650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 series series NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-29T02:28:26 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 PROFIL: Vertical Profiles of Wind, Temperature, Turbulence, Sensible Heat, Aerosol and Trace-Gas Concentrations and Fluxes 2001-12-10T02:43:10 publication 2001-12-10T02:43:10 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) 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. NERC URGENT PROFIL Campaign participants author unknown author Gallagher, Martin Unavailable author Unavailable author Beswick, Karl Unavailable author Unavailable author Burgess, Rachel A. Unavailable author Unavailable author et. al, Unavailable author Unavailable author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk publisher unknown series URGENT PROFIL Chemistry Pollutants Air pollution atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection. otherRestrictions Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -2.6 -1.6 52.2 53.4 1999-06-15T23:00:00 2000-02-11T23:59:59 Contact data centre for format details. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://urgent.nerc.ac.uk/ URGENT website No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Projects.html BADC Doc: URGENT Projects No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Sites/ BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Format.html BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Protocol.html URGENT Data Protocol No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7356333 Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom No further details. information https://zenodo.org/record/7356463 Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT) No further details. information series 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 2010-12-08 Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.