Met Office LIDARNET Camborne Raymetrics LR111-D300 lidar profile data
Range corrected lidar signal and volume depolarisation ratio data from the Met Office's Raymetrics LR111-D300 lidar located at Camborne, Cornwall. 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.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-02-19T10:26:35
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-02-19T10:26:35
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 440c7db6c4d34d669b7bedc4d621e48e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- lidar
- ash
- Raman
- backscatter profiles
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2018-06-20T07:29:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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Met Office LIDARNET backscatter visualisation map
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Daily plots of Met Office LIDARNET Camborne Raymetrics LR111-D300 aerosol backscatter data
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- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were collected by the Met Office before processed through the Met Office's Hermes system. A copy of these data were then delivered by the Met Office to CEDA for archiving.
- File identifier
- 440c7db6c4d34d669b7bedc4d621e48e XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- 38a6e76871fca4c58d0f831e532bff41 38a6e76871fca4c58d0f831e532bff41
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-10-02T07:28:01
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3