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Abstract
The UK Met Office is currently working on the development of the terrestrial based component of a new upper air observing network to meet user needs in future High resolution numerical weather prediction [NWP] model. One type of instrument can not provide the spatial and temporal continuity needed for a high resolution model, only a combination of different types of instruments can meet the user need. The south east of UK is going to be equipped with a dense network of integrated profiling station including wind profiler, cloud radar, ceilometer and radiometer. Used together with other observations like AMDAR, Weather radar, auto-sonde, the network will be able to provide continuously 3D information with a spatial horizontal grid around 50 km and with a vertical resolution of around 200m to 300m for winds, temperature and humidity, in the first 2 km. This paper describes what can be expected from integrated profiling systems to give improved atmospheric profile information in future.