COBRA (impact of COmbined iodine and Bromine Release on the Arctic atmosphere): Air-Surface Interactions Properties measurements from Airborne, Ground-based and Laboratory instrumentation

COBRA (impact of COmbined iodine and Bromine Release on the Arctic atmosphere) is a UK IPY (International Polar Year) consortium that aims to investigate the release mechanisms of iodine in the Arctic and the potential combined effects of iodine and bromine on its atmosphere. The team measured reactive inorganic halogens (BrO, IO, OIO, I2), O3, Hg, HOx, HCHO, NOx, VOCs and reactive halocarbons from temporary laboratories located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, north of Kuujjuarapik, during February-March 2008. Met balloons and O3 sondes were launched daily. COBRA set up an ice camp and flux chamber experiments ~500 m into the bay to directly measure halogen emissions and ozone deposition, and measured physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the sea-ice (and potentially of frost flowers) at different depths. The project is linked with OOTI, which carried out a simultaneous field experiment at Kuujjuarapik.

Date (Publication): 2009-12-10T02:39:55

Date (Creation): 2009-12-10T02:39:55

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a819cc838ad4c4f06a98ac4ce57df309

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / a819cc838ad4c4f06a98ac4ce57df309

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
NERC-COBRA		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Carpenter, Lucy Jane	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Ball, Stephen	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Coe, Hugh	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Evans, Mathew John	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Gallagher, Martin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hutterli, M.A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Jones, A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Lee, James D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Lewis, Alastair C.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	McFiggans, Gordon B.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Monks, Paul S.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Plane, John M. C.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Pyle, John A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Roscoe, Howard	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Wolff, Eric W.	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
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

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COBRA
NERC
Arctic
bromine
polar
Kuujjuarapik

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2008-02-10T00:00:00

End date: 2008-03-15T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a819cc838ad4c4f06a98ac4ce57df309	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://www.cas.manchester.ac.uk/resprojects/cobra/	COBRA at the University of Manchester, Centre of Atmospheric Science

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cobra/doc/Background_info/references.html	COBRA References

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cobra/doc/Background_info/background.html	COBRA Background information

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/cobra/doc/COBRA_Publications.pdf	COBRA Publications

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2025-08-01T02:26:27

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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