
-:The CHILL Facility will be hosting an open-house event in support of the NSF Users' Workshop, conducted at NCAR.
-;[[Distributed Version Control system]]
-:The current version control system used on CHILL, cvs, will be going away soon. This will be replaced by the Git system.
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