JET2000 Project: Automatic Weather Station (AWS) at JET2K synoptic 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.
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- d594d53df2612bbd89c2e0e770b5c1a0 XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- grid
Encoding
- Format
- Data are NASA Ames formatted.
Projection
- code
- WGS 84
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
Other keywords
- Keywords
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- JET2000
- AWS
Geographic coverage
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S
E
W
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-02-28T22:56:48
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-02-28T22:56:48
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- 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.
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Met Office
- Organisation name
- Unavailable
- Unavailable
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Unavailable
- Unavailable
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Met Office
- Organisation name
- Unavailable
- Unavailable
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Unavailable
- Unavailable
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
- badc@rl.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-04-25T00:37:44
- Metadata Language
- English (en)