Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): Airborne and Ground-Based Atmospheric Measurements
The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) was an international field campaign initiated by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
This dataset collection contains vertical wind profiler measurements.
The UK component of the campaign involved flights by the FAAM aircraft and the deployment of a number of the UK Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) mobile instruments in summer 2007. These included a Doppler Lidar, a radiometer, a wind profiler, two sodars, an aerosol monitoring suite, a network of automatic weather stations and two radiosonde stations.
The objective was to identify the physical and chemical processes responsible for the deficiencies in quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) over low-mountain regions with the goal of improving their model representation, and thus improve forecasts. For the field experiment, a region in southwestern Germany/eastern France was selected where severe thunderstorm activity is frequent in summer with significant amounts of precipitation and risk of flash flood events, while the skill of numerical weather forecasts in the region is particularly low. This dataset includes measurements of wind speeds and wind directions and aerosol concentrations.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-12-10T03:10:26
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-12-10T03:10:26
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0
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- series Series
- Keywords
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- COPS
- Radiometer
- Wind profiler
- FAAM
- AMF
- meteorology
- orographic
- precipitation
- convection
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2007-04-18T23:00:00
- End date
- 2007-08-29T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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- series Series
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:26:25
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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