The challenges for an operational wind profiler—remote and unattended

The Met Office has recently installed a Tropospheric 64MHz wind profiler on South Uist, an island off the west coast of Scotland. After many years in developing the use of wind profiler observations as a component of the UK upper-air network, this was the first system procured directly for operations and was linked to the closure of a radiosonde sounding station. This presentation will describe the challenges encountered, from the original specification, the installation/testing process and ultimately the hand over to operations, in delivering an unattended, remote managed observing system.