NERC Data Catalogue Service
Met Office vertical wind profiler measurements for the British Isles (1998-2012)
The Met Office have operated a network of wind profiling lidars at various sites around the British Isles since the first was installed in 1998, following the installation of the NERC MST radar near Aberystwyth.
This datasets collection contains the available 30 minute averaged wind profile data from these sites made available for research by the academic community and included parameters such as measurements of the zonal, meridional and vertical components of winds, signal to noise ratio and spectral width.
The data are from boundary layer UHF wind profilers located at Camborne (915 Mhz), Dunkeswell (1290 Mhz) and Wattisham (1290 Mhz) and a Stratosphere-Troposphere (ST) VHF radar at South Uist operating at 64 Mhz. A fourth UHF radar operated at 915 Mhz was operated at the NERC MST Radar site at Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth, between November 1999 and March 2002; it was then relocated to South Uist until May 2005 ahead of and during the commissioning of the 64 Mhz radar, before being relocated to its present location on the Isle of Man.
An additional Degreane wind profiler has since been purchased by the Met Office and is deployed at the Chilbolton Observatory, but data from this instrument are not presently part of this dataset.
This dataset contains wind profiler data from:
- Camborne (from 1998)
- Dunkeswell (from 1999)
- Wattisham (2001 to present)
- Aberystwyth (Capel Dewi, 1999 to 2002)
- South Uist (915MHz, 2003 to 2004)
- South Uist (64MHz, from 2004)
- Isle of Man (2005 to 2008 and since 2010).
Data from these wind-profilers, and from the NERC MST Radar, are used operationally by the Met Office for numerical weather prediction. They additionally receive data from up to another 15 wind-profiling systems throughout Europe as part of the CWINDE (COST Wind Initiative for a Network Demonstration in Europe) project. A map showing the locations of the wind profilers is available on the CWINDE website. Data from wind profilers is also routinely transmitted across the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) according to standards defined by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Those data can be found in the Met Office MetDB dataset also held by the CEDA.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2003-12-10T02:36:51
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2003-12-10T02:36:51
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 9b37cafea3a1fa3e6f69b3a85c46ee5c
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- wind
- lidar
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- 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
- 1995-02-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2012-08-15T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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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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BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Wind profiler instruments
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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BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Wind profiler instruments
No further details.
- 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
- 9b37cafea3a1fa3e6f69b3a85c46ee5c 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
- 2023-03-24T02:01:20
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
