Dataset
The Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) Intercomparison Experiment wind profile data from the Salford Doppler lidar
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.
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_30f37ce4-2dd5-11e4-a4a7-00163e251233
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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: 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 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. |
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Research data.
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Data are netCDF formatted
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More Information (under review)
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
- UFAM Doppler lidar, operated by the University of Salford;
- UFAM wind profiler, operated by the University of Aberystwyth; and
- one of the UFAM sodars, operated by the University of
Leeds.
The Intercomparison study data are public. However,
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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:
- The North Atlantic Marine Bounday Layer EXperiment (NAMBLEX).
- The Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry experiment (TORCH) - part of the Polluted Troposphere thematic program.
Please see the UFAM web site at NERC and the UFAM main page at the BADC for more information.
- 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
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Salford/UFAM: Doppler Lidar | Deployed on: Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington |
| 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
Temporal Range
2002-09-22T23:00:00
2002-09-24T23:00:00
Geographic Extent
52.1041° |
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-0.4209° |
-0.4209° |
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52.1041° |