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PollyXT lidar

PollyXT Ramas lidar.

Instrument ID: pollyxt

File Format Description
*_att_bsc.nc netCDF Attenuated backscatter.
*_vol_depol.nc netCDF Volume depolarisation ratio.

Example

Example configuration for cloudnet-submit:

[[instrument]]
site           = "mindelo"
instrument     = "pollyxt"
instrument_pid = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.3b8d6fb7e7e24f1d"
path_fmt       = "/data/polly/%Y%m%d/%Y_%m_%d*.nc"

Calibration

Field Name Type Unit Description
snr_limit float 1 Signal-to-noise ratio limit used for screening noise.