Identification info

Metadata Language

English (en)

Dataset Reference Date ()

2003-08-31T10:31:02

Dataset Reference Date ()

2003-08-31T10:31:02

Identifier

http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f91b2c5399c5bf689e29bb15ab45da8a

Identifier

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f91b2c5399c5bf689e29bb15ab45da8a

Maintenance and update frequency

continual

Update scope

dataset

Keywords

• Met Office
• NIMROD
• rain radar
• UK

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

• 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

Other constraints

Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf . 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

Begin date

1999-06-07T00:00:00

 

Code

WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data format

• NIMROD product data are in the non-standard NIMROD binary format. Refer to linked documentation for further details. However, the documentation does not indicate there are three 4 byte elements in each record. These are located before each block of data within the record, the first and second should be equal to 512 to confirm the size of the next data block; the third should be equal to twice the size of the data grid (e.g. if the data are in a grid 200 by 500 boxes, then this third entry should be 200,000).

  The data files contain integer precipitation rates in unit of (mm/hr)*32. Each value is between 0 and 32767. In practice it is rare to see a value in excess of 4096 i.e. 128 mm/hr.

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Quality Scope

dataset

Statement

Data are acquired from rain radar network in the UK and Europe by the Met Office's NIMROD system. Composite products (images and data) and single site data are then sent to the BADC by the Met Office's DART operational dissemination system. Raw polar data from single sites are sent through from the RADARNET team at the Met Office. On arrival at the BADC the data are ingested after a one day quarantine.

Metadata

File identifier

f91b2c5399c5bf689e29bb15ab45da8a XML

Metadata Language

English (en)

Character set

8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier

Met Office Rain Radar Data from the NIMROD System 82adec1f896af6169112d09cc1174499

Resource type

dataset

Metadata Date

2022-07-04T23:16:24

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3