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Rothera meteor radar data, Rothera Station, Antarctica, 2005-2007
The Skiymet meteor radar was deployed at Rothera (68S, 68W) in Feb 2005. The radar measures the winds, waves and tides of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) regions of the atmosphere. The radar routinely makes three types of measurement: 1. horizontal winds at heights of ~ 75 - 105 km from the drifting of meteors as they are carried by the winds of the MLT; 2. atmospheric temperature from the decay rate of meteor echoes; 3. meteor fluxes, derived from several thousand meteors per day.
The radar has been used with an existing, identical, radar in the Arctic at the conjugate latitude of 68N, 21E (Esrange) to produce accurate climatologies of winds, waves and tides - and to quantify the differences between the Antarctic and Arctic MLT (using identical radars eliminates otherwise problematic measurement biases). Other studies will carefully examine meteor/MF-radar instrument biases and apply a developing technique to continually measure temperature using the decay rate of meteor echoes. The radar complements the existing OH temperature spectrometer and imaging airglow camera at Rothera.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2007-11-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2007-11-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2007-11-01
- Date (released)
- 2007-11-01
- Edition
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1
- Unique resource identifier
- 4ad54b7c-f4a2-4ebf-adfe-64ef558e7cf9
- Codespace
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uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00287
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- Other citation details
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Please cite this item as: None
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey Espy, Patrick
Author University of Bath
Mitchell, Nicholas
Author University of Bath
Younger, Peter
Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Upper Level Winds
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Cross-section
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Reflectivity
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Return Power
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Sensor Counts
- EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature
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Atmospheric conditions
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horizontal winds
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mesosphere
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meteor fluxes
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meteor radar
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radar biases
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thermosphere
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waves and tides
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- Place
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Rothera Antarctica
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
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- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
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- url
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url
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- Larger work citation
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2005-02-14
- End date
- 2007-04-18
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
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bytes
- Transfer size
- 1
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- Dataset
- Statement
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Methodology:
This project is part of the WFL programme
Data quality:
The radar has operated faultlessly from first operation on 14 February 2005.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4ad54b7c-f4a2-4ebf-adfe-64ef558e7cf9 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2007-11-01
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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