British Antarctic Survey: high resolution radiosonde data from the Rothera station

High resolution radiosonde data from the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera station. The data consists of vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity, humidity mixing ratio, radiosonde position, wind speed and wind direction. Measurements are taken at 2 second intervals and the ascents extend to heights of approximately 20-30 km. The archive has data from 2008 and generally there is 1 ascent per day from the station.

Date (Publication): 2008-08-20T18:32:18

Date (Creation): 2008-08-20T18:32:18

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e6da23061b4e98565e3c668c2c393397

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / e6da23061b4e98565e3c668c2c393397

Author

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - author

High Cross , Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom

01223 221400

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

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - principal_investigator

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

01793 411500

pointofContact

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

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

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BAS
Radiosonde

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/bas.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any 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

Begin date: 2008-01-03T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

The data are in the Vaisala PC-CORA binary format. Software to read these data is available from the linked documentation. ()

Distributor

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

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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OnLine resource: BAS radiosonde data license
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OnLine resource: The British Antarctic Survey website
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OnLine resource: Connolley, W.M. and J.C. King. 1993. Atmospheric water-vapour transport to Antarctica inferred from radiosonde data. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 119, 325-342
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OnLine resource: British Antarctic Survey Software documentation
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OnLine resource: British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation version 2
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OnLine resource: British Antarctic Survey Software file structure documentation
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: Radiosonde Help File
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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data are collected at the Halley and Rothera stations before being sent through to BAS, Cambridge. A script runs daily at the BADC to retrieve the latest data from BAS by checking the last 7 days. Once data have been transferred to the BADC they are ingested immediately and made available to users.

Radiosonde data from Antarctic stations from the database of Connolley and King (1993) was provided by W. M. Connolley at the British Antarctic Survey, http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/data/wmc-radiosonde-export/, through the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), http://badc.nerc.ac.uk.

File identifier: e6da23061b4e98565e3c668c2c393397 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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

Parent identifier: British Antarctic Survey: high resolution radiosonde data from Halley and Rothera stations 37f2bef57e28bcd780a5cbfe077f4bf8

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-05-09T02:11:33

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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