Vertical wind profile data from 4th December 2003 to 8th March 2004 measured by the University of Manchester 1290 mhz mobile wind profiler deployed on long term observations at Capel Dewi, Wales
Vertical profiles of horizontal and vertical wind components as well as signal-to-noise (SNR) and spectal width measurements were collected at the NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere radar facility site, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, between 4th December 2003 to 8th March 2004 as part of ongoing long term observations made by the NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). These data were collected by the NCAS Atmospheric Measreument Facility's (AMF) 1290 MHz Mobile Wind Profiler, owned and operated by the University of Manchester and previously known as the aber-radar-1290mhz at the time of these observations. The data are available at 15 minute intervals as netCDF files to all registered BADC users under the Open Government License.
The dataset contains the following measurements:
Eastward wind velocity component
Northward wind velocity component
Upward air velocity
Direction the wind is from
Signal to noise ratio
Altitude of instrument above the ground
Longitude of instrument
Latitude of instrument
Spectral width
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10T17:09:31
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-12-10T17:09:31
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f8d7debd5998cfc91be47bc1c9c8c74e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- NCAS
- AMF
- radar
- wind profiler
- boundary layer wind profiler
- turbulence
- thermals
- boundary layer structure
- radar wind profiler
- Doppler radar
- UHF radar
- 'Clear' air radar
- morning transition
- convective boundary layer
- mixed layer
- entrainment zone
- transitional boundary layer
- nocturnal boundary layer
- lower level jet
- nocturnal jet
- weather fronts
- sting jets
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2003-12-04T00:00:00
- End date
- 2004-03-08T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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- OnLine resource
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Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were collected by the wind profiler before being processed by the instrument scientist, Emily Norton, and then provided to the BADC for archiving.
- File identifier
- f8d7debd5998cfc91be47bc1c9c8c74e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- NCAS Long Term Observations of atmospheric dynamics and composition a0c7a4c46a83992cfdf9820a4b253923
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-19T23:31:57
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3