Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): Met Office Radiometrics MP3000 profling radiometer at Linkenholt, UK

The data were collected by the Met Office’s Radiometrics TP/WVP-3000 which was deployed to Linkenholt on 13 June until 21 September 2005. The dataset contains plots of temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and rainfall amount.

It was initially configured to view in the zenith direction with very high time resolution (~12 s). All channels also viewed the internal black body target for relative calibration, initially every 5 minutes. However, initially this did not take place between 11 – 13 UTC due to a configuration error, which was corrected on 8 July 2005. Prior to this date, the calibration of data around noon is prone to drift.

The radiometer ran continuously in this mode until 20 July 2005, when it was re-configured to alternative between zenith views and internal black body calibration views in a 30 s cycle because of concerns over the drift in calibration over the previous 5 minute calibration period.

There was a power outage on 2 August 2005 from 0730 – 0946 UTC when no radiometer data was available.

Date (Publication): 2006-08-17T13:57:45

Date (Creation): 2006-08-17T13:57:45

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/307f3be807331cc534223b11ef0ff9ca

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 307f3be807331cc534223b11ef0ff9ca

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Hewison, Tim	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	Blyth, Alan	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

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CSIP
Met Office
temperature
relative humidity
pressure

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atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2005-06-12T23:00:00

End date: 2005-09-20T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/307f3be807331cc534223b11ef0ff9ca	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/csip/data/metoffice-radiom-mp3000	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/e/a/No._13_-_Upper_Air_Measurements.pdf	Met office Fact Sheet Upper Air Observations

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/csip/data/metoffice-radiom-mp3000/readme.doc	Brightness temperatures and neural network retrievals from Radiometrics MP3000 Microwave Radiometer document by Tim Hewison (Met Office)

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 from the UK Met Office were supplied to the Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) participants and then to the BADC for archiving.

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File identifier: 307f3be807331cc534223b11ef0ff9ca XML

Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): surface, remotely sensed and airborne atmospheric measurements collection
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:01:39

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

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