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NCAS BT Tower Atmospheric Observatory

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Abstract

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) operates an suite of instruments deployed as part of the NCAS BT Tower Atmospheric Observatory, hosted near the top of the BT telecommunications tower in Central London, UK.

The communications tower is located at 60 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, London, United Kingdom owned by BT Group, constructed from 1961 to 1964. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower, the London Telecom Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) tall, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 189 metres (620 ft). Instruments are mounted near the top of the tower to facilitate long-term observations of London’s atmosphere. OS Grid Reference TQ2910581982.

The BT Tower housed a suite of air quality monitoring instrument during the ClearFlo (Clear air For London) campaign from 2011 to 2013 located on the 35th floor - hence the "t35" designation used in the filenames referring to this location.

The tower continues to host a number of instruments for long-term air-quality monitoring over London.

For further details of the NCAS BT Tower Atmospheric Observatory please see the AMOF webpage linked on this record.

Abbreviation: bttao, bt-tower-t35
Keywords: atmospheric composition, atmospheric chemistry

keywords:      atmospheric composition, atmospheric chemistry
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location:      GeographicBoundingBox: Longitude: -0.139 to -0.139; Latitude: 51.522 to 51.522
Previously used record indentifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__OBS_fd5a7daa-f2bd-11e1-811c-00163e251233
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