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HATPRO microwave radiometers

RPG HATPRO microwave radiometer.

Instrument ID: hatpro

File Format Description
*.LWP binary Liquid water path
*.IWV binary Integrated water vapor
*.HKD binary Housekeeping data
*.BRT binary Brightness temperature
*.MET binary Meteorological data
*.BLB/*.BLS binary Boundary layer scan
*.IRT binary Infrared temperature

Only upload binary files (e.g. *.LWP) and not ASCII (e.g. *.LWP.ASC) or netCDF (e.g. *.LWP.NC) files.

Additionally, retrieval coefficient *.ret files should be sent to actris-cloudnet@fmi.fi. They can be found on the HATPRO PC.

Example

Example configuration for cloudnet-submit:

[[instrument]]
site           = "hyytiala"
instrument     = "hatpro"
instrument_pid = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.f360a2375f3e4e4f"
path_fmt       = "/data/hatpro/%y%m%d.{LWP,IWV,HKD,BRT,MET,BLB,BLS,IRT}"

Calibration

Field Name Type Unit Description
time_offset int min Time offset compared to UTC (positive values mean ahead of UTC, e.g. 120 for Finnish standard time). Normally this is not used because the instrument should operate in UTC mode.
coefficientLinks list[str]   Retrieval coefficient links.