Datastream : 50RWPWINDSPEC

50-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP50): wind spectra

Active Dates
2001.04.01 - 2006.05.04

Measurement Categories
Aerosols, Cloud Properties

Originating Instrument
Radar Wind Profiler (50 MHz) (50RWP)

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 )
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 )
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 )
Backscattered radiation 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 )