Vertical wind profile data from 15th April to 19th April 2004 measured by the University of Manchester 1290 mhz mobile wind profiler deployed on long term observations at Met Office Research Unit, Cardington, Bedfordshire

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operates a suite of instrumentation to monitor the atmospheric dynamics and composition of the atmosphere. This dataset brings together all the long term routine observations made by NCAS instruments covering surface based instruments as well as remote sensing instruments such as radars and lidars. Some of the instruments may also be deployed elsehwere on field campaigns, for which the data will be available under the associated field campaign dataset. Links are also available to pages describing the instruments from which links to all data from that particular instrument can be found.

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

Date (Publication): 2013-12-10T17:17:47

Date (Creation): 2013-12-10T17:17:47

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1a4c08083b930e167ad9fba6d2087ee4

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 1a4c08083b930e167ad9fba6d2087ee4

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Norton, Emily G.	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Vaughan, Geraint	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

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

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2004-04-14T23:00:00

End date: 2004-04-18T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are netCDF formatted.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1a4c08083b930e167ad9fba6d2087ee4	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ncas-longterm-obs/data/man-radar-1290mhz/20040415-20040419	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/	Open Government License

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

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.