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Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR): surface, radar and lidar measurements (1998-present)
Data from observations made using Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR).The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) facility at Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire (51.1445N, 1.4270W) is the home of many observation systems for meteorological and atmospheric science research. There are 4 radar systems designed to study precipitation, clouds and clear air, of which the largest is the 3 GHz Doppler radar (CAMRa) on the 25 m dish. There are also 4 lidar systems providing data on elastic backscattering, Doppler velocity, water vapour profiles and depolarisation. A wide range of meteorological and multiple raingauge data are available from both Chilbolton and the nearby Sparsholt field site. There is a wide range of radiometers at the site: microwave (for water vapour and liquid water measurements) and downwelling infra-red and visible detectors for radiation budget measurements. This dataset holds attenuation time-series data from vertically polarised 5 km links from South Wonston to Sparsholt. Cloud camera data from the Chilbolton site are available to provide visual information on weather conditions.
CFARR is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and is owned and operated by the Space Science and Technology Department of the STFC.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2003-12-10T03:19:10
- Date (Creation)
- 2003-12-10T03:19:10
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 7cbc3fc19bfa037a48ba4cba4b93544d
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- Keywords
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- CFARR
- Chilbolton
- meteorology
- radar
- lidar
- NCAS
- AMF
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- 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
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- Begin date
- 1996-07-04T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research website
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Chilbolton Observatory Weather Web
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa)
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton cloud camera
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton 905 nm CT75K lidar ceilometer data
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BADC Doc: Visible and infrared broadband radiometers
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton 355 nm UV Raman lidar data
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton Disdrometers
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Reading University Radar website
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STFC Chilbolton Observatory website
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton drop-counting and tipping bucket raingauge data
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BADC Doc: Winter 1998/1999 radar data
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BADC Doc:Chilbolton Dataset - data log
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton Global Broadcast System
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BADC Doc: Chilbolton 94 GHz Galileo radar data
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BADC Doc: South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km Radio Links
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BADC Doc: Meteorological Sensors
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BADC Doc: Radiometrics microwave radiometer
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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
- 7cbc3fc19bfa037a48ba4cba4b93544d 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
- 2025-11-15T03:26:26
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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