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MRF A771 EXPORT flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft
The primary objective of the European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport (EXPORT) project is to characterise and quantify the photochemical air pollution both forming over Europe and being exported eastwards from Europe. The data held at BADC was collected during a co-ordinated 3 aircraft flying campaign in August 2000 based at Oberpfaffenhofen in Southern Germany. Measurements were made of many photochemical parameters including ozone, its precursors, other oxidants and both gas phase and particulate tracers in the air over Europe and that being transported eastwards out of Europe.
This dataset contains airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft flight A771 for the EXPORT project. The flight was from Boscombe to Oberpfaffenhofen.
The main aim of the flight was to transit from Boscombe Down to Oberpfaffenhofen. However, it was also the first, and only, opportunity to test the recently refitted instruments. In particular, it had been requested that the peroxide instrument should be tested at altitude, in order to check for leaks.
The flight did not get of to a good start, as power was lost, due to the GPU running out of fuel. A faulty oxygen regulator was then noted, which had to be repaired before take-off. We delayed slightly and a full warm-up of the NOxy was not achievable but the operator was happy to go on the basis that it was a test flight.
The flight showed up a few problems: the peroxide lost flow on ascent to FL190; the CN counter kept switching off; the Leeds GC (ORAC) was noisy and there were spikes on the JO1D and jNO2 lower radiometers. All in all it was a useful test; giving confidence in most of the instruments.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-02-22T01:20:32
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-02-22T01:20:32
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/642695719c97462eae72b29538e33c2f
- Citation identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 642695719c97462eae72b29538e33c2f
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EXPORT campaign participants
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Author Met Office
Author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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Principal investigator Unavailable
Browning, Keith
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Principal investigator NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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EXPORT
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C-130
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2000-07-28T09:32:50
- End date
- 2000-07-28T13:18:15
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Data are NASA Ames formatted
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/642695719c97462eae72b29538e33c2f CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-mrf/data/a771 DOWNLOAD
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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
- Statement
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Data collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A771. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the EXPORT project.
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- 642695719c97462eae72b29538e33c2f XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Date stamp
- 2026-02-09T03:00:51
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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