Met Office LIDARNET Glasgow Raymetrics LR111-D300 lidar profile data
Range corrected lidar signal and volume depolarisation ratio data from the Met Office's Raymetrics LR111-D300 lidar located at the Met Office's Bishopton enclosure near Glasgow, Scotland. Data available from June 2018 onwards, though the instrument is only operated sporadically (see below for further details).
This instrument is one of a suite of 10 Raman lidars deployed by the Met Office around the UK to complement a wider network of ceilometers within the "LIDARNET" upper air monitoring network. Returns from these instruments form a range of products for use in forecasting and hazard detection. The backscatter profiles can allow detection of aerosol species such as volcanic ash where suitable instrumentation is deployed.
The primary aim of the Raman lidar network is the detection and quantification of volcanic ash aerosols during a volcanic event, and the network is only test fired only for a few hours each week. Outside of these times the lidars may be fired if there is a mineral dust outbreak or other such aerosol event of interest. The lidars will not fire if any precipitation is detected.
Raman channel data are not presently available from this instrument in the CEDA archives.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-02-19T10:27:21
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-02-19T10:27:21
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / d1c2a98f588949889b19d0156b416063
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- Met Office
- lidar
- ash
- Raman
- backscatter profiles
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2018-06-19T13:29:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
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Met Office LIDARNET backscatter visualisation map
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Daily plots of Met Office LIDARNET Glasgow Raymetrics LR111-D300 aerosol backscatter data
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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Met Office LIDARNET backscatter visualisation map
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Daily plots of Met Office LIDARNET Glasgow Raymetrics LR111-D300 aerosol backscatter data
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were collected by the Met Office before processed through the Met Office's Hermes system. A copy of these data were then delivered by the Met Office to CEDA for archiving.
Metadata
- File identifier
- d1c2a98f588949889b19d0156b416063 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Met Office LIDARNET ceilometer network cloud base and backscatter data 38a6e76871fca4c58d0f831e532bff41
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-08-26T23:08:01
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3