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Acid Deposition Processes Project: Vertical wind profile data from the Facility for Ground-based Atmospheric Measurements' (FGAM) 1290 MHz Degreane Mobile Wind Profiler located at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology's Auchencorft Moss field site, Edinburgh
Vertical profiles of horizontal and vertical wind components as well as signal-to-noise (SNR) and spectal width measurements were collected at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology's (CEH) Auchencorft Moss field site in January and February 2007 as part of the DEFRA funded Acid Deposition Processes Project. These data were collected by the University of Manchester Degreane Mobile Wind Profiler Radar - formerly knonw as the aber-radar-1290mhz - at 15 minute intervals and are available as netCDF files to all registered BADC users.
The dataset contains the following measurements:
Eastward wind velocity component
Northward wind velocity component
Upward air velocity
Direction the wind is from
Signal to noise ratio
Altitude of instrument above the ground
Longitude of instrument
Latitude of instrument
Spectral width
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-11-05T12:11:42
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-11-05T12:11:42
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 79a78643974498da956b88ccd4e592c9
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- FGAM
- NCAS
- AMF
- radar
- wind profiler
- boundary layer wind profiler
- turbulence
- thermals
- boundary layer structure
- radar wind profiler
- Doppler radar
- UHF radar
- 'Clear' air radar
- morning transition
- convective boundary layer
- mixed layer
- entrainment zone
- transitional boundary layer
- nocturnal boundary layer
- lower level jet
- nocturnal jet
- weather fronts
- sting jets
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2007-01-08T00:00:00
- End date
- 2007-02-26T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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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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- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were collected by Emily Norton directly from the mobile wind profiler before checking and processing using the Degreane Horizon software supplied with the mobile wind profiler. The data were then prepared for archiving by Emily Norton using IDL scripts prepared for the task. The data were then delivered to the BADC for archiving.
- File identifier
- 79a78643974498da956b88ccd4e592c9 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Acid Deposition Processes Project: vertical wind profile data 62393c9183bd9d84de2780085a0237a0
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-16T03:02:15
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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