Dataset
WESCON- Meteorological data from the Met Office AIMMS-30 instrument on board the JADE-one Dimona aircraft
Latest Data Update: 2025-05-16
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2025-05-15
DOI Publication Date: 2025-05-15
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 32 Files | 6GB
Abstract
Atmospheric data from the Met Office AIMMS-30: Aircraft Integrated Meteorological Measurement System onboard the JADE-one Dimona HK36 aircraft, operated by Jade University of Applied Sciences for 16 flights over the UK for WESCON - the WESsex Summertime CONvection project.
These flights took a range of paths across the area to coincide with ground-based radar observations at Chilbolton, Wardon Hill and Lyneham, and with FAAM and Uncrewed Airborne System (UAS) flights.
Details are:
o D00c - Calibration flight
o D001 - Salisbury Plain Training Area circuits
o D002 - Salisbury Plain Training Area circuits and FAAM intercomparison
o D003 - Chilbolton - Wardon Hill radars circuit
o D004/D005 Chilbolton - Wardon Hill radars circuit
o D006 Lyneham radar circuit
o D007 - Three circuits of the region
o D008 - L-patterns around Chilbolton. AIMMS calibration manoeuvres
o D009 - three L-patterns
o D010 - long flight-leg L-patterns
o D011 - long flight -leg L-patterns to coincide with FAAM measurements
o D012 - long flight -leg L-patterns to coincide with FAAM measurements, plus Chilbolton overflight
o D013 - long flight -legs including close passes of Chilbolton and ground sites
o D014 - long flight -leg L-patterns to coincide with regions of triple-Doppler radar overlap and UAS flights at Chilbolton
o D015 - FAAM intercomparison flight-legs and Chilbolton overflight in vicinity of UAS flights
Citable as: Barrett, P.; McQuaid, A. (2025): WESCON- Meteorological data from the Met Office AIMMS-30 instrument on board the JADE-one Dimona aircraft. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 15 May 2025. doi:10.5285/e8ff943a6e304f8584ce0fb805974754. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/e8ff943a6e304f8584ce0fb805974754
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: aircraft, temperature, dew point, pressure, humidity, winds, water vapour, water, vapor
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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(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). |
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Data are as supplied by the project team. No quality conformance information is available
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Process overview
This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Met Office-JADE Aimms-30 | Deployed on: JADE-one Dimona |
| Output Description | None |
- units: m
- standard_name: altitude
- var_id: altitude_gps
- long_name: Altitude from GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: Time_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for Time
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: air_pressure_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for air_pressure
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: altitude_gps_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for altitude_gps
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: altitude_gps_rate_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for altitude_gps_rate
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: dew_point_temperature_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for dew_point_temperature
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: eastward_air_velocity_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for eastward_air_velocity
- units: 1
- var_id: latitude_flag
- standard_name: quality_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for latitude
- units: 1
- var_id: longitude_flag
- standard_name: quality_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for longitude
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: northward_air_velocity_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for northward_air_velocity
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: platform_pitch_angle_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for platform_pitch_angle
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: platform_pitch_angle_rate_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for platform_pitch_angle_rate
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: platform_roll_angle_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for platform_roll_angle
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: platform_roll_angle_rate_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for platform_roll_angle_rate
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: platform_yaw_angle_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for platform_yaw_angle
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: platform_yaw_angle_rate_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for platform_yaw_angle_rate
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: potential_temperature_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for potential_temperature
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: relative_humidity_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for relative_humidity
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: specific_humidity_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for specific_humidity
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: temperature_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for temperature
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: true_air_speed_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for true_air_speed
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: vertical_air_velocity_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for vertical_air_velocity
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: wind_from_direction_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for wind_from_direction
- units: 1
- standard_name: quality_flag
- var_id: wind_speed_flag
- long_name: Data quality flag for wind_speed
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: eastward_wind
- var_id: eastward_air_velocity
- long_name: Eastward wnd component from turbulence probe
- units: degree
- standard_name: platform_yaw_angle
- var_id: platform_yaw_angle
- long_name: Heading from GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: northward_wind
- var_id: northward_air_velocity
- long_name: Northward wind component from turbulence probe
- units: degree
- standard_name: platform_pitch_angle
- var_id: platform_pitch_angle
- long_name: Pitch angle from GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: 1
- standard_name: relative_humidity
- var_id: relative_humidity
- long_name: Relative humidity wrt liquid water
- units: degree
- standard_name: platform_roll_angle
- var_id: platform_roll_angle
- long_name: Roll angle from GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: hPa
- standard_name: air_pressure
- var_id: air_pressure
- long_name: Static pressure from turbulence probe
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: platform_speed_wrt_air
- var_id: true_air_speed
- long_name: True air speed from turbulence probe and GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: K
- standard_name: air_temperature
- var_id: temperature
- long_name: True air temperature
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: upward_air_velocity
- var_id: vertical_air_velocity
- long_name: Vertical wind component from turbulence probe
- units: degree
- standard_name: wind_from_direction
- var_id: wind_from_direction
- long_name: Wind direction from turbulence probe and GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: wind_speed
- var_id: wind_speed
- long_name: Wind speed from turbulence probe and GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: K
- standard_name: air_potential_temperature
- var_id: potential_temperature
- long_name: air potential temperature
- units: K
- long_name: dew point temperature
- standard_name: dew_point_temperature
- var_id: dew_point_temperature
- var_id: not_straight_and_level
- long_name: not straight and level indicator mask
- units: m/s
- var_id: altitude_gps_rate
- long_name: rate of change of GPS altitude
- var_id: platform_pitch_angle_rate
- long_name: rate of change of platform pitch angle
- units: degree/s
- units: degree/s
- var_id: platform_roll_angle_rate
- long_name: rate of change of platform roll angle
- units: degree/s
- var_id: platform_yaw_angle_rate
- long_name: rate of change of platform yaw angle
- units: g/kg
- standard_name: specific_humidity
- var_id: specific_humidity
- long_name: specific humidity
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude
- long_name: Latitude from GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude
- long_name: Longitude from GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit
- standard_name: time
- var_id: Time
- units: seconds
- long_name: Time of measurement
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2023-06-09T13:17:42
End time:
2023-07-25T13:46:41
Geographic Extent
51.6738° |
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-2.6984° |
-1.1407° |
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50.8213° |
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