Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): temperature, humidity and water vapour content profiles from the University of Salford radiometer at Faccombe, UK

The University of Salford radiometer data describe observations taken by microwave radiometer that was situated at the Faccombe wind turbine field site, Hampshire and collected data from 24th June 2005 until 26th August 2005. T

The dataset contains measurements of the following parameters:

Liquid Water Path (LWP) time series – 1 second measurement time

Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) time series – 60 seconds measurement time

Humidity Profile (full troposphere) (HPC) – 60 seconds measurement time

Temperature Profile (full troposphere) (TPC) – 60 seconds measurement time

Temperature Profile (boundary layer) (TPB) – 200 s measurement time

A boundary layer temperature profile was taken every 10 minutes which took 200 seconds to complete. When not operating a boundary layer scan, the radiometer operated in zenith mode and measurements of LWP, IWV and the tropospheric temperature and humidity profiles were made. Calibrations were performed every 20 minutes, 6 hours and 24 hours.

The boundary layer temperature measurements (0 – 2000 m) have a vertical resolution of 50 m. The tropospheric temperature measurements (0 – 10000 m) have a vertical resolution of 200 m. The tropospheric humidity profiles (0 – 6000 m) have a vertical resolution of 200 m (0 – 2000 m) and 400 m (2000 – 6000 m).

Two jpeg images files have been produced from the radiometer data for each day from 24th June 2005 until 26th August 2005. The first image file contains separate profiles of temperature up to 2 km and 10 km and profiles of absolute and relative humidity up to 10 km. The second image file contains a time series of the integrated water vapour and liquid water path.

Date (Publication): 2006-08-17T14:01:10

Date (Creation): 2006-08-17T14:01:10

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e223c57d5d57674666b27765357d9a92

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / e223c57d5d57674666b27765357d9a92

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Bozier, Karen	Unavailable	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
Unavailable	Blyth, Alan	Unavailable	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: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

CSIP
UFAM
AMF
temperature
humidity

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: 2005-06-23T23:00:00

End date: 2005-08-25T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Data are netCDF formatted.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e223c57d5d57674666b27765357d9a92	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/csip/data/salford-radiometer-1	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://ufam.nerc.ac.uk/ufam/instruments.php	Details of All UFAM Instruments

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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

Statement: Data were collected by the collected by the instrument scientist before preparation and delivery to the Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) participants and then to the BADC for archiving.

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File identifier: e223c57d5d57674666b27765357d9a92 XML

Metadata language: English

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Parent identifier: Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP): surface, remotely sensed and airborne atmospheric measurements collection
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-16T03:01:33

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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