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African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Project: Africa Limited Area Model Output

An international long-term collaboration to study the climatic and environmental feedback mechanisms involved in the African monsoon, and in some of its consequences on society and human health. The programme, which started in 2004, has developed a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-Saharan West Africa to measure heat flux and, for some stations, CO2 and H2O vapour fluxes. Files also include concomitant meteorological measurements (wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall) and soil physics parameters (soil temperature and moisture). The UK branch of AMMA makes use of several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) which are centred on the Niamey meso-site. The Facility for Airbourne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft was used during the July-August 2006 campaign.

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Date (Publication)
2007-01-22T12:32:33
Date (Creation)
2007-01-22T12:32:33
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9b771445f270a7905d750c90e6fc9f04
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 9b771445f270a7905d750c90e6fc9f04
Author
  NERC AMMA-UK - author
Author
  Unavailable - Parker, Douglas E. ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Parker, D.J ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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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notPlanned Not planned
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • AMMA
  • Africa-LAM
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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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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  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2006-06-08T23:00:00
End date
2006-11-23T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are NASA AMES formatted ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) Land suface Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (ALMIP2)

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Data were collected from 2004 by a network of ground-based observation stations over Sub-saharan West Africa, several instruments provided by the UK Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM), and by the FAAM aircraft which was used during July-August 2006.

Data provided as is by campaign participants, and archived at the BADC.

File identifier
9b771445f270a7905d750c90e6fc9f04 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Program: Sub-Saharan West Africa Ground-based Observation Station Records of Heat Flux, Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapour Fluxes and Concomitant Meteorological Measurements 496afa5cd3b0c85478d85f52e6490b54
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:01:47
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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atmospheric conditions

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