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Dataset

 

MRF A782 JET2000 flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2016-06-14
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2006-12-10
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 32 Files | 144MB

Abstract

The African Easterly Jet (AEJ) is part of a climatic system which is of critical importance to African and global weather and climate, but is poorly observed and not well represented in model analyses. For the JET2000 project the Met Office Met Research flight (MRF) aircraft performed four flights, involving transects along and across the jet and the baroclinic zone, to make observations of unprecedented resolution for this part of the world. 110 dropsondes were dropped along the fight path.

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 A782 for the JET2000 project. The flight was located over Cape Verde and Niamey, Niger.

Citable as:  Met Office; Parker, D.E. (2006): MRF A782 JET2000 flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0ae1ce38c8ee4b6e90dbe66d9ba7c82c/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: JET2000, C-130

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Data lineage:

Data collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A782. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the JET2000 project.

Data Quality:
Research data
File Format:
Data are NASA Ames formatted

Related Documents

 JET2000
  • units: G KG-1

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2000-08-30T07:14:20
End time:
2000-08-30T14:51:44
Geographic Extent

 
56.7500°
 
-28.6500°
 
4.0000°
 
10.5300°
 
Related parties
Principal Investigators (1)