Richard launching one of the balloon sondes
May 2nd morning briefing at Zestienhoven
ATR42 passing the Cabauw tower
Remote sensing site
360 degrees from the top of the Cabauw tower (May 4th)
Aerosol measurements in the basement
ATR42 approaching Cabauw (May 5th)
ATR42 passing Cabauw tower (May 5th)
First light at Cabauw for the RIVM raman lidar Caeli (May 4th)
Preparations for the opening on Thursday 8 May: the tent is there!
No, this truck does not fit in the building...
Cabauw overpass of the BAe-146 at 17:28 LT (6 May)
Arrival of the helicopter at Boer Spruits farm(May 6th)
Helicopter in front of the tower
Gerd-Jan and Cor in the control room
Actos ready for action
Press centre
NOS radio for live coverage of the campaign start (May 8th)
breaking news!
View of the helicopter (May 8th)
Wouter live!
Actos on its way to the 'runway'
Take off
Helicopter....150 mtrs cable...and Actos in one shot = no details
NOS news getting a quote from Frits Brouwer (May 8th)
Reinout introducing the speakers at the official opening (May 8th)
Official start of the IMPACT campaign by Frits Brouwer (May 8th)
Jean-Louis Brenguier giving a lively and entertaining speech at the start of IMPACT (May 8th)
dilemma....either watch the helicopter take off or go for a drink
ACTOS
Gerd-Jan interviewed by our star reporter of the local radio
Birgit preparing for take-off with the Actos
The Actos team transporting their 'torpedo' to the helicopter site
Hovering before lifting the Actos
More hovering before lifting the Actos
Almost lift-off
Holger explaining the Actos to IMAU students (Utrecht University)
Holger showing what's inside Actos
The IMAU students posing in front of the heli and the tower
Farmer Spruit's land with heli site and Camping Leipzig
Caeli at the remote sensing site
Jean-Louis Brenguier, Markku Kulmala and Gerrit de Leeuw at Rotterdam airport inspecting the ATR-42 (19 May)
Markku inspecting flight data at Rotterdam Airport (19 May)
ATR-42 preparing for departure (19 May)
Erik v Meijgaard giving the afternoon briefing at Cabauw (19 May)
Jean-Louis in a pensive mood (19 May)
Holger and Birgit at Cabauw (19 May)
Gerrit and Markku in front of helicopter at Cabauw (19 May)
Jean-Louis demonstrating some innovative new meteorological equipment at the Mr. Spruit's farm yard
ACTOS inspection with Greg Roberts, Jean-Louis Brenguier and Holger Siebert (19 May)
Greg Roberts in front of the ATR-42 (19 May)
Markku Kulmala and Gerrit de Leeuw inspecting the ATR-42 at Rotterdam Airport (19 May)
Purperreiger
flossende schapen
Achter de schermen
de grote verdeler
Richard preparing radiosonde launch
Richard critically inspecting the sky
Reinout whisteling a tune
Richard and Cabauw staff with the last IMPACT balloon.
Gerd-Jan thanking everyone for a great campaign
Brigitta showing the Famillie Spruit their present
Thank you Richard for all you did!
Also the ATR team joined for the BBQ
last release!
Yammie!
