British Antarctic Survey: high resolution radiosonde data from the Halley station

High resolution radiosonde data from the British Antarctic Survey's Halley station. The data consists of vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity, humidity mixing ratio, radiosonde position, wind speed and wind direction. Measurements are taken at 2 second intervals and the ascents extend to heights of approximately 20-30 km. The archive has data from 2008 and generally there is 1 ascent per day from the station.

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2008-09-22T15:15:00

Dataset Reference Date (): 2008-09-22T15:15:00

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - author

High Cross , Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom

01223 221400

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Maintenance and update frequency: daily

Update scope: dataset

Keywords

BAS
Radiosonde

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

atmospheric conditions

Limitations on Public Access: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.

Use constraints: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/bas.pdf . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: grid

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2001-01-01T00:00:00

Code: WGS 84

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The data are in the Vaisala PC-CORA binary format. Software to read these data is available from the linked documentation. ()

Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: DOWNLOAD
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Resource Locator: BADC Doc: Radiosonde Help File
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Resource Locator: The British Antarctic Survey website
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Resource Locator: BAS radiosonde data license
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Resource Locator: Connolley, W.M. and J.C. King. 1993. Atmospheric water-vapour transport to Antarctica inferred from radiosonde data. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 119, 325-342
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Resource Locator: British Antarctic Survey Software documentation
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Resource Locator: British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation version 2
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Resource Locator: British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation
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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: DOWNLOAD
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Resource Locator: BADC Doc: Radiosonde Help File
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Resource Locator: The British Antarctic Survey website
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Resource Locator: BAS radiosonde data license
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Resource Locator: Connolley, W.M. and J.C. King. 1993. Atmospheric water-vapour transport to Antarctica inferred from radiosonde data. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 119, 325-342
No further details.

Resource Locator: British Antarctic Survey Software documentation
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Resource Locator: British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation version 2
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Resource Locator: British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation
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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data are collected at the Halley and Rothera stations before being sent through to BAS, Cambridge. A script runs daily at the BADC to retrieve the latest data from BAS by checking the last 7 days. Once data have been transferred to the BADC they are ingested immediately and made available to users.

Radiosonde data from Antarctic stations from the database of Connolley and King (1993) was provided by W. M. Connolley at the British Antarctic Survey, http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/data/wmc-radiosonde-export/, through the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), http://badc.nerc.ac.uk.

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File identifier: 2e829bcad8ac653ceb6eef4c6107773f XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: British Antarctic Survey: high resolution radiosonde data from Halley and Rothera stations 37f2bef57e28bcd780a5cbfe077f4bf8

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-03-21T00:06:15

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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