BALTRAD_VPTS - Vertical profiles of biological targets derived from European weather radars

BALTRAD_VPTS - Vertical profiles of biological targets derived from European weather radars is a vertical profile time series dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal movement data derived from 151 European weather radars in 18 countries, with varying coverage from 2012 to 2023. These data were created by processing weather radar data - provided by the Operational Programme for the Exchange of Weather Radar Information (OPERA) - with methods optimized for extracting bird targets. The resulting data are vertical profile time series (VPTS), containing the density, speed and direction of biological targets within a weather radar (radar) volume, grouped into altitude bins (height) and measured over time (datetime). The data are also available in the Aloft bucket.

Data in this deposit are organized per country (.tgz file), radar (directory), year (directory) and month (.csv.gz file). Fields in the data follow the VPTS CSV format and are described in vpts-csv-table-schema.json. Radar metadata can be found at https://aloftdata.eu/radars/.

vpts-csv-table-schema.json: technical description of the fields.
be.tgz: data from 2 radars in Belgium.
ch.tgz: data from 5 radars in Switzerland.
cz.tgz: data from 2 radars in the Czech Republic.
de.tgz: data from 20 radars in Germany.
dk.tgz: data from 5 radars in Denmark.
ee.tgz: data from 2 radars in Estonia.
es.tgz: data from 15 radars in Spain.
fi.tgz: data from 13 radars in Finland.
fr.tgz: data from 26 radars in France.
hr.tgz: data from 7 radars in Croatia.
il.tgz: data from 1 radar in Israel.
nl.tgz: data from 3 radars in the Netherlands.
no.tgz: data from 11 radars in Norway.
pl.tgz: data from 8 radars in Poland.
pt.tgz: data from 3 radars in Portugal.
se.tgz: data from 22 radars in Sweden.
si.tgz: data from 2 radars in Slovenia.
sk.tgz: data from 4 radars in the Slovak Republic.