Rothera meteor radar data, Rothera Station, Antarctica, 2005-2007

The Skiymet meteor radar was deployed at Rothera (68S, 68W) in Feb 2005. The radar measures the winds, waves and tides of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) regions of the atmosphere. The radar routinely makes three types of measurement: 1. horizontal winds at heights of ~ 75 - 105 km from the drifting of meteors as they are carried by the winds of the MLT; 2. atmospheric temperature from the decay rate of meteor echoes; 3. meteor fluxes, derived from several thousand meteors per day.



The radar has been used with an existing, identical, radar in the Arctic at the conjugate latitude of 68N, 21E (Esrange) to produce accurate climatologies of winds, waves and tides - and to quantify the differences between the Antarctic and Arctic MLT (using identical radars eliminates otherwise problematic measurement biases). Other studies will carefully examine meteor/MF-radar instrument biases and apply a developing technique to continually measure temperature using the decay rate of meteor echoes. The radar complements the existing OH temperature spectrometer and imaging airglow camera at Rothera.

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Alternate title

Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00287
Date (Publication)
2022-03-22
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00287
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

British Antarctic Survey

Polar Data Centre

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Upper Level Winds

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Cross-section

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Reflectivity

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Return Power

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Sensor Counts

INSPIRE themes

  • Atmospheric conditions

BAS Free-text keywords

  • horizontal winds

  • mesosphere

  • meteor fluxes

  • meteor radar

  • radar biases

  • thermosphere

  • waves and tides
Use limitation

This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy
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Other restrictions
Other constraints

This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy
Language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2005-02-14
End date
2007-04-18
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
    Pass
    No
    Statement

    The radar has operated faultlessly from first operation on 14 February 2005.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00287 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2022-03-22
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00287

     
     

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