f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403
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8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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2024-03-29T09:49:27
UK GEMINI
2.3
WGS 84
GASPOL: Airborne and In-situ Measurements of Atmospheric Chemical Species and Meteorological Parameters
2001-12-10T02:44:42
publication
2001-12-10T02:44:42
creation
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403
f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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.
NERC URGENT GASPOL Campaign Participants
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Cooke, Kim
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Simmonds, Peter
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
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+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
distributor
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
point_of_contact
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
publisher
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
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URGENT
GASPOL
Chemistry
Pollutants
Air pollution
Meteorology
atmospheric conditions
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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52.4653
52.4972
1999-06-30T23:00:00
1999-06-30T23:00:00
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British Atmospheric Data Centre
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http://urgent.nerc.ac.uk/
URGENT website
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/urgent/doc/02_gaspol/2_Technical_Report_November_2000.pdf
GASPOL Final Technical Report
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https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Format.html
BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
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https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Protocol.html
URGENT Data Protocol
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https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Sites/
BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Projects.html
BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
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https://zenodo.org/record/7356333
Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
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https://zenodo.org/record/7356463
Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
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2010-12-08
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