NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar version 0 data products

Version 0 processing of data from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar near Aberystwyth in West Wales represents processing scheme in place from the early 1990s until 2007. The principal measurements made by the MST radar are of the three dimensional wind vector over the altitude range 2 - 20 km, with additional measurements from the mesophere between 65 and 80 km.

The data in this dataset include echo power as well as radial and vector winds components.

Surface meteorological measurements from the radar site, ceilometer data, sky camera images and wind speed and direction recorded from a 10m tower located 6km away are also available.

Other instruments at the facility have included one of the Met Office's boundary layer wind profilers and NCAS's boundary layer wind profiler.

Date (Publication): 2006-11-30T16:31:53

Date (Creation): 2006-11-30T16:31:53

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ef91b8184e0b44f66d89ed985c81ceb2

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / ef91b8184e0b44f66d89ed985c81ceb2

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere Radar Facility at Aberystwyth (MSTRF)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Slater, Ken	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	Vaughan, Geraint	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

MST Radar
NERC
wind speed
wind direction
SNR
echo power
spectral width

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1989-10-31T00:00:00

End date: 2007-02-06T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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/ef91b8184e0b44f66d89ed985c81ceb2	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/mst/data/mst-products-v0	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://mst.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mstlog_public/mst_event_search.py	MST radar facility instrument performance log

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 by the MST radar facility and sent to the BADC within an hour of acquisition. Data are then immediately ingested into the BADC archives.

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File identifier: ef91b8184e0b44f66d89ed985c81ceb2 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: surface and upper air meteorology measurements from Aberystwyth, mid-Wales
bd095d86e4a9f0c706b08058dbad3b31

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-01T03:02:05

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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