5e878b3b9e584bccbc71b2e5094acfdb English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 7cbc3fc19bfa037a48ba4cba4b93544d dataset NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-06T02:05:26 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 905 nm Vaisala CT75K Lidar Ceilometer Data from the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) site, Hampshire, England, 1996 - present 2015-03-25T19:38:02 publication 2015-03-25T19:38:02 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5e878b3b9e584bccbc71b2e5094acfdb 5e878b3b9e584bccbc71b2e5094acfdb NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) The Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire, have had a Vaisala CT75K lidar ceilometer deployed since 13th September 1996. This dataset contains measurements of the range of first, second, and third cloud base from the lidar and attenuated backscatter coefficients of aerosols within the atmosphere. Plots of the attenuated backscatter coefficient at different heights are also available. The instrument has been regularly calibrated using the method described by O'Connor, Ewan J., Anthony J. Illingworth, Robin J. Hogan, 2004: A Technique for Auto-calibration of Cloud Lidar. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 777–786. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0777:ATFAOC>2.0.CO;2 . Prior to April 2014 this technique had been applied manually, but from 2014 this was automated to provide a routine, automated application of O'Connor et al's calibration technique. This also highlighted an instrument calibration drift not previously spotted in earlier data and so a corrected data have been added to the archive for the following periods (denoted by "_cor1" in the filename): 1st July 2003 – 31st December 2003, January 2006 to December 2012 and February and March 2013. Users should see the data quality notes for further details. This dataset incorporates the earlier published and citable 1996 - 2013 collection of lidar data, but continues this dataset to present Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) author unknown author Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) author unknown author Agnew, Judith Unavailable author Unavailable author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor Walden, Chris J. Unavailable principal_investigator Unavailable principalInvestigator NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk publisher continual dataset clouds lidar ceilometer infrared elastic backscattering precipitation cloud base atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access. otherRestrictions Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. 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When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -1.427 -1.427 51.145 51.145 1996-09-12T23:00:00 Data are netCDF formatted NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5e878b3b9e584bccbc71b2e5094acfdb CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/chilbolton/data/lidar-ct75k-all-years/ DOWNLOAD Download Data download dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data are recorded continuously by the instrument at the Chilbolton site before post-processing using signals from optically thick strato-cumulus clouds to calibrate according to the method described by O'Connor, Ewan J., Anthony J. Illingworth, Robin J. Hogan, 2004: A Technique for Auto-calibration of Cloud Lidar. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 777–786. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0777:ATFAOC>2.0.CO;2. The data are then deposited at the BADC for ingestion into the BADC archives.