readme.lidar       Readme file for Doppler Wind Liodar         (D.Phillips)

Lidar files are located in the /data directory and organized by date 

There are 3 data types for the Lidar

1. Vertical Stare (Stare_58_YYYYMMDD_HH.hpl)
2. RHI (RHI_58_YYYYMMDD_HHMNSS.hpl)
3. Wind Profile (Processed_Wind_Profile_58_YYYYMMDD_HHMNSS.hpl)

YYYY -> year
MM   -> month
DD   -> day
HH   -> hour
MN   -> minute
SS   -> second

For lidar data format please refer to the document "LidarData.pdf"

From the manual (attached) the example of an .hpl file is on page 26. 
"Data line 1:" and Data line 2:" explains what each field of the rest of lines contains.

Please visit http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/ for detailed instrumentation information.

Lidar Location:
IOP1:	MIPS Location
IOP2:	MIPS Location
IOP3:	MIPS Location
IOP4:	MIPS Location
IOP7:	MIPS Location
01092014-01282014 - 43.455291 -76.538940 SUNY Oswego Campus Roof

Before you use any of this data, please contact us for recent updates and
possible corrections to the data sets.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Dustin Phillips
ph:  256-961-7008
email:  phillips@nsstc.uah.edu