Wardon Hill C-band rain radar 5 km rainfall rate data

5 km resolution rain rate data from Met Office's Wardon Hill C-band rain radar, Dorset, England as part of the NIMROD, very short range forecasting system used by the Met Office. 5 km rain rate data are available from 2006 until present. Radar images from the C-band (5.3 cm wavelength) radar are received by the Nimrod system 5 minute intervals respectively.

Please note that this radar is operated for research purposes only and thus subject to changes in operation and data are subject to interruptions.

Data from the Cobbacombe Cross, Dean Hill or Jersey radars provide coverage for the same area covered by the Wardon Hill radar.

Date (Publication): 2011-02-21T00:00:00

Date (Creation): 2011-02-21T00:00:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/befddc832f8947e8834188df4661565d

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / befddc832f8947e8834188df4661565d

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	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
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Principal investigator
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: Continual

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Met Office
NIMROD
rain radar

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: 2006-07-26T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
NIMROD product data are in the non-standard NIMROD binary format. Refer to linked documentation for further details.

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/befddc832f8947e8834188df4661565d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-nimrod/data/single-site/wardon-hill/5km/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-nimrod/doc/radar_products_description.pdf	Product description table

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/nimrod/factsheet15.pdf	Met Office Weather Radar Factsheet

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-nimrod/doc/Nimrod_File_Format_v1.7.pdf	NIMROD format document

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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

Statement: Data are acquired from rain radar network in the UK and Europe by the Met Office's NIMROD system. Composite products (images and data) and single site data are then sent to the BADC by the Met Office's DART operational dissemination system. Raw polar data from single sites are sent through from the RADARNET team at the Met Office. On arrival at the BADC the data are ingested after a one day quarantine.

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File identifier: befddc832f8947e8834188df4661565d XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Met Office Rain Radar Data from the NIMROD System
82adec1f896af6169112d09cc1174499

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:05:27

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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