Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) Aircraft Data for the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) Project

The Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) was a US-led international project to study trade wind cumulus clouds in the Caribbean. The main objective was to characterise and understand the properties of trade wind cumulus at all scales, with particular emphasis on understanding the warm rain process and determining its importance. The field campaign took place near Antigua and Barbuda from the 17th of November 2004 to the 24th of January 2005. The UK participation to RICO involved ground-based measurements and the use of the FAAM aircraft based at Antigua, from the 5th to the 28th of January 2005.

Date (Publication): 2005-12-10T03:15:22

Date (Creation): 2005-12-10T03:15:22

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/93b710753c2da8e02b19518bd0dce2a6

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 93b710753c2da8e02b19518bd0dce2a6

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)		unknown	Author
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Unavailable	Blyth, Alan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Brown, Phil	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

RICO
FAAM
Precipitation
Wind
CLouds

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2005-01-05T09:12:58

End date: 2005-01-28T16:54:16

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Distributor contact

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/93b710753c2da8e02b19518bd0dce2a6	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/conditions/rico.html	RICO Conditions of Use

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/rico/	RICO Portal at UCAR

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/icas/clouds/current/rico.htm	RICO-UK website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/rico/documents/RICO_SOD_Submitted_to_NSF.pdf	Rain in cumulus over the ocean experiment document

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/rico	Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_data_catalogue.html	FAAM Archive Population - showing flights 2011 onwards

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/campaigns.html	BADC Doc: List of FAAM Campaigns

Hierarchy level: Series

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

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File identifier: 93b710753c2da8e02b19518bd0dce2a6 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:26:09

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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