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GASPOL: Airborne and In-situ Measurements of Atmospheric Chemical Species and Meteorological Parameters
The NERC URGENT thematic programme was set up to integrate urban environmental research across the geological, ecological, freshwater and atmospheric sciences. It worked in partnership with city authorities, industry and regulatory bodies.
The URGENT "Air" data were mainly in situ ground based measurements in urban and suburban areas but also include observations from aircraft, lab measurements and model results. Retrieved variables include atmospheric chemical species and aerosols, photolysis rates and meteorological/radiative parameters.
The thematic programme began in 1998 and lasted for 7 years.
Tracer and Dispersion of Gaseous Pollutants (GASPOL) was a NERC Urban Regeneration and the Environment (URGENT) Air project (GST/02/1974 - Duration: 2/9/1998 - 31/8/2001) led by Prof Peter Simmonds, University of Bristol.
The transport and dispersion of pollutants, within and from a large urban area, are important processes due to their potential environmental impact on city inhabitants and those living in nearby communities. The release of atmospheric Tracers is a powerful technique to simulate the dispersion of pollutants and to enable direct measurement of the transport path and concentrations along the trajectory. Successful Tracers a inert, non-toxic, non-depositing, with low atmospheric background concentrations, long atmospheric lifetimes, and limited commercial use. This research project developed the Tracer technology necessary to characterise atmospheric dispersion within the urban environment.
Bristol University were exploiting the many years of experience in Tracer technology coupled with recent advances in gas chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques. There were several components to developing an effective experimental Tracer technology and this project was addressing each of these in turn:
-Selection of Tracers
-Analytical instrumentation for their quantitative determination in the femtolitre/litre range
-Design and construction of automated sequential samplers
-Tracer release apparatus
-The preparation of accurate perfluorocarbon standards.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2001-12-10T02:44:42
- Date (Creation)
- 2001-12-10T02:44:42
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403
- Citation identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC URGENT GASPOL Campaign Participants
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Cooke, Kim
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Simmonds, Peter
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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)
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- Keywords
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URGENT
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GASPOL
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Chemistry
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Pollutants
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Air pollution
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Meteorology
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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atmospheric conditions
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- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
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- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1999-06-30T23:00:00
- End date
- 1999-06-30T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://urgent.nerc.ac.uk/ URGENT website
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/urgent/doc/02_gaspol/2_Technical_Report_November_2000.pdf GASPOL Final Technical Report
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Format.html BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Protocol.html URGENT Data Protocol
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Sites/ BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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Protocol Linkage Name https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Projects.html BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356333 Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356463 Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
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Conformance result
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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
- f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
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- Date stamp
- 2026-02-25T03:26:04
- 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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