SAMD Data Archive

Central Europe is a region with one of the most comprehensive networks for cloud and precipitation observations worldwide. To unify these observations to become "easy-to-use" data - establish the infrastructure to store them and make them accessible to the climate community - is the goal of SAMD - the Standardized Atmospheric Measurement Data Archive. SAMD is the core activity of the Observation Module in HD(CP)².

Overview of observation data in SAMD: Supersites CESAR, JOYCE, RAO, and LACROS (see WP3), ground based networks GNSS (global navigation satellite system, blue dots), ceilometer network (red dots) stations, and precipitation data from C-Band rain radar network of the German Weather Service (D); and satellite observations (B) (see WP4); campaign data like HOPE (A) or NARVAL (not shown, see WP4).

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