Radar Data

  Station ID:  RAG
Station Name:  NOAA ARLFRD Profiler/SODAR Site, Raging Waters
               1200 West 1700 South
               Salt Lake City, UT 84104
    Latitude:   40 43.92' N
   Longitude:  111 55.65' W
   Elevation:  1291 m

Notes:  This is a brief description of the upper-air meteorological data
acquired by a Doppler sodar at the Raging Waters entertainment complex.
A Radian 600PA phased-array Doppler sodar was deployed at in a dirt parking
lot.  Wind profiles were acquired as 15-minute averages.  The data acquisition
computer time was set to Mountain Daylight Savings Time (MDT).  Wind profiles
were acquired between 13:30 MDT on 04 October 2000 and 09:15 MDT on 27 October
2000.  The original (raw) ASCII data files acquired by the sodar are found in
the CDF_A directory.  The naming convention is rag6mmdd.cdf, where 'rag' is
the three-letter abbreviation for the Raging Waters site, '0' is the last
numerical digit of the year (i.e., 2000), 'mm' is the month, 'dd' is the day.
It should be pointed out that the year was set to 1996 on the data acquisition
computer clock.  This was done to avoid so-called Y2K computer glitches since
the sodar data acquisition software was not Y2K complient.  These CDF data
were manually screened to remove questionable data and are found in the
CDF_BMDT subdirectory.  The naming convention is the same, however, the
year has been corrected to 2000.  Data converted to UTC time can be found in
the CDF_BUTC subdirectory. Wind profile in CDF_BMDT and CDF_BUTC may be
displayed and printed with 'lapg.exe' found in the PROGRAMS subdirectory.
JPG images of profiles on the major tracer IOPs are found in the
CDF_BMDT\IMAGES subdirectory. Files in the BS subdirectory contain backscatter
data while the files found in the BSR subdirectory contain backscatter
reports.  Files in the MX subdirectory contain mixing layer information.
Files in the WND subdirectory contain wind data while the files found in the
WR subdirectory contain wind reports.  In addition, six Surfer (Golden
Software, version 6.03) files are included.  These contour plots represent
climatological averages of the data availability, scalar wind speed, vector
wind speed, eastward (U) wind speed, northward (V) wind speed, and persistence
(ratio of the vector wind speed to the vector wind direction).