Vaisala LAP-3000 Technical data

Vaisala Wind Proﬁler LAP®-3000

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Beneﬁts

Continuous wind data up to

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3 km

Continuous virtual temperature

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data up to 1.5 km

Unattended operation

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Minimal periodic maintenance

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New vertical proﬁle every

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3-60 minutes

Vaisala LAP®-3000 and optional RASS for mesoscale observations.

Lower Atmosphere Wind Proﬁler for your needs

The Vaisala LAP®-3000 is a Doppler beam swinging wind proler that reliably provides continuous and frequent proles of horizontal wind speed and direction and vertical velocity up to 3 km above ground level (agl). An extended antenna aperture option improves the proler performance by narrowing beam width, increasing gain and reducing side lobes of the antenna array.

When an optional Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) is added to the Vaisala LAP virtual temperature proles up to 1.5 km agl. These altitudes are maximum values and will change dramatically depending on atmospheric conditions, proler conguration, installation location and surrounding environment. The LAP ates fully unattended and provides

-3000, it will provide

-3000 oper-

continuous data with high vertical and temporal resolution.

Software that suits yours application

The Vaisala LAP®-3000 wind proler control and signal processing software, LAP-XM multi-core processor in the Windows operating system. LAP-XM user dened conguration of the sampling parameters, signal processing and quality control algorithms, and multiple congurable data output formats, to provide customers location and application specic proler operation.

Up to one-year of wind and/or virtual temperature data may be stored on the radar processor. Averaged time series, spectra, and moments data can also be archived.

The Vaisala LAP developed under a Cooperative

-3000 was jointly

, runs on a

allows

Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Over 130

LAP

-3000 systems have been

deployed worldwide.

Applications

• Air quality

• Atmospheric boundary layer

research

• Aviation operations

• Defense

• Emergency response

• Global change research

• Mesoscale meteorological

forecasting

• Offshore, shipboard observations

• Vertical wind shear & turbulence

• Weather modication

Technical data

Northerly Wind

Calm

< 1.25 m/s

2.50 m/s

5.00 m/s

7.50 m/s

10.00 m/s

15.00 m/s

17.50 m/s

22.50 m/s

25.00 m/s

35.00 m/s

37.50 m/s

50.00 m/s

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SNR-S (dB)

Height (m-agl)

Mode: All Elev. (m): 1629

-10

Under

Over

03 04 05

06 07

09 10

11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 202122 23

9/18/2009 9/19/2009

Time (UTC)

1000

2000

3000

4000

Speciﬁcation

Operating frequency Typically 915 or 1290 MHz Minimum height Maximum height Range resolution (typical) 60, 100, 200, 400 m

Wind speed accuracy Wind direction accuracy <10 ° Wind averaging time RF power output ≥600 W peak

Occupied bandwidth @1290 MHz Less than 12.5 MHz @

Antenna

Type Electrically steerable micropatch

Gain ~26 dBi

RF beam width ~9 °

Aperture 2.7 m

Power requirements 115 VAC/60 Hz; 15 A

Factory conﬁgurable 45 – 500 m

3 - 60 minutes

0.1 – 100 W average

400 ns pulse (99% ITU)

phased-array panels

~29 dBi with the extended antenna aperture

~6 ° with the extended antenna aperture

@ 1290 MHz, 3.0 m2 @ 915 MHz

@ 1290 MHz, 6.2 m2 @ 915 MHz

6.0 m (extended antenna aperture)

230 VAC/50 Hz; 10 A

120 m

up to 3 km

<1 m/s

Options

Hardware Monitor System monitoring and status reporting Vaisala Graph-XM™ Graphical display software Moments display software Graphical moments data

display software

RASS

Minimum height Maximum height Range resolution 60, 100, 200, 400 m

Temperature accuracy 1 °C Averaging time 1 - 60 minutes RASS aperture 1.2 m Audio frequency 1.8 - 4 kHz,

Audio frequency range chosen to assure a Bragg match for the

meteorological conditions and proﬁler operating frequency

Antenna support stand For easier access to

Extended antenna aperture For improved performance Extended length cables For increasing the distance from

GPS timing receiver For accurate timekeeping Hub computer For remote access and monitoring Services Site survey, FAT, SAT, training, installation,

Other operating frequencies 924, 1280, 1290, 1294.xxx, 1357.5 MHz

120 m

up to 1.5 km

Factory conﬁgurable 45 – 500 m

x 4 sources

antenna components

shelter to antenna

extended warranty, service contract.

For more information, visit www.vaisala.com or contact us at sales@vaisala.com

Dependent on transmit pulse duration and surrounding clutter

environment.

Dependent on transmit pulse duration, atmospheric scattering conditions, proﬁler conﬁguration, installation location, and surrounding environment.

Validity of data dependent on an averaging period duration sufﬁcient to provide spacial homogeneity between sampled volumes.

Vaisala LAP®-3000 with optional RASS Data sample for the Vaisala LAP®-3000.

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