NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: Surface Meteorological Data, Capel Dewi site, Wales

Surface meteorological data are measured by a number of instruments deployed at the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in West Wales. This dataset consists of data collected by the following suite instruments connected to a Campbell Scientific CR10 Climate Data Logger: Campbell Scientific 107 thermistor temperature probe mounted inside an URS1 unaspirated radiation shield. Accuracy: +/- 0.4 degrees C. Vaisala PTB101B barometric pressure sensor. Accuracy: +/- 2.0 hPa. Vaisala HMP45C temperature and relative humidity probe (from which only the humidity measurements are used) mounted inside an URS1 un-aspirated radiation shield. Accuracy: +/- 0.3%. Environmental Measurements ARG100 tipping bucket raingauge. Kipp and Zonen CM3 thermopile pyranometer (WMO second class). Accuracy: +/- 0.5%. The raingauge is located on the ground. All other sensors are mounted on a post approximately 1 m above the ground.

The data logger initially samples the atmospheric temperature, pressure and humidity sensors at 5 s intervals. Mean values are calculated over each 60 s and the outputs from the logger represent minima, means and maxima of these 60 s means over each 10 minute sample period. The data logger is connected to a tipping bucket raingauge (sampled every 1 s, and recording tips for each 0.20 mm accumulation of rain); pyranometer (sampled every every 5 s, recording the down-welling radiation within a hemispheric field of view with a flat response in the spectral range 305 - 2800 nm);

The data are available in NASA-Ames formatted files.

Independent surface meteorological data are also available from the Vaisala WXT510 instrument also located at the site and are available in the wxt510-precipitation and PTU datasets.

Date (Publication): 2007-03-15T23:52:33

Date (Creation): 2007-03-15T23:52:33

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/51234b47e27aa55e50f8e2eb44927c1e

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 51234b47e27aa55e50f8e2eb44927c1e

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere Radar Facility at Aberystwyth (MSTRF)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Hooper, David A.	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
Unavailable	Hooper, David A.	Unavailable	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Daily

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

MST
meteorology
surface
2m
pressure
temperature
humidity

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2000-07-24T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Data are available in NASA-Ames formatted files.

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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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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/51234b47e27aa55e50f8e2eb44927c1e	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/mst/data/surface-met	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://mst.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mstlog_public/mst_event_search.py	MST radar facility instrument performance log

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/mst/plots/surface-met	MST Radar Facility surface meteorology plots

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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 acquired by the MST radar facility and sent to the BADC within an hour of acquisition. Data are then immediately ingested into the BADC archives.

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File identifier: 51234b47e27aa55e50f8e2eb44927c1e XML

Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: surface and upper air meteorology measurements from Aberystwyth, mid-Wales
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

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

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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