African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project: Sonic Detection And Ranging measurements from Leeds SODAR2

An international long-term collaboration to study the climatic and environmental feedback mechanisms involved in the African monsoon, and in some of its consequences on society and human health. The programme, which started in 2004, has developed a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-Saharan West Africa to measure heat flux and, for some stations, CO2 and H2O vapour fluxes. Files also include concomitant meteorological measurements (wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall) and soil physics parameters (soil temperature and moisture). The UK branch of AMMA makes use of several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) which are centred on the Niamey meso-site. The Facility for Airbourne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft was used during the July-August 2006 campaign.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2007-01-09T16:10:09
Dataset Reference Date ()
2007-01-09T16:10:09
Identifier
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/eaf7330b95c177f1e7132ea50a1b3137
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / eaf7330b95c177f1e7132ea50a1b3137
  NERC AMMA-UK - author
  Unavailable - Parker, Douglas E. ( author )
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned
Update scope
dataset
Keywords
  • AMMA
  • Sodar
  • Wind
  • Backscatter
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • atmospheric conditions
Limitations on Public Access
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
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.
Spatial representation type
grid
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2006-05-29T23:00:00
End date
2006-07-13T23:00:00
 
Code
WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data format
  • Data are NetCDF formatted ()

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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) Land suface Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (ALMIP2)

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AMMA

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AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) Land suface Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (ALMIP2)

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AMMA

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Statement

Data were collected from 2004 by a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-saharan West Africa, several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM), and by the FAAM aircraft which was used during July-August 2006.

Data provided as is by campaign participants, and archived at the BADC.

Metadata

File identifier
eaf7330b95c177f1e7132ea50a1b3137 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
Parent identifier
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Program: Sub-Saharan West Africa Ground-based Observation Station Records of Heat Flux, Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapour Fluxes and Concomitant Meteorological Measurements 496afa5cd3b0c85478d85f52e6490b54
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2023-03-29T23:44:21
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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