Dataset
Met Office Aberporth Radiosonde Data for comparison with the NERC MST Radar
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2000-04-10
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2012-09-28
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 99 Files | 34MB
Abstract
Radiosonde data from balloon flights from the Aberporth airfield made available for comparison with data from Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in West Wales. Data are ASCII formatted, containing height in km, wind speed and direction, temperature and dew-point temperature. A more complete set of high resolution radiosonde data are available in the Met Office High Resolution Radiosonde dataset.
Citable as: Met Office (2012): Met Office Aberporth Radiosonde Data for comparison with the NERC MST Radar. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6ae44be655d73d012728508103b8d128
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Met Office, Aberporth, radiosonde, temperature, humidity, MST
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__ACTIVITY_f6fffbca-0978-11e2-b605-00163e251233
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| Access rules: |
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.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 stored in ASCII formatted files
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Related Documents
| MST radar facility instrument performance log |
Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office Radiosondes | Deployed on: RAF Aberporth |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Atmospheric Stability
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0068
- gcmd_keyword: Atmospheric Stability
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0068, Atmospheric Stability
- long_name: Spectral Width
- names: Spectral Width
- long_name: Surface Winds
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0853
- gcmd_keyword: Surface Winds
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0853, Surface Winds
- long_name: Tropopause
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G128
- gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Altitude > Tropopause
- names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Altitude > Tropopause, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G128
- long_name: Turbulence
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G251
- gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Turbulence
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G251, EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Turbulence
- long_name: U Zonal Windspeed
- names: U Zonal Windspeed
- long_name: Upper Level Winds
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0909
- gcmd_keyword: Upper Level Winds
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0909, Upper Level Winds
- long_name: V Meridional Windspeed
- names: V Meridional Windspeed
- long_name: Vertical Wind Motion
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0920
- gcmd_keyword: Vertical Wind Motion
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0920, Vertical Wind Motion
- long_name: Vertical Windspeed
- names: Vertical Windspeed
- long_name: Wind Direction
- names: Wind Direction
- long_name: Windspeed
- names: Windspeed
Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1992-05-06T05:21:00
End time:
2000-03-31T16:26:00
Geographic Extent
52.1147° |
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-4.5594° |
-4.5594° |
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52.1147° |
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