receiver located at the NERC MST Radar site. The files are written in
a non-standard ASCII format. They contain no header information - just
a series of data lines which contain one hour average data
products. The times given refer to the middle of that hour. Each file
contains All the data prodcuts for a given month. The first 5 lines
from the file for August 2001 (
gps-iwv_capel-dewi_200108.txt) are shown
below in green. The text in red is for explanatory purposes only and
does not appear in the files.
ABYW 2001 08 03 15 30 2429.0 137.0 21.8
ABYW 2001 08 03 16 30 2426.9 133.5 21.2
ABYW 2001 08 03 17 30 2424.6 130.7 20.7
ABYW 2001 08 03 18 30 2427.8 133.3 21.1
ABYW 2001 08 03 19 30 2435.7 141.2 22.4
SITE YYYY MM DD hh mm ERRC WETD IWV
| Column |
 |
Parameter |
|
Description |
| 1 |
|
SITE |
|
Site code |
| 2 |
|
YYYY |
|
4-digit year |
| 3 |
|
MM |
|
2-digit month [01 - 12] |
| 4 |
|
DD |
|
2-digit day [1 - 31] |
| 5 |
|
hh |
|
2-digit hour [0 - 23] |
| 6 |
|
mm |
|
2-digit minute [0 - 59] |
| 7 |
|
ERRC |
|
Error correction (kg/m^2) |
| 8 |
|
WETD |
|
Wet delay (kg/m^2) |
| 9 |
|
IWV |
|
Integrated water vapour (kg/m^2) |
Internal Links:
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- Access to the data
External Links:
- Location of the data on the BADC
THE NERC MST RADAR FACILITY AT ABERYSTWYTH