Dataset
WesCon: humidity profiles, liquid water paths and integrated water vapour measurement from the Met Office RPG Humpro microwave radiometer at Airfield Camp, Netheravon, v1.0 (20230419-20230919)
Abstract
Data from the Met Office Observation-based research RPG Humpro profiling microwave radiometer deployed at Netheravon, Wiltshire (51.241°N, -1.777°W, 120 m amsl) in southern England during the summer of 2023. Netheravon formed a supersite for the Wessex Summertime Convection Experiment (WesCon)/WesCon - Observing the Evolving Structures of Turbulence (WOEST) field campaign. The dataset includes retrieved humidity profiles in addition to the liquid water paths and integrated water vapour paths using brightness temperatures measured at seven microwave frequencies between 22.24 and 31.4 GHz (this band in general being sensitive to water vapour and cloud). The liquid and vapour water path retrievals used a supplied neural network algorithm (which is trained with radiosonde data using a radiative transfer scheme). Two archived files are available, based on the time series (water vapour and liquid water) and profile (humidity) data.
To ensure optimal traceability and transparency of data, comprehensive metadata is included.
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
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Data were processed and prepared by the Met Office instrument team before delivery to the NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for long term archival. |
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Data have been produced in accordance with standard Met Office observational practices. To ensure optimal traceability and transparency of data, comprehensive metadata is included.
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NetCDF
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office RPG Humpro radiometer | Deployed on: Airfield Camp, Netheravon |
| Output Description | None |
- units: g m-3
- var_id: abs_humidity
- long_name: Absolute humidity
- units: m
- long_name: Altitude layers above ground level
- var_id: altitudes
- units: dB
- var_id: attenuation
- long_name: Atmospheric attenuation
- units: hPa
- var_id: pressure
- long_name: Atmospheric pressure
- units: K
- var_id: brightness
- long_name: Brightness temperature
- units: degC
- var_id: irt
- long_name: Infrared sky temperature
- units: kg m-2
- var_id: iwv
- long_name: Integrated water vapour
- units: g m-2
- var_id: lwp
- long_name: Liquid water path
- units: 1
- var_id: rain_flag
- long_name: Rain flag (0 = no rain, 1 = raining)
- long_name: Rainfall rate
- var_id: rain_rate
- units: mm h-1
- units: %
- long_name: Relative humidity
- var_id: humidity
- units: degrees
- long_name: Wind direction
- var_id: wind_dirn
- units: m s-1
- var_id: wind_speed
- long_name: Wind speed
- units: K
- var_id: temperature
- long_name: air temperature
- units: GHz
- long_name: channel centre frequency
- var_id: frequencies
- var_id: time
- units: hours
- long_name: time of data point
- units: degrees
- var_id: elevation
- long_name: viewing_elevation_angle
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2023-04-19T00:00:00
2023-09-19T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
51.2387° |
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-1.7778° |
-1.7778° |
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51.2387° |