TEAMx-PC22 (TEAMx pre-campaing 2022) – GeoSphere Austria Doppler wind lidar data

<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.geosphere.at/">GeoSpere Austria</a> operated a Doppler lidar (<a href="https://metek.de/product/wind-ranger-100-200/">METEK Wind Ranger 200</a>) during the TEAMx pre-campaign 2022 (TEAMx-PC22) from August 17, 2022 to October 3, 2022 next to the <a href="https://oscar.wmo.int/surface/index.html#/search/station/stationReportDetails/0-20000-0-11130">meteorological station at Kufstein</a>, Austria. The wind lidar data from this campaign is provided here. Standard meteorological data is available on the <a href="https://data.hub.geosphere.at/">GeoSphere Austria data hub</a>.</p> <p>The aim of TEAMx-PC22 was to test new instruments, new instrument configurations and new measurement sites to support the planning of the main TEAMx observational campaign (TOC) in 2024/2025. More details about TEAMx can be found at <a href="http://www.teamx-programme.org">http://www.teamx-programme.org</a> as well as in <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/10.1520399106-003-1.pdf">Serafin et al. (2020) </a>and in <a href="https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/5/BAMS-D-21-0232.1.xml">Rotach et al. (2022)</a>.</p> <p><strong>DATA SET DESCRIPTION</strong></p> <p>The windlidar is operated at Kufstein next to the meteorological station (12.1628&deg;E 47.5753&deg;N 490m asl). 1 VAD scan is measured per second, 100 radial measurements per VAD scan.</p> <p>Provided are daily NetCDF data sets, so-called &ldquo;averaged files&rdquo;, i.e. 10min averaged profiles calculated from the instantaneous profiles provided by the operational software of the instrument.</p> <p><strong>Description of variables:</strong></p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p>lat</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Latitude</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>lon</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Longitude</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>alt</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Altitude</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>height</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Measuring height</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>pitch</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Tilt towards north arrow</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>roll</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Tilt clockwise looking along north arrow</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>heading</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Azimuth alignment (should be zero)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>time</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Time stamp (seconds since 01.01.1970 00:00 UTC).</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>VEL</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Wind Velocity (vectorial average)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>VEL_SC</p> </td> <td> <p>Wind Velocity (scalar average)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>DIR</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Direction (vectorial average)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>U</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;West-East wind component</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>V</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;South-North wind component</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>W</p> </td> <td> <p>&nbsp;Upward wind component</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>SU</p> </td> <td> <p>Standard deviation of U</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>SV</p> </td> <td> <p>Standard deviation of V</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>SW</p> </td> <td> <p>Standard deviation of W</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>SVEL</p> </td> <td> <p>Mean square deviation of radial wind components from fitted values</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>DQ</p> </td> <td> <p>Fraction of valid radial components per VAD</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>MDT</p> </td> <td> <p>Mean distance to target (Measured distance of focus)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>SNR</p> </td> <td> <p>Signal to noise ratio in dB</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>SPW</p> </td> <td> <p>Spectral width (for internal use only)</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Contact: kathrin.baumann-stanzer@geosphere.at</p>