THE NERC MST RADAR FACILITY AT ABERYSTWYTH
The plots are made available through the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) for reference purposes only. They MAY NOT be used for publications without prior permission. You do not need to have access to the data in order to view the plots through the following links. Click on the links on the left hand side in order to find out more about file naming and archiving conventions. Click on the archive location links on the right hand side in order to access the plots.
The latest plot of each type can be found here.
| Plot type: |  |
MST Radar - ST mode - wind Shows horizontal wind speed and direction, vertical velocity, (vertical beam) radar return signal power, tropopause altitude and sharpness. Data taken from the latest v3 Cartesian files. |
| File naming convention: | radar-mst_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_stRRR_wind.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/st-mode | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | MST Radar - ST mode - turbulence Shows vertical shear of horizontal wind, beam-broadening-corrected (vertical beam) spectral width, aspect sensitivity, and tropopause altitude. Data taken from the latest v3 Cartesian files. | |
| File naming convention: | radar-mst_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_stRRR_turbulence.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/st-mode | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | MST Radar - ST mode - diagnostics Shows where a secondary radial chain exists (i.e. evidence of structure in "unwanted" signal components), the complementary-beam horizontal-velocity continuity factor, the theta_s compensation factor (which has been applied to the wind speed to compensate for the effects of aspect sensitivity), and the tropopause altitude. These plots are intended for diagnostics purposes only. | |
| File naming convention: | radar-mst_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_stRRR_diagnostics.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/st-diagnostics | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | MST Radar - M mode Shows the (vertical beam) radar return signal power. Data taken from the latest v3 Cartesian files. | |
| File naming convention: | radar-mst_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_mRRR.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/m-mode | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | Surface met sensors - Campbell
Scientific Shows temperature, solar power density (note that the files store the integrated solar energy density over 10 minutes, not the power), relative humidity, rainfall rate (not that the files store rainfall accumulation, not rate), and pressure from the Campbell Scientific surface met data files. | |
| File naming convention: | nerc-mstrf-met-sensors_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_campbell-sci.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/surface-met | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | Surface met sensors - Vaisala WXT510 Shows temperature, relative humidity, rainfall rate and pressure from the Vaisala WXT510 (ptu) surface met files. | |
| File naming convention: | nerc-mstrf-met-sensors_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_wxt510.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/surface-met | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | Surface met sensors - Combined Shows temperature, solar power density, relative humidity, rainfall rate, and pressure from both the Campbell Scientific and Vaisala WXT510 (ptu) surface met files. | |
| File naming convention: | nerc-mstrf-met-sensors_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_combined.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/surface-met | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | Surface wind sensors - Frongoch Shows wind speed and direction, and minimum and maximum gust speeds, from the Frongoch surface wind data files. | |
| File naming convention: | wind-sensors_frongoch_YYYYMMDD.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/surface-wind | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | Vasiala LD40 Ceilometer - cloud base Shows the altitude of up to three cloud layers taken from the Vaisala LD40 laser ceilometer cloud base data files. | |
| File naming convention: | lidar-ld40_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_cloud-base.png | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/laser-ceilometer | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM | |
| Plot type: | Sky-camera Shows the first sky-camera image from each hour. | |
| File naming convention: | sky-camera_capel-dewi_YYYYMMDD_hhmm.jpg | |
| Archive location: | /badc/mst/plots/sky-camera | |
| Archiving convention: | YYYY/MM/DD |
Older quick-look plots
Older-style quick-look plots are available for some of the other instruments. However, the archives are incomplete and these plots will eventually be replaced. The plots are only sorted by year (not by instrument or by month):
They have names of the form:
| prefix | |
is a lower-case, 2 or 3 character prefix (see below) |
| YY | is the 2-digit year |
All plots for a month can be viewed through the multiple plot option:
| Parameter | |
Single | |
Multiple |
| MST radar horizontal winds | vcYYMMDD.gif | avcYYMM.html | ||
| MST radar vertical velocities | vvYYMMDD.gif | avvYYMM.html | ||
| MST radar signal power | prYYMMDD.gif | aprYYMM.html | ||
| Surface meteorological data | sdYYMMDD.gif | asdYYMM.html | ||
| Surface wind data | swYYMMDD.gif | aswYYMM.html |