Dataset
High Moorsley C-band rain radar dual polar products
Abstract
Dual-polar products from the Met Office's High Moorsley C-band rain radar, County Durham, England. Data from this site are availlable from August 2018 at present, although the radar has been producing augmented lrd scan data previous to this time. 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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| 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 CEDA 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 CEDA the data are ingested after a 48h 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: |
Data are in NIMROD data format. See linked documentation for further details.
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office C-band radar | Deployed on: Met Office High Moorsley Weather Radar site |
| Output Description | None |
No variables found.
Temporal Range
2016-11-09T00:00:00
Ongoing
Geographic Extent
54.8034° |
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-1.4746° |
-1.4746° |
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54.8034° |