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Polar Pathfinder Sampler (PPSM): SMMR and SSM/I Pathfinder brightness temperature data (1978-1987)
The SMMR and SSM/I Pathfinder brightness temperatures provide scientists with more than 20 years of consistently processed, passive microwave data for use in climatological and earth science research. Each file represents gridded data for a single sensor channel and polarization, derived from either ascending or descending orbits for one day, thereby allowing discrimination of diurnal changes in earth surface processes. Each data sets consists of three series: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and a global projection. Grids represent spatially interpolated data. The interpolation techniques maximize the radiometric integrity of original brightness temperature values, maintain high spatial and temporal precision, and involve no averaging of original swath data. SMMR coverage began October 1978 and continued through July 1987. Grid resolution is 25 km for all channels. SSM/I coverage began August 1987 and continues through the present. Processing is ongoing with current data available within three to six months of sensor data acquisition. Resolution is 25 km for all channels and 12.5 km for the 85 GHz channels. A sample data set comprising selected SSM/I EASE-Grid brightness temperature data and time files for all three projections from September 8 (day 251), 1997 is included on this CD-ROM.
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, 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.
CD-ROM data produced by the National Snow and Ice Data Centre and published in 2000. Data are stored at the BADC.
Time series of microbial carbon release from soil as carbon dioxide under different nitrogen and phosphorus treatments with a high molecular weight substrate added as a carbon source, Conwy catchment, North Wales, UK (2016)
Time series data of carbon release in disintegrations per minute are presented for different nitrogen and phosphorus treatments with a high molecular weight substrate added as a carbon source to soil samples from six depths (0-15, 15-30, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200 and 250-300 centimetres). Soil cores were collected from a field experiment in the Conwy catchment in July 2016 and returned the laboratories of the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University. A high molecular weight substrate was added as a carbon source to the samples and the rate of 14C-substrate mineralization measured. All the work was carried out by trained members of staff from Bangor University and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The measurements were taken to improve understanding of the relationship between microbial activity and soil properties and depth of sampling, under differing nutrient availability. The data were collected for the NERC project 'The Multi-Scale Response of Water quality, Biodiversity and Carbon Sequestration to Coupled Macronutrient Cycling from Source to Sea' (NE/J011991/1). The project is also referred to as Turf2Surf. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4a8fedf4-a572-4d95-ac41-087974169af1
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Glanville, H.C., De Sosa, L.L., Marshall, M.R., Cooper, D.M., Jones, D.L. (2018). Time series of microbial carbon release from soil as carbon dioxide under different nitrogen and phosphorus treatments with a high molecular weight substrate added as a carbon source, Conwy catchment, North Wales, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4a8fedf4-a572-4d95-ac41-087974169af1
This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Soil cores were collected from the field site and returned to laboratories of the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University. In the laboratory soil cores were divided into depth intervals of 0-15, 15-30, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200 and 250-300 centimetres and passed through a 5 millimetre sieve in order to remove stones and any plant material and to ensure sample homogeneity. To measure the rate of 14C-substrate mineralization, 5 grams of soil (dry weight equivalent to account for soil water content variability down the soil profile) was placed into sterile 50ml polypropylene tubes. To determine the rate of 14CO2 evolution 160µl of the recalcitrant 14C-DOC labelled nutrient solution was added to the soil surface. Immediately after nutrient addition, a vial containing 1 millilitre (ml) Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) trap (1 Molar (M)) was added into the polypropylene tubes to capture 14CO2 evolved. The tubes were hermetically sealed and incubated at 10 degrees Celsius to represent the mean annual temperature of the catchment. The NaOH traps were changed at 1, 6, 24, 48, 72, 168, 336, 504, 672, 840, 1176, 1512 and 1680 hours. On removal, the NaOH traps were mixed with Optiphase HiSafe 3® liquid scintillation fluid (PerkinElmer Inc.) and the amount of 14CO2 captured was determined using a Wallac 1404 liquid scintillation counter (Wallac EG & G). Data were entered into an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a .csv file for ingestion into the EIDC.
Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIR): Land remote sensing data
The Landsat 8 mission was a collaboration between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) which ensures the continued availability of Landsat data. This dataset collection contains moderate resolution images of the Earth’s surface in the visible to thermal infrared. Landsat 8 carries two science instruments: the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS). The OLI provides measurements in the visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared including a panchromatic band with 15 m spatial resolution and multispectral bands with 30 m spatial resolution. The TIRS provide a new infrared channel (band 9) for cirrus detection and a new deep blue band (band 1) for coastal monitoring. The TIRS instrument provides measurements at 100 m resolution in two bands in the thermal infrared previously covered by a single wide band. Some data from 2014 is now held by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
Under the following licence https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits, appropriate use of these data may fall under unclassified 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.
Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
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MIPAS ENVISAT Level 1b data (July 2002 up to April 2012) IPF v5 data
Level 1b consolidated, near-real time and reprocessed data from the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) instrument on the ENVISAT satellite operated by ESA. These data are Instrument Processor Facility (IPF) version 5 data. Original release is version 5.02 with bug fixes implemented in versions 5.05 and 5.06. Improvements with respect to the previous version 4.67 data include trunctation of the interferogram at 8 cm to avoid undersampling for the Optimised Resolution (OR) mission, improved engineering heights calculation, calculation of quadratic terms for spectral calibration included in output products, and addition of L0 house keeping data packets. Data are from 1st July 2002 to 8th April 2012.
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/mipas.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under unstated 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.
Data acquired directly from ESA (European Space Agency) via File Transfer Protocol.
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Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km 56 GHz Radio Link Data
The Sparsholt College-South Wonston water station radio links data describe signal levels of several links at a frequency of 56 Ghz, which covered a path of 5km from the South Wonston water tower near the A34 to Sparsholt College. The data were collected between October 2002 and April 2005. The radio link between Sparsholt college and the Wonston water tower is used to investigate the effects of rain and sleet on radio signals.
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, 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.
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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Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km 38 GHz Radio Link Data
The Sparsholt College-South Wonston water station radio links data describe signal levels of several links at a frequency of 38 Ghz, which covered a path of 5km from the South Wonston water tower near the A34 to Sparsholt College. The data were collected between October 2002 and April 2005. The radio link between Sparsholt college and the Wonston water tower is used to investigate the effects of rain and sleet on radio signals.
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Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Disdrometer Data, Sparsholt College Site
Data were collected by the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Disdrometer from the 1st of July 2004 to the present at Sparsholt College, Hampshire. The dataset contains measurements of the drop size distribution of rain.
Eyjafjallajokull Volcanic Ash Cloud: Leosphere and Halo Doppler Lidar images from the Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire
The Icelandic Volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, started erupting on 14th April 2010. The volcanic ash cloud produced covered much of Northern Europe for several weeks causing extensive disruption to air travel. The UK and European atmospheric communities had many instruments - both airborne and ground-based, remote sensing and in-situ - taking measurements of the ash cloud throughout this period. This dataset contains Leosphere and Halo Doppler Lidar images from the Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire.
Data collected from the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR). A copy of these data were made available to the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) to assist the academic community during this volcanic ash event.
Aircraft Measurement of Chemical Processing and Export fluxes of Pollutants over the UK (AMPEP) Project: Airborne Direct Measurement of the Atmospheric Mass Budget of a range of Pollutants as part of the Polluted Troposphere
Aircraft Measurement of Chemical Processing and Export fluxes of Pollutants over the UK (AMPEP) was part of the NERC Polluted Troposphere Research Programme project (Round 1 - NER/T/S/2002/00152 - Duration 2002 - 2005) and was led by Prof. D Fowler, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. This project was focussed on direct measurement of the atmospheric mass budget of a range of pollutants in the gas and aerosol phase in the boundary layer over the UK. New, state of the art equipment was applied to measure the atmospheric mass budget and, in particular, the net export from the downwind coast over the UK. For the majority of the pollutants this is the dominant term and its measurement provides a very powerful test of current understanding of the processes and the current generation of long range transport models. The approach was applied to sulphur compounds, oxidized and reduced nitrogen, ozone and related photochemical oxidant precursors, mercury, a range of heavy metals and the main radiatively active gases. The analysis and interpretation of the data was completed using a range of current long range transport, transformation and deposition models. AMPEP was an aircraft measurement campaign using the FAAM BAe-146-301 and the flights were scheduled to take place between March and September 2005. Flights took place between 21 Apr 2005 and 19 September 2006. The datasets include data from: - the core FAAM instruments. - non-core instruments fitted for the campaign including the UMIST aerosol mass spectrometer, gas analysers, aerosol filters, particle counters and a tunable diode laser, which measured a broad range of atmospheric trace species and aerosols.
All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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FAAM B105 ICEPIC flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft
Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites data on board the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft collected for Ice and Precipitation Initiation in Cumulus (ICEPIC) project.
Data were collected by instrument scientists during the flight before preparation and delivery for archiving at the NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre.
