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Hill, T.C.; Chocholek, M.

Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) meteorological data from Cartmel Sands, Morecambe

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https://doi.org/10.5285/b1e2fb9c-8c34-490a-b6ae-2fdf6b460726
The meteorological data describes the air and soil temperatures, net radiation balance, down-welling photosynthetically active radiation, wind speed, wind direction and the vapour pressure deficit.

Data collection was carried out at Cartmel Sands marsh from the 31st of May 2013 till the 26th of January 2015. The Cartmel Sands site is in Morecambe, North West England, and the meteorological tower was situated in the middle of the marsh.

This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme.
Publication date: 2016-02-29
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Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2013-05-31    to    2015-01-26

Provenance & quality

Measurements are recorded on a Campbell Scientific (CS) CR5000 datalogger. The wind direction and wind speed are measured at 10 Hz by a CS CSAT3 anemometer installed at 4.3 m on a lattice tower. The remaining variables are record every 15 minutes. Air temperature and humidity is measured with Vaisala MP103A and then converted to Vapour Pressure deficit (VPD). Precipitation is record by an Environmental Measurements Limited (EML) ARG100 tipping bucket rain gauge. Net radiation is measured with a Kipp and Zonen NR Lite. Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is measured with a Skye Instruments SKP215. Soil temperatures are measured with type T thermocouples.

Mean half hourly values were calculated in Matlab. The time refers to the middle of the half hourly period. E.g. 00:15 refers to the half hour from (and including) 00:00 up to (but not including) 00:30.

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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Hill, T.C.; Chocholek, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) meteorological data from Cartmel Sands, Morecambe. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b1e2fb9c-8c34-490a-b6ae-2fdf6b460726

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Correspondence/contact details

Dr Tim Hill
University of Exeter
Amory Building, Rennes Drive
Exeter
EX4 4RJ
UK
 t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk

Authors

Hill, T.C.
University of Exeter
Chocholek, M.
University of St Andrews

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Rights holder
University of Exeter
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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Additional metadata

Topic categories
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
INSPIRE theme
Meteorological geographical features
Keywords
air , atmospheric humidity , atmospheric precipitation , BESS , CBESS , Morecambe Bay , net radiation , PAR , photosynthetically active radiation , radiation , relative humidity , salt marsh , soil , temperature , United Kingdom , vapour pressure deficit , VPD , wind , wind direction , wind speed
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/J015644/1
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27 February 2024 16:27