BGS Hosted Metadata
NERC Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) Rivers, Atmosphere and Coasts (RACS) data set - atmospheric chemistry data (1994-1997)
The dataset contains a variety of atmospheric measurements including time series of air temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, irradiance and humidity. A comprehensive atmospheric sampling programme provided measurements of atmospheric particulates, aerosols and gases, including hydrocarbons, nitrogen, oxygen, ozone and sulphur species, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrous and hydrochloric acids. Additional measurements of photolysis rates and ion and radical concentrations were also collected. The data were collected from the vicinity of the north Norfolk coast between 1994 and 1997. The bulk of the data were collected during two field campaigns in the winter (October/November) of 1994 and the summer (May/June) of 1995. During these campaigns data were collected continuously from the University of East Anglia (UEA) Atmospheric Observatory at Weybourne on the north Norfolk coast. The widest range of parameters is available for this station. An instrumented vessel (MV Guardian) was stationed offshore to provide a second sampling site to allow changes in a given air mass to be monitored. The Imperial College London Jetstream Research aircraft made one flight during each campaign to provide a link between the two surface stations and four additional flights in 1996 and 1997. The River-Atmosphere-Coast Study (RACS) was the component of the LOIS programme looking at processes from the river catchment into the coastal sea. Professor John Plane from the Environmental Sciences Department at UEA was the scientific co-ordinator of this sub-project of LOIS. The data are held by BODC as a series of ASCII data files conforming to the NASA AMES 1001 format together with a PDF document that describes the data set.
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- Alternate title
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048085
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-10-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-02-01
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED200
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
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Originator Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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Originator University of Birmingham, Institute of Public and Environmental Health
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Originator Lancaster University, Department of Environmental Science
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Originator Imperial College London, Department of Physics
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Originator University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
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Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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SeaDataNet PDV
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- Concentration of alkenes and alkynes in the atmosphere
- Concentration of nitrogen species in the atmosphere
- Wind strength and direction
- Ozone and oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere
- Carbon monoxide and dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere
- Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
- Sulphur species concentrations in the atmosphere
- Precipitation and evaporation
- Concentration of other hydrocarbons in the atmosphere
- Atmospheric particulates
- Atmospheric humidity
- Concentration of alkanes in the atmosphere
- Air temperature
- Air pressure
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Vertical Coverages
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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INSPIRE themes
- Use limitation
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Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1994
- End date
- 1997
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/lois_racs/ BODC data product
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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This dataset was created by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves .
Instrument(s) used to collect data: anemometers; meteorological packages; discrete air samplers; atmospheric radiometers; particulates samplers; precipitation gauges; continuous air samplers; gas chromatographs; aerosol samplers.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 909f11ea6aa450b2a4d866e69eef65f0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2018-02-06T15:16:38
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.8
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadžiabdic
Point of contact
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