BALTRAD_VPTS - Vertical profiles of biological targets derived from European weather radars

BALTRAD_VPTS - Vertical profiles of biological targets derived from European weather radars is a vertical profile time series dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal movement data derived from 151 European weather radars in 18 countries, with varying coverage from 2012 to 2023. These data were created by processing weather radar data - provided by the Operational Programme for the Exchange of Weather Radar Information (OPERA) - with methods optimized for extracting bird targets. The resulting data are vertical profile time series (VPTS), containing the density, speed and direction of biological targets within a weather radar (radar) volume, grouped into altitude bins (height) and measured over time (datetime). The data are also available in the Aloft bucket. See Desmet et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04641-5) for a more detailed description of this dataset.