NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: Surface Meteorological Data, Capel Dewi site, Wales
Surface meteorological data are measured by a number of instruments deployed at the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility, Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in West Wales. This dataset consists of data collected by the following suite instruments connected to a Campbell Scientific CR10 Climate Data Logger: Campbell Scientific 107 thermistor temperature probe mounted inside an URS1 unaspirated radiation shield. Accuracy: +/- 0.4 degrees C. Vaisala PTB101B barometric pressure sensor. Accuracy: +/- 2.0 hPa. Vaisala HMP45C temperature and relative humidity probe (from which only the humidity measurements are used) mounted inside an URS1 un-aspirated radiation shield. Accuracy: +/- 0.3%. Environmental Measurements ARG100 tipping bucket raingauge. Kipp and Zonen CM3 thermopile pyranometer (WMO second class). Accuracy: +/- 0.5%. The raingauge is located on the ground. All other sensors are mounted on a post approximately 1 m above the ground.
The data logger initially samples the atmospheric temperature, pressure and humidity sensors at 5 s intervals. Mean values are calculated over each 60 s and the outputs from the logger represent minima, means and maxima of these 60 s means over each 10 minute sample period. The data logger is connected to a tipping bucket raingauge (sampled every 1 s, and recording tips for each 0.20 mm accumulation of rain); pyranometer (sampled every every 5 s, recording the down-welling radiation within a hemispheric field of view with a flat response in the spectral range 305 - 2800 nm);
The data are available in NASA-Ames formatted files.
Independent surface meteorological data are also available from the Vaisala WXT510 instrument also located at the site and are available in the wxt510-precipitation and PTU datasets.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-03-15T23:52:33
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-03-15T23:52:33
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 51234b47e27aa55e50f8e2eb44927c1e
- Maintenance and update frequency
- daily
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- MST
- meteorology
- surface
- 2m
- pressure
- temperature
- humidity
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2000-07-24T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are available in NASA-Ames formatted files.
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Data are available in NASA-Ames formatted files.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
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MST radar facility instrument performance log
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MST Radar Facility surface meteorology plots
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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DOWNLOAD
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MST radar facility instrument performance log
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MST Radar Facility surface meteorology plots
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data are acquired by the MST radar facility and sent to the BADC within an hour of acquisition. Data are then immediately ingested into the BADC archives.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 51234b47e27aa55e50f8e2eb44927c1e XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar Facility: surface and upper air meteorology measurements from Aberystwyth, mid-Wales bd095d86e4a9f0c706b08058dbad3b31
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-13T01:23:58
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3