Wind Profiler Observations, Part of the Met Office MetDB System

The wind profiler observations describe hourly observations from around 400 Wind profiler stations distributed globally. The observations cumulate in around 10,000 reports a day, giving measurements of parameters such as the different components of wind velocity, and the standard deviations of vertical and horizontal wind speeds. The data are collected by observation stations worldwide and transmitted within the WINPRO message.

Wind speeds are given to the nearest metre per second.

Air temperature is measured in Kelvin.

Precipitation amount is given in kilograms per metre squared.

Air pressure is given in Pascals.

Relative humidity is measured as a percentage.

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Date (Publication)
2008-08-08T14:01:44
Date (Creation)
2008-08-08T14:01:44
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9e22544a66ba7aa902ae431b1ed609d6
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 9e22544a66ba7aa902ae431b1ed609d6
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Maintenance and update frequency
daily Daily
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • MetDB
  • Wind profiler
  • wind speed
  • wind direction
  • SNR
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
These data have multiple licences for different applications. Always make sure to read the appropriate licence for full data usage limitations details. Other usage may not be permitted. Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic 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.
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement_gov.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under policy 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.
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2009-04-30T23:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format

  • Data availability and file format

    The data are held in the BADC-CSV file format, each of which will contain one or more data records and are comma separated variables. "Metadata" are provided giving a full description of the content of the data. More information about the file format can be found on the BADC-CSV format page, which also contains two example files taken from the MetDB dataset.

    The file format for the wind profiler observations table, describes what each column in the data table represents.

    Ingest scripts run at the BADC every 20 minutes, converting the incoming files to the self describing BADC-CSV format, but neither the processed or raw data are placed into archive until the following day.

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Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource
DOWNLOAD

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OnLine resource
WMO Meteorological codes

No further details.

OnLine resource
Further information about the WINPRO message

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OnLine resource
E-Profile visualisation tool for wind profile data

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Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data are extracted from the Met Office's "metDB" system and supplied to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). These are then processed to generate BADC-CSV files, where possible.
File identifier
9e22544a66ba7aa902ae431b1ed609d6 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
Met Office MetDB system: Surface, upper air and satellite data 8ee156b6ed41b153e85dbf02a4134513
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-10T02:07:38
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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