819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 69835240982f4aee9f9038a6414e02c1 dataset Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-06T02:16:30 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Fennec automatic weather station (AWS) data from the Saharan Desert between 2011-2013 2017-05-23T14:18:43 publication 2017-05-23T14:18:43 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db 819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) Data were collected under the NERC funded project - Fennec -The Saharan Climate System. The project was lead by the University of Oxford and involved the Universities of Leeds, Reading, Sussex and the UK Met Office. Fennec investigated the Saharan climate system and the role of dust aerosols, involving a unique surface and aircraft field campaign with the FAAM BAe-146. Various meteorological variables were collected at 3 min 20 second intervals, between 2011 and 2013 at 8 Automatic Weather Stations. Parameters include: 1m pressure, 3 min 20 sec mean 2m windspeed (sonic and cup anemometers), number of windspeeds sampled, variance of windspeed in sample, skew of windspeed in sample, 2m relative humidity, 2 temperature, soil temperature (2 depths), ground flux, shortwave radiation up and down, longwave radiation up and down. Specific station locations are stated both in the data files and the CEDA platform record. One station had to be moved after the first year, hence there are 9 station locations listed. Due to harsh environmental conditions a number of the AWS stopped operating after deployment. Additional information regarding instrument issues and missing data can be found in a PDF on the CEDA archive. Roberts, Alexander Unavailable author Unavailable author Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) custodian 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk custodian Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) data_owner 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk owner Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) distributor 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) principal_investigator 01793 411500 Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1EU United Kingdom unknown principalInvestigator Roberts, Alexander Unavailable point_of_contact Unavailable pointofContact Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) publisher 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk publisher notPlanned dataset Fennec Sahara Desert AWS surface pressure 2 m windspeed 2 m relative humidity 2 m temperature soil temperature ground flux shortwave radiation longwave radiation 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. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -11.578 5.522 21.325 27.37 2011-05-23T23:00:00 2013-12-31T00:00:00 The data comprise 22 NetCDF data files and 1 .pdf file which provides additional information about instrument issues. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) Data Center Contact 01235446432 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/819bdb021a644a9fb0b31704479523db CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/fennec/data/leeds-aws-f 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 AWSs were designed and built at the University of Leeds and then deployed to 8 stations in the Sahara. Data were transmitted via satellite link to the University of Leeds where post-processing occurred. Data were then passed to CEDA for long term archival.