LiDAR and sonic anemometer measurements of wind speed and aerosol variability within the atmospheric boundary layer on Galveston Island, Texas from 2018-11-17 to 2019-04-28

This dataset contains Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and sonic anemometer measurements of wind speed and aerosol variability within the atmospheric boundary layer on Galveston Island, Texas. The data includes daily measurements over five months from 2018-11-17 to 2019-04-28 from two instruments, Halo Streamline XR Doppler Wind LiDAR and 3D CSAT Sonic anemometer, deployed at approximately 100 m from the shore of Galveston, Texas. The LiDAR measures 1D wind velocity [m/s] and doppler backscatter [/m/str] at a spatial resolution of 18 m within a typical range of ~1500 m from the position. The LiDAR dataset is of .hpl format, where each .hpl file consists following information about a particular scan: Range gate length, Pulses/ray (Sampling frequency), Start time and Doppler resolution [m/s]. The sonic anemometer data is simply collocated in .dat format with different columns for timestamps (year, day of the year, hours in decimal, seconds), three velocity components Ux, Uy, Uz [m/s] and atmospheric temperature [deg. Celsius].