BGS Hosted Metadata
PROFIL: Vertical Profiles of Wind, Temperature, Turbulence, Sensible Heat, Aerosol and Trace-Gas Concentrations and Fluxes
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.
The thematic programme began in 1998 and lasted for 7 years.
This project provided facilities in the form of a low cost, highly instrumented aircraft designed for probing the turbulent and aerosol-cloud microphysical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Priority use was given to the PUMA (Pollution of the Urban Midlands) consortia during the field trials planned for June 1999 and January / February 2000. The main objectives were:
-to provide high resolution 3-D wind turbulence, temperature and trace-gas variances of the urban ABL
-to provide measurements of the vertical and horizontal profile of aerosol concentration and volumetric size distribution over the Birmingham conurbation
-to provide a database of aircraft urban ABL case studies, which will be available to the PUMA and ASURE modelling communities via the appropriate NERC database committee
-to provide, where current UMIST instrumentation and facilities allow, the aircraft as a measurement platform for specific URGENT user measurement requests
-to measure the vertical entrainment and venting rates of trace-gas and aerosol between the urban ABL and the lower troposphere
-to measure the net aerosol / condensation nucleus flux downwind over an urban environment
-to construct and install a low cost aerosol collection sampling system to provide complementary aerosol chemical composition data to the PUMA measurement campaigns and to the PUMA modelling efforts.
A flight programme of ten flight days / case studies was designated solely to the PUMA consortia. Five additional flights were made available for either (a) instrument testing required by PUMA, which required the removal of the base-line instruments due to space and weight limitations, or (b) specific flights to accommodate other URGENT requirements.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2001-12-10T02:43:10
- Date (Creation)
- 2001-12-10T02:43:10
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0
- Citation identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC URGENT PROFIL Campaign participants
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Author Unavailable
Gallagher, Martin
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Beswick, Karl
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Burgess, Rachel A.
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et. al,
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Author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Series
- Keywords
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URGENT
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PROFIL
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Chemistry
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Pollutants
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Air pollution
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1999-06-15T23:00:00
- End date
- 2000-02-11T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Name Version Contact data centre for format details.
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
- OnLine resource
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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
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356463 Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
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- Series
Conformance result
- Title
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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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Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Hierarchy level name
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series
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-25T03:26:15
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Point of contact
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