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<instrument>
  
    <identifier identifierType="Handle">https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.b553925cb93b4d66</identifier>
  
  <schemaVersion>1.0</schemaVersion>
  <landingPage>https://instrumentdb.out.ocp.fmi.fi/instrument/b553925c-b93b-4d66-8020-bd5b5df62864</landingPage>
  <name>LAPI MXPol</name>
  <owners>
    
      <owner>
        <ownerName>École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne LAPI</ownerName>
        
          <ownerIdentifier ownerIdentifierType="ROR">02s376052</ownerIdentifier>
        
      </owner>
    
  </owners>
  <manufacturers>
    
      <manufacturer>
        <manufacturerName>ProSensing</manufacturerName>
        
      </manufacturer>
    
  </manufacturers>
  
    <model>
      <modelName>ProSensing XPOL</modelName>
      
    </model>
  
  
    <instrumentTypes>
      
        <instrumentType>
          <instrumentTypeName>weather radar</instrumentTypeName>
          
        </instrumentType>
      
    </instrumentTypes>
  
  
    <measuredVariables>
      
        <measuredVariable>radar reflectivity factor</measuredVariable>
      
        <measuredVariable>spectral width</measuredVariable>
      
        <measuredVariable>differential reflectivity</measuredVariable>
      
        <measuredVariable>Doppler velocity</measuredVariable>
      
        <measuredVariable>co-cross-channel differential phase</measuredVariable>
      
        <measuredVariable>co-cross-channel correlation coefficient</measuredVariable>
      
    </measuredVariables>
  
  
    <dates>
      
        <date dateType="Commissioned">2024-11-29</date>
      
      
        <date dateType="DeCommissioned">2025-01-21</date>
      
    </dates>
  
  
    <description>Mobile scanning polarimetric Doppler precipitation radar operating at X-band, performing PPI’s and RHI’s continuously. Provides Doppler spectra and  polarimetric radar variables to characterise clouds and precipitation at a range resolution of 75 m.</description>
  
  
    <relatedIdentifiers>
      
        <relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="URL" relationType="IsDescribedBy">
          https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lapi/facilities-and-instruments/mxpol/
        </relatedIdentifier>
      
    </relatedIdentifiers>
  
  
</instrument>