MIPAS Products Information (links to official documentation)
Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) website
Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Weather web
South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km Radio Links
STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Chilbolton disdrometers website
Flight track for FAAM BAE-146 flight B105
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR)
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
European Facility for Airborne Research (EUFAR)
National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)
FAAM B110 ICEPIC flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft
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FAAM B198 ICEPIC flight: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft
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Combined Measurements of Greenhouse Gases, Ozone-depleting Substances and Related Trace Gases in Contiguous Firn and Ice Profiles as part of the CRYOspheric STudies of Atmospheric Trends (CRYOSTAT) Project
The CRYOspheric STudies of Atmospheric Trends in stratospherically and radiatively important gases (CRYOSTAT) will undertake the first combined measurements of virtually all significant Greenhouse gases (GHGs)(other than water vapour), ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), and related trace gases in contiguous firn and ice profiles, spanning as much as 200 years, from both the northern and southern polar ice caps. The dataset contains concentrations of isotopes (CH4, N20, CO, CO2, N20, SF6, CH3Br, halocarbons, and hydrocarbons) in firn, N2O concentrations in ice, ice core density, firn diffusivity, and weather measurements. CRYOSTAT is an evolution of the FIRETRACC/100 project, the data from which is also held at BADC.
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HadCRUT: gridded dataset of global historical surface temperature anomalies
HadCRUT is a gridded dataset of global historical surface temperature anomalies, relative to a 1961-1990 reference period. Data are available for each month since January 1850, on a 5 degree grid. The gridded data are a blend of the CRUTEM land-surface air temperature dataset and the HadSST sea-surface temperature (SST) dataset. The dataset is presented as an ensemble of 100 dataset realisations that sample the distribution of uncertainty in the global temperature record.
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/, appropriate use of these data may fall under personal, academic and 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.
HadISD: Global sub-daily, surface meteorological station data, 1931-2015, v2.0.0.2015p
This is version 2.0.0.2015p of Met Office Hadley Centre's Integrated Surface Database, HadISD. These data are global sub-daily surface meteorological data that extends HadISD v1.0.4.2015p to span 1931-2015 and includes an increase in the number of stations and an updated methodology. The quality controlled variables in this dataset are: temperature, dewpoint temperature, sea-level pressure, wind speed and direction, cloud data (total, low, mid and high level). Past significant weather and precipitation data are also included, but have not been quality controlled, so their quality and completeness cannot be guaranteed. Quality control flags and data values which have been removed during the quality control process are provided in the qc_flags and flagged_values fields, and ancillary data files show the station listing with a station listing with IDs, names and location information. The data are provided as one NetCDF file per station. Files in the station_data folder station data files have the format "station_code"_HadISD_HadOBS_19310101-20151231_v2-0-0-2015p.nc. The station codes can be found under the docs tab or on the archive beside the station_data folder. The station codes file has five columns as follows: 1) station code, 2) station name 3) station latitude 4) station longitude 5) station height. To keep up to date with updates, news and announcements follow the HadOBS team on twitter @metofficeHadOBS. For more detailed information e.g bug fixes, routine updates and other exploratory analysis, see the HadISD blog: http://hadisd.blogspot.co.uk/ References: When using the dataset in a paper you must cite the following papers (see Docs for link to the publications) and this dataset (using the "citable as" reference) : Dunn, R. J. H., Willett, K. M., Parker, D. E., and Mitchell, L.: Expanding HadISD: quality-controlled, sub-daily station data from 1931, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 5, 473-491, doi:10.5194/gi-5-473-2016, 2016. Dunn, R. J. H., et al. (2012), HadISD: A Quality Controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973-2011, Clim. Past, 8, 1649-1679, 2012, doi:10.5194/cp-8-1649-2012 Smith, A., N. Lott, and R. Vose, 2011: The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 704–708, doi:10.1175/2011BAMS3015.1 For a homogeneity assessment of HadISD please see this following reference Dunn, R. J. H., K. M. Willett, C. P. Morice, and D. E. Parker. "Pairwise homogeneity assessment of HadISD." Climate of the Past 10, no. 4 (2014): 1501-1522. doi:10.5194/cp-10-1501-2014, 2014.
HadISD the global sub-daily station dataset was produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre. It was derived from the Integrated Surface Dataset (ISD) from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). HadISD has been passed to the BADC for archiving and distribution.
Flight track for FAAM BAE-146 flight B110
Flight summary file for FAAM BAE-146 flight B198
Flight track for FAAM BAE-146 flight B198
Integrated surface database reference paper
National Centers for Environmental Information - NOAA (NCEI-NOAA)