Dataset
JET2000 Project: Automatic Weather Station (AWS) at JET2K synoptic stations in Africa
Abstract
The African Easterly Jet (AEJ) is part of a climatic system which is of critical importance to African and global weather and climate, but is poorly observed and not well represented in model analyses. For the JET2000 project the Met Office Met Research flight (MRF) aircraft performed four flights, involving transects along and across the jet and the baroclinic zone, to make observations of unprecedented resolution for this part of the world. 110 dropsondes were dropped along the fight path. The data includes detailed synoptic observations of the basic state over mainland West Africa, and detailed synoptic observations of the African Easterly Waves (AEW) over mainland tropical West Africa.
Details
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11727034075715967
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data collected by the Met Office research flight (MRF C-130 aircraft) in summer of 2000 over West Africa, then prepared before transfer to BADC. |
| Data Quality: |
Research data
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| File Format: |
Data are NASA Ames formatted.
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Related Documents
| JET2000 |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Automatic Weather Station (AWS) | Deployed on: JET2K synoptic stations in Africa |
| Output Description | None |
- units: degrees true
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2000-08-24T23:00:00
2000-08-30T22:59:59
Geographic Extent
8.0000° |
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-23.0000° |
6.0000° |
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-19.0000° |