8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 series series NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-30T02:30:10 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 MICROphysicS of COnvective PrEcipitation (MICROSCOPE) project: In-situ airborne atmospheric and ground-based radar measurements 2013-07-02T13:22:14 publication 2013-07-02T13:22:14 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278 8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278 NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) 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. Blyth, Alan Unavailable author Unavailable author Bennett, Lindsay Unavailable author Unavailable author Choularton, Tom W. Unavailable author Unavailable author Illingworth, Anthony J. Unavailable author Unavailable author Norton, Emily G. Unavailable author Unavailable author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk publisher unknown series MICROSCOPE precipitation radar convection atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user. otherRestrictions 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. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -6.952878952026367 2.2111921 49.636 53.359314 2013-06-25T06:05:22 2013-08-31T23:59:00 Contact data centre for format details. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8440933238f72f27762005c33d2aa278 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/conditions/microscope.html MicrosCOPE conditions of use No further details. information http://www.ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/cope-science NCAS COPE webpage No further details. information http://www.ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/cope-blog COPE Blog No further details. information http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/publicsector/emergencies/civil_contingency_aircraft MOCCA Aircraft No further details. information http://www.faam.ac.uk/ FAAM Aircraft No further details. information series 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 2010-12-08 Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.