Datastream : 915RWPPRECIPSPEC
915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler, precipitation spectra data
Active Dates
2009.05.20 - 2012.10.12
Measurement Categories
Cloud Properties
Originating Instrument
Radar Wind Profiler (RWP)
Measurements
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Measurement | Units | Variable |
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Altitude above mean sea level | m | alt |
Base time in Epoch | seconds since 1970-1-1 0:00:00 0:00 | base_time |
Spectral bin number | unitless | bins ( bins ) |
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 |
Number of coherent samples per spectral point | count | ncoh ( time ) |
Number of valid heights | count | nheight ( time ) |
Number of individual spectra per average spectrum | count | nspc ( 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 ) |
Spectral data | V^2 | spc_amp ( time, range_gate, bins ) |
Average time per average spectra. Also know as dwell. | s | spcavetime ( time ) |
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 ) |
Locations
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Lamont, OK (NW radar wind profiler site, Intermediate / Auxiliary) (I10)
- Tonkawa, OK (NE radar wind profiler site, Intermediate / Auxiliary) (I8)
- Billings, OK (SE radar wind profiler site, Intermediate / Auxiliary) (I9)
- Supplemental 7, Lamont, OK (S07)
- Supplemental 8, Lamont, OK (S08)
- ARM Mobile Facility (SBS)
- Steamboat Springs CO, Valley Site (M1)
Contact(s)
Richard Coulter
(630) 252-5833
rlcoulter@anl.gov
Timothy Martin
technical contact
(630) 252-8708
tjmartin@anl.gov