A FMI weather radar in Lapland, Finland, operated by Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).
- Station
- Kaunispää (FIKAU)
- Operator
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
- Network
- FMI
- Antenna
- 68.434° N, 27.444° E, 463 m above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, spectrum width
FIKAU is a weather radar of Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), listed as Kaunispää, in Lapland, Finland. The antenna stands 463 m above sea level. Ivalo lies 25 km north of the antenna.
Alerua reads the radar's own volume files from FMI's open data (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, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, spectrum width.
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.