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Dataset

 

African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) Flux station

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2009-06-23
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2007-08-07
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 11 Files | 18MB

Abstract

An international long-term collaboration to study the climatic and environmental feedback mechanisms involved in the African monsoon, and in some of its consequences on society and human health. The programme, which started in 2004, has developed a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-Saharan West Africa to measure heat flux and, for some stations, CO2 and H2O vapour fluxes. Files also include concomitant meteorological measurements (wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall) and soil physics parameters (soil temperature and moisture). The UK branch of AMMA makes use of several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) which are centred on the Niamey meso-site. The Facility for Airbourne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft was used during the July-August 2006 campaign.

Citable as:  NERC AMMA-UK; Parker, D.E. (2007): African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) Flux station. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/957a1f6de2d36ed257c6f62285dff048/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: AMMA, CEH, Flux station

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11864869259919895
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were collected from 2004 by a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-saharan West Africa, several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM), and by the FAAM aircraft which was used during July-August 2006.
Data provided as is by campaign participants, and archived at the BADC.

Data Quality:
Research data
File Format:
Data are NetCDF formatted

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.

Instrument/Platform pairings

CEH: Flux station Deployed on: Agoufou
CEH: Flux station Deployed on: Belifoungou
CEH: Flux station Deployed on: Hedgerit
CEH: Flux station Deployed on: Kelema
CEH: Flux station Deployed on: Nalohou
CEH: Flux station Deployed on: Banizoumbou, Africa
Output Description

None

  • units: K
  • standard_name: air_temperature
  • long_name: air_temperature
  • var_id: tair
  • units: m m-1
  • long_name: atmospheric_stability_factor
  • var_id: zl
  • units: 1
  • long_name: first_vector_coordinate_rotation
  • var_id: eta
  • units: m s-1
  • long_name: friction_velocity
  • var_id: ustar
  • units: 1
  • var_id: theta
  • long_name: second_vector_coordinate_rotation
  • units: kg m-3
  • long_name: surface_carbon_dioxide_density_in_air
  • var_id: co2bl
  • units: kg m-2 s-1
  • long_name: surface_net_ecosystem_productivity_of_carbon
  • var_id: Qnep
  • units: W m-2
  • standard_name: surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
  • long_name: surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
  • var_id: Qle
  • units: W m-2
  • standard_name: surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
  • long_name: surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
  • var_id: Qh
  • units: kg m-3
  • long_name: surface_water_vapor_density_in_air
  • var_id: qbl
  • units: K2
  • long_name: variance_of_air_temperature
  • var_id: sig_t
  • units: m2 s-2
  • long_name: variance_of_mean_crosswind_windspeed
  • var_id: sig_v
  • units: m2 s-2
  • long_name: variance_of_mean_horizontal_windspeed
  • var_id: sig_u
  • units: m2 s-2
  • long_name: variance_of_mean_vertical_windspeed
  • var_id: sig_w
  • units: kg2 m-6
  • long_name: variance_of_surface_carbon_dioxide_density_in_air
  • var_id: sig_co2bl
  • units: kg2 m-6
  • long_name: variance_of_surface_water_vapor_density_in_air
  • var_id: sig_qbl
  • units: degree
  • standard_name: wind_from_direction
  • long_name: wind_from_direction
  • var_id: wdir
  • units: m s-1
  • standard_name: wind_speed
  • long_name: wind_speed
  • var_id: ws2d

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: site latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: site longitude
  • long_name: time
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2005-04-13T23:00:00
End time:
2006-03-06T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
40.0000°
 
-20.0000°
 
50.0000°
 
-40.0000°
 
Related parties
Principal Investigators (1)