BGS Hosted Metadata
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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM)
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Author Met Office
Author Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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Author Unavailable
Smith, Maureen
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Author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- Update scope
- Series
- Keywords
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FAAM
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NCAS
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NERC
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Met Office
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- 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
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Name Version Contact data centre for format details.
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.faam.ac.uk/ FAAM website
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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
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_data_catalogue.html Archive content by flight number
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/campaigns.html FAAM Campaigns
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/file-names.html FAAM data file name convention
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/data-upload.html Instructions on FAAM core data submission
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/data/00catalogue-campaigns.html Archive content by campaign
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_Flight_Schedule.html FAAM Flight Schedule
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/core_data_parameters_measured_by_flight Core parameters per flight
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/doc/FAAM_Instrument_Metadata Instrument Metadata
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/faam/software/TARDIS/ TARDIS Met Office software to process raw core data on VMS computers
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/faam/useful_faam_info.html Useful information for FAAM data users
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/ NERC Data Policy
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Open Government Licence
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- Series
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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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
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series
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-09T02:26:16
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Point of contact
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