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Dataset

 

Wind speed and direction data from Gill sonic windmaster instrument at London Honor Oak Park Air Quality Supersite

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2024-03-09
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 34 Files | 35MB

Abstract

One minute wind speed and wind direction data at 16m above ground level from a Gill Sonic Windmaster instruments at the London Honor Oak Park Air Quality Supersite (LHOP) for the Integrated Research Observation System for Clean Air (OSCA) project, 2021 onwards.

Citable as:  Priestman, M.; Ek, D. (2024): Wind speed and direction data from Gill sonic windmaster instrument at London Honor Oak Park Air Quality Supersite. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0c37b06d024d4f8eb6f7ffc0c66d3b4e

Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: HOP, OSCA, London, wind

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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 is saved directly from the instrument to the computer, before being transferred to the general database, where it is processed, automatically averaged over minute time intervals and flagged where data is suspect. Once complete, data is uploaded to CEDA for archiving.

Data Quality:
Wind speed data that reads above 100 and below 0 m/s are flagged as suspect and are excluded, wind direction that reads below 0 and above 360 degrees is flagged as suspect and excluded
File Format:
NetCDF

Related Documents

 OSCA Project Webpage

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.

Instrument/Platform pairings

LHOP: Sonic Windmaster Deployed on: London Air Quality Supersite (LAQS)
Output Description

None

  • units: degrees
  • long_name: Wind Direction
  • var_id: Wind Direction
  • long_name: Wind Direction flags
  • units: units
  • var_id: qc_flag_WindDir
  • units: m/s
  • long_name: Wind Speed
  • var_id: Wind Speed
  • var_id: qc_flag_WindSp
  • long_name: Wind Speed flags
  • units: units

Co-ordinate Variables

  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • units: seconds
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2021-03-15T00:00:00
End time:
Ongoing
Geographic Extent

 
51.4497°
 
-0.0374°
 
-0.0374°
 
51.4497°