Name: FAAM B438 MEVEX flight, M1: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft
Published: 2014-07-11T13:53:52.217341
Keywords: MEVEX, FAAM, airborne, atmospheric measurments

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FAAM B438 MEVEX flight, M1: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft

Permitted Use: Any

Update Frequency: As Needed

Latest Data Update: 2015-04-30

Status: Completed

Online Status: ONLINE

Publication State: Published

Publication Date: 2014-07-11

Download Stats: last 12 months

Dataset Size: 40 Files | 5GB

Abstract

Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites data on board the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft, M1 flight for MEVEX - Middle East Validation EXperiment project.

Citable as: Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements; Natural Environment Research Council; Met Office (2014): FAAM B438 MEVEX flight, M1: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ca924c65ad514b3a82cd50e70a5bb86a/

Abbreviation: Not defined

Keywords: MEVEX, FAAM, airborne, atmospheric measurments

Details

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Data lineage:	Data were collected by instrument scientists during the flight before preparation and delivery for archiving at the NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre.
Data Quality:	Data collected by flight participants before preparation for archival with the British Atmospheric Data Centre
File Format:	Data are netCDF and NASA-Ames formatted. Ancillary files may be plain ASCII or PDF formatted. Image files may be PNG formatted.

Process overview

This dataset was generated by instruments deployed on platforms as listed below.

Instrument/Platform pairings

Met Office: Microwave Airborne Radiometer Scanning System (MARSS)	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
FAAM/BAE (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements/British AErospace) systems: Set of FAAM core instruments	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
Met Office: Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System (ARIES)	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
FAAM/BAE systems: Subset of FAAM core instruments measuring cloud physics data	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
New Instrument: non-core-cloud-phy	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1	FAAM BAE-146 flight B438

Output Description	None

var_id: ARIESRAD

units: degK
long_name: Brightness Temperature
var_id: bt

var_id: CALIBRATION_FILES

var_id: CAL_DC_CBB

var_id: CAL_DC_HBB

var_id: CAL_DC_MEAS

var_id: CAL_TEMP_CBB

var_id: CAL_TEMP_HBB

var_id: CAL_TEMP_PORT2C

var_id: CAL_TEMP_PORT2H

var_id: CDP_01
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 1

var_id: CDP_10
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 10

var_id: CDP_11
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 11

var_id: CDP_12
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 12

var_id: CDP_13
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 13

var_id: CDP_14
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 14

var_id: CDP_15
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 15

var_id: CDP_16
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 16

var_id: CDP_17
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 17

var_id: CDP_18
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 18

var_id: CDP_19
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 19

var_id: CDP_02
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 2

var_id: CDP_20
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 20

var_id: CDP_21
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 21

var_id: CDP_22
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 22

var_id: CDP_23
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 23

var_id: CDP_24
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 24

var_id: CDP_25
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 25

var_id: CDP_26
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 26

var_id: CDP_27
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 27

var_id: CDP_28
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 28

var_id: CDP_29
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 29

var_id: CDP_03
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 3

var_id: CDP_30
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 30

var_id: CDP_04
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 4

var_id: CDP_05
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 5

var_id: CDP_06
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 6

var_id: CDP_07
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 7

var_id: CDP_08
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 8

var_id: CDP_09
units: #
long_name: CDP counts in size channel 9

units: 1
long_name: Data Quality Flags
var_id: allflags

units: 1
long_name: Flag for Mass content from PCASP
var_id: PCASPMAS_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 0
var_id: PCASP_00_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 1
var_id: PCASP_01_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 10
var_id: PCASP_10_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 11
var_id: PCASP_11_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 12
var_id: PCASP_12_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 13
var_id: PCASP_13_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 14
var_id: PCASP_14_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 2
var_id: PCASP_02_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 3
var_id: PCASP_03_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 4
var_id: PCASP_04_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 5
var_id: PCASP_05_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 6
var_id: PCASP_06_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 7
var_id: PCASP_07_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 8
var_id: PCASP_08_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for PCASP Concentration in size channel 9
var_id: PCASP_09_FLAG

units: 1
long_name: Flag for Sample flow rate through PCASP used for processing. Check header for details
var_id: PCASP_FL_FLAG

