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Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): Met Office Radiometrics MP3000 profling radiometer at Linkenholt, UK

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2006-04-28
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2006-08-17
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 65 Files | 126MB
Abstract

The data were collected by the Met Office’s Radiometrics TP/WVP-3000 which was deployed to Linkenholt on 13 June until 21 September 2005. The dataset contains plots of temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and rainfall amount.

It was initially configured to view in the zenith direction with very high time resolution (~12 s). All channels also viewed the internal black body target for relative calibration, initially every 5 minutes. However, initially this did not take place between 11 – 13 UTC due to a configuration error, which was corrected on 8 July 2005. Prior to this date, the calibration of data around noon is prone to drift.

The radiometer ran continuously in this mode until 20 July 2005, when it was re-configured to alternative between zenith views and internal black body calibration views in a 30 s cycle because of concerns over the drift in calibration over the previous 5 minute calibration period.

There was a power outage on 2 August 2005 from 0730 – 0946 UTC when no radiometer data was available.

Citable as:  Hewison, T. (2006): Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): Met Office Radiometrics MP3000 profling radiometer at Linkenholt, UK. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/307f3be807331cc534223b11ef0ff9ca
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: CSIP, Met Office, temperature, relative humidity, pressure

Details

Previous Info:
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Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_85147ff2-e873-11e1-b811-00163e251233
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Data lineage:

Data from the UK Met Office were supplied to the Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) participants and then to the BADC for archiving.
Data Quality:
Research data
File Format:
Data are netCDF formatted and images are png formatted

Related Documents

 Met office Fact Sheet Upper Air Observations
 Brightness temperatures and neural network retrievals from Radiometrics MP3000 Microwave Radiometer document by Tim Hewison (Met Office)

Process overview

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

None
  • var_id: Azimuthalangle
  • var_id: Blackbodytemperature
  • var_id: Elevationangle
  • var_id: Height
  • var_id: IRT
  • var_id: Integratedliquidwater
  • var_id: Integratedwatervapour
  • var_id: LiquidWater
  • var_id: MixingRatio
  • var_id: N
  • var_id: Pressure
  • var_id: Rain
  • var_id: Record
  • var_id: RelativeHumidity
  • var_id: Rh
  • var_id: Tamb
  • var_id: Tb1
  • var_id: Tb10
  • var_id: Tb11
  • var_id: Tb12
  • var_id: Tb2
  • var_id: Tb3
  • var_id: Tb4
  • var_id: Tb5
  • var_id: Tb6
  • var_id: Tb7
  • var_id: Tb8
  • var_id: Tb9
  • var_id: Temperature
  • var_id: Time

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2005-06-12T23:00:00
End time:
2005-09-20T23:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
51.3200°
  
-1.4800°
  
-1.4800°
 
51.3200°
  
Related parties
Authors (1)
Publishers (1)
Principal Investigators (1)