Exploiting wind profiler information

There exists a network of wind profilers at locations across the British Isles and Europe which continuously provide wind information throughout the lower atmosphere, primarily for assimilation into numerical forecast models. However, the algorithms used for processing the profiler signals also provide secondary data: the virtual vertical velocity and signal‐to‐noise ratio. One of the UK Met Office profilers is installed close to the Isle of Man Met Office at Ronaldsway Airport. The primary and secondary data from this profiler have been used to analyse several meteorological phenomena that occurred around the Isle of Man.