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

Publisher
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Environment

Summary

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.

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
CWVC Data Protocol 19/6/2018
Chilbolton Observatory CAMRa website 19/6/2018
BADC Doc: List of CWVC Projects 19/6/2018
Dataset Homepage 19/6/2018

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
02 November 2017
Harvest GUID
7a712f5db671ce7b072837b947e62f4a
Extent (Latitude)
52.5420074463° to 50.5106811523°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.19518470764° to -0.378144979477°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date (publication)
2003-12-10T02:33:57
Dataset reference date (creation)
2003-12-10T02:33:57
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Access constraints
Public; Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Responsible party
(ceda_officer, author); University of Manchester (author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (custodian, publisher, distributer, point_of_contact, metadata_owner, curator); Polaris House (author); University of Reading (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
series
Metadata language
eng

Contact

Enquiries

anabelle.guillory@stfc.ac.uk

Licence information

Public; Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/