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h2
(5 characters) = 2nd Height
If detection status is 2, 3 or 4
h2
= Second highest cloud base reported
If detection status is 5
h2
=
H
ighest signal received
If detection status is 0, 1, or 6
h2
=
"/////"
h3
(5 characters) = 3rd Height
If detection status is 3 or 4
h3
= Third highest cloud base reported
If detection status is 0, 1, 2, 5 or 6
h3
=
"/////"
h4
(5 characters) = 4th Height
If detection status is 4
h4
= Highest cloud base reported
If detection status is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 5
h4
= "/////"
flags
(12 characters in 3 groups of 4, space separated) = Alarm or warning information.
Refer to Message 001 for a breakdown of the flags.
CR LF
= Carriage Return and Line Feed
LINE 3
scale
9
res
9
n
9
energy
9
lt
9
ti
_
bl
9
pulse
9
rate
9
sum
CR LF
where
scale (5 characters)
= Attenuated_SCALE parameter, %, 0 ... 99999. 100% is default
res (2 characters)
= Backscatter profile resolution in metres.
n (4 characters)
= Profile length 2048
energy (3 characters)
= Laser pulse energy, %.
lt (3 characters including l/-)
= Laser temperature, degrees C
ti (2 characters)
= Total tilt angle, degrees
bl (4 characters)
= Background light, millivolts at internal ADC input (0 ... 2500)
pulse (4 characters)
= Pulse quantity x 1000 (0000-9999)
rate (2 characters) =
Sample rate, MHz, (00-99)
sum
= Sum of detected and normalized backscatter, 0 ... 999. Multiplied by scaling factor times
10
4
. At scaling factor 100 the SUM range 0 ... 999 corresponds to integrated backscatter 0 ... 0.
srad
-1
.
CR LF
= Carriage Line Feed
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