2.6.34. SWT

2.6.34.1. Introduction

Woodsford Tower in Southwark, London (SWT) is a LUMA observation site that has been in operation as a LUMA site since December 2016. The building is owned by Southwark council. Weather data has been collected there by Bill Legassick from Southwark council since 1999. Mr Legassick can be contacted via email: Bill.Legassick@southwark.gov.uk, tel: 020 7525 4253 or fax: 020 7525 5705.

2.6.34.2. Site metadata

Site ID

SWT

Full Name

Southwark Woodsford Tower

Network

LUMA

Longitude

-0.091059

degrees

Latitude

51.487765

degrees

Start date

1999-05-10

UTC

End date

UTC

Displacement height

-999.0

m

City

London

2.6.34.3. Deployments at site

Table 2.128 All site deployments

Deployment ID

Instrument ID

Instrument serial

Type

Deployment name

Start date

End date

UTC

UTC

372

CT25K

LCBR045

ceilometer

CT25K-Q

2016-12-15

2017-11-10

389

BLS

T-E-0470

scintillometer

BLS Rx

2017-04-06

2020-11-04

390

SWTWXSTATION

SWT123456

single

SWTWX

2017-03-18

393

CNR1

00022123

single

CNR1

2017-05-18

2021-07-16

414

LASMKII

120028

scintillometer

SouthwarkLAS

2017-08-25

2021-04-09

438

CL31

F2730001

ceilometer

CL31-D

2017-11-10

2020-02-18

461

WINDSET

123

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

2017-03-18

462

WINDSET

123

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

1999-05-10

2017-03-17

461

107

1234

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

2017-03-18

462

107

1234

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

1999-05-10

2017-03-17

461

ARG100

SOUTHWARK_ARG100

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

2017-03-18

462

ARG100

SOUTHWARK_ARG100

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

1999-05-10

2017-03-17

461

HMP45A

12345

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

2017-03-18

462

HMP45A

12345

profile_complex

SWTWX_grouping

1999-05-10

2017-03-17
Table 2.129 Position of deployments

Deployment ID

Height

Yaw

Pitch

Roll

m asl

degrees

degrees

degrees

372

44.5

0.0

4.0

0.0

389

54.0

346.0

0.48257465604286

390

55.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

393

44.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

414

44.0

240.0

0.36760723975911

438

44.5

0.0

4.0

0.0

461

60.0

0.0

0.0

462

60.0

0.0

0.0

461

44.0

0.0

0.0

462

44.0

0.0

0.0

461

44.0

0.0

0.0

462

44.0

0.0

0.0

461

44.0

0.0

0.0

462

44.0

0.0

0.0
Table 2.130 Metadata specific to profiles

Deployment ID

Profile bottom

Profile top

Profile step

m asl

m asl

m

372

0.0

30.0

438

0.0

10.0
Table 2.131 Metadata specific to scintillometers

Deployment ID

Target distance

Target site

Target height

m

m asl

389

4392.8823995491

IMU

91.0

414

1091.014838421

SCT

51.0

2.6.34.4. Photos

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Fig. 2.97 View facing NNE 10-06-2016.

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Fig. 2.98 View facing SSW 10-06-2016.

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Fig. 2.99 View of mast, temperature and humidity sensors ( SWTWXSTATION ) , scintillometers and CNR1 23-07-2020.

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Fig. 2.100 ARG100 and CL31 23-07-2020.

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Fig. 2.101 Scintillometers. LASMKII transmitter to SCT and BLS reciever from IMU 19-07-2019.

2.6.34.5. Supplementary information

Link

Title

Description

http://data.urban-climate.net/southwark_plots/

Southwark Meteorological Station

Current weather data visualisation and download

2.6.34.6. Data acquisition

Weather (air temperature, humidity, wind and rain) data from 10/05/1999 to 27/01/2017 is available publicly from:

Legassick, Bill, & Grimmond, Sue. (2019). 1999-2017 - London SWT Weather data [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2596929

ALl other data can be requested from Prof. Sue Grimmond (c.s.grimmond@reading.ac.uk).

2.6.34.7. Data availability

Double click on legend to isolate instruments.

2.6.34.8. Acknowledgements

We thank Bill Legassick at Southwark Council for site access.

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