Wind-Profiler Instrument Details

Location Instrument name at BADC Coordinates (lat, long, height) Frequency Height resolution (High/Low res.) Height range Links	Camborne ukmo-radar-915mhz-1 50.13°N, 5.19°W, 88m 915 MHz 60 / 200m 0.3km to 8.0km further information	South Uist ukmo-radar-64mhz-1 57.35°N, 7.37°W, 4m 64.0 MHz 150 / 400m 1.0km to 13.0km further information
Location Instrument name at BADC Coordinates (lat, long, height) Frequency Height resolution (High/Low res.) Height range (High/Low res.) Links	Dunkeswell ukmo-radar-1290mhz-1 50.87°N, 3.23°W, 253m 1290 MHz, 100m / 400m 108m-2015m/ 253m-7937m further information	Wattisham ukmo-radar-1290mhz-2 52.70°N, 0.058°E, 87m 1290 MHz, 102m / 205m 239m-2060m/ 347m-8239m further information
Location Instrument name at BADC Coordinates (lat, long, height) Frequency Height resolution (High/Low res.) Height range (High/Low res.) Links	Isle of Man (formerly at Aberystwyth and South Uist) ukmo-radar-915mhz-2 54.06°N, 4.37°W, 55m 915.0 MHz 60 / 200m 0.3km to 8.0km further information

Filenaming convention

The BADC file-naming convention for wind profiler data is :

Instrument_location_YYYYMMDD.txt where:
Instrument is the instrument name in the table above
Location is the location of the observations, and
YYYYMMDD is the date on which measurements were made.

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