Dataset
Castor Bay C-band rain radar single polar products
Abstract
Single-polar products from the Met Office's Castor Bay C-band rain radar, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Data include CPAPR and augmented refractivity products from January 2013 and March 2011 respectively. The radar is a C-band (5.3 cm wavelength) radar and data are received by the Nimrod system at 5 minute intervals.
Details
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_37888cbc-f357-11e1-93db-00163e251233
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| Access rules: |
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data are acquired from rain radar network in the UK and Europe by the Met Office's NIMROD system. Single site data are then sent to the BADC by the Met Office's DART operational dissemination system. Raw polar data from single sites are sent through from the RADARNET team at the Met Office. On arrival at the BADC the data are ingested after a one day quarantine, having been compressed and then compiled into daily tar balls for each data type. |
| Data Quality: |
Data are from the Met Office's operational NIMROD system
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| File Format: |
NIMROD product data are in the non-standard NIMROD binary format. Refer to linked documentation for further details.
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Related Documents
| Product description table |
| Met Office Weather Radar Factsheet |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office C-band radar | Deployed on: Castor Bay Meteorological Station, UK |
| NIMROD system | Deployed on: Castor Bay Meteorological Station, UK |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Precipitation Rate
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0658
- gcmd_keyword: Precipitation Rate
- names: Precipitation Rate, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0658
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2011-03-16T00:00:00
2013-01-07T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
56.5000° |
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-8.3400° |
-4.3400° |
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52.5000° |