processing vertical profiles of birds

[pecard]

I've noticed that processing vertical profiles of birds for Portuguese radars are a rare event. Is there a reason (lack of functionality) or inefficiencies of EUMETNET/OPERA in providing the data to ENRAM?

Data available for 2020 as retrieved and processed with bioRad

library(bioRad)
# Download Vertical Profiles
download_vpfiles(
  '2020-01-01',
  '2020-10-31',
  radar = c("ptlis"),
  directory = here::here('data-raw'),
  overwrite = FALSE
)

# List h5f files
h5f <- list.files(here::here('data-raw'), pattern = '.h5', recursive = T, full.names = T)

# Read vertical profiles
vpf <- lapply(h5f, read_vpfiles)

# Bind VP into time series  vpts
vpts0 <- bind_into_vpts(vpf)

tsReg1 <- regularize_vpts(vpts0)

plot(
  tsReg1,
  quantity = "dens",
  xlab = NA,
  ylab = "Altitude (m)",
  ylim = c(0, 1830),
)

[bart1]

Generally Portuguese radars do not provide very good quality profiles (https://github.com/enram/globam-dmp/wiki/pt). You might have a look at older 2016 or 2018 data as it sometimes has a higher quality. I have not investigated the PT data myself in detail. Maybe @CeciliaNilsson709 knows more

[pecard]

Thank you for clarifying @bart1. I'm interested in recent data. The quality may be questionable but it seems that no processing is taking place. Is there something users could do to help?

from the wiki page, I see that there are polar plots available. Do we have access to (recent) polar volume data for those radars as well?