British Antarctic Survey: high resolution radiosonde data from the Halley station

High resolution radiosonde data from the British Antarctic Survey's Halley station. The data consists of vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity, humidity mixing ratio, radiosonde 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 data from 2008 and generally there is 1 ascent per day from the station.

Date (Publication): 2008-09-22T15:15:00

Date (Creation): 2008-09-22T15:15:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)	unknown	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
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	unknown	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: Daily

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

BAS
Radiosonde

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/bas.pdf, 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: 2001-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The data are in the Vaisala PC-CORA binary format. Software to read these data is available from the linked documentation.

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/2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/bas/data/halley	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bas.ac.uk/	The British Antarctic Survey website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/conditions/bas.html	BAS radiosonde data license

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.49711951006/abstract	Connolley, W.M. and J.C. King. 1993. Atmospheric water-vapour transport to Antarctica inferred from radiosonde data. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 119, 325-342

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/bas/software/	British Antarctic Survey Software documentation

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-rad-hires/doc/edt_format.pdf	British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation version 2

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-rad-hires/pc-coradata.html	British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/radiosonde/radhelp.html	BADC Doc: Radiosonde Help File

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 are collected at the Halley and Rothera stations before being sent through to BAS, Cambridge. A script runs daily at the BADC to retrieve the latest data from BAS by checking the last 7 days. Once data have been transferred to the BADC they are ingested immediately and made available to users.

Radiosonde data from Antarctic stations from the database of Connolley and King (1993) was provided by W. M. Connolley at the British Antarctic Survey, http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/data/wmc-radiosonde-export/, through the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), http://badc.nerc.ac.uk.

Metadata

File identifier: 2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: British Antarctic Survey: high resolution radiosonde data from Halley and Rothera stations
37f2bef57e28bcd780a5cbfe077f4bf8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-05T03:00:34

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

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

Overviews

Spatial extent

Provided by

Access to the catalogue

Read here the full details and access to the data.

Simple

Conformance result

Metadata

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

Provided by

Share on social sites