Aircraft Measurement of Chemical Processing and Export fluxes of Pollutants over the UK (AMPEP) Project: Airborne Direct Measurement of the Atmospheric Mass Budget of a range of Pollutants as part of the Polluted Troposphere

Aircraft Measurement of Chemical Processing and Export fluxes of Pollutants over the UK (AMPEP) was part of the NERC Polluted Troposphere Research Programme project (Round 1 - NER/T/S/2002/00152 - Duration 2002 - 2005) and was led by Prof. D Fowler, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

This project was focussed on direct measurement of the atmospheric mass budget of a range of pollutants in the gas and aerosol phase in the boundary layer over the UK. New, state of the art equipment was applied to measure the atmospheric mass budget and, in particular, the net export from the downwind coast over the UK. For the majority of the pollutants this is the dominant term and its measurement provides a very powerful test of current understanding of the processes and the current generation of long range transport models. The approach was applied to sulphur compounds, oxidized and reduced nitrogen, ozone and related photochemical oxidant precursors, mercury, a range of heavy metals and the main radiatively active gases. The analysis and interpretation of the data was completed using a range of current long range transport, transformation and deposition models.

AMPEP was an aircraft measurement campaign using the FAAM BAe-146-301 and the flights were scheduled to take place between March and September 2005. Flights took place between 21 Apr 2005 and 19 September 2006.

The datasets include data from:

- the core FAAM instruments.

- non-core instruments fitted for the campaign including the UMIST aerosol mass spectrometer, gas analysers, aerosol filters, particle counters and a tunable diode laser, which measured a broad range of atmospheric trace species and aerosols.

Date (Publication): 2007-12-10T03:19:46

Date (Creation): 2007-12-10T03:19:46

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b1196b7c17d4926d963717c529f76222

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / b1196b7c17d4926d963717c529f76222

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Fowler, D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Gallagher, Martin	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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Keywords

AMPEP
chemistry
FAAM
FLUXEX
airborne
atmospheric measurments

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2005-03-29T23:00:00

End date: 2006-09-19T12:51:50

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b1196b7c17d4926d963717c529f76222	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/troposphere/	NERC Polluted Troposphere website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/conditions/polltrop.html	Polluted Troposphere Data Protocol

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/polluted-tropo/doc/publications.html	BADC Doc: Polluted Troposphere

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.faam.ac.uk/	FAAM

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/polluted-tropo/projects/	Other Polluted Troposphere Projects

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/polluted-tropo/datamanagement.pdf	Data Management Plan

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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

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Date stamp: 2026-01-15T03:25:53

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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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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