Wind profilers
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.