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Met Office: Vaisala Radian LAP3000 1290 MHz vertical wind profiler measurements at Wattisham, UK (2001 - 2010)
A Vaisala Radian LAP3000 1290 MHz wind profiler has been permanently located at the Met Office's site at the Wattisham airfield near Ipswich, Suffolk, and has been operational since February 1999. This was one of two such profilers deployed in the UK at that time as part of the Met Office's UK "Operational Upper Air Network." Operating at 1290 Mhz, Dunkeswell, like the other sites, is configured to operate in two modes. The low mode provides high resolution wind information from 239m to 2060 m with a heigh resolution of 102m; while the high mode, with 205 m resolution can sound from 347 m up to 8239 m depending on appropriate atmospheric conditions. The site is located at 52.70 N, 0.058 E and a height of 87 m above mean sea-level and has a WMO id of 03591. It had a beam angle of 15.5 degrees and is operated with an averaging period of 30 minutes.
This dataset contains vertical wind profiles from the Vaisala Radian LAP3000 1290MHz wind profiler located at Wattisham.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2003-11-16T15:51:19
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2003-11-16T15:51:19
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / a211f706bda9cd1d4ab141cd29cec8d5
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- wind
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2001-01-25T00:00:00
- End date
- 2010-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are ASCII formatted
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Data are ASCII formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: Wind Profiler file format
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data collected at various sites around the UK by the Met Office as part of the operational upper air network. A copy of the Met Office wind profiler data were then prepared and sent through to the BADC for use by the wider research community.
Metadata
- File identifier
- a211f706bda9cd1d4ab141cd29cec8d5 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Met Office vertical wind profiler measurements for the British Isles (1998-2012) 9b37cafea3a1fa3e6f69b3a85c46ee5c
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-11-28T00:48:26
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
