CEDA Metadata Catalogue
Met Office high resolution radiosonde data from the UK, Gibraltar, St Helena and the Falkland Islands
High resolution radiosonde data from UK stations and also from Gibraltar, St Helena and the Falklands.
The data consist of vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity, humidity mixing ratio, sonde position, wind speed and wind direction. Measurements are taken at 2 second intervals and the ascents extend to heights of approximately 20-30 km.
The archive has around 10 stations with data from the 1990's, generally with either 2 or 4 ascents per day from each station until around 2020 where routine observations decrease to 1 a day from 6 main sites with additional ascents as required.
Additionally, data from Aberporth, obtained to support observations at the MST Radar, Aberystwyth, are also available from April 1990 - April 2000 with at least one ascent a day and then as required operationally thereafter.
For details of sites see station record details linked to each dataset within this collection.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-12-10T03:09:09
- Date (Creation)
- 2006-12-10T03:09:09
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / c1e2240c353f8edeb98087e90e6d832e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Series
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- radiosonde
- upper air
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1990-03-01T11:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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Contact data centre for format details.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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Sounding data file formats for PC-based Systems
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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PC-CORA file format structure documentation
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Radiosonde data help file
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Standard level radiosonde data from global stations also archived at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- c1e2240c353f8edeb98087e90e6d832e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-12T23:46:27
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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