PROFILER/RASS/SODAR LECTURE NOTES

Profiler Links and Resources:

• Real-time profiler data from NOAA
• Real-time profiler data via RAP at NCAR

Index of Topics

Profilers:

• Introduction to profilers
• The Demonstration Network
• 404 MHz specifications
• Sampling Strategies
• The profiler moments
  • Spectra for clear air versus rain
• Data interpretation of the profiler winds
• Advantages of profiler winds and measurements of precipitation
• Precip detection- summary
• Artifacts in the data
• Introduction to the 915 MHz profilers (boundary layer profilers)
• More on the 915 MHz profilers

RASS:

• RASS - Introduction
• How does the RASS/profiler system measure virtual temperature?
• More on RASS

SODAR:

• SODAR - Introduction

• Profiler/RASS/SODAR concepts

last updated: 03/19/07