Met Office: 64 MHz ST vertical wind profiler measurements at South Uist, UK (2004 - 2012)

The Met Office's 64 MHz ST (stratosphere-troposphere) wind profiler was installed at the Met Office South Uist range meteorological station, Hebrides, in May 2003. The radar complements the MST radar located near Abersywyth, providing greater vertical coverage than the other wind profiling radars in the Met Office's UK "Operational Upper Air Network." Operating at 64 Mhz, the South Uist 64 Mhz radar runs typically sounds from 1 to 13 km with a heigh resolution of either 150 or 400m, depending on the mode of operation. The site is located at 57.353 N, 7.375 W and at a height of 4 m above mean sea-level and has a WMO id of 03019. It had a beam angle of 15.0 degrees and is operated with an averaging period of 30 minutes.

This dataset contains vertical wind profiles from the 64MHz wind profiler located at Camborne.

Date (Publication): 2003-11-16T15:55:12

Date (Creation): 2003-11-16T15:55:12

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3ca88ef5aca50e29b257ffaff3a047ab

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 3ca88ef5aca50e29b257ffaff3a047ab

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Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	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
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	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: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Met Office
wind

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2004-05-30T23:00:00

End date: 2012-05-10T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data availability and file format These instruments make observations in two interlaced modes; the low mode covers the approximate altitude range 0.1 - 2.0 km at 0.1 km intervals, and the high mode covers the approximate altitude range 0.2 - 8.0 km at 0.2 km intervals. The useful altitude coverage varies with atmospheric conditions and only extends significantly above 2 km when precipitation is present. Although the cycle time for observations is of the order of a few minutes, the data used by the Met Office represent "consensus averages" over 30 minutes. The data held at the BADC, are stored in a simple ASCII format (plain text and "human" readable). A detailed description of the file structure is available.

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Data availability and file format

These instruments make observations in two interlaced modes; the low mode covers the approximate altitude range 0.1 - 2.0 km at 0.1 km intervals, and the high mode covers the approximate altitude range 0.2 - 8.0 km at 0.2 km intervals. The useful altitude coverage varies with atmospheric conditions and only extends significantly above 2 km when precipitation is present. Although the cycle time for observations is of the order of a few minutes, the data used by the Met Office represent "consensus averages" over 30 minutes.

The data held at the BADC, are stored in a simple ASCII format (plain text and "human" readable). A detailed description of the file structure

is available.

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/3ca88ef5aca50e29b257ffaff3a047ab	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-wind-prof/data/south-uist64	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/ukmo-wind-prof/instruments.html	BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format

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 collected at various sites around the UK by the Met Office as part of the operational upper air network. A copy of the Met Office wind profiler data were then prepared and sent through to the BADC for use by the wider research community.

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File identifier: 3ca88ef5aca50e29b257ffaff3a047ab XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Met Office vertical wind profiler measurements for the British Isles (1998-2012)
9b37cafea3a1fa3e6f69b3a85c46ee5c

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-15T03:01:55

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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