A EUMETNET OPERA weather radar in Vaud, Switzerland, operated by Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss.
- Station
- La Dôle (CHDOL)
- Operator
- Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
- Network
- EUMETNET OPERA
- Antenna
- 46.425° N, 6.099° E, 1,682 m above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity
CHDOL is a weather radar of Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, listed as La Dôle, in Vaud, Switzerland. The antenna stands 1682 m above sea level. Geneva lies 25 km south of the antenna.
Alerua reads the radar's own files through EUMETNET's Open Radar Data service (CC BY 4.0), and the antenna position above comes from those files. The loop carries Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity.
Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.
Radar data: Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, via EUMETNET Open Radar Data, CC BY 4.0, processed by Alerua. Place names: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.