Published November 3, 2022 | Version v2
Dataset

Data for Ritvanen et al. (2022) "Complementarity of Wind Measurements from Co-located X-band Weather Radar and Doppler Lidar"

  • 1. Finnish Meteorological Institute
  • 2. University of Helsinki
  • 3. Vaisala Oyj
  • 4. Vaisala France SAS,

Description

Data for producing Figures 4, 6, 10. and 12 in the article "Complementarity of Wind Measurements from Co-located X-band Weather Radar and Doppler Lidar" by Ritvanen et al.

Figure 4 (1st column: range in meters, 2nd column: fraction value) measurement_ranges_lidar.csv measurement_ranges_xband.csv

Figure 6 (1st column: range in meters, next columns: fraction value for horizontal visibility bin, bin upper limit in 1st row) measurement_ranges_lidar_VIS_PT1M_AVG_75000.csv measurement_ranges_xband_VIS_PT1M_AVG_75000.csv

Figure 10 (1st column: range in meters, next columns: fraction value for cloud base height bin, bin upper limit in 1st row) measurement_ranges_lidar_CLHB_PT1M_INSTANT_3000.csv measurement_ranges_xband_CLHB_PT1M_INSTANT_3000.csv

Figure 12 (1st column: range in meters, next columns: fraction value for precipitation intensity bin, bin upper limit in 1st row) measurement_ranges_lidar_PRIO_PT10M_AVG_4.csv measurement_ranges_xband_PRIO_PT10M_AVG_4.csv

Weather station measurements used in the analysis (1st & 2nd column: time; 3rd col: weather station name (stationname); 4th col: 10min avg optical precipitation intensity (PRIO_PT10M_AVG); 5th col: 1min avg cloud base height (CLHB_PT1M_INSTANT); 6th col: 1min avg horizontal visibility (VIS_PT1M_AVG) weather_data_20210501_20211130.csv

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
https://etsin.fairdata.fi/dataset/edd96d3d-1721-44e8-b6b6-31ae357e2466
B2SHARE Legacy Record ID
8353436be6e444dea496c0c01e6a3658

FMI metadata

Process step
Query URL (internal FMI address): http://smartmet.fmi.fi/timeseries?producer=observations_fmi&fmisid=100968&m=utctime%2Cstationname%2CPRIO_PT10M_AVG%2CCLHB_PT1M_INSTANT%2CVIS_PT1M_AVG&starttime=2021-05-01+00%3A00%3A00&endtime=2021-11-30+23%3A59%3A00&format=json&tz=UTC&precision=double ​
Source data
Weather station: Helsinki Airport weather station (WMO code 02974; 60°19’36.1" N 24°57’24.3" E, 51 m above mean sea level)
Lineage
Weather station measurements downloaded from the FMI observation database on 3/11/2022; no additional quality control performed.
Parameter
Parameter name : Horizontal visibility from Vaisala FS11P sensor
Parameter unit : m
Parameter description : VIS_PT1M_AVG
Parameter name : Precipitation intensity as 10min average from Vaisala FS11P sensor
Parameter unit : mm/h
Parameter description : PRIO_PT10M_AVG
Parameter name : Cloud base height from Vaisala CL31 sensor
Parameter unit : m
Parameter description : CLHB_PT1M_INSTANT
Topic category
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere