PIANO: Doppler Wind Lidar Measurements of Alpine Foehn Events in 2017

Four scanning Doppler wind lidars collected measurements during the PIANO field campaign in the Inn Valley at Innsbruck, Austria. The data set covers seven Intensive Observation Periods of foehn events during fall and early winter 2017. Alexander Gohm from the Universität Innsbruck authored this data set, which is hosted on paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the erosion of cold air pools during south foehn events based on wind profile data.
• Studying foehn breakthrough and breakdown dynamics at a valley floor using triple-Doppler lidar analysis.
• Validating numerical weather prediction models for complex terrain based on high-resolution wind measurements.
• Investigating the differences between south and west foehn events based on the seven defined observation periods.

Strengths

• Data from four distinct scanning Doppler wind lidars (SL74, SL75, SL88, SLXR142) with specified geographic coordinates.
• Covers seven Intensive Observation Periods (IOPs) during fall and early winter 2017.
• Includes coplanar scans from three lidars arranged in a triangle for dual- and triple-Doppler analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Alexander Gohm, Universität Innsbruck

Collection Method

Measurements from four scanning Doppler wind lidars operated during the PIANO field campaign.

Time Range

Fall and early winter 2017

Geography

Inn Valley at Innsbruck, Austria