PHYTOX: laboratory atmospheric pollution measurements

The NERC URGENT thematic programme was set up to integrate urban environmental research across the geological, ecological, freshwater and atmospheric sciences. It worked in partnership with city authorities, industry and regulatory bodies.

Airborne Particulate Pollutants: PHYsicochemistry and TOXicity (PHYTOX) is a NERC Urban Regeneration and the Environment (URGENT) Air project (GST/02/2222 - Duration: 1/10/1998 - 30/9/2001) led by Prof Roy Richards, University of Wales, Cardiff.

The objectives of this project were:

-to collect and provide detailed physiochemical analysis of PM10 (defined as particulate matter which has an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10microns) from four sites (industrial, densely populated urban, open cast mining and rural) in the South Wales conurbation

-to examine the ability of the characterised samples of PM10 to produce lung inflammation, increase lung permeability or initiate epithelial damage

-to determine if the effects are transient or progressive.

This project has a multi-disciplinary approach to collect, quantify, physicochemically characterise and determine the respiratory toxicology of different samples of airborne particles. The research is especially timely because of the increasing concerns by government, medical and environmental professionals about possible adverse health effects of particulate pollution. In addition, there is growing public concern, particularly amongst asthmatics and the healthy population, who live near traffic or other particle-generating sources, that airborne pollutants may be detrimental to health.

Date (Publication): 2001-12-10T02:44:23

Date (Creation): 2001-12-10T02:44:23

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2415d3d77d9acf6f76497cef7072a564

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2415d3d77d9acf6f76497cef7072a564

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC URGENT PHYTOX Campaign participants		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Richards, R.J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Jones, T.P.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Reynolds, L.J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	et. al,	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

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Keywords

URGENT
PHYTOX
pollution

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atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2001-04-26T23:00:00

End date: 2001-06-10T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/2415d3d77d9acf6f76497cef7072a564	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://urgent.nerc.ac.uk/	URGENT website

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Projects.html	BADC Doc: URGENT Projects

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Sites/	BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Format.html	BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Protocol.html	URGENT Data Protocol

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356333	Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356463	Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2026-03-08T03:28:35

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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