Monday, March 9, 2015

TTUKa Radar Update

The test scan today at noon revealed a boundary layer with marginal coherency. Given the lull in coordinated TTUKa data collection recently, we decided to give it a shot. We collected a little over two hours of coordinated virtual tower scans over the lidar supersite. While most of this data is probably unusable, there were some brief windows of time where the coherent velocities were observed over the supersite. The evolution of the boundary layer was also very interesting to watch.

I will try to post some images in the update tomorrow afternoon. While we are guessing that tomorrow's atmosphere will behave similarly, we will most likely limit any coordinated scanning to an hour or so in order to not waste too many hours for too little data. If anyone has any objections to this plan, don't hesitate to let me know. Obviously if conditions warrant more or less scanning, we will proceed accordingly.

Today's activities bring the total minutes scanned to 894 of the 7200 available minutes.

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