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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==
-===Website Improvements===
-Several new features added:
-*[[Projects|Projects list]]
-*[[Radar status]] page
-*Radar status indicator on front page
-*Quick-look Real-time images
-<html>
-<ul>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="#" onClick="ref = window.open('http://www.chill.colostate.edu/quicklook/quicklook.html', 'quicklook', 'width=650,height=700,status=0,location=0'); ref.focus();">Quick Look</a></li>
-<li><a href="#" onClick="ref = window.open('http://www.chill.colostate.edu/quicklook/quicklook_anim.html', 'quicklook', 'width=650,height=700,status=0,location=0'); ref.focus();">Animation Loop</a></li>
-</ul>
-</ul>
-</html>
-===[[DOW radar data evaluations: August 26, 2011]]===
+<!-- Note to editors: articles should be in reverse chronological order. -->
-[[Image:DOW 7 26aug2011.JPG|center|thumb|300px|DOW 7 at CSU-CHILL]]
+===Sea-Pol pedestal maintenance (26 Mar, 2024)===
-Coordinated dual-polarization data collection was done by the DOW 7 and CSU-CHILL radars during the conduct of a 20hr project.
+[[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.
-===[[REU 2011 students: July 14, 2011]]===
+===Website redesign (15 Jan, 2024)===
-[[Image:REU2011 sphere cal.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Monitoring a sphere flight from the CSU-CHILL user van]]
+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.
-REU2011 students participating in a radar calibration experiment.
-===Site photographs from the GXY traffic pattern: Dec 27, 2010===
+===Sea-Pol radar base foundation pour (21 June, 2016)===
-[[Image:Brenda 27dec2010 3 ed 2.jpg|center|thumb|300px|CSU-CHILL radar site]]
+[[Image:Sea-Pol radar base.jpeg|center|thumb|300px|Sea-Pol radar base foundation]]
-[[Image:Brenda 27dec2010 2 ed 1.jpg|center|thumb|300px|NASA N-Pol radar]]
+[[Image:Sea pol pad surface pour.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Pouring the top layer of the foundation]]
-[[Image:Brenda 27dec2010 4 ed 1.jpg|center|thumb|300px|NASA N-Pol radar: closer view]]
+[[Image:Sea Pol completed pad.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Completed Sea-Pol radar base foundation]]
-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.
+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.
-===[[Radar calibration sphere flight: December 2, 2010]]===
+===Sea-Pol containers arrive (17 June, 2016)===
-[[Image:2dec2010 sphere.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Balloon-borne calibration sphere]]
+[[Image:Sea Pol container arrival.JPG|center|thumb|300px|20ft containers modified for Sea Pol]]
-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.
+Two 20 foot containers that will house the Sea Pol radar equipment have been delivered to the CSU-CHILL radar site.
-===N-Pol Radar Antenna Installation: Oct 21, 2010===
+===Data Collection for FRONT PORCH (22 May 2014)===
-[[Image:21oct2010 NPOL ant 1.JPG|center|thumb|300px|Rigging for antenna lift]]
+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.
-[[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===
-[[Image:ERAD project.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Live video from the CSU-CHILL site]]
-[[Image:ERAD replay.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Students examining example archive data cases]]
-Prof. Chandrasekar included various VCHILL services as a part of a short course taught at the ERAD 2010 conference in Sibiu, Romania.
-===N-Pol Radar Site Survey: Jul 26, 2010===
-[[Image:NPOL site.JPG|center|thumb|300px|N-Pol at GXY]]
-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.
-===CMMAP Interns Visit: Jun 25, 2010===
-[[Image:CMMAP 2010.JPG|center|thumb|300px|CMMAP]]
-Participants in the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP) program at CSU took a tour of the CSU-CHILL radar facility.
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