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NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: 10m Surface Wind Data, Frongoch site, Wales

Update Frequency: Daily
Latest Data Update: 2023-06-19
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2008-08-28
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 9.01K Files | 349MB
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.

Citable as:  Natural Environment Research Council Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere Radar Facility at Aberystwyth; Hooper, D.A. (2008): NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: 10m Surface Wind Data, Frongoch site, Wales. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/66dd0a3dec2498a477550037540a97bd
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: MST, wind speed, wind direction, gust, Frongoch, Wales

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

Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_12199324626526218
Access rules:
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: 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 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)
File Format:
The data are NASA-Ames formatted

Related Documents

 MST radar facility instrument performance log
 MST Radar Facility 10 m wind data plots

Process overview

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

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1995-11-09T00:00:00
End time:
Ongoing
Geographic Extent

 
52.4236°
  
-4.0540°
  
-4.0540°
 
52.4236°
  
Related parties
Authors (2)
Publishers (1)
Principal Investigators (1)