Name: FAAM B735 SAMBBA flight, number 5: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft
Published: 2014-07-14T13:38:13.784231+00:00
License: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/faam_core.pdf
Keywords: SAMBBA, FAAM, airborne, atmospheric measurments

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FAAM B735 SAMBBA flight, number 5: Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites on board the BAE-146 aircraft

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Latest Data Update: 2016-11-22

Status: Completed

Online Status: ONLINE

Publication State: Published

Publication Date: 2014-07-14

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Dataset Size: 59 Files | 3GB

Abstract

Airborne atmospheric measurements from core and non-core instrument suites data on board the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft during flight 5 for South AMerican Biomass Burning Analysis (SAMBBA) project.

Citable as: Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements; Natural Environment Research Council; Met Office (2014): FAAM B735 SAMBBA flight, number 5: 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/cc90c99c5c4145559650bb41778154cb

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Keywords: SAMBBA, FAAM, airborne, atmospheric measurments

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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

FAAM: AQD NOX	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
FAAM: DMT Dual Column Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN)	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Dropsonde	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
Met Office Wet Nephelometer	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
New Instrument: metoffice-neph1	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
York: Dual Column Gas Chromatograph-Flame Ionization Detector (DC-GC-FID)	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
Manchester: Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2)	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
FAAM Fast Greenhouse Gas analyser	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE
UEA: Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS)	Deployed on: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1	FAAM BAE-146 flight B735

Output Description	None

units: m
standard_name: altitude
long_name: Aircraft altitude (m)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_ALTITUDE

units: m
long_name: Along-track distance (m)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_DISTANCE

long_name: CDP Channel Number
var_id: CDPCH
units:

units: micron
long_name: Calibrated channel diameter lower limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_L_CAL

units: micron
long_name: Calibrated channel diameter upper limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_U_CAL

long_name: Channel
var_id: LIDAR_NC_CHANNEL

long_name: Composition of the aerosol used to calibrate channel diameter lower limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_L_COMP
units:

long_name: Composition of the aerosol used to calibrate channel diameter upper limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_U_COMP
units:

units: micron
long_name: Error in calibrated channel diameter lower limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_L_ERR

units: micron
long_name: Error in calibrated channel diameter upper limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_U_ERR

var_id: CDP_FLAG
long_name: Flag for droplet concentration from CDP channels 1 to 30 included
units:

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

units: m
standard_name: height
long_name: Height (m)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_HEIGHT

units: hPa
var_id: NEPH_PR
long_name: Internal sample pressure of (dry) nephelometer.

units: %
var_id: NEPH_HUM
long_name: Internal sample relative humidity of (dry) nephelometer.

units: K
var_id: NEPH_T
long_name: Internal sample temperature of (dry) nephelometer.

units: micron
long_name: Nominal uncalibrated channel diameter lower limits as given in the instrument manual
var_id: PCAS2_D_L_NOM

units: micron
long_name: Nominal uncalibrated channel diameter upper limits as given in the instrument manual
var_id: PCAS2_D_U_NOM

units: seconds after midnight

units: degree
long_name: Off-nadir angle (degrees)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_OFFNADIR

long_name: PCASP (SPP200) Channel Number
var_id: PCAS2CH
units:

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 1
var_id: PCAS2_01

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 10
var_id: PCAS2_10

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 11
var_id: PCAS2_11

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 12
var_id: PCAS2_12

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 13
var_id: PCAS2_13

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 14
var_id: PCAS2_14

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 15
var_id: PCAS2_15

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 16
var_id: PCAS2_16

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 17
var_id: PCAS2_17

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 18
var_id: PCAS2_18

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 19
var_id: PCAS2_19

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 2
var_id: PCAS2_02

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 20
var_id: PCAS2_20

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 21
var_id: PCAS2_21

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 22
var_id: PCAS2_22

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 23
var_id: PCAS2_23

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 24
var_id: PCAS2_24

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 25
var_id: PCAS2_25

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 26
var_id: PCAS2_26

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 27
var_id: PCAS2_27

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 28
var_id: PCAS2_28

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 29
var_id: PCAS2_29

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 3
var_id: PCAS2_03

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 30
var_id: PCAS2_30

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 4
var_id: PCAS2_04

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 5
var_id: PCAS2_05

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 6
var_id: PCAS2_06

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 7
var_id: PCAS2_07

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 8
var_id: PCAS2_08

units: cm-3
long_name: PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 9
var_id: PCAS2_09

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 1
var_id: PCAS2_01_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 10
var_id: PCAS2_10_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 11
var_id: PCAS2_11_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 12
var_id: PCAS2_12_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 13
var_id: PCAS2_13_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 14
var_id: PCAS2_14_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 15
var_id: PCAS2_15_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 16
var_id: PCAS2_16_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 17
var_id: PCAS2_17_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 18
var_id: PCAS2_18_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 19
var_id: PCAS2_19_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 2
var_id: PCAS2_02_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 20
var_id: PCAS2_20_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 21
var_id: PCAS2_21_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 22
var_id: PCAS2_22_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 23
var_id: PCAS2_23_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 24
var_id: PCAS2_24_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 25
var_id: PCAS2_25_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 26
var_id: PCAS2_26_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 27
var_id: PCAS2_27_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 28
var_id: PCAS2_28_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 29
var_id: PCAS2_29_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 3
var_id: PCAS2_03_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 30
var_id: PCAS2_30_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 4
var_id: PCAS2_04_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 5
var_id: PCAS2_05_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 6
var_id: PCAS2_06_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 7
var_id: PCAS2_07_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 8
var_id: PCAS2_08_err

units: percent
long_name: Percentage error in PCASP2 (SPP200) conc in size channel 9
var_id: PCAS2_09_err

