Dataset
Sky Camera Data from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, Wales
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2013-09-28
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2008-08-28
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 56.3K Files | 110GB
Abstract
Images from the sky camera mounted at the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in West Wales. Images are in jpeg format.
Citable as: Natural Environment Research Council Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere Radar Facility at Aberystwyth; Hooper, D.A. (2008): Sky Camera Data from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, Wales. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5a18810018d9be419a0c37bd276d04fe/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: MST, sky camera, cloud, images
Details
| Previous Info: |
No news update for this record
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_12199354866426232
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| Access rules: |
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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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Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| NERC MST site: Sky-Camera | Deployed on: NCAS Capel Dewi Atmospheric Observatory (CDAO) |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Cloud Cover
- names: Cloud Cover
- long_name: High Cloud Cover
- names: High Cloud Cover
- long_name: Low Cloud Cover
- names: Low Cloud Cover
- long_name: Medium Cloud Cover
- names: Medium Cloud Cover
- long_name: Total Cloud Cover
- names: Total Cloud Cover
Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2007-04-25T20:00:00
End time:
2013-09-28T04:00:00
Geographic Extent
52.4245° |
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-4.0055° |
-4.0055° |
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52.4245° |
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