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WERA Spectra on UV-Grid (.SPEC)

This is the data format of WERA Power Spectra measured on a rectangular grid. The grid has the size NX * NY (East * South). A list of coordinates is stored in Gijon_grid_60_60.asc. This information is also stored in the header of each data file.

The structure in each data file is as follows:

|      |           IX=1          |        IX=2             |  |   IX=NX    |
| HEAD |-------------------------|-------------------------|..|------------|
|      | IY=1 | IY=2 |...| IY=NY | IY=1 | IY=2 |...| IY=NY |..| ...| IY=NY |

The powerspectrum in each grid point consists of NFTL values from negative to positive doppler shifts with DC at position 1+NFTL/2 in IEEE REAL*4 floating point format (4 bytes * NFTL).

File_Size [Bytes] = 512 + NX * NY * 4 * NFTL

Grid points, which cannot be covered by the radar due to geometrical limitations, are filled up with noise (random) data.

Download 20002920415_TOR.SPEC as an example data set.


Comments to: gurgel@ifm.uni-hamburg.de (Klaus-Werner Gurgel)