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Coastal Air Pollution (CAP): Atmospheric airborne, surface chemistry and vertical wind profile measurements
The Coastal Air Pollution (CAP) field campaigns in 2009 and 2010 (CAP-2009 and CAP-2010 respectively) sought to investigate the impact of local meteorology on coastal air quality and the structure and evolution of the coastal boundary layer.
This dataset consists of surface, tower and airbourne measurements of atmospheric chemistry and vertical wind profiles from the Coastal Air Pollution (CAP) field campaign, led by Dr. Claire Reeves (University of East Anglia, UEA).
Airborne measurements were made by instrumentation on board the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements's (FAAM) BAE 146 aircraft, with surface and tower measurements from the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory (WAO) and the Facility for Ground-based Atmsopheric Measurements's (FGAM) 1290Mhz mobile wind profiling radar providing vertical profiles of winds, signal to noise ratios and spectral width data. These data were used to investigate the impact of local meteorology on coastal air quality and the structure and evolution of the coastal boundary layer.
The objectives of the campaign was to:
a) characterise the chemical composition of the air above and around WAO in various meteorological conditions to determine how representative the WAO observations are of the coastal region and of the air-mass origin (esp. in the case of maritime/Arctic air);
b) determine the local flow patterns that can be established around WAO which may influence the redistribution of pollutants and to aid future identification of such patterns with the more limited vertical data that is routinely collected at WAO;
c) identify patterns that decouple polluted layers from the surface;
d) characterise the off-shore pollution sources (ship emissions, emissions from off-shore gas platforms) which impact measurements at WAO under maritime conditions; and,
e) provide test cases for the one-dimensional MISTRA model of vertical profiles of trace components in the boundary layer and lower free troposphere, especially providing information about vertical exchange.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2009-12-10T03:21:26
- Date (Creation)
- 2009-12-10T03:21:26
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6fcb4aafad96756132bb816e19747db0
- Citation identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 6fcb4aafad96756132bb816e19747db0
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Coastal Air Pollution Project Participants
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Author Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)
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Author Met Office
Author Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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Author Unavailable
Reeves, Claire E.
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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)
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- Keywords
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CAP
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FAAM
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Chemistry
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Wind
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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
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- 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
- 2002-03-31T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Contact data centre for format details.
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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/6fcb4aafad96756132bb816e19747db0 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.faam.ac.uk/ FAAM NERC website
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Protocol Linkage Name http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/conditions/cap-2009.html CAP Conditions of Use
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/campaigns.html List of FAAM Campaigns
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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
- 6fcb4aafad96756132bb816e19747db0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
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- Date stamp
- 2026-03-11T03:28:39
- 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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