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Dataset

 

BBUBL: airborne meteorological measurements from various avian sensor packages for flights in 2018-19 over the Birmingham conurbation

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2023-02-14
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2023-03-03
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 102 Files | 97MB

Abstract

This dataset contains data from Avian-Meteorology-Instrument Packages (AvMIPs) from a series of flights over Birmingham as part of the Biotelemetry/Bio-aerial-platforms for the Urban Boundary Layer (BBUBL) project (NERC grant: NE/N003195/1), also known as City Flocks. The flights took place in 2018 and 2019.

The BBUBL project utilised Biotelemetry/bio-aerial-platforms as a novel and practicable solution to the data paucity above urban rooftops in the Urban Boundary Layer. The project developed a suite of low-cost Avian-Meteorology-Instrument Packages (AvMIPs) for ensemble deployment in Birmingham as a suitably large and heterogeneous test case.

A range of different sensor packages were used which were subsequently further characterised through air-tunnel tests. See Thomas et al. (2018) citation (DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0181.1) listed in the online resources section of this record for further details, including a precursor system flown on a larger bird species. In summary, temperature sensors were compared against U.K. Accreditation Service (UKAS)-accredited sensors in a controlled temperature chamber (WKL 34/40; Weiss Technik, Belgium and Germany) and in ambient conditions at the University of Birmingham weather station.

Additional material by Thomas et al. (2018) included in the online resource section of this record provide additional material regarding the project and instrumentation usage.

Note, within the data there are a range of sensor packet and bird IDs used to denote the different bird-sensor package combinations used. A range of sensor packets were used, with one lost and others found unusable, resulting in the sensor packet numbers shown in the data. Bird ID were taken from the bird ring numbers unless clashes existed, in which case an alternative two digit number was used, therefore are not consecutive and no other data from other bird and sensor package combinations are available.

Citable as:  Thomas, R.M.; Zhong, J.; Cai, X.; Cropley, F.; Dai, Y.; Chapman, L.; MacKenzie, A.R.; Reynolds, S.J.; Sadler, J.; Quinn, A.D. (2023): BBUBL: airborne meteorological measurements from various avian sensor packages for flights in 2018-19 over the Birmingham conurbation. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. doi:10.5285/f5a2bbcadec2428cab157653a7039919. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/f5a2bbcadec2428cab157653a7039919
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: avian, meteorology, urban

Details

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Data lineage:

Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

Data Quality:
Sensor data characteristics and calibrations performed in wind tunnel prior to data preparation and delivery for long term archiving with the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
File Format:
Data are netCDF formatted.

Process overview

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

None

  • units: 1
  • long_name: Date and Time
  • var_id: DateTime
  • long_name: Day
  • units: day
  • var_id: day
  • long_name: Hour
  • units: hour
  • var_id: hour
  • units: minute
  • long_name: Minutes
  • var_id: minute
  • long_name: Month
  • units: month
  • var_id: month
  • units: s
  • long_name: Seconds
  • var_id: second
  • long_name: Year
  • var_id: year
  • units: year
  • units: K
  • standard_name: air_temperature
  • var_id: temperature
  • long_name: air temperature
  • units: degree
  • var_id: heading
  • standard_name: direction_of_radial_vector_away_from_instrument
  • long_name: bird heading
  • units: m
  • standard_name: altitude
  • var_id: altitude
  • long_name: geometric height above geoid (wgs84)
  • units: m s-1
  • standard_name: platform_speed_wrt_ground
  • var_id: platformSpeed
  • long_name: platform speed
  • units: 1
  • standard_name: relative_humidity
  • long_name: relative humidity
  • var_id: RH
  • long_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • units: 1

Co-ordinate Variables

  • standard_name: time
  • units: seconds
  • var_id: time_utc
  • long_name: Time (seconds since 2019-05-21 12:53:02.601)
  • standard_name: time
  • units: seconds
  • var_id: time_utc
  • long_name: Time (seconds since 2019-06-20 08:45:13.000)
  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2018-08-16T12:08:00
End time:
2019-08-30T07:37:11
Geographic Extent

 
52.8473°
 
-2.5308°
 
-1.2613°
 
52.1007°