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Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): Airborne and Ground-Based Atmospheric Measurements
The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) was an international field campaign initiated by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
This dataset collection contains vertical wind profiler measurements.
The UK component of the campaign involved flights by the FAAM aircraft and the deployment of a number of the UK Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) mobile instruments in summer 2007. These included a Doppler Lidar, a radiometer, a wind profiler, two sodars, an aerosol monitoring suite, a network of automatic weather stations and two radiosonde stations.
The objective was to identify the physical and chemical processes responsible for the deficiencies in quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) over low-mountain regions with the goal of improving their model representation, and thus improve forecasts. For the field experiment, a region in southwestern Germany/eastern France was selected where severe thunderstorm activity is frequent in summer with significant amounts of precipitation and risk of flash flood events, while the skill of numerical weather forecasts in the region is particularly low. This dataset includes measurements of wind speeds and wind directions and aerosol concentrations.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-12-10T03:10:26
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-12-10T03:10:26
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- COPS
- Radiometer
- Wind profiler
- FAAM
- AMF
- meteorology
- orographic
- precipitation
- convection
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
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- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2007-04-18T23:00:00
- End date
- 2007-08-29T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2022-11-08T02:26:38
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
