The three dimensional velocity field in the vicinity of the cooling plate inside a Rayleigh-Benard convection cell is experimentally investigated at Rayleigh numbers between \(10^{8}\leq Ra\leq 10^{12}\) using tomographic PIV. This flow region was intensively analysed by direct numerical simulations (Schumacher et al., Shishkina et al., Shi et al.), while experimental data sets of the all velocity components are restricted to a single point (Li et al.). In the past, du Puits et al. have shown that the convective boundary layer is already in a transition to turbulence at \(Ra=10^{10}\), whereas theoretical predictions of the vertical heat flux are assuming either laminar or turbulent boundary approaches. In order to capture the complexity of this strongly three dimensional flow field, we performed tomographic velocity measurements in a volume of \((40x40x20)mm^{2}\) closed to the cooling plate of the Barrel of Ilmenau at different Ra. The results will be presented on the

Keywords: Wall-bounded flows, Convection, Turbulence