Datastream : 1290RWPWINDMOM

1290-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP1290): wind moments

Active Dates
2007.03.19 - 2012.03.31

Measurement Categories
Cloud Properties

Originating Instrument
Radar Wind Profiler (RWP)

Measurements

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Measurement	Units	Variable
Altitude above mean sea level	m	alt
Base time in Epoch	seconds since 1970-1-1 0:00:00 0:00	base_time
Beam azimuth angle	deg	beam_azimuth ( time )
Beam elevation angle	deg	beam_elevation ( time )
Rx bandwidth switch code	unitless	bswitch ( time )
Delay time to first gate	us	dly ( time )
Array of heights for each sample time	km	height_t ( time, range_gate )
Interpulse period	us	ipp ( time )
North latitude	degree_N	lat
East longitude	degree_E	lon
Mean radial beam velocity	m/s; 100*%, see comment	mdf ( time, range_gate )
Number of coherent samples per spectral point	count	ncoh ( time )
Number of valid heights	count	nheight ( time )
1000*log(base10) of noise signal level	logcounts	noise ( time, range_gate )
Number of individual spectra per average spectrum	count	nspc ( time )
Oblique FFT bandwidth	m/s	oband ( time )
Number of pulse code bits	count	pcbits ( time )
Pulse length	ns	plen ( time )
Pulse repetition frequency	kHz	prf ( time )
Height index	index	range_gate ( range_gate )
Height of center of first range gate	km	rgf ( time )
Height of center of last range gate	km	rgl ( time )
Range gate spacing	m	rgs ( time )
Sampling rate	MHz	sampr ( time )
Individual spectrum integration time	s	sitime ( time )
Signal to noise ratio	dB*100	snr ( time, range_gate )
Average time per average spectra. Also known as dwell.	s	spcavetime ( time )
Radar Doppler Spectral width	m/s; 100*%, see comment	specw ( time, range_gate )
Time domain integration time	ms	tditime ( time )
Time offset from midnight		time ( time )
Time offset from base_time		time_offset ( time )
Vertical FFT bandwidth	m/s	vband ( time )
Radial velocity spectral resolution	m/s	vsr ( time )