BORTAS: In-situ Atmospheric Airborne and model data

The Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Aircraft and Satellites (BORTAS) project provides information on the connection between the composition and the distribution of biomass burning outflow, ozone production and loss within the outflow, and the resulting perturbation to oxidant chemistry in the troposphere. The BORTAS team sampled biomass burning outflow over the North Atlantic in summer 2011 the using Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) BAe-146 aircraft. The data were then used to describe the observed chemistry within plumes and to quantify the impact of boreal fires on the North Atlantic region using a nested 3-D chemistry transport model.

This dataset contains atmospheric aircraft and model data.

Science Objectives of BORTAS:

-Sample biomass burning outflow from boreal North America over the western boundary of the North Atlantic during summer 2011 using the FAAM BAe146 aircraft;

-Describe observed chemistry within plumes by using the measurements to constrain the Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM), with particular attention to the NOy and organic chemistry;

-Derive a reduced chemical mechanism suitable for a global Chemical Transport Model (CTM) that accurately describes chemistry within the plumes;

-Quantify the impact of boreal forest fires on oxidant chemistry over the temperate and subtropical Atlantic using a nested 3-D chemistry transport model, driven by a subset of MCM chemistry and by assimilated field measurements; and

-Detect, validate and quantify the impact of boreal biomass burning on global tropospheric composition using data from space-borne sensors.

The FAAM airborne sampling element of the BORTAS project took place in July and August 2011.

Date (Publication): 2010-06-16T10:23:38

Date (Creation): 2010-06-16T10:23:38

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4289d20cf3681362e96850453df40e1d

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 4289d20cf3681362e96850453df40e1d

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
BORTAS project team		unknown	Author
University of Edinburgh		unknown	Author
University of Leeds		unknown	Author
University of York		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Matthiesen, Stephan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Palmer, Paul	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

BORTAS
FAAM
MODEL
lidar
atmospheric
chemistry

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2011-07-05T05:29:31

End date: 2011-08-03T22:59:59

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/4289d20cf3681362e96850453df40e1d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://nerc-bortas.blogspot.com/	BORTAS Blog

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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: 2025-12-04T03:26:42

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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