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Met Office: Vaisala Radian LAP3000 915 MHz vertical wind profiler measurements at South Uist, UK (2003 - 2004)
The Met Office deployed a Vaisala Radian LAP3000 915 MHz wind profiler at the Met Office's meteorological station on the South Uist range, Hebredies, from January 2003 to July 2004. This deployment was ahead of the installation of the Met Office's 64 MHz Stratosphere-Troposphere (ST) radar at the same site and provided a period of colocated measurements from the two instruments from May to July 2004. At the time the Met Office's 915 Mhz wind profiler was an integral part of the Met Office's UK "Operational Upper Air Network", providing high resolution wind information from just above the surface (around 300m) up to a maximum of 8 km, depending on the atmospheric conditions. The South Uist site is located at 57.353 N, 7.375 W and a height of 4 m above mean sea-level. The site has a WMO id of 03019. The instrument's hight resolution is 60/200 m depending on the operational mode. It has a beam angle of 15.0 degrees and is operated with an averaging period of 30 minutes. This instrument had been previously deployed at the Capel Dewi site near Aberystwyth and was subsequently deployed to its present location on the Isle of Man in 2005.
This dataset contains vertical wind profiles from the Vaisala Radian LAP3000 915MHz wind profiler located at South Uist.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2003-11-16T15:54:03
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2003-11-16T15:54:03
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 9987917bd2c7ec13cd91df4b82a10fb0
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- wind
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- 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
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2004-07-06T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are ASCII formatted
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Data are ASCII formatted
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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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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data collected at various sites around the UK by the Met Office as part of the operational upper air network. A copy of the Met Office wind profiler data were then prepared and sent through to the BADC for use by the wider research community.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9987917bd2c7ec13cd91df4b82a10fb0 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Met Office vertical wind profiler measurements for the British Isles (1998-2012) 9b37cafea3a1fa3e6f69b3a85c46ee5c
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-05-18T23:05:24
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
