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Networks of automatic lidar-ceilometer systems

The ceilometer CL51 employs a pulsed diode laser LIDAR technology, where short, powerful laser pulses are sent out in a vertical or near-vertical direction. The reflection of light (backscatter) caused by clouds, precipitation or other obscuration is analysed and used to determine the cloud base height, the cloud layer height and the amount of clouds (in octas) in different layers.

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Date (Creation)
2014-01-01
Identifier
RMI-be / lidar
Status
On going
Point of contact
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Owner
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Atmospheric conditions
Keywords
  • Reporting INSPIRE
  • federal government
  • cloud cover
  • observation
  • automatic lidar ceilometer
  • cloud base height
  • cloud cover
  • CL51
Spatial scope
  • National
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Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2014-01-01T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4258
Distribution format
  • CSV ( 1.0 )

  • GML ( 2 )

  • GML ( 3.1 )

  • GML ( 3.2 )

  • GeoJSON ( 1.0 )

  • KML ( 1.0 )

  • Shapefile ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
RMI opendata portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

RMI opendata portal

OnLine resource
WFS 1.0.0 getCapabilities document ( OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-capabilities )

WFS 1.0.0 getCapabilities document

OnLine resource
WMS 1.3.0 getCapabilities document ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )

WMS 1.3.0 getCapabilities document

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other
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Domain consistency

Name of measure
INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement

The cloud base height, the cloud layer height and the amount of clouds in different layers are computed by the Vaisala CL51 algorithm based on raw backscatter data (time resolution: 6 s and vertical resolution: 10 m).

The sky condition algorithm is calculated every five minutes based on data collected during the last 30 minutes. The last 10 minutes are double-weighted to make the algorithm more responsive to variations in cloudiness. The algorithm uses cloud base height and timing information to find cloud base height close each other. These cloud base height are combined into clusters and a height value is calculated for each cluster. This height gives the base height of a cloud layer represented by the cluster. The algorithm reports layers by combining clusters whose heights are close to each other and then selecting clusters that cover the greatest amount of sky.

File identifier
RMI_DATASET_LIDAR XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-10-01
Point of contact
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
http://www.meteo.be
 
 

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