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British Atmospheric Data Centre
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Harwell Oxford
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905 nm Vaisala CT75K Lidar Ceilometer Data from the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) site, Hampshire, England, 1996 - present
2015-03-25T19:38:02
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2015-03-25T19:38:02
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5e878b3b9e584bccbc71b2e5094acfdb
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
The Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire, have had a Vaisala CT75K lidar ceilometer deployed since 13th September 1996. This dataset contains measurements of the range of first, second, and third cloud base from the lidar and attenuated backscatter coefficients of aerosols within the atmosphere. Plots of the attenuated backscatter coefficient at different heights are also available.
The instrument has been regularly calibrated using the method described by O'Connor, Ewan J., Anthony J. Illingworth, Robin J. Hogan, 2004: A Technique for Auto-calibration of Cloud Lidar. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 777–786. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0777:ATFAOC>2.0.CO;2 .
Prior to April 2014 this technique had been applied manually, but from 2014 this was automated to provide a routine, automated application of O'Connor et al's calibration technique. This also highlighted an instrument calibration drift not previously spotted in earlier data and so a corrected data have been added to the archive for the following periods (denoted by "_cor1" in the filename): 1st July 2003 – 31st December 2003, January 2006 to December 2012 and February and March 2013. Users should see the data quality notes for further details.
This dataset incorporates the earlier published and citable 1996 - 2013 collection of lidar data, but continues this dataset to present
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR)
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Agnew, Judith
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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Walden, Chris J.
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
point_of_contact
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
publisher
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
publisher
continual
dataset
clouds
lidar
ceilometer
infrared
elastic backscattering
precipitation
cloud base
atmospheric conditions
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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English
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
-1.427
-1.427
51.145
51.145
1996-09-12T23:00:00
Data are netCDF formatted
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+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
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Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
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Data are recorded continuously by the instrument at the Chilbolton site before post-processing using signals from optically thick strato-cumulus clouds to calibrate according to the method described by O'Connor, Ewan J., Anthony J. Illingworth, Robin J. Hogan, 2004: A Technique for Auto-calibration of Cloud Lidar. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 777–786. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0777:ATFAOC>2.0.CO;2. The data are then deposited at the BADC for ingestion into the BADC archives.