Dataset
ISB52: Doppler Lidar measurements from RAF Northolt and Malvern, UK
Abstract
This dataset contains Doppler lidar measurements from the ISB52 Improved Air Quality Forecasting project. The aim of the project was to develop a better understanding of air flow within the atmospheric boundary layer by gathering 3-dimensional air flow information using two identical Doppler lidars supplied by Qinetic and the University of Salford. The project compared parameters derived from the dual Doppler lidar measurements with inputs used in the UK Met Office air quality forecasting model. Field experiments were undertaken in March 2003 at Malvern and in July 2003 at RAF Northolt, West London, UK.
Details
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11740893615317985
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11740894289917987
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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 from two identical Doppler lidars, one of which was the UFAM (Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement) Doppler lidar, obtained in March 2003 at Malvern and in July 2003 at RAF Northolt, West London, UK, passed on to the BADC for archiving. |
| Data Quality: |
Not known.
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| File Format: |
Data are netCDF formatted
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Related Documents
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Qinetic: Doppler Lidar | Deployed on: RAF Northolt, UK |
| Qinetic: Doppler Lidar | Deployed on: Met Office: Malvern |
| Salford/UFAM: Doppler Lidar | Deployed on: RAF Northolt, UK |
| Salford/UFAM: Doppler Lidar | Deployed on: Met Office: Malvern |
| Output Description | None |
- units: degrees
- long_name: Azimuth angle of the lidar beam from due north
- var_id: azimuth
- long_name: Backscattered Intensity
- var_id: intensity
- units: 1000
- units: m s-1
- long_name: Corrected radial velocity
- var_id: corrected_radial_velocity
- units: m s-1
- long_name: Doppler velocity
- standard_name: radial_velocity_of_scatterers_away_from_instrument
- var_id: radial_velocity
- units: degrees
- long_name: Elevation angle of the lidar beam above the horizontal
- var_id: elevation
- units: m
- standard_name: altitude
- var_id: altitude
- long_name: Height of the Lidar system above mean sea level
- units: m
- var_id: wavelength
- long_name: Lidar Wavelength
- long_name: Number of measurements along the lidar beam
- var_id: gate
- long_name: Number of pulses accumulated for each set of line of sight measurements
- var_id: integrations
- units: m
- long_name: Range resolution between each radial velocity estimate
- var_id: range_resolution
- units: m
- long_name: Range to the centre of each range gate
- var_id: range
- units: s
- long_name: Time delay between laser pulses
- var_id: pulse_delay
Co-ordinate Variables
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: Decimal hours since midnight UTC for the start of each set of line of sight measurements
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude
- long_name: Latitude of Lidar System
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude
- long_name: Longitude of Lidar System
Temporal Range
2003-07-07T23:00:00
2003-07-22T23:00:00
Geographic Extent
52.1130° |
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-2.3070° |
-0.4170° |
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51.5500° |