MRF A774 EXPORT flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft

The primary objective of the European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport (EXPORT) project is to characterise and quantify the photochemical air pollution both forming over Europe and being exported eastwards from Europe. The data held at BADC was collected during a co-ordinated 3 aircraft flying campaign in August 2000 based at Oberpfaffenhofen in Southern Germany. Measurements were made of many photochemical parameters including ozone, its precursors, other oxidants and both gas phase and particulate tracers in the air over Europe and that being transported eastwards out of Europe.

This dataset contains airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft flight A774 for the EXPORT project. The flight was overGermany, Austria, Czech and Slovak Reps, and Poland.

The sortie was flown without any major problems. The mission scientists opted to do more levels in Nitra Slovakia, with level runs at FL70, 90, 130, 150 and 200. There was some confusion with calibrations and zeros, which had not been integrated into the sortie brief. This resulted in effectively extending each run from 10 to 15 minutes.

The Falcon was operating in the area at the same time. At one point they flew underneath us at FL90, while we were at FL120 flying eastbound. We then transited north to Poland, via the Czech Republic.

An additional 50' approach to Pardevice airport was added into the sortie before the final transit back to Oberpfaffenhofen.

Heavy cloud and precipitation was encountered on the return transit to a very wet Oberpfaffenhofen.

Date (Publication): 2006-12-10T03:09:18

Date (Creation): 2006-12-10T03:09:18

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f8954c15d87149d593646d44164c38bd

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f8954c15d87149d593646d44164c38bd

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
EXPORT campaign participants		unknown	Author
Met Office		enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
Unavailable	Bandy, Brian	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Brough, Neil	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Carney, R.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Green, Tim	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kent, J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Lewis, Alastair C.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	McQuaid, Jim	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Mills, Graham	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Oram, David	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Phillips, G.J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Purvis, Ruth Mary	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Sturrock, Georgina	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
unknown		unknown	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Browning, Keith	Unavailable	Principal investigator
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: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

EXPORT
C-130

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2000-08-03T08:24:45

End date: 2000-08-03T14:54:45

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are NASA Ames formatted

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/f8954c15d87149d593646d44164c38bd	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-mrf/data/a774	DOWNLOAD

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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: Data collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A774. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the EXPORT project.