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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
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0
Author
  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - author
Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Swindon , SN2 1EU , United Kingdom
01793 411500
Author
  Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) - author
Author
  Unavailable - Blyth, Alan ( 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
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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series Series
Keywords
  • COPS
  • Radiometer
  • Wind profiler
  • FAAM
  • AMF
  • meteorology
  • orographic
  • precipitation
  • convection
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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Other constraints
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.
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2007-04-18T23:00:00
End date
2007-08-29T23:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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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
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
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File identifier
6596eeb3f895410caa726150ae8136d0 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
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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
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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