Polluted Troposphere - AMPEP

General Info

Title:	Polluted Troposphere - AMPEP
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	polltro_ampep
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_11738855872817340

Summary
A brief description of the data.

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

Content
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Introduction

The Polluted Troposphere Programme was a 5-year NERC thematic research programme which was centred upon the study of polluted boundary layer air and its transport to the free troposphere. The programme focused on the regional scale, defined as intermediate between urban and hemispheric.

The Polluted Troposphere programme started in 2001 and finished in 2006. It ran a single round of awards, through which six projectswere funded:

Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry experiment (TORCH).
CLOud Processing of regional Air Pollution advecting over land and sea. (CLOPAP)
Transport and mixing in fronts.
Ionisation as a precursor to aerosol formation.
Advanced GC-MS technology for observing OVOCs and NMHCS in the polluted troposphere.
Aircraft Measurement of Chemical Processing and Export fluxes of Pollutants over the UK (AMPEP).

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.

Measurements, Availability of data and file format

AMPEP was an aircraft measurement campaign using the FAAM BAe-146-301 and the flights took place between 21 Apr 2005 and 19 September 2006. The dataset includes:

Data from the core FAAM instruments. For a description of these instruments see the details on the FAAM web site .
Data from 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 will measure a broad range of atmospheric trace species and aerosols.

To check when the all the flights took place for this campaign, see the FAAM flight schedule.

Data collected for this project can be found in the Polluted Troposphere data directory.

The data are stored in NetCDF and NASA-Ames formats. Filenames follow the BADC filename convention.

Access Restrictions

Regarding conditions of access to this dataset, the procedure is slightly different in the case of data from core instruments from FAAM BAe-146 aircraft campaigns. For a description of these instruments see the details on the FAAM web site .

Processed BAe-146 core data are publicly available. If you would like to access these data, please refer to the FAAM application procedures. Access is granted automatically once you have agreed online with the FAAM Conditions of Use.
Access to raw Bae-146 core data is restricted to FAAM staff and scientists involved in test flights. To access these data, please refer to the FAAM application procedures.

Users are requested to contact the project PI prior to publishing any work based on or using this data.

Documentation, Links to further information and references

Polluted troposphere six project descriptions
The Data Management Plan is available in PDF or Word formats.
Polluted Troposphere Data Protocol (also available in PDF and Word formats.)
NASA-Ames data and metadata format
NetCDF format and CF metadata conventions.

An online workspace was created for the Polluted Troposphere participants in order to ease cross-project coordination and exchange of views, information and preliminary data. The workspace is only accessible to the programme participants who have been invited. If you are a Polluted Troposphere scientist and have not been invited to access the workspace, please contact the BADC helpdesk.

The programme science and implementation plans, project summaries, news, announcements of opportunities, as well as meeting reports and presentations are available from the Polluted Troposphere Web site at NERC.
The Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) Web site.
The Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) Web site.

Details of publications arising from this project can be found on the PT publications page.

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

If you have queries about these pages or about obtaining Polluted Troposphere data from the BADC then you should contact BADC Support. Your query should be answered within one working day. When follow-up work is required, the BADC support will carry out the work as quickly and efficiently as possible, and in any case, the user will be kept informed of progress.
The Programme Superintending Officer was Dr. Ruth Kelman (NERC, Swindon).
The chairman of the Programme Steering Committee was Prof Gerard Jennings (Galway, Ireland).

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Data files submitted as is to the BADC by the campaign participants.

Quality Statement
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Some information may be available in the data files.

Author
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Name	email
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	www.nerc.ac.uk

Contributors
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Name	email
D. Fowler (CEH Edinburgh)
M. Gallagher (UMIST)

Online References
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Relation	Title
Download	Polluted Troposphere AMPEP Data Directory
Documentation	NERC Polluted Troposphere website
Documentation	BADC Doc: Polluted Troposphere
Documentation	Polluted Troposphere Data Protocol
Documentation	Other Polluted Troposphere Projects
Apply for access	Apply for access to AMPEP data
Logo	NERC Logo

Parent Data Entity
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No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
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None

Associated Deployments

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 61
Min X: -11	Max X 2
Min Y 49

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	2005-04-21
End Date:	2006-09-19

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
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Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
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Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

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