Project Record: NCAS general FAAM flying (SeptEx, Winter 2010, Oil & Gas)

Project

NCAS general FAAM flying (SeptEx, Winter 2010, Oil & Gas)

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Publication State: published

Abstract

NCAS general FAAM flying - Including Training, VIP demonstration flights, SeptEx - 2010 (September 2010) and Winter 2010 and Oil and Gas flights 2015

These NCAS funded flying hours consist of mainly UK-based flying and contribute towards several scientific goals depending on the available meteorological conditions including chemistry, cloud physics and radiation studies. Many of the NCAS teams familiar with the aircraft are participating.

Abbreviation: EM25, NCAS-TRAINING, OIL AND GAS, SEPTEX, ncas-aircraft

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Previously used record identifiers:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_e0c03922-bc29-11df-9507-00e081470264

More Information (under review)

NCAS general FAAM flying - Including SeptEx - 2010 (September 2010) and Winter 2010

Composition: CO1: RONOCO: RONOCO had a number of successful flights during July and is seeking to add to its data set by flying at a different time of year to obtain a wider range of conditions. NCAS will support this activity. (lead: Jones) CO2: Impact of biogenics on ozone formation: The SE UK is impacted by high O3 events under anticyclonic conditions. The role of biogenic VOCs, emitted at high concentrations during similar conditions, in causing these events will be investigated and chemical forecasts will be tested. This is a pilot study for a possible Dec 1 grant application. (Lead: :Lee/Purvis) CO3: Pollution studies around the UK and Ireland (AMPEP Type flights) will deliver information to constrain emissions estimates of reactive trace gases, radiatively active gases and aerosols from urban and larger scales. We will seek to extend this work to investigate emissions of radiatively active gases from Ireland. (Leads: Hopkins; Percival; Gallagher) FGAM1: Instrument testing of FAGE FGAM2: Instrument testing of the upgraded LTI

Weather: W1: Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Water stress over East Anglia is likely to be a major problem during dry summer periods, conversely during wet periods, moist conditions may well feed more moisture into convective precipitation events. These interactions will be investigated using similar flight patterns to those conducted during AMMA. (Lead: Parker/Marsham) W2: North Sea Stratocumulus studies: These studies will be flown in support of the Met office’s COALESC project. (Lead: Coe) W3: Mixed Phase cloud studies: These studies will investigate mixed phase cloud in the region of Chilbolton (Lead: Crosier, Bower, Choularton, Blyth) FGAM2: Instrument testing of the upgraded LTI FGAM3: testing of a range of modifications to Cloud Physics Probes. CO5: North Portugese wildfires: Wildfires are common in northern Portugal during late summer and have a significant radiative impact on the region. This study will use a set of suitcase flights to follow BB plumes and investigate the emission and transformation of pollution and assess its radiative properties (Lead McMeeking).

Availability of data

Data from these SeptEx flights will be stored in the BADC FAAM archive. These data include both core and non-core data (for a definition of core data, see the document on FAAM Instruments).

Access to data

As this project involves a broad group of NCAS aircraft users, a general access policy has been implimented. As stated in the NCAS FAAM Aircraft Users General Conditions of Use of Data:

processed core data is publicly in agreement with the FAAM Data Protocol (online application required).
non-core data collected on board the FAAM aircraft will be restricted to NCAS Aircraft users group 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 CAP-2009 data.

If you are an NCAS aircraft user and wish to access this 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 NCAS-general FAAM data — you will be asked to abide by the NCAS FAAM Aircraft Users General Conditions of Use and the FAAM Conditions of Use

Data format, File names and Instructions to data providers

FAAM 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/faam-septex. You will need your BADC user name and password and have applied and been granted access to NCAS aircraft users group as directed above.