Bolton Experiment: Microwave, Radar link attenuation and Raingauge data

The Bolton Experiment: An Experimental Test of the Use of Microwave Attenuation to improve Rainfall Estimates in Urban Areas, and hence to Enhance Flood Warning

The Bolton Experiment was a NERC project with matching funds from industry which took place between 1999 and 2002.It was a collaboration between the University of Essex (Propagation and Remote Sensing group, the University of Salford (Telford Research Institute), and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Radiocommunications Research Unit) and the industrial partners North West Water Plc and Norweb Communications (both companies of United Utilities), the UK Meteorological Office, The Environment Agency and Crown Castle International.

The purpose of the study is to test the proposal developed at Essex, in conjunction with RAL, that the difference in attenuation at two microwave frequencies along a given path provides an accurate estimate of path-integrated rainfall rate, and to investigate its application to hydrological studies of urban catchments.

The catchment selected for study is the Bolton catchment, in which the town is largely surrounded by hills, and the River Croal is carried in culverts in the town centre. Four microwave links will be set up, three of them dual frequency and one single frequency. In addition to data from microwave links and radar, there will also be data available from a number of telemetered tipping bucket raingauges.

The dataset contains microwave, raingauge and radar data. It also contains data analysis to extract information from the link attenuation data on path-averaged rainfall rate, and comparison with the results with those obtained from the raingauges and the radar. The dataset is now public.

Date (Publication): 2006-12-10T02:36:42

Date (Creation): 2006-12-10T02:36:42

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/569bc9a4b454f779e8a11e9ed3f621ef

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 569bc9a4b454f779e8a11e9ed3f621ef

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Holt, A.R.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Upton, G.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Rahimi, A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Baxter, P.	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
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

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bolton
attenuation
raingauge
microwave
radar

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2001-04-04T23:00:00

End date: 2001-04-07T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/569bc9a4b454f779e8a11e9ed3f621ef	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/bolton/data/00table-of-data.html	Data Archive for the Bolton Project

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/bolton/publications.html	BADC Doc: Bolton Experiment List of Publications

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	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/bolton/acknowledge.html	BADC Doc: How to acknowledge Bolton Experiment data

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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

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Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:26:38

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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