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Abstract
The UK Met Office has a network of ground based wind profilers which provide high resolution atmospheric vertical profiles of wind speed and direction. These wind profilers are part of an integrated wind observing network, also using winds from aircraft, radiosondes and Doppler weather radar. The wind profilers can be combined with other remote sensing systems, as will happen in the FUND testbed experiment [1], including cloud radar, ceilometer, radiometer and GPS water vapour measurements to provide a more complete representation of the structure of the boundary layer in both dry and wet conditions. This paper concentrates on analysis of warm and cold fronts in south west England, and identifies a low level jet in advance of the cold front and a narrow tongue of strong winds descending in colder air behind the cold front.