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WindCube Doppler lidar

Vaisala/Leosphere WindCube long-range scanning Doppler lidars.

Instrument ID: wls100s, wls200s, wls400s

Recommended files

File	Format	Description
*_fixed_*.nc	netCDF	Vertical stare measurements.
*_vad_*.nc	netCDF	Velocity-azimuth display (VAD) scans.
*_dbs_*.nc	netCDF	Doppler-beam swinging (DBS) scans.
*_environmental_data_*.csv	text	Housekeeping data.

Example

Example configuration for cloudnet-submit:

[[instrument]]
site           = "payerne"
instrument     = "wls200s"
instrument_pid = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.a3c0f804d91e4966"
path_fmt       = "/data/dlidar/%Y%m%d/*%Y-%m-%d*.{nc,csv}"

Calibration

Field Name	Type	Unit	Description
azimuth_offset	float	degrees	Offset value to be added to azimuth angles if instrument doesn’t point to North.

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