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Chilbolton drop-counting and tipping bucket raingauge data
No full textData are provided from 2 types of raingauge, drop-counting and tipping-bucket, at 2 sites. The tipping-bucket raingauge is a common type of gauge, but it has poor resolution of rain rate. Rapid response drop-counting raingauges have been developed at the Chilbolton Observatory to give measurements of every drop rather than every tip of a bucket at high time resolution: 10 seconds. The BADC dataset also includes data from a low-rate drop-counting gauge at Chilbolton which is the same unit but with a larger collector of 387 cm2 rather than the standard 150 cm2 collector. Data from a standard tipping bucket gauge are also provided at each site. The raingauges operate routinely at Chilbolton, England (51.1445°N, 1.4370°W) and Sparsholt, England (51.0879°N, 1.3914°W), 8 km to the south-east of Chilbolton Observatory
2007 BADC User Survey Analysis
No full textIn September and October 2007 the BADC carried out an online survey to try
and find out more about how the BADC user community found the present
services as well as attempt to gather information about the user community’s
skills and requirements. The information obtained from the survey should
provide a useful point of reference for the BADC to help target its
development and to ensure that it remains focused on providing a quality
service to the UK atmospheric research community. In short to meet the
BADC mission statement:
The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) is the Natural Environment Research
Council's (NERC) Designated Data Centre for the Atmospheric Sciences. The role of
the BADC is to assist UK atmospheric researchers to locate, access and interpret
atmospheric data and to ensure the long-term integrity of atmospheric data produced
by NERC projects.
Prior to the Survey only circumstantial evidence was available on user
experience and thus the BADC felt there was a need to sound the user
community in a more formal manner.
The aim of the 2007 BADC User survey was three fold:
1) To determine the skills base of the BADC user community.
2) To determine the present experience of the BADC user community of
its datasets and supporting services.
3) To identify those areas where the BADC should improve, those areas
where the BADC is doing well and those areas where the BADC could
explore/develop
