Dataset
NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: 10m Surface Wind Data, Frongoch site, Wales
Abstract
10m surface wind speed and direction data are available from instruments mounted on a 10m tower at the Frongoch site, 6km away from the main Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility's site in Wales. Wind direction is obtained from a Vector Instruments W200P wind vane and wind speeds from a Vector Instruments A100R anemometer.
Details
| Previous Info: |
2019-10-28 Data from the instrument was affected from 27th October 2019 when wind direction information ceased to be available. As the arc… Show More 2019-10-28 Data from the instrument was affected from 27th October 2019 when wind direction information ceased to be available. As the archived data hold zonal (U) and meridional (V) components only, this means that no data from this period have been made available in the CEDA Archive. Windspeed data are available in the raw data on request from the faciliity. Show Less |
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_12199324626526218
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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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| File Format: |
The data are NASA-Ames formatted
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| NERC MST site: NERC Campbell Scientific surface wind sensors | Deployed on: Frongoch farm site, UK |
| Output Description | None |
- units: None
- names: Maximum wind speed of gust within 1 minute sample period relative to mean speed
- units: None
- names: Maxiumum gust wind speed relative to mean speed
- units: m s-1
- names: Mean eastward wind
- units: m s-1
- names: Mean eastward wind in 1 minute sample period
- units: m s-1
- names: Mean northward wind
- units: m s-1
- names: Mean northward wind in 1 minute sample period
- units: None
- names: Minimum wind speed of gust within 1 minute sample period relative to mean speed
- units: None
- names: Miniumum gust wind speed relative to mean speed
- long_name: Spectral Width
- names: Spectral Width
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
1995-11-09T00:00:00
Ongoing
Geographic Extent
52.4236° |
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-4.0540° |
-4.0540° |
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52.4236° |