African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project: Aviation Routine Weather (METAR) Reports

An international long-term collaboration to study the climatic and environmental feedback mechanisms involved in the African monsoon, and in some of its consequences on society and human health. The programme, which started in 2004, has developed a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-Saharan West Africa to measure heat flux and, for some stations, CO2 and H2O vapour fluxes. Files also include concomitant meteorological measurements (wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall) and soil physics parameters (soil temperature and moisture). The UK branch of AMMA makes use of several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) which are centred on the Niamey meso-site. The Facility for Airbourne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft was used during the July-August 2006 campaign.

Date (Publication): 2007-01-22T10:19:49

Date (Creation): 2007-01-22T10:19:49

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ed7f7e7c621d48bd8f541ff9eb5c6836

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / ed7f7e7c621d48bd8f541ff9eb5c6836

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC AMMA-UK		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Parker, Douglas E.	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	Parker, D.J	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

AMMA
METAR

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

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: 2006-06-08T23:00:00

End date: 2006-11-23T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are NASA Ames formatted

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/ed7f7e7c621d48bd8f541ff9eb5c6836	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/amma/data/ukmo-nrt/metars	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://wcrp-climate.org/modelling-wgcm-mip-catalogue/modelling-wgcm-mips/320-modelling-wgcm-scenario-almip	AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) Land suface Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (ALMIP2)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.amma-international.org/spip.php?rubrique1	AMMA

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 were collected from 2004 by a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-saharan West Africa, several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM), and by the FAAM aircraft which was used during July-August 2006.

Data provided as is by campaign participants, and archived at the BADC.