Dataset
MOSAiC: Wind profiles from Galion G4000 Lidar Wind Profiler - Version 2
Abstract
Wind profiles from a Galion G4000 Doppler lidar for the international Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) project, derived from conical scans at 30 degree and 50 degree beam elevation angles.
The University of Leeds participation in the project- MOSAiC Boundary Layer -was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant: NE/S002472/1) and involved instrumentation from the Atmospheric Measurement and Observations Facility of the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS AMOF). This was a year-long project on the German icebreaker Polarstern to study Arctic climate focused on measurements of atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and turbulent structure. The Galion wind profiler provides high resolution (~15m vertical and 5 minute temporal) measurements of wind profiles. Data are only available where sufficient particles are available to backscatter the laser light - in the clean arctic environment, this requires cloud or precipitation.
This is version 2 of this dataset.
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| NCAS AMOF LiDAR Wind Profiler 1 | Deployed on: Research Vessel Polarstern |
| Output Description | None |
- units: 1
- var_id: R_squared
- long_name: R-squared of sinusoidal fit
- var_id: height
- long_name: altitude (m)
- units: degrees
- standard_name: wind_from_direction
- var_id: winddirection
- long_name: direction wind is from (degrees from north)
- standard_name: eastward_wind
- units: m/s
- var_id: u
- long_name: eastward wind component (m/s)
- units: 1
- var_id: slipflag
- long_name: flag for slip correction applied to wind direction\n
- standard_name: northward_wind
- units: m/s
- var_id: v
- long_name: northward wind component (m/s)
- units: 1
- var_id: azavail
- long_name: number of azimuth angles used to calculate winds
- units: m/s
- var_id: RMSE
- long_name: root mean square error in sinusoidal fit
- var_id: time
- units: seconds
- long_name: time in seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00
- units: m/s
- var_id: u_error
- long_name: uncertainty in eastward wind
- units: m/s
- var_id: v_error
- long_name: uncertainty in northward wind
- units: m/s
- var_id: w_error
- long_name: uncertainty in upward wind
- units: degrees
- var_id: winddirection_error
- long_name: uncertainty in wind direction
- units: m/s
- var_id: windspeed_error
- long_name: uncertainty in wind speed
- standard_name: upward_air_velocity
- units: m/s
- var_id: w
- long_name: upward wind component (m/s)
- standard_name: wind_speed
- units: m/s
- long_name: wind speed (horizontal) (m/s)
- var_id: windspeed
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2019-10-05T00:00:00
2020-09-20T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
89.9900° |
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-165.0700° |
148.3800° |
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78.3400° |