INCOMPASS: India Meteorology Department Doppler radar convective cell statistics v2

This dataset contains radar-derived measurements of cell-top height, size, 2 km reflectivity, and cell latitude and longitude from all convective cells between 14 May and 30 September 2016, where radar is available. The data was collected as part of the NERC/MoES Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS) field campaign.

The seven sites analysed here represent four different Indian climate regions, allowing the study of the spatiotemporal development of convection during the 2016 monsoon season at high (1 km) resolution. Variation in these different cell statistics are found over timescales of variability such as the diurnal cycle, active-break periods, and monsoon progression.

The updated radar-derived cell statistics here have been corrected from the previous version by removing all convective cells that touch the outer edge of the radar domain.

The data were collected as part of the INCOMPASS field campaign May-July 2016, funded by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) (NE/L01386X/1). The aim of the project was to improve the skill of rainfall prediction in operational weather and climate models by way of better understanding and representation of interactions between the land surface, boundary layer, convection, the large-scale environment and monsoon variability on a range of scales.

Date (Publication): 2021-03-11T14:40:22

Date (Creation): 2021-03-11T14:40:22

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b28633ddc0f44d77a6aa81ad7bd66285

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / b28633ddc0f44d77a6aa81ad7bd66285

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/b28633ddc0f44d77a6aa81ad7bd66285

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Doyle, Alex	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Stein, Thorwald	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Turner, Andrew G.	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Turner, Andrew G.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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NERC
INCOMPASS
monsoon
radar
cells

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2016-05-14T00:00:00

End date: 2016-09-30T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b28633ddc0f44d77a6aa81ad7bd66285	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/sa-monsoon/data/incompass/v2-convective-cells	DOWNLOAD

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	https://mausam.imd.gov.in/imd_latest/contents/index_radar.php	IMD Doppler radars

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	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/NUMXWG4VUTQRK76NYPFB?target=10.1029/2021JD035496	Paper: 2016 Monsoon Convection and its place in the Large-Scale Circulation using Doppler Radars A. J. Doyle,T. H. M. Stein,A. G. Turner

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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

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Parent identifier: INCOMPASS: radiosonde and in-situ airborne observations by the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft
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Date stamp: 2025-06-15T02:20:56

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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