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  • Daily concatenated files of ceilometer cloud base height and aerosol profile data from a network of instruments within EUMETNET's E-PROFILE ALC network. These data were produced by the EUMETNET's E-PROFILE processing hub as part of the ceilometer and lidar network operated as part of the by EUMETNET members. This network covers most of Europe with additional sites worldwide. Most datasets are available to registered CEDA users. For those not available to CEDA users application for access to those datasets under restricted access can be made using the links on one of the associated records. All use is made in accordance with the Closed-Use Non-Commercial General Licence. See datasets for further licencing links and for individual dataset citations. EUMETNET is a grouping of 31 European National Meteorological Services that provides a framework to organise co-operative programmes between its Members in the various fields of basic meteorological activities. One such programme is the EUMETNET Profiling Programme: E-PROFILE. See EUMETNET page linked from this record for further details of EUMETNET's activities. Note - the datasets listed on this collection are daily concatenated files produced from single time-step files for each instrument. CEDA holds an older archive of single time-step files (not linked to from the datasets or this collection) which will be aggregated together over time to extend these datasets further back to the start of the E-PROFILE holdings in the CEDA archives. Access to the older single time-step files ahead of their concatenation into daily files can be made via : https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/eprofile/data/. As these data are processed single time-step files will be removed from the archive. It is not possible to support any requests for data that predates the CEDA holdings nor to back-fill any data gaps.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Éireann's Vaisala Ct25k ceilometer located at Shannon, South West, Ireland. The Met Éireann's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Coningsby Cl31 ceilometer located at Coningsby, Lincolnshire. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Range corrected lidar signal and volume depolarisation ratio data from the Met Office's Raymetrics LR111-D300 lidar located at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Data available from June 2018 onwards, though the instrument is only operated sporadically (see below for further details). This instrument is one of a suite of 10 Raman lidars deployed by the Met Office around the UK to complement a wider network of ceilometers within the "LIDARNET" upper air monitoring network. Returns from these instruments form a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed. The primary aim of the Raman lidar network is the detection and quantification of volcanic ash aerosols during a volcanic event, and the network is only test fired only for a few hours each week. Outside of these times the lidars may be fired if there is a mineral dust outbreak or other such aerosol event of interest. The lidars will not fire if any precipitation is detected. Raman channel data are not presently available from this instrument in the CEDA archives.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Jenoptik CHM15k Nimbus ceilometer located at Exeter, Devon. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Jenoptik CHM15k Nimbus ceilometer located at South Uist, Outer Hebrides. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Vaisala Ct25k ceilometer located at RAF Northolt, near Heathrow, southern England. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Dishforth Cl31 ceilometer located at Dishforth, North Yorkshire. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Marham Cl31 ceilometer located at Marham, Norfolk. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.

  • Cloud base and backscatter data from the Met Office's Cranwell Cl31 ceilometer located at Cranwell, Lincolnshire. The Met Office's laser cloud base recorders network (LCBRs), or ceilometers, returns a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.