Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Disdrometer Data, Chilbolton Site

Data were collected by the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Disdrometer from the 1st of April 2003 to the present at Chilbolton, Hampshire. The dataset contains measurements of the drop size distribution of rain.

Date (Publication): 2003-09-19T15:07:42

Date (Creation): 2003-09-19T15:07:42

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/aac5f8246987ea43a68e3396b530d23e

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / aac5f8246987ea43a68e3396b530d23e

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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) - author

Author

Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) - author

Author

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - author

Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Swindon , SN2 1EU , United Kingdom

01793 411500

Author

Unavailable - Wrench, Charles Leonard ( author )

Custodian

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - 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) - distributor

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Principal investigator

Unavailable - Walden, Chris J. ( principal_investigator )

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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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: continual Continual

Update scope: dataset Dataset

Keywords

CFARR
disdrometer
rainfall

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: grid Grid

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2003-03-31T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Data are netCDF formatted. ()

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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OnLine resource: STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Chilbolton disdrometers website
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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data are collected by 4 radar systems, of which the largest is the 3 GHz Doppler radar (CAMRa), and 4 lidar systems, at Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire.

Data are prepared by Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) staff prior to submission to BADC for archiving.

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Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8

Parent identifier: Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR): surface, radar and lidar measurements (1998-present) 7cbc3fc19bfa037a48ba4cba4b93544d

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Date stamp: 2025-05-09T02:14:00

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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