long_name: Flag for droplet concentration from CDP channels 2 to 30 included
var_id: CDP_FLAG
units:

long_name: Flag for droplet concentration from PCASP2 (SPP200) channels 2 to 30 included
var_id: PCAS2_FLAG
units:

units: 1
long_name: Flag for droplet concentration from the PCASP
var_id: PCASPCON_FLAG

var_id: LONG_DATE

units: milligram m-3
long_name: Mass content from PCASP
var_id: PCASPMAS

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 0
var_id: PCASP_00

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 1
var_id: PCASP_01

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 10
var_id: PCASP_10

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 11
var_id: PCASP_11

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 12
var_id: PCASP_12

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 13
var_id: PCASP_13

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 14
var_id: PCASP_14

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 2
var_id: PCASP_02

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 3
var_id: PCASP_03

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 4
var_id: PCASP_04

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 5
var_id: PCASP_05

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 6
var_id: PCASP_06

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 7
var_id: PCASP_07

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 8
var_id: PCASP_08

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP Concentration in size channel 9
var_id: PCASP_09

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 1
var_id: PCAS2_01

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 10
var_id: PCAS2_10

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 11
var_id: PCAS2_11

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 12
var_id: PCAS2_12

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 13
var_id: PCAS2_13

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 14
var_id: PCAS2_14

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 15
var_id: PCAS2_15

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 16
var_id: PCAS2_16

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 17
var_id: PCAS2_17

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 18
var_id: PCAS2_18

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 19
var_id: PCAS2_19

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 2
var_id: PCAS2_02

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 20
var_id: PCAS2_20

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 21
var_id: PCAS2_21

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 22
var_id: PCAS2_22

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 23
var_id: PCAS2_23

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 24
var_id: PCAS2_24

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 25
var_id: PCAS2_25

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 26
var_id: PCAS2_26

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 27
var_id: PCAS2_27

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 28
var_id: PCAS2_28

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 29
var_id: PCAS2_29

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 3
var_id: PCAS2_03

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 30
var_id: PCAS2_30

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 4
var_id: PCAS2_04

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 5
var_id: PCAS2_05

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 6
var_id: PCAS2_06

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 7
var_id: PCAS2_07

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 8
var_id: PCAS2_08

units: #/cc
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 9
var_id: PCAS2_09

var_id: QUALITY

var_id: SCANDIR

var_id: SECONDS

long_name: Sample flow rate through PCASP used for processing. Check header for details
var_id: PCASP_FL
units: cm-3 s-1

var_id: PCAS2_FL
units: cm-3 s-1
long_name: Sample flow rate through PCASP2 (SPP200)

units: cm-3
var_id: CDP_TSPM
long_name: Time UTC seconds past midnight for CDP channels 2 to 30 included

units: cm-3
var_id: PCAS2TSPM
long_name: Time UTC seconds past midnight for PCASP2 (SPP200) channels 2 to 30 included

var_id: WAVENUM

var_id: ZPD_POSITION

units: cm-3
var_id: CDP_CONC
long_name: droplet concentration from CDP channels 2 to 30 included

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration from PCASP2 (SPP200) channels 2 to 30 included
var_id: PCAS2CON

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration from the PCASP
var_id: PCASPCON

var_id: t
long_name: time of measurement

Co-ordinate Variables

CEDA Archive Web Download Service
CEDA FTP download service
CEDA OPeNDAP service
FAAM flights in the EUFAR Flight Finder Tool

Coverage

Temporal Range

Start time:

2009-04-26T06:01:54

End time:

2009-04-26T13:12:33

Geographic Extent

	23.6237°
58.2671°		60.5810°
	20.8284°

Dataset

FAAM B438 MEVEX flight, M1: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft

Abstract

Details

Related Documents

Process overview

Instrument/Platform pairings

Mobile platform operations

Co-ordinate Variables

Temporal Range

2009-04-26T06:01:54

2009-04-26T13:12:33

Geographic Extent

23.6237°

58.2671°

60.5810°

20.8284°

Authors (3)

Publishers (1)

Funders (1)

Principal Investigators (1)