units: Arbitrary units
long_name: Range corrected lidar signal
var_id: LIDAR_NC_PR2

long_name: Refractive index of the aerosol used to calibrate channel diameter lower limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_L_RI
units:

long_name: Refractive index of the aerosol used to calibrate channel diameter upper limits
var_id: PCAS2_D_U_RI
units:

units: Arbitrary units
long_name: Relative depolarization ratio
var_id: LIDAR_NC_RELDEP

units: LPM
long_name: Sample flow in (dry) nephelometer.
var_id: NEPH_FLO

var_id: Time
long_name: Time UTC integer seconds past midnight

long_name: Time UTC seconds past midnight for PCASP2 (SPP200)
standard_name: Time
var_id: PCAS2TSPM

units: m-1
var_id: BSC_BLUU
long_name: Uncorrected blue back scattering coefficient from TSI 3563 (dry) nephelometer.

units: m-1
var_id: TSC_BLUU
long_name: Uncorrected blue total scattering coefficient from TSI 3563 (dry) nephelometer.

units: m-1
var_id: BSC_GRNU
long_name: Uncorrected green back scattering coefficient from TSI 3563 (dry) nephelometer.

units: m-1
var_id: TSC_GRNU
long_name: Uncorrected green total scattering coefficient from TSI 3563 (dry) nephelometer.

units: m-1
var_id: BSC_REDU
long_name: Uncorrected red back scattering coefficient from TSI 3563 (dry) nephelometer.

units: m-1
var_id: TSC_REDU
long_name: Uncorrected red total scattering coefficient from TSI 3563 (dry) nephelometer.

units: cm3 s-1
long_name: Volumetric sample flow rate through PCASP2 (SPP200)
var_id: PCAS2_FL

var_id: alt
units: meters
long_name: altitude above MSL

units: degC
long_name: dp
var_id: dp

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 in CDP size channel 1
var_id: CDP_01

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 10
var_id: CDP_10

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 11
var_id: CDP_11

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 12
var_id: CDP_12

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 13
var_id: CDP_13

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 14
var_id: CDP_14

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 15
var_id: CDP_15

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 16
var_id: CDP_16

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 17
var_id: CDP_17

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 18
var_id: CDP_18

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 19
var_id: CDP_19

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 2
var_id: CDP_02

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 20
var_id: CDP_20

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 21
var_id: CDP_21

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 22
var_id: CDP_22

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 23
var_id: CDP_23

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 24
var_id: CDP_24

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 25
var_id: CDP_25

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 26
var_id: CDP_26

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 27
var_id: CDP_27

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 28
var_id: CDP_28

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 29
var_id: CDP_29

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 3
var_id: CDP_03

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 30
var_id: CDP_30

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 4
var_id: CDP_04

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 5
var_id: CDP_05

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 6
var_id: CDP_06

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 7
var_id: CDP_07

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 8
var_id: CDP_08

units: cm-3
long_name: droplet concentration in CDP size channel 9
var_id: CDP_09

units: m/s
long_name: dz
var_id: dz

units: degrees
var_id: lon
long_name: east longitude

units: %
var_id: NEPH_HUM
long_name: interal sample relative humidity of (dry) nephelometer

units: K
var_id: NEPH_T
long_name: interal sample temperature of (dry) nephelometer

units: hPa
var_id: NEPH_PR
long_name: internal sample pressure of (dry) nephelometer

units: gram/kg
long_name: mr
var_id: mr

units: degrees
var_id: lat
long_name: north latitude

units: hPa
var_id: pres
long_name: pres

units: hPa
long_name: qp
var_id: qp

units: percent
long_name: qrh
var_id: qrh

units: degC
long_name: qt
var_id: qt

units: m/s
long_name: qu
var_id: qu

units: m/s
long_name: qv
var_id: qv

units: m/s
long_name: qwind
var_id: qwind

var_id: range
units: km
long_name: range

units: percent
var_id: rh
long_name: rh

units: LPM
var_id: NEPH_FLO
long_name: sample flow rate (dry) nephelometer

units: seconds
long_name: seconds since base_time
var_id: time_offset

long_name: sounding launch time
var_id: base_time

units: degC
long_name: tdry
var_id: tdry

units: K
var_id: theta
long_name: theta

units: K
long_name: theta_e
var_id: theta_e

units: K
long_name: theta_v
var_id: theta_v

long_name: time
var_id: time

long_name: time of neph measurement
var_id: neph_spm
units: neph seconds

units: cm-3
var_id: CDP_CONC
long_name: total droplet concentration from CDP channels 1 to 30 included

units: m/s
long_name: u_wind
var_id: u_wind

units: m/s
long_name: v_wind
var_id: v_wind

units: degC
long_name: vt
var_id: vt

units: degree
var_id: wdir
long_name: wdir

units: m/s
var_id: wspd
long_name: wspd

Co-ordinate Variables

units: degree_north
standard_name: latitude
long_name: Latitude (degrees, +N)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_LATITUDE

units: degree_east
standard_name: longitude
long_name: Longitude (degrees, +E)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_LONGITUDE

standard_name: time
long_name: Time (s)
var_id: LIDAR_NC_TIME

standard_name: time
long_name: Time UTC seconds past midnight for CDP
var_id: CDP_TSPM

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Coverage

Temporal Range

Start time:

2012-09-19T07:29:02

End time:

2012-09-19T14:51:11

Geographic Extent

	-1.3835°
-64.9959°		-59.8670°
	-8.8909°

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Dataset

FAAM B735 SAMBBA flight, number 5: 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

2012-09-19T07:29:02

2012-09-19T14:51:11

Geographic Extent

-1.3835°

-64.9959°

-59.8670°

-8.8909°

Authors (3)

Publishers (1)

Principal Investigators (1)