Reflectivity Profile and Wind

This pane defines the reflectivity profile of a gradient above the melting level, a gradient below the melting level, a melting layer thickness, and a melting layer intensity. The melting layer height, is the intersection of the two gradients, and the top of the bright band.

These numbers are used in the SRI product profile correction, and in the CAPPI and XSECT smoothing.

For more information, see IRIS Product and Display Guide (M212928EN).

You can change these numbers while IRIS is running.

Use Gradient in CAPPI & XSECT

Enables a vertical gradient extrapolation in product generation for CAPPI and XSECT products.

This smooths out the top of the products using the Gradient Above Melting value in the reflectivity profile.

This is the minimum value used when a lower sweep has valid data and the upper sweep is below threshold.

Gradient Above/Below Melting

Defines the gradient setting above and below the melting layer.

Melting Layer Thickness

Melting Layer Intensity

Default Wind

The default wind is recorded with the ingest data and can be used for adjustments to the bird detection algorithm.

To use this feature you must automatically detect the wind speeds and enter them in the radar system.