Platform
Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington
Abstract
The Met Research Unit, located at Cardington, Bedfordshire (52.10469N. -0.42161 E, 29m amsl), maintains a suite of surface-based and mast-mounted instrumentation. The main purpose of this instrumentation site, which is logged 24 hours a day, is to provide data for atmospheric processes research, and for the testing and validation of numerical model output and performance.
The site has the following identifiers:
- WMO 03559
- DCNN 3456
It also hosts 3 instrumented towers at 10m, 25m and 50m as well as having capacity to operate tethered balloon and radiosonde flights.
For more specific details for the site see the MIDAS Station entry linked to from this record where the site has a source ID (src_id): 465
| keywords: | Met Office |
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| childPlatform: |
Platform: 50m tower at the Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington Platform: 25m tower at the Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington Platform: 10m tower at the Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington |
| platformType: | land_station |
| location: | GeographicBoundingBox: Met Office Cardington site |
| Previously used record indentifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__obs_11637722766411491
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Platform location
52.1047° |
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-0.4216° |
-0.4216° |
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52.1047° |