Fennec automatic weather station (AWS) data from the Saharan Desert between 2011-2013
Data were collected under the NERC funded project - Fennec -The Saharan Climate System. The project was lead by the University of Oxford and involved the Universities of Leeds, Reading, Sussex and the UK Met Office. Fennec investigated the Saharan climate system and the role of dust aerosols, involving a unique surface and aircraft field campaign with the FAAM BAe-146.
Various meteorological variables were collected at 3 min 20 second intervals, between 2011 and 2013 at 8 Automatic Weather Stations. Parameters include: 1m pressure, 3 min 20 sec mean 2m windspeed (sonic and cup anemometers), number of windspeeds sampled, variance of windspeed in sample, skew of windspeed in sample, 2m relative humidity, 2 temperature, soil temperature (2 depths), ground flux, shortwave radiation up and down, longwave radiation up and down.
Specific station locations are stated both in the data files and the CEDA platform record. One station had to be moved after the first year, hence there are 9 station locations listed.
Due to harsh environmental conditions a number of the AWS stopped operating after deployment. Additional information regarding instrument issues and missing data can be found in a PDF on the CEDA archive.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2017-05-23T14:18:43
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2017-05-23T14:18:43
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Fennec
- Sahara
- Desert
- AWS
- surface pressure
- 2 m windspeed
- 2 m relative humidity
- 2 m temperature
- soil temperature
- ground flux
- shortwave radiation
- longwave radiation
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2011-05-23T23:00:00
- End date
- 2013-12-31T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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The data comprise 22 NetCDF data files and 1 .pdf file which provides additional information about instrument issues.
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The data comprise 22 NetCDF data files and 1 .pdf file which provides additional information about instrument issues.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- AWSs were designed and built at the University of Leeds and then deployed to 8 stations in the Sahara. Data were transmitted via satellite link to the University of Leeds where post-processing occurred. Data were then passed to CEDA for long term archival.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- FENNEC: surface meteorological and in-situ airborne observations by the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft 69835240982f4aee9f9038a6414e02c1
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-04-25T23:26:30
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3