FRANC: Wardon Hill C-band rain radar helical scan products

Helical scans from the Met Office's Wardon Hill C-band rain radar, Dorset, England produced in support of the NERC funded "Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and Novel observations of Convection" (FRANC) project. These data are opportunistic observations made by the radar as it transitioned between horizontal and vertically pointing scans and vice versa obtained during the period of the FRANC project.

The radar is a C-band (5.3 cm wavelength) radar and data are received by the Nimrod system at 5 minute intervals.

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Date (Publication)
2020-12-18T10:43:41
Date (Creation)
2020-12-18T10:43:41
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/80791eb6d92542cea867727f3c44d49a
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 80791eb6d92542cea867727f3c44d49a
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Owner
  Met Office - data_owner
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Met Office - principal_investigator
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Dance, Sarah L. ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Met Office
  • NIMROD
  • rain radar
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
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Other constraints
These data have multiple licences for different applications. Always make sure to read the appropriate licence for full data usage limitations details. Other usage may not be permitted. Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic 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.
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/ukmo_agreement_gov.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under 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.
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2013-11-22T00:00:00
End date
2018-01-16T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are in NIMROD binary format. ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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NIMROD Product description table

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Met Office Weather Radar Factsheet

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data are acquired from Met Office's NIMROD system and supplied initially to the Forecasting Rainfall exploiting new data Assimilation techniques and Novel observations of Convection" (FRANC) project space before eventual ingestion into the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archive for long-term archival.
File identifier
80791eb6d92542cea867727f3c44d49a XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:20:45
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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