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THE NERC MST RADAR FACILITY AT ABERYSTWYTH

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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar at Aberystwyth:

is the UK's most powerful and versatile wind-profiling instrument
provides measurements of the vertical as well as the horizontal components of the wind
is operated predominantly in the ST mode, covering the approximate altitude range 2 - 20 km at 300 m resolution
is operated on a continuous basis, with a cycle time of a few minutes
can, under suitable circumstances, provide information about atmospheric stability, turbulence, humidity fields, and precipitation
has been making mesospheric observations, i.e. covering the altitude range 56 - 94 km, continually since April 2005

The data products are freely available to academic researchers through the British Atmospheric Data Centre. The radar site is located at Capel Dewi (52.42°N, 4.01°W), near Aberystwyth in west Wales (UK).

The Facility additionally operates and hosts a number of instruments whose observations complement those made by the MST radar. Other data products available through this website include boundary layer (below 2 km) wind-profiles, (column) integrated water vapour measurements, surface measurements of meteorological parameters (i.e. wind-speed and direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation and rain rate), cloud base altitudes and sky images.

The Facility is funded by:
		The Natural Environment Research Council
It is managed by:
		The Space Science and Technology Department of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
in collaboration with:
		The Met Office

		The School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester

		Aberystwyth University
Data are made available through:
		The British Atmospheric Data Centre

Page maintained by David Hooper
Last updated 26th November 2008