Doppler lidar data from Falkenberg for Pentikäinen et al. (2026) "Deriving the telescope focus function for a pulsed coherent Doppler lidar without a reference instrument"

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This dataset contains measurements from eight Doppler lidars and one ceilometer operating at Falkenberg, Germany, during the FESSTVal Campaign in 2022, which was used in the manuscript (Pentikäinen et al. 2026, submitted to AMT).

9 archive files (in tar.gzipped format are provided), one for each instrument. Each archive contains daily files which are in the self-describing netCDF format  (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/). 

Instruments are 

Lufft Ceilometer CHM15k

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline XR - 44

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline - 74

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline XR - 78

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline XR - 143

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline XR - 146

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline XR -161

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline - 172

Halo Doppler lidar Streamline - 177

The ceilometer provides vertical profiles of attenuated backscatter coefficient at 15 m range resolution and 15 s temporal resolution.

The Doppler lidars provide vertical profiles of Doppler velocity, intensity and attenuated backscatter coefficient (uncorrected) at 30 m resolution in range and 2-30 seconds in temporal resolution. The instruments were operated pointing vertically and at 5 degree elevation from horizontal (85 degree from zenith).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.57707/fmi-b2share.qssxd-qxt78
Source https://fmi.b2share.csc.fi/records/qssxd-qxt78
Metadata Access https://fmi.b2share.csc.fi/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=eudatcore&identifier=oai:b2share-:qssxd-qxt78
Provenance
Creator Finnish Meteorological Institute; Leinweber, Ronny; O'Connor, Ewan
Instrument Lufft CHM15k; Halo Doppler lidar (44); Halo Doppler lidar (74); Halo Doppler lidar (78); Halo Doppler lidar (143); Halo Doppler lidar (146); Halo Doppler lidar (161); Halo Doppler lidar (172); Halo Doppler lidar (177)
Publisher Finnish Meteorological Institute
Publication Year 2026
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
OpenAccess true
Contact ewan.oconnor(at)fmi.fi
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/gzip
Size 4.6 GB; 9 files
Discipline Environmental science
Spatial Coverage (14.123 LON, 52.167 LAT); Falkenberg, Germany
Temporal Coverage 2021-07-19 2021-07-25