Fennec automatic weather station (AWS) data from the Saharan Desert between 2011-2013

Data were collected under the NERC funded project - Fennec -The Saharan Climate System. The project was lead by the University of Oxford and involved the Universities of Leeds, Reading, Sussex and the UK Met Office. Fennec investigated the Saharan climate system and the role of dust aerosols, involving a unique surface and aircraft field campaign with the FAAM BAe-146.

Various meteorological variables were collected at 3 min 20 second intervals, between 2011 and 2013 at 8 Automatic Weather Stations. Parameters include: 1m pressure, 3 min 20 sec mean 2m windspeed (sonic and cup anemometers), number of windspeeds sampled, variance of windspeed in sample, skew of windspeed in sample, 2m relative humidity, 2 temperature, soil temperature (2 depths), ground flux, shortwave radiation up and down, longwave radiation up and down.

Specific station locations are stated both in the data files and the CEDA platform record. One station had to be moved after the first year, hence there are 9 station locations listed.

Due to harsh environmental conditions a number of the AWS stopped operating after deployment. Additional information regarding instrument issues and missing data can be found in a PDF on the CEDA archive.

Date (Publication): 2017-05-23T14:18:43

Date (Creation): 2017-05-23T14:18:43

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Roberts, Alexander	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Roberts, Alexander	Unavailable	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Fennec
Sahara
Desert
AWS
surface pressure
2 m windspeed
2 m relative humidity
2 m temperature
soil temperature
ground flux
shortwave radiation
longwave radiation

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2011-05-23T23:00:00

End date: 2013-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The data comprise 22 NetCDF data files and 1 .pdf file which provides additional information about instrument issues.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/fennec/data/leeds-aws-f	DOWNLOAD

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: AWSs were designed and built at the University of Leeds and then deployed to 8 stations in the Sahara. Data were transmitted via satellite link to the University of Leeds where post-processing occurred. Data were then passed to CEDA for long term archival.