Wind profiling is an important activity in meteorological and climatological operations and research, aviation, and air quality forecasting and research. Airport authorities use wind profilers to measure wind conditions in the airport environment. Organizations that forecast and study air quality use wind profilers as the primary instrument to provide wind and boundary-level data. Wind profilers can also be used in land-based tactical defense applications. Vaisala offers the LAP® family of wind profilers to customers working with these applications and others.

NEW! The new version of the Vaisala Wind Profiler Software LAP-XM^® has several new and improved features including an experimental boundary layer determination module which automatically provides the altitude of the top of the planetary boundary layer. Our wind and temperature quality control module has been modified to provide significantly improved wind data quality. This new LAP-XM^® version also includes a new module for archiving and distributing wind and virtual temperature data in XML format. Vaisala AviMet™ can ingest the XML data and provide a comprehensive and integrated awareness of the wind at and around an airport. Another new feature allows the integration of wind and temperature data from the Vaisala WXT520 surface weather Multi-Sensor with Vaisala Wind Profiler data.