Penlee Point Atmospheric Observatory: Meteorological and chemical observations 2014- present

The Penlee Point Atmospheric Observatory (PPAO) was established by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in May 2014 for long term observations of ocean-atmosphere interaction. The observatory is only a few tens of metres away from the water edge and 11m above mean sea level.

This dataset contains air temperature, dew point, wind speed and direction, rainfall, sulphur dioxide, ozone, carbon dioxide and methane measurements from Penlee Point Atmospheric Observatory from 2014-2017.

At the mouth of the Plymouth Sound, the site (50° 19.08' N, 4° 11.35' W) is exposed to marine air when the wind comes from 110° - 240°. Typical southwesterly winds tend to bring relatively clean background Atlantic air. In contrast, winds from the southeast are often contaminated by exhaust plumes from passing ships. The PPAO is in close proximity to marine sampling stations that form the Western Channel Observatory, enabling better understanding of the ocean-atmosphere coupling.

Date (Publication): 2017-10-18T09:40:51

Date (Creation): 2017-10-18T09:40:51

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8f1ff8ea77534e08b03983685990a9b0

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 8f1ff8ea77534e08b03983685990a9b0

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Yang, Mingxi	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)		unknown	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Penlee
Atmospheric
Meteorology
Pollution
Chemistry
Ozone
Sulphur Dioxide
Carbon Dioxide
Rainfall
Wind
Methane

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

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Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, 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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2014-05-02T14:02:30

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are Ascii and NASA Ames formatted

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8f1ff8ea77534e08b03983685990a9b0	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/penlee/data/met-o3-co2-ch4	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.westernchannelobservatory.org.uk/penlee/	Penlee Point Observatory

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.pml.ac.uk/Facilities/Atmospheric_Observatory	PML Penlee Point Observatory

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

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

Statement: Data were collected by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and deposited at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.

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File identifier: 8f1ff8ea77534e08b03983685990a9b0 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Penlee Point Atmospheric Observatory: Meteorological and chemical observations 2014-2017
61409a5455cc4913a43da496768d0f67

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-11T03:17:16

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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