Dataset
WOEST: meteorological and wind observations by sensors on the MetSprite UAS -Version 2.1
Latest Data Update: 2025-04-15
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2025-08-05
DOI Publication Date: 2025-08-05
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 1.25K Files | 2GB
Abstract
Meteorological and wind observations made by sensors on the MetSprite Uncrewed Airborne System (UAS) operated by Menapia for the Wessex convection (WesCon) experiment Observing the Evolving Structures of Turbulence (WOEST) project.
This version 2.1 dataset contains air temperature, pressure, relative humidity, wind, geographic location and platform information for 31 days of flying during the intensive measurement campaign from June to August 2023.
Citable as: Pickering, B.S.; Neely III, R.R. (2025): WOEST: meteorological and wind observations by sensors on the MetSprite UAS -Version 2.1. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 05 August 2025. doi:10.5285/a5205eb0b3324c98b0bf3c50734fd9e1. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/a5205eb0b3324c98b0bf3c50734fd9e1
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: UAS
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Data are as supplied by the project team. No quality conformance has been applied by CEDA
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Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| MetSprite UAS | Deployed on: wxUAS MetSprite |
Mobile platform operations
| Mobile Platform Operation 1 | MPO for wxUAS MetSprite for WOEST |
| Output Description | None |
- var_id: metsensor_flags_2
- long_name: Metsensor Flags. Records which sub-sensors were present and used in the final variable calculation. Characters P, T, H refer to pressure, temperature, humidity, and B, S, P1 and P1 are individual sensors within a metsensor. A flag of B-S--P1--P2-- means no data was present or passed quality control.
- units: Pa
- long_name: air_pressure
- standard_name: pressure
- var_id: air_pressure_2
- units: m
- standard_name: altitude
- var_id: altitude
- long_name: altitude_above_mean_sea_level
- var_id: arming_state
- standard_name: arming_state
- long_name: arming_state
- units: K
- standard_name: air_temperature
- var_id: air_temperature_2
- long_name: bulk temperature of the air
- units: m
- var_id: platform_x
- standard_name: x
- long_name: eastward displacement from take-off
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: y_wind
- var_id: y_wind
- long_name: latitudinal_wind_component
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: x_wind
- var_id: x_wind
- long_name: longitudinal_wind_component
- var_id: nav_state
- standard_name: navigation_state
- long_name: navigation_state
- units: m
- var_id: platform_y
- standard_name: y
- long_name: northward displacement from take-off
- units: ms-1
- var_id: platform_vx
- standard_name: vx
- long_name: platform eastward ground speed
- units: m
- var_id: platform_vy
- standard_name: vy
- long_name: platform northward ground speed
- units: ms-1
- var_id: platform_vz
- standard_name: vz
- long_name: platform vertical speed
- units: degree
- var_id: platform_pitch
- standard_name: pitch
- long_name: platform_pitch
- units: degree s-1
- var_id: platform_pitch_rate
- standard_name: pitch_rate
- long_name: platform_pitch_rate
- units: degree
- var_id: platform_roll
- standard_name: roll
- long_name: platform_roll
- units: degree s-1
- var_id: platform_roll_rate
- standard_name: roll_rate
- long_name: platform_roll_rate
- units: degree
- var_id: platform_yaw
- standard_name: yaw
- long_name: platform_yaw
- units: degree s-1
- var_id: platform_yaw_rate
- standard_name: yaw_rate
- long_name: platform_yaw_rate
- standard_name: relative_humidity
- units: %
- var_id: relative_humidity_2
- long_name: relative humidity – percentage water vapour content of air
- units: m
- var_id: platform_z
- standard_name: z
- long_name: vertical displacement from take-off
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: upward_air_velocity
- var_id: upward_air_velocity
- long_name: vertical_wind_component
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- var_id: lat
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- long_name: time
- standard_name: time
- units: seconds
- var_id: obs
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2023-06-19T08:04:37
End time:
2023-08-25T08:15:52
Geographic Extent
51.2186° |
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-2.0880° |
-1.4386° |
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51.1462° |
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