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Temperature, Humidity and Winds near the Tropopause (THAW) campaign: aircraft and radar data
The THAW (Temperature, Humidity and Winds near the Tropopause) project was led by Prof. Geraint Vaghaun (NCAS, University of Manchester) utilising a combination of vertically pointing Doppler radar data from the MST radar near Aberystwyth and a series of radiosonde and research aircraft flights in the tropopause region. The project used the FAAM BAE 146 aircraft to:
• Measure fine-scale vertical temperature structure in the vicinity of the tropopause, to test a model for VHF radar reflection being developed at Manchester.
• Compare wind and turbulence measurements with the MST radar, to better enable quantitative derivation of turbulence parameters from the radar echo spectra.
• Characterise the performance of the Buck research CR-2 hygrometer in the upper troposphere, with special emphasis on measuring supersaturation in the vicinity of the cirrus clouds.
The MST radar was operated in two modes during this period with higher vertical resolution measurements at 150 m resolution interspersed with the 300 m vertical resolution data - these are available in the standard MST radar version 3 dataset linked within this collection.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-05-18T08:37:55
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-05-18T08:37:55
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c8bd3f965b40dbc9a2f3b5c5611375d4
- Citation identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / c8bd3f965b40dbc9a2f3b5c5611375d4
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)
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Author Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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Author Met Office
Author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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THAW
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FAAM
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Wind
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Temperature
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Humidity
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2005-04-30T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Contact data centre for format details.
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c8bd3f965b40dbc9a2f3b5c5611375d4 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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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
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Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- c8bd3f965b40dbc9a2f3b5c5611375d4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Series
- Hierarchy level name
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series
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-11T03:29:37
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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