This readme file describes the .STA datafiles provided for the Windcube v2 deployed in
support of XPIA near the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory in Mar-May 2015.

For questions, please contact Julie.Lundquist@colorado.edu, 303/492-8932.
If you use these data, please contact Julie regarding citations/authorship.

This Windcube is a Leosphere WINDCUBE® v2 Offshore 8.66 profiling lidar.
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As of 12 March 2015, this units was located at the "lidar super-site" at the middle
south guy of the BAO: 40.004881N, 105.0039W, 1582msl per google earth.

The .STA data files provide two-minute averages of wind speed and wind direction 
at eleven vertical levels. 

The useful header starts on line 41 and the data start on line 42. 
The eleven altitudes are defined in line 39 and in the header of line 41

Date/Time: YYYY/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS UTC at the end of the period.
Int Temp (deg C): Internal temperature
Ext Temp (deg C): not available during XPIA
Pressue (hPa): not available during XPIA
Rel Humidity (%): not available during XPIA
Wiper Count: ignore unless suspect precipitation (but often poor metric for precip)
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Wind Speed (m/s): horizontal wind speed
Wind Speed Dispersion (m/s): horizontal wind speed standard deviation
Wind Speed min (m/s) : minimum horizontal wind speed over measurement interval
Wind Speed max (m/s) : maximum horizontal wind speed over measurement interval
Wind Direction (deg) : horizontal wind direction in meteorological coordinates
Z-wind (m/s) : vertical wind speed (positive for sinking motion)
Z-wind Dispersion (m/s): standard deviation of vertical velocity
CNR (dB): Average Carrier to noise ratio for all beams over the averaging
period
CNR min (dB): Minimum Carrier to noise ratio for all beams over the averaging
period
Dopp Spect Braod (m/s): Doppler Spectral Broadening (converted to m/s)
Data Availability (%): Percentage data availability
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Repeats for next 10 levels