Dataset
NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: Surface pressure, temperature and relative humidity data from the Vaisala WXT510 instrument, Capel Dewi site, Wales (2007-2015)
Abstract
Surface pressure, temperature and humidity data (PTU) were collected by a Vaisala WXT510 instrument located at the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in West Wales.
Rainfall rate data from this instrument are also available as a separate dataset within the MST Radar Facility dataset collection.
The WXT-510 instrument at the site began operational recording in December 2007 and ceased in January 2015, subsequently being replaced by a Vaisala WXT-520 instrument. The WXT520 data are also available from CEDA as part of the MST Radar Facility's dataset collection.
Independent surface meteorological data are also collected from a suite of instruments by a Campbell Scientific CR10 Climate Data Logger. These data are available as a separate dataset within the MST Radar Facility dataset collection.
Details
| Previous Info: |
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_f37e7856-0977-11e2-9c62-00163e251233
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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: |
Data are in Climate and Forecast conventions (CF) compliant netCDF files.
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| NERC MST site: WXT510 Vaisala weather transmitter | Deployed on: NCAS Capel Dewi Atmospheric Observatory (CDAO) |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Surface Pressure
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0850
- gcmd_keyword: Surface Pressure
- names: Surface Pressure, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0850
- units: hPa
- standard_name: air_pressure
- var_id: pressure
- long_name: air pressure
- names: air_pressure, air pressure
- standard_name: air_temperature
- units: degree_Celsius
- var_id: temperature
- long_name: air temperature
- names: air_temperature, air temperature
- units: m
- standard_name: altitude
- var_id: altitude
- long_name: instrument altitude above mean sea level
- names: altitude, instrument altitude above mean sea level
- units: m
- standard_name: height
- var_id: height
- long_name: instrument height above the ground
- names: height, instrument height above the ground
- standard_name: relative_humidity
- var_id: relative_humidity
- units: %
- long_name: relative humidity
- names: relative_humidity, relative humidity
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude
- long_name: instrument latitude
- names: latitude, instrument latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude
- long_name: instrument longitude
- names: longitude, instrument longitude
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- names: time
Temporal Range
2007-12-21T00:00:00
2015-01-06T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
52.4245° |
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-4.0055° |
-4.0055° |
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52.4245° |