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Dataset

 

The Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) Intercomparison Experiment wind profile data from the Salford Doppler lidar

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2007-02-09
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2006-08-27
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 97 Files | 4MB

Abstract

The Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) intercomparison field campaign took place in September 2002 at the Met Office Meteorological Research Unit (MRU), Cardington. The dataset contains measurements of wind speed and direction and turbulence parameters made with the UFAM doppler lidar operated by the University of Salford. These data are in netCDF and are publicly available.

Citable as:  Bozier, K. (2006): The Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) Intercomparison Experiment wind profile data from the Salford Doppler lidar. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/be0e6b258fbf7e8f1bcd56e8d2a789ec/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Not defined

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_30f37ce4-2dd5-11e4-a4a7-00163e251233
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://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were collected by the Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) instruments and the Met Office in-situ balloon borne tethersondes. Data files supplied as is by campaign participant to the BADC where they are stored.

Data Quality:
Research data.
File Format:
Data are netCDF formatted

More Information (under review)


Introduction

The Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) intercomparison field campaign took place in September 2002 at the Met Office Meteorological Research Unit (MRU), Cardington. The dataset contains measurements of wind speed and direction and turbulence parameters made with the UFAM doppler lidar operated by the University of Salford. These data are in netCDF and are publicly available.

The following UFAM instruments participated in this campaign


Access Restrictions

The Intercomparison study data are public. However,

  • Users are strongly advised to contact the relevant data provider before making use of any particular data set. As Salford data are currently the only data in the archive, the contact is Dr. Fay Davies.
  • Users commit themselves to use the data for scientific purposes exclusively. In particular, they will not use them for any commercial or commercially related purpose.
  • When using data to support your study, you are kindly asked to acknowledge their provider(s) in any subsequent publication.


Data availability and file format

The data are located in the UFAM archive.

All files in the UFAM Intercomparison study archive are written using the NetCDF data format.


Other projects and campaigns that have made use of UFAM instruments are:

Please see the UFAM web site at NERC and the UFAM main page at the BADC for more information.


Who to contact

  • Regarding the Salford instrumental data contact Dr. Fay Davies.
  • General queries about these pages or browsing the data should be directed to BADC support.

Process overview

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

None

  • units: degrees
  • long_name: Azimuth angle of the lidar beam from due north
  • var_id: azimuth
  • names: Azimuth angle of the lidar beam from due north
  • long_name: Backscattered Intensity
  • var_id: intensity
  • units: 2000
  • names: Backscattered Intensity
  • units: m s-1
  • long_name: Corrected radial velocity
  • var_id: corrected_radial_velocity
  • names: Corrected radial velocity
  • units: m s-1
  • long_name: Doppler velocity
  • var_id: radial_velocity
  • names: Doppler velocity
  • units: degrees
  • long_name: Elevation angle of the lidar beam above the horizontal
  • var_id: elevation
  • names: Elevation angle of the lidar beam above the horizontal
  • units: m
  • standard_name: altitude
  • var_id: altitude
  • long_name: Height of the Lidar system above mean sea level
  • names: altitude, Height of the Lidar system above mean sea level
  • units: m
  • var_id: wavelength
  • long_name: Lidar Wavelength
  • names: Lidar Wavelength
  • long_name: Number of measurements along the lidar beam
  • var_id: gate
  • names: Number of measurements along the lidar beam
  • long_name: Number of pulses accumulated for each set of line of sight measurements
  • var_id: integrations
  • names: Number of pulses accumulated for each set of line of sight measurements
  • units: m
  • long_name: Range resolution between each radial velocity estimate
  • var_id: range_resolution
  • names: Range resolution between each radial velocity estimate
  • units: m
  • long_name: Range to the centre of each range gate
  • var_id: range
  • names: Range to the centre of each range gate
  • units: s
  • long_name: Time delay between laser pulses
  • var_id: pulse_delay
  • names: Time delay between laser pulses

Co-ordinate Variables

  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • long_name: Decimal hours since midnight UTC for the start of each set of line of sight measurements
  • names: time, Decimal hours since midnight UTC for the start of each set of line of sight measurements
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: Latitude of Lidar System
  • names: latitude, Latitude of Lidar System
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: Longitude of Lidar System
  • names: longitude, Longitude of Lidar System
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-09-22T23:00:00
End time:
2002-09-24T23:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
52.1047°
 
-0.4216°
 
-0.4216°
 
52.1047°
 
Related parties
Authors (1)
Principal Investigators (1)