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JET2000 Project: Radiosonde at JET2K radiosonde stations in Africa

The African Easterly Jet (AEJ) is part of a climatic system which is of critical importance to African and global weather and climate, but is poorly observed and not well represented in model analyses. For the JET2000 project the Met Office Met Research flight (MRF) aircraft performed four flights, involving transects along and across the jet and the baroclinic zone, to make observations of unprecedented resolution for this part of the world. 110 dropsondes were dropped along the fight path. The data includes detailed synoptic observations of the basic state over mainland West Africa, and detailed synoptic observations of the African Easterly Waves (AEW) over mainland tropical West Africa.

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Date (Publication)
2007-02-28T22:54:39
Date (Creation)
2007-02-28T22:54:39
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/dd5ba18514ca0dac05f69a6304d55249
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / dd5ba18514ca0dac05f69a6304d55249
Author
  Met Office - author
Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,
0370 900 0100
Author
  Unavailable - Parker, Douglas E. ( 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
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Parker, Douglas E. ( principal_investigator )
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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Keywords
  • JET2000
  • Radiosonde
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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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
2000-07-31T23:00:00
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2000-09-29T23:00:00
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  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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2010-12-08
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Data collected by the Met Office research flight (MRF C-130 aircraft) in summer of 2000 over West Africa, then prepared before transfer to BADC.
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JET2000 Project: Airborne Measurements and Synoptic Observations of the African Easterly Jet (AEJ) 2ded5eab02a6df5fd400e33899a4fd73
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2025-11-15T03:01:29
Metadata standard name
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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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