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Summary
The NERC Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (MST) Radar facility is
situated at Capel Dewi, five miles outside Aberystwyth in Ceredigion,
Wales. Its development and operation is a joint project between the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Physics Department of the
... University of Wales at Aberystwyth. It provides high resolution
measurements of the horizontal and vertical wind velocities in the
atmosphere in the regions of 2-25 km and 75-85 km. The height
resolution of the radar is a multiple of 150 metres (i.e. 150 m is the
finest resolution but it is an adjustable parameter). The wind data at
the BADC are averaged over 12 minute periods. For further information
about the instrument, see the BADC help file.

The radar is designed to probe and monitor small-scale movements in
the atmosphere such as winds, the jet-stream, turbulence and gravity
waves. This is achieved by analysis of the changes in frequency
observed in the echoes received from small, moving discontinuities in
the atmosphere. The radar is computer controlled and facilities exist
for processing all the radar signals received from the different
height regions in near real-time. In addition to the derived wind
components, lower level products such as the Doppler spectra and
time-series of the returned signal strength are also available.

The BADC also holds High resolution radiosonde data from the station
at Aperporth, which is used by the radar team as
correlative data. http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/home/index.html

Link to the MST data set home page:
http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/mst/

[Summary Extracted from the BADC Home Page]

Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Home Page. Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: The Meteorological Office UK. Global weather services from the UK. Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: The University of Wales Department of Physics

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 51.8		S: 51.8		E: -4.2		W: -4.2
Max Altitude: 100 KM

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Dataset Title: The Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere (MST) Radar Dataset Release Place: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Dataset Publisher: British Atmospheric Data Centre Online Resource: http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/mst/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1990-02-16

Location Keywords

VERTICAL LOCATION > MESOSPHERE VERTICAL LOCATION > STRATOSPHERE VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE CONTINENT > EUROPE > NORTHERN EUROPE > BRITISH ISLES > UNITED KINGDOM > ABERYSTWYTH

Data Resolution

Vertical Resolution: 150 m Temporal Resolution: 12 min

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > TURBULENCE > SPECTRAL WIDTH ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U ZONAL WIND SPEED ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > V MERIDIONAL WIND SPEED ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > VERTICAL WIND MOTION > VERTICAL WIND SPEED ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > REFLECTANCE > RADIO REFLECTANCE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Instrument

MST > Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere Radar RADAR > Radio Detection and Ranging

Access Constraints
The BADC holds the MST radar data online. These data can be retrieved
by anonymous FTP or through this Worldwide Web interface.

The MST data are held at the BADC in the original binary data format,
in which the data are encoded into integer arrays. The simplicity of
... the data format allows the data to be read on a wide variety of
computer platforms with only very minor changes to the access
routines. A guide is available to help you retrieving the data.

A display of the latest images is available in the image archive
directory. Some examples of plots of the MST radar products can also
be quickly viewed.

Ancillary Keywords

MST

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

British Atmospheric Data Centre, NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science, United Kingdom Data Center URL: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/ Data Center Personnel Name: BADC SUPPORT Phone: +44 1235 446432 Fax: +44 1235 445848 Email: BADC at rl.ac.uk Contact Address: British Atmospheric Data Centre Space Science Department Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK City: Chilton Province or State: Didcot Postal Code: OX11 OQX Country: UK

Distribution

Distribution Media: Online (FTP, WWW) Distribution Size: 15000 Mb Distribution Format: BIN Fees: None

Personnel

SCOTT A. RITZ Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: 301-614-5126 Fax: 301-614-5268 Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Change Master Directory City: Greenbelt Province or State: Maryland Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA BADC SUPPORT Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: +44 1235 446432 Fax: +44 1235 445848 Email: BADC at rl.ac.uk Contact Address: British Atmospheric Data Centre Space Science Department Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK City: Chilton Province or State: Didcot Postal Code: OX11 OQX Country: UK

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2000-02-18 Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-06-02

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