The Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) undertake a number of long term measurements by a suite of instruments to support ongoing atmospheric research at a variety of locations. These include a long-term observation mode of instruments from the NCAS Atmospheric Measurement Facility (AMF) when not deployed on specific field campaign duties for other projects.

One such long-term deployment covers the NCAS AMF mobile wind profiler deployed at the NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) radar facility located near Aberystwyth, mid-Wales. This complements other long-term wind profilers in the UK, and also an alternative long-term observation site for this instrument at the Met Office's Cardington site in Bedfordshire.