Conventional land surface radar data: data set description page


Data set source
Information on available Data
Quality Control Processing
Data format
Data selection page

Data set source

  • Conventional land surface radar network
    Data archived only during MesoScale Area (MSA) IOPs.

    • Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive

  • French Mosaic:
    30 daily     files available during IOPs.
  • Great Britain and Ireland Mosaic:
    No data available at this time.


    • Quality Control Processing

  • Data providers validation: Real-time processing. No delayed-time validation.
  • FASTEX Central archive checking: Visualization of all images. Minimal checks about the time evolution of the phenomena.


    • Data format

    Images in gif format, including reflectivity (France) or rain field (UK), and several parameters such as date and time, resolution and projection. Images available every 15 minutes during periods of interest for FASTEX IOPs.


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    Upated: 26 Mar 1997