DQRID : D161031.12
Start DateStart TimeEnd DateEnd Time
10/06/2016203610/11/20162137
more
Subject:
ASI/MPL/M1 - Instrument averaging time increased to 30 seconds
DataStreams:asimplpolfsM1.b1, asimplpolfsM1.00
Description:
To understand what was causing frequent spikes in the MPL energy levels, the averaging 
time was increased to 30s during this period. The averaging time was reverted back to the 
original 10s averaging time at the end of the DQR period.
Suggestions: 
Measurements:asimplpolfsM1.b1:
  • Deadtime correction factor(deadtime_correction)
  • Detector Temperature(detector_temp)
  • Preliminary cloud base height above ground level(preliminary_cbh)
  • Background signal, co-pol(background_signal_co_pol)
  • Dead time correction flag(dead_time_corrected)
  • Laser output energy per pulse(energy_monitor)
  • Width of range-bins calculated from range_bin_time(range_bin_width)
  • Telescope temperature(scope_temp)
  • Heights for overlap correction(overlap_correction_heights)
  • Laboratory measured counts used to calculate the deadtime correction samples(deadtime_correction_counts)
  • Subtract from range_bins to yield range(range_offset)
  • MCS mode register, value is either 167 or 199.(mcs_mode)
  • Number of laser pulses summed during averaging interval(shots_per_avg)
  • Bin number of first data. Tells where pretrigger timing ends and end of region
    for background data sampling laser_fire_bin(first_data_bin)
  • Polarization control enabled flag(polarization_control)
  • Number of bins stored in data block(num_bins)
  • Laser Temperature(laser_temp)
  • Polarization control voltage setting(polarization_control_voltage)
  • Background signal standard deviation, cross-pol(background_signal_std_cross_pol)
  • Number of detector channels(num_channels)
  • Background signal standard deviation, copol data(background_signal_std_co_pol)
  • Maximum altitude retrieved from multichannel scalar card.(max_altitude)
  • Height(height)
  • Attenuated backscatter, cross pol(signal_return_cross_pol)
  • Overlap correction(overlap_correction)
  • Distance to the center of the corresponding range bin(range)
  • Bin number associated with zero height and time where laser transmit occurs(laser_fire_bin)
  • Repetition Rate, or Trigger Frequency of the laser(pulse_rep)
  • Distance from leading edge of first range bin to the center of each bin .(range_bins)
  • Background signal, cross pol data(background_signal_cross_pol)
  • Attenuated backscatter, co-pol(signal_return_co_pol)
  • Time in nanoseconds for each range bin of multichannel scalar card.(range_bin_time)
more
asimplpolfsM1.00:
  • (Raw data stream - documentation not supported)
more

Close this window