SG-WEx: British Antarctic Survey Vaisala RS92 radiosonde data from King Edward Point (2015)

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) operated a Vaisala RS92 radiosonde unit at King Edward Point, South Georgia Islands to support meteor radar data also recorded at the site during the South Georgia Wave Experiment (SG-WEx) project. The sonde ascents took place during two campaigns: January 2015 and June/July 2015 to measure gravity waves. The data are standard radiosonde measurements of temperature, humidity, wind speeds, direction and pressure along the ascent at 10s intervals. These balloon ascents typically continue until the balloon fails in the stratosphere. The highest ascent recorded in these data was around 32km. Some ascents also provide data for parts of the descending part of the flight until the instrumentation failed.

The King Edward Point Magnetic Observatory (KEP, 54.2820 S, 36.4930 W) is located on the South Georgia island in the South Atlantic.

Date (Publication): 2019-11-11T17:42:29

Date (Creation): 2019-11-11T17:42:29

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/d1d6f63b4197452495b5d17a95977843

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / d1d6f63b4197452495b5d17a95977843

Citation identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d1d6f63b4197452495b5d17a95977843

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)		unknown	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Mitchell, Nicholas J.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Moffat-Griffin, Tracy	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Ross, Andrew N	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)		unknown	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

radiosonde
South Atlantic

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2015-01-07T22:56:00

End date: 2015-07-06T11:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The data are available in both BADC-CSV formatted files and original Vaisala EDT formatted binary files.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/d1d6f63b4197452495b5d17a95977843	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/sg-wex/data/bas-vaisala-rs92-radiosonde/	DOWNLOAD

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 from the instrument are collected by the British Antarctic Survey and supplied to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for long-term archiving.