Dataset Homepage
Source: environment.data.gov.uk (2018-06-19)

Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) data, part of the Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) programme. These data are part of the NERC Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) programme. With a diameter of 25 metres the 3 GHz CAMRa at Chilbolton Observatory (UK) is the largest steerable meteorological radar in the world. Polarisation and Doppler data are stored in netCDF format for 30 March 1999, 9 June 2000, 20 October 2000, 21 November 2000, and 28 February 2001. Quicklook images are also available.

OK Find out more
- About (https://archive.ceda.ac.uk/about/)
- News (https://www.ceda.ac.uk/news/)
- Search Catalogue (https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk)
- Get Data (https://data.ceda.ac.uk)
- Deposit (https://arrivals.ceda.ac.uk)
- Tools (https://archive.ceda.ac.uk/tools)
- Sign in (/oidc/authenticate/?next=/uuid/7a712f5db671ce7b072837b947e62f4a/)
- Register (https://services.ceda.ac.uk/cedasite/register/info/)
Dataset Collection

View XML (/export/xml/gemini2.3/7a712f5db671ce7b072837b947e62f4a.xml)

Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) data, part of the Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) programme

See Related Documents (?jump=related-docs-anchor)

Status: Not defined

Publication State: published

Abstract

These data are part of the NERC Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) programme. With a diameter of 25 metres the 3 GHz CAMRa at Chilbolton Observatory (UK) is the largest steerable meteorological radar in the world. Polarisation and Doppler data are stored in netCDF format for 30 March 1999, 9 June 2000, 20 October 2000, 21 November 2000, and 28 February 2001. Quicklook images are also available.

Citable as:Natural Environment Research Council; Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research; NERC CWVC CAMRa campaign participants; Bower, K.N.; Palmer, S.; Hogan, R. (2003): Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) data, part of the Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) programme. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7a712f5db671ce7b072837b947e62f4a

Cite this collection (#)

Cite this dataset as:

Natural Environment Research Council; Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research; NERC CWVC CAMRa campaign participants; Bower, K.N.; Palmer, S.; Hogan, R. (2003): Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) data, part of the Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) programme. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7a712f5db671ce7b072837b947e62f4a

BibTeX RIS

Abbreviation: cwvc-camra

Keywords: Not defined
- RelatedRecords
- Details / Docs (4)
Details

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_cwvc-camra

More Information (under review)

Introduction

The 3 GHz Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) (http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/radar/camra.html) is the largest steerable meteorological radar in the world. The 25 metre dish is located at the Chilbolton Observatory in England (UK). It has dual-polarisation capability and full Doppler capability. The scan-type is usually 'ppi' (plan-position indicator, i.e. a horizontal scan) or 'rhi' (range-height indicator, i.e. a vertical scan). Chilbolton Observatory (http://www.chobs.rl.ac.uk/) is operated by the Radio Communications Research Unit (http://www.rcru.rl.ac.uk) of CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

The characteristics of the radar are:

Data Access

The CWVC CAMRa dataset is now public. Please acknowledge the source of the data in any publication.

Availability of data and file format

Data and quicklook images, for 30 March 1999, 9 June 2000, 20 October 2000, 21 November 2000, 28 February 2001, are available.

Data are stored in the BADC CWVC Mixed Phase Clouds data project archive (http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cwvc/data/Mixed_phase_clouds/radar-camra).

Images are stored in the BADC CWVC Mixed Phase Clouds images project archive (http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cwvc/images/Mixed_phase_clouds/).

The data are in netCDF (https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/106-netcdf) (binary) format and comply with the CF conventions ( NetCDF Climate and Forecast Metadata Convention (http://www.cfconventions.org) (Eaton et al., 2001)).

Documentation, Links to further information and references
- Documentation for the CAMRa dataset can be found in the BADC CWVC data area (http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cwvc/doc/)
- The Reading Radar Group CAMRa (http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/radar/doc/camra.html) web page contains information, including details about calibration and known problems.
- CWVC Data Protocol (http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/cwvc/protocol.html)
- CWVC Data Management Plan (http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/cwvc/camra/dmp.doc) (Word document).
- Metadata standards for netCDF files (http://www.cfconventions.org), by Eaton et al., 2001.
Who to contact

If you have queries about these pages or about obtaining the CWVC-CamRA data from the BADC then you should contact BADC Support. Your query should be answered within one working day. When follow-up work is required, the BADC support will carry out the work as quickly and efficiently as possible, and in any case, the user will be kept informed of progress.
- The CWVC Programme Science Co-ordinator is Dr. Keith Bower (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx) (UMIST, Manchester).
- The CWVC Programme Administrator is Dr Sally Palmer (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx) (NERC, Swindon).
- Robin Hogan (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx) (Reading) supplied the dataset.
- Charles Kilburn (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx) (RAL) may be contacted about CAMRa.
Related Documents

Coverage

Temporal Range

Start time:

1999-03-29T23:00:00

End time:

2005-07-27T15:04:44

Geographic Extent

52.5420°

-6.1952°

-0.3781°

50.5107°

Related parties

Authors (6)

Publishers (1)

(https://www.ncas.ac.uk)

Copyright © 2018 STFC (https://www.stfc.ac.uk) All Rights Reserved Accessibility (https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4641-accessibility) | Disclaimer (https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4642-disclaimer) | Privacy and Cookies (https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/4639-privacy-and-cookies) CEDA (https://www.ceda.ac.uk)

(https://www.nceo.ac.uk)