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Fig. 19.1
Examples of acquiring scientific data
The MST Radar at Capel Dewi near Aberystwyth is the UK's most powerful and
versatile wind-profiling instrument. Data can currently accessed via the British
Atmospheric Data Centre. It is a 46.5 MHz pulsed Doppler radar ideally suited
for studies of atmospheric winds, waves and turbulence. It is run predominantly
in the ST mode (approximately 2-20 km altitude) for which MST radars are
unique in their ability to give continuous measurements of the three dimensional
wind vector at high resolution (typically 2-3 min in time and 300 m in altitude).
Fig. 19.2
MST radar site
