MRF A772 EXPORT flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft

The primary objective of the European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport (EXPORT) project is to characterise and quantify the photochemical air pollution both forming over Europe and being exported eastwards from Europe. The data held at BADC was collected during a co-ordinated 3 aircraft flying campaign in August 2000 based at Oberpfaffenhofen in Southern Germany. Measurements were made of many photochemical parameters including ozone, its precursors, other oxidants and both gas phase and particulate tracers in the air over Europe and that being transported eastwards out of Europe.

This dataset contains airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft flight A772 for the EXPORT project. The flight was from Oberpfaffenhofen to Romania and back.

After an uneventful pre-flight the aircraft departed just under five minutes behind schedule. There were a few tense moments when it was realised that the GPU was in danger of running out of fuel. This was replaced but it is obvious that procedures need to be put in place to eliminate this risk!

Diplomatic problems were also encountered with the Romanian authorities. The DLR and MRF clearances appeared to have been muddled and at 10:56 GMT we were refused entry to the Romanian air space. MRF base sorted the problem, receiving a signal authorising clearance at 11:17 GMT. Fortunately, the intended operating area had shifted westward and a suitable region was located in eastern Hungary.

The mission scientists were happy with the polluted air, which was sampled. At the southern extent large convective cells were encountered but conditions were more stable to the North.

No major instrument problems were noted during the flight. Overall the flight was reasonably successful.

Date (Publication): 2006-12-10T03:09:18

Date (Creation): 2006-12-10T03:09:18

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9e04c7cc0250400d8692e7afd4bda36c

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 9e04c7cc0250400d8692e7afd4bda36c

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
EXPORT campaign participants		unknown	Author
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Unavailable	Phillips, G.J.	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
unknown		unknown	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Browning, Keith	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

EXPORT
C-130

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2000-07-31T07:37:45

End date: 2000-07-31T13:47:20

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are NASA Ames formatted

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9e04c7cc0250400d8692e7afd4bda36c	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-mrf/data/a772	DOWNLOAD

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 collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A772. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the EXPORT project.