Advantages of Profiler Data

• You directly measure W (in the absense of precipitation)
• get horizontal wind profiles from 0.5-16.25 km AGL every 6 minutes
• Can get some information about precipitation types

Precipitation measured by profilers

• Recall that one of the primarly functions of the profilers is to obtain nearly continuous records of the 3-dimensional wind field.  
• However, profilers also detect precipitation.  
• Here are some examples.
• Example #1
• Example #2
• Example #3