MICROphysicS of COnvective PrEcipitation (MICROSCOPE) project: In-situ airborne atmospheric and ground-based radar measurements

This dataset collection brings together the datasets produced from the MICROphysicS of COnvective PrEcipitation (MICROSCOPE) project, the NERC funded part of the wider COPE (COnvective Precipitation Experiment) project. COPE was led by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the UK Met Office, and involved scientists at the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Reading, as well as international partners from the Universities of Purdue and Wyoming. As part of COPE, MICROSCOPE sought to improve predictions of severe convective rainfall by addressing the problem of the microphysics of precipitation in convective clouds. Data were collected during the project over Cornwall and Devon, UK, during July and August 2013 to study the clouds. Three research aircraft (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) BAe146, Met Office Civil Contingency Aircraft (MOCCA) and University of Wyoming King Air), a ground-based radar and several other ground-based instruments took measurements of exactly how the rain forms and develops. The aircraft were equipped with instruments that can distinguish between liquid and solid particles at 200 mph, for example. A major objective was to find these needles in the haystack – the first few ice crystals that form in amongst the hundreds of cloud droplets per every cubic centimetre of cloud.

Date (Publication): 2013-07-02T13:22:14

Date (Creation): 2013-07-02T13:22:14

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Blyth, Alan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Bennett, Lindsay	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Choularton, Tom W.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Illingworth, Anthony J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Norton, Emily G.	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

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

MICROSCOPE
precipitation
radar
convection

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.

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: 2013-06-25T06:05:22

End date: 2013-08-31T23:59:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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/8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/conditions/microscope.html	MicrosCOPE conditions of use

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/cope-science	NCAS COPE webpage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/cope-blog	COPE Blog

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/publicsector/emergencies/civil_contingency_aircraft	MOCCA Aircraft

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.faam.ac.uk/	FAAM Aircraft

Hierarchy level: Series

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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: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-09T02:27:12

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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