Dataset
NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility Wind Version 1 data
Abstract
Version 1 processing of data from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar near Aberystwyth in West Wales. The principal measurements made by the MST radar are of the three dimensional wind vector over the altitude range 2 - 20 km, with additional measurements from the mesosphere between 65 and 80 km.
These data include both the radial beam data plus the resulting Cartesian products.
Surface meteorological measurements from the radar site, ceilometer data, sky camera images and wind speed and direction recorded from a 10m tower located 6km away are also available.
Other instruments at the facility have included one of the Met Office's boundary layer wind profilers and NCAS's boundary layer wind profiler.
Details
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_74458a92-08b0-11e2-8242-00163e251233
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| Access rules: |
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/missing_licence.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 by the MST radar facility and sent to the BADC within an hour of acquisition. Data are then immediately ingested into the BADC archives. |
| Data Quality: |
The MST radar data quality is described by D. A. Hooper, J. Nash, T. Oakley, and M. Turp. Validation of a new signal processing scheme for the MST radar at Aberystwyth. Ann. Geophys., 26(11):3253-3268, 2008. (available from here http://www.ann-geophys.net/26/3253/2008/angeo-26-3253-2008.html)
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| File Format: |
Data are NASA Ames formatted
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Related Documents
| MST radar facility instrument performance log |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| NERC: Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar | Deployed on: NCAS Capel Dewi Atmospheric Observatory (CDAO) |
| Output Description | None |
- units: m s-1
- names: Beam-broadening corrected spectral width
- units: 0 - 3
- names: Beam-broadening corrected spectral width reliability flag
- units: m s-1
- names: Complementary beam horizontal velocity variability factor
- units: m s-1
- names: Eastward wind
- units: 0 - 3
- names: Horizontal wind reliability flag
- units: m s-1
- names: Northward wind
- units: dB
- names: Peak power spectral density (PSD) relative to the mean noise PSD
- units: dB
- names: Radar return aspect sensitivity
- units: 0 - 3
- names: Radar return aspect sensitivity reliability flag
- units: dB
- names: Radar return signal power
- units: 0 - 3
- names: Radar return signal power reliability flag
- units: m s-1
- names: Radar return spectral width
- units: m s-1
- names: Radar return spectral width [corresponds to an e-1/2 half-width]
- units: 0 - 3
- names: Radar return spectral width reliability flag
- units: m s-1
- names: Radial air velocity [+ve away from the radar]
- units: 0: unreliable, 1: reliable
- names: Reliability flag
- long_name: Spectral Width
- names: Spectral Width
- units: dB
- names: Spectral noise power
- units: m s-1
- names: Upward air velocity
- units: 0 - 3
- names: Upward air velocity reliability flag
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2000-05-04T23:00:00
2004-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
52.4245° |
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-4.0055° |
-4.0055° |
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52.4245° |