QUEFA - Quantifying Urban Emissions from the Air
Introduction
The proposal aims to provide observations of anthropogenic pollutant mixing ratios during circumnavigational flights of London and Norwich, to
calculate top-down emission estimates from each city to draw comparisons between observed emissions and those calculated for the validation of
(NAEI) and other emission inventories.
Availability of data
BADC will store data from the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft supplied by the QUEFA project team in the BADC
FAAM archive,
from where they can be viewed and downloaded by authorised users (see below). These data include both core and non-core data (for a definition of
core data, see the document on
FAAM
Instruments).
As stated in the QUEFA Conditions of Use,
access to the BAe-146 data is restricted to QUEFA participants :
- processed core data is publicly available upon ageement with the FAAM Data Protocol (online application required).
- non-core data collected on board the FAAM aircraft will be restricted to QUEFA participants for 18 months after measurement, after which the data will be released to the public domain.
- Access to the BAe-146 raw-core data is restricted to FAAM staff.
All users are requested to acknowledge the data providers, and NERC and the Met Office in any publication based on QUEFA data.
If you are an QUEFA participant and wish to access the QUEFA data whilst it is restricted, please follow the guidelines below.
- register as a BADC user —
if you are already a registered BADC user, skip this step; if you have
forgotten your BADC user ID and/or password, please contact the BADC
helpdesk at badc@rl.ac.uk;
- apply
for access to the QUEFA data — you will be asked to abide
by the QUEFA Conditions of Use and the FAAM Conditions of Use
Data format, File names and Instructions to data providers
QUEFA data are stored in either
NetCDF or
NASA Ames format.
File names follow the BADC
file name convention.
Data file submission.
Data providers are kindly requested to follow the BADC
file name convention and to format your data in
NetCDF,
using the CF metadata conventions.
NASA Ames formatted files are also
accepted.
If you wish to check that files are correctly formatted before uploading them
please use the
NetCDF format checker or the BADC
NASA-Ames format
checker.
It is important that the data be well documented.
Please follow the BADC guidelines regarding the submission of
metadata.
- Core data and Met Office-non-core instrument data will be submitted though the usual upload routes.
- Other non-core data can be submitted by FTP to ftp.badc.rl.ac.uk directory incoming/quefa.
You will need your BADC user name and password and have applied and been granted access to QUEFA data as directed above.
Documentation
Services
Links to further information
Citation
FAAM, UK Meteorological Office, Natural Environment Research Council,[Hopkins, J.]. FAAM - Quantifying Urban Emissions from the Air (QUEFA), [Internet]. British Atmospheric Data Centre, 2009-, Date of citation. Available from http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/quefa/.
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