Dataset
FRANC: Wardon Hill C-band rain radar helical scan products
Abstract
Helical scans from the Met Office's Wardon Hill C-band rain radar, Dorset, England produced in support of the NERC funded "Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and Novel observations of Convection" (FRANC) project. These data are opportunistic observations made by the radar as it transitioned between horizontal and vertically pointing scans and vice versa obtained during the period of the FRANC project.
The radar is a C-band (5.3 cm wavelength) radar and data are received by the Nimrod system at 5 minute intervals.
Details
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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 from Met Office's NIMROD system and supplied initially to the Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and Novel observations of Convection" (FRANC) project space before eventual ingestion into the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archive for long-term archival. |
| Data Quality: |
Data are from the Met Office's operational NIMROD system
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| File Format: |
Data are in NIMROD binary format.
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office C-band radar | Deployed on: Wardon Hill Radar Station, UK |
| Output Description | None |
No variables found.
Temporal Range
2013-11-22T00:00:00
2018-01-16T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
52.9400° |
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-4.3300° |
-0.3300° |
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48.9400° |