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VIRTEM: C-130 Met Office aircraft in-situ instrumentation and radiosonde measurements
Validation data for the IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) satellite instrument. IASI was a moderate resolution (0.25cm^-1) Fourier Transform spectrometer which was scheduled for flight in 2002 on the European METOP satellite. IASI delivered vertical profiles of temperature and humidity data with a resolution of 1km. VIRTEM was an EU project to validate the instrumentation and retrieval methods to be used on IASI.This dataset contains radiosonde, air pressure and air temperature measurements from the C-130 Met Office Hercules aircraft.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-02-21T20:00:40
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-02-21T20:00:40
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 8538100c4c22915bec39f431d68f737a
Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre
,
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
,
Harwell Oxford
,
OX11 0QX
,
UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre
,
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
,
Harwell Oxford
,
OX11 0QX
,
UK
+44(0)1235 446432
pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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point_of_contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre
,
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
,
Harwell Oxford
,
OX11 0QX
,
UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Publisher
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre
,
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
,
Harwell Oxford
,
OX11 0QX
,
UK
+44(0)1235 446432
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- VIRTEM
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Aircraft
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- 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
- 1998-10-07T23:00:00
- End date
- 1999-05-05T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are NASA Ames formatted
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Data are NASA Ames formatted
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Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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Data Center Contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre
,
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
,
Harwell Oxford
,
OX11 0QX
,
UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data was acquired by IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) satellite instrument on the European METOP satellite. Data is later passed on to the BADC where it is stored in an archive.
- File identifier
- 8538100c4c22915bec39f431d68f737a XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- VIRTEM: Aircraft and Laboratory Based Spectroscopic Measurements 67a97e179d0dcee074969cb7ea87e928
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-09T02:13:18
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
British Atmospheric Data Centre
,
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
,
Harwell Oxford
,
OX11 0QX
,
UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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