Dataset
Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): temperature, humidity and water vapour content profiles from the University of Salford radiometer at Faccombe, UK
Abstract
The University of Salford radiometer data describe observations taken by microwave radiometer that was situated at the Faccombe wind turbine field site, Hampshire and collected data from 24th June 2005 until 26th August 2005. T
The dataset contains measurements of the following parameters:
Liquid Water Path (LWP) time series – 1 second measurement time
Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) time series – 60 seconds measurement time
Humidity Profile (full troposphere) (HPC) – 60 seconds measurement time
Temperature Profile (full troposphere) (TPC) – 60 seconds measurement time
Temperature Profile (boundary layer) (TPB) – 200 s measurement time
A boundary layer temperature profile was taken every 10 minutes which took 200 seconds to complete. When not operating a boundary layer scan, the radiometer operated in zenith mode and measurements of LWP, IWV and the tropospheric temperature and humidity profiles were made. Calibrations were performed every 20 minutes, 6 hours and 24 hours.
The boundary layer temperature measurements (0 – 2000 m) have a vertical resolution of 50 m. The tropospheric temperature measurements (0 – 10000 m) have a vertical resolution of 200 m. The tropospheric humidity profiles (0 – 6000 m) have a vertical resolution of 200 m (0 – 2000 m) and 400 m (2000 – 6000 m).
Two jpeg images files have been produced from the radiometer data for each day from 24th June 2005 until 26th August 2005. The first image file contains separate profiles of temperature up to 2 km and 10 km and profiles of absolute and relative humidity up to 10 km. The second image file contains a time series of the integrated water vapour and liquid water path.
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| Data lineage: |
Data were collected by the collected by the instrument scientist before preparation and delivery to the Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) participants and then to the BADC for archiving. |
| Data Quality: |
Research data
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Related Documents
| Details of All UFAM Instruments |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Salford: Radiometer | Deployed on: Faccombe, UK |
| Output Description | None |
- units: g m-3
- long_name: Absolute humidity derived from the microwave radiometer
- var_id: absolute_humidity
- units: m
- standard_name: altitude
- var_id: altitude
- long_name: Height of the base of the UFAM microwave radiometer above mean sea level
- units: 1
- long_name: Indicates whether it rained during the absolute humidity profile measurement
- var_id: rain_flag_absolute_humidity
- units: 1
- var_id: rain_flag
- long_name: Indicates whether it rained during the humidity profile measurement
- units: 1
- var_id: rain_flag
- long_name: Indicates whether it rained during the integrated water vapour measurement
- units: 1
- var_id: rain_flag
- long_name: Indicates whether it rained during the liquid water path measurement
- units: 1
- long_name: Indicates whether it rained during the relative humidity profile measurement
- var_id: rain_flag_relative_humidity
- units: 1
- long_name: Indicates whether it rained during the temperature profile measurement
- var_id: rain_flag
- units: g m-2
- long_name: Liquid water path
- var_id: lwp
- units: m
- var_id: altitude_levels
- long_name: Measurement height for each level of the boundary layer temperature profile
- units: m
- var_id: altitude_levels
- long_name: Measurement height for each level of the humidity profile
- units: m
- long_name: Measurement height for each level of the temperature profile
- var_id: altitude_levels
- long_name: Time in seconds for each absolute humidity profile
- var_id: time_absolute_humidity
- long_name: Time in seconds for each relative humidity profile
- var_id: time_relative_humidity
- units: K
- long_name: air temperature derived from the microwave radiometer
- standard_name: air_temperature
- var_id: air_temperature
- units: kg m-2
- long_name: integrated water vapour
- var_id: iwv
- units: 1
- long_name: relative humidity derived from the microwave radiometer
- standard_name: relative_humidity
- var_id: relative_humidity
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- long_name: Latitude of the UFAM microwave radiometer
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude
- units: degrees_east
- long_name: Longitude of the UFAM microwave radiometer
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: Time in seconds for each humidity profile
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: Time in seconds for each temperature profile
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: Time in seconds for the integrated water vapour measurements
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- long_name: Time in seconds for the liquid water path measurements
Temporal Range
2005-06-23T23:00:00
2005-08-25T23:00:00
Geographic Extent
51.3314° |
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-1.4462° |
-1.4462° |
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51.3314° |