Dataset
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project: Sonic Detection And Ranging measurements from Leeds SODAR1
Abstract
An international long-term collaboration to study the climatic and environmental feedback mechanisms involved in the African monsoon, and in some of its consequences on society and human health. The programme, which started in 2004, has developed a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-Saharan West Africa to measure heat flux and, for some stations, CO2 and H2O vapour fluxes. Files also include concomitant meteorological measurements (wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall) and soil physics parameters (soil temperature and moisture). The UK branch of AMMA makes use of several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) which are centred on the Niamey meso-site. The Facility for Airbourne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft was used during the July-August 2006 campaign.
Details
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11683590616812276
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| 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://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 from 2004 by a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-saharan West Africa, several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM), and by the FAAM aircraft which was used during July-August 2006. |
| Data Quality: |
Research data
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| File Format: |
Data are NetCDF formatted
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| University of Leeds: SODAR no. 1 | Deployed on: Banizoumbou, Africa |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Backscatter amplitude(dB) (NO Rangecorrection)
- var_id: backscatter1
- long_name: Backscatter amplitude(dB)(Range corrected)
- var_id: backscatter2
- units: m s-1
- long_name: H (m/s)
- standard_name: wind_speed
- var_id: wind_speed
- units: degree
- long_name: H direction (degrees)
- standard_name: wind_from_direction
- var_id: wind_from_direction
- units: m s-1
- long_name: U (m/s)
- standard_name: eastward_wind
- var_id: eastward_wind
- units: m s-1
- long_name: V (m/s)
- standard_name: northward_wind
- var_id: northward_wind
- units: m s-1
- long_name: W (m/s)
- standard_name: upward_air_velocity
- var_id: upward_wind
- units: m
- long_name: Z (m)
- standard_name: altitude
- var_id: altitude
Co-ordinate Variables
- long_name: time
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
Temporal Range
2006-05-25T23:00:00
2006-08-16T23:00:00
Geographic Extent
40.0000° |
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-20.0000° |
50.0000° |
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-40.0000° |