WIND PROFILER PARAMETER SETTINGS
These are the settings for the wind profiler
Radian (Vaisala) LAP-3000 915-MHz system
PARAMETER SET 2:
IPP 56 PW 400 CODE 4
NHTS 75 DELAY 2000 SPACE 400 COHAVG 86 SPECAVG 36 NPTS 128
SCALE 17 m/s DWELL 29 s HEIGHT 0.15 - 4.59 km IPP 8.00 km PULSE 60 m
PARAMETER SET 3:
IPP 100 PW 1700 CODE 2 (prior to 0730Z Oct 14 was 0)
NHTS 48 DELAY 3800 SPACE 1700 COHAVG 40 SPECAVG 44 NPTS 128
SCALE 20.5 m/s DWELL 29 HEIGHT 0.31 - 12.30 km IPP 14.60 km PULSE 255 m
PARAMETER SET 4: (RASS)
IPP 20 PW 400 CODE 0
NHGTS 24 DELAY 1800 SPACE 400 COHAVG 10 SPECAVG 20 NPTS 2048
SCALE 409.6 m/s DWELL 25 s HEIGHT 0.12 - 1.50 IPP 2.68 PULSE 60 m
BEAM SEQUENCE (beam, parameter set, 1 NREP each beam):
yV22 2, y+38 2, xV21 2, x-37 2, yV22 3, y+38 3, x-37 3
(beams selected for least clutter and best signal).
BEAMS (name, az, zenith)
yV22 43 0
xV21 133 0
y+38 43 21
y-26 223 21
x+25 133 21
x-37 313 21
SPECTRAL PROCESSING:
Averaging using ICRA with DC filtering and Windowing set on.
Clutter search to 1km
CNS AVG 30 mins 55% THLD, 2 m/s in oblq, 1.5 m/s in vert.
RASS running 5 minutes after each winds consensus
#1 Signal +/- 10.8 m/s
#2 Signal 15C to 35C (-340.4 to -352m/s) SRC FREQ set to same
CNS time 5 min, 55% 2.0 m/s