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MRF A752 ACTO flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft
The Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) was a Met Office facility, which flew a well-instrumented C-130 Hercules aircraft for atmospheric research purposes.
This dataset contains airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft flight A752 for the Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport of Ozone in the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS) (ACTO) campaign. The flight was located over the Irish sea.
The purpose of the flight was to investigate various filaments of air in the upper troposphere. These were to include uplifted, polluted air from Europe; dry ozone-rich air of stratospheric / upper tropospheric origins and high relative humidity air from the marine boundary layer.
The different filaments did appear to be found but further post-flight analysis will be required to confirm the origins. Polluted air was noted with higher NOx mixing ratios. A filament of dry ozone-rich air was also found but at a more southerly position than forecast: it was not investigated in detail but flown through on an approximately Northward leg (i.e. an across-filament run). High relative humidity air was observed at the northern end of the flight track, as forecast. This air had ozone mixing ratios, which were lower than those observed on any of the earlier flights (down to a minimum of around 35 ppb), quite consistent with air of clean marine origins.
One interesting feature that was observed, between the high-ozone/low relative humidity air and the low ozone/high relative humidity air, was an area of high relative humidity and relatively high ozone (around 65 ppb). This was clearly correlated with a small but notable increase in peroxide and a good peroxy radical signal: i.e. a region indicating notable ozone loss. This was not one of the regions forecast to be of particular interest but nevertheless it may be very interesting.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2006-12-10T03:09:18
- Date (Creation)
- 2006-12-10T03:09:18
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f944afec17bf493e92e347b26f35d477
- Citation identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f944afec17bf493e92e347b26f35d477
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Met Office
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Barjat, Hannah
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Brough, Neil
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Penkett, Stuart A.
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Carney, R.
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Lewis, Alastair C.
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Methven, John
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McQuaid, Jim
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Phillips, G.J.
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Purvis, Ruth Mary
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Reeves, Claire E.
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Author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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Penkett, Stuart A.
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Principal investigator NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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- Dataset
- Keywords
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UTLS
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ACTO
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Chemistry
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temperature
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pressure
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wind
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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
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2000-05-09T08:59:00
- End date
- 2000-05-09T14:52:22
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Data are ASCII formatted
- 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/f944afec17bf493e92e347b26f35d477 CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-mrf/data/a752 DOWNLOAD
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- Dataset
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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Data collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A752. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the ACTO project.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f944afec17bf493e92e347b26f35d477 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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UTLS-Ozone ACTO: Met Research Flight (MRF) C-130 Hercules aircraft atmospheric chemistry measurements and model output collection
7ca95b35d9e378c10343f2730a880549
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-16T03:10:12
- 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)
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