As national infrastructure, the OBLO instrumentation is in general available for the whole relevant research community in Norway. After the extended environmental tests of the measurement equipment, already finished for some of the new equipment, still ongoing for a few instruments (e.g. sodar/RASS and passive microwave radiometer), the infrastructure will be available for measurement campaigns of various length and complexity. Applications for the use of the instrumentation should be sent to the OBLO board and will then be prioritized after the following criteria:
- NORCOWE/NOWITECH partners (fully open projects)
- NORCOWE/NOWITECH partners (closed/partly closed projects)
- Others with data sharing agreements
- Others without data sharing agreements
It is expected that the pricing for the various user groups also will be reflected by this prioritization.
The following instrumentation is available in the OBLO portfolio:
Meteorological instrumentation:
| Instrument | Amount | Availabilty for loan | Comments |
| CSAT3 sonic anemometer (Campbell) | 3 | Yes | This is a complete systems (array of 3 sonics) which is deliverd with an 230 V AC power supply. |
| Scintillometer (Scintec BLS-900) | 1 | Yes | In storage. |
| Sodar wind profiler (Scintec MFAS/WindRASS ) | 1 | Yes | In storage. |
| Lidar wind profiler (Natural Power ZephIR 300) | 1 | Yes | In storage. |
| Lidar wind profiler (Leosphere WindCube V1) | 2 | No | 1 deployed (COTUR); 1 out for maintenance |
| Scanning wind Lidar system (Leosphere WindCube 100S) | 3 | No | 3 deployed (COTUR; until end of April 2020) |
| Motion compensated Lidar wind profiler (Leosphere V2 866) | 1 | Yes | In storage. |
| Passive mircowave temperature and humidity profilers (Radiometer Physics HATPRO-RG4) | 2 | Yes | 1 unit in storage.
1 unit deployed (COTUR). |
Oceanographic instrumentation:
| Instrument | Amount | Availabilty for loan | Comments |
| Met-Ocean buoy (Fugro Oceanor Wavescan) | 1 | No | Damaged; waiting for repair |
| Bottom frame as sensor platform for long-term monitoring systems of the upper ocean, capable to be equipped with different oceanographic instruments. | 2 | Yes | In storage. |
| Advanced 5-beam Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) (Nortek Signature 1000 kHz with AD2CP technology) | 2 | Yes | In storage. |
| Acoustic Doppler velocitymeter (ADV) (Nortek vector), including IMU unit | 2 | Yes | In storage. |
| Sea-Bird thermistor (SBE56) | 10 | Yes | In storage. |
| Sea-Bird MicroCAT (SBE27) | 3 | Yes | In storage. |
| GoPro 3 action video camera | 2 | Yes | In storage. |
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