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Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) flights

The FAAM is a large atmospheric research BAE-146 aircraft, run by the NERC (jointly with the UK Met Office until 2019). It has been in operation since March 2004 and is at the scientists' disposal through a scheme of project selection.



Data collected by this aircraft is stored in the FAAM data archive and includes "core" data, provided by the FAAM as a support to all flight campaigns, and "non-core" data, the nature of which depends on the scientific goal of the campaign.



FAAM instruments provide four types of data:



- parameters required for aircraft navigation;

- meteorology;

- cloud physics;

- chemical composition.



The data are accompanied by extensive metadata, including flight logs. The FAAM apparatus includes a number of core instruments permanently onboard and operated by FAAM staff members, and a variety of other instruments, grouped into chemistry kit and cloud physics kit, that can be fitted onto the aircraft on demand.

FAAM is also a member of the EUropean Facility for Airborne Research (EUFAR) fleet of research aircraft.



As per NERC data policy (see documents), FAAM data are openly available upon registration with the CEDA archive (anyone can register) under the Open Government Licence. Raw data are retained for longterm preservation but are not intended for general use.

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Date (Publication)
2004-12-10T03:10:23
Date (Creation)
2004-12-10T03:10:23
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c
Citation identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)

unknown

Author

Met Office

enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

Author

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

unknown

Author

Unavailable

Smith, Maureen

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
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Update scope
Series
Keywords
  • FAAM

  • NCAS

  • NERC

  • Met Office

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • atmospheric conditions

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, 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
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Begin date
2000-01-01T09:06:21
End date
2024-04-17T15:50:41
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Contact data centre for format details.

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/affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c

CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.faam.ac.uk/

FAAM website

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.faam.ac.uk/index.php/component/docman/doc_download/930-famil-17-is1-al0-wording-of-research-papers

How to acknowledge FAAM data

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_data_catalogue.html

Archive content by flight number

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/campaigns.html

FAAM Campaigns

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/file-names.html

FAAM data file name convention

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/data-upload.html

Instructions on FAAM core data submission

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/data/00catalogue-campaigns.html

Archive content by campaign

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_Flight_Schedule.html

FAAM Flight Schedule

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/core_data_parameters_measured_by_flight

Core parameters per flight

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_Instrument_Metadata

Instrument Metadata

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/software/TARDIS/

TARDIS Met Office software to process raw core data on VMS computers

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/useful_faam_info.html

Useful information for FAAM data users

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/

NERC Data Policy

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Open Government Licence

Hierarchy level
Series

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

Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

Metadata

File identifier
affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Series
Hierarchy level name

series

Date stamp
2025-07-09T02:26:16
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

badc@rl.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions


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