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MRF A774 EXPORT 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: 30 Files | 42MB

Abstract

The primary objective of the European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport (EXPORT) project is to characterise and quantify the photochemical air pollution both forming over Europe and being exported eastwards from Europe. The data held at BADC was collected during a co-ordinated 3 aircraft flying campaign in August 2000 based at Oberpfaffenhofen in Southern Germany. Measurements were made of many photochemical parameters including ozone, its precursors, other oxidants and both gas phase and particulate tracers in the air over Europe and that being transported eastwards out of Europe.

This dataset contains airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft flight A774 for the EXPORT project. The flight was overGermany, Austria, Czech and Slovak Reps, and Poland.

The sortie was flown without any major problems. The mission scientists opted to do more levels in Nitra Slovakia, with level runs at FL70, 90, 130, 150 and 200. There was some confusion with calibrations and zeros, which had not been integrated into the sortie brief. This resulted in effectively extending each run from 10 to 15 minutes.

The Falcon was operating in the area at the same time. At one point they flew underneath us at FL90, while we were at FL120 flying eastbound. We then transited north to Poland, via the Czech Republic.

An additional 50' approach to Pardevice airport was added into the sortie before the final transit back to Oberpfaffenhofen.

Heavy cloud and precipitation was encountered on the return transit to a very wet Oberpfaffenhofen.

Citable as:  EXPORT campaign participants; Met Office; Bandy, B.; Brough, N.; Carney, R.; Green, T.; Kent, J.; Lewis, A.C.; McQuaid, J.; Mills, G.; Oram, D.; Phillips, G.J.; Purvis, R.M.; Sturrock, G. (2006): MRF A774 EXPORT 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/f8954c15d87149d593646d44164c38bd/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: EXPORT, C-130

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Data lineage:

Data collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A774. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the EXPORT project.

Data Quality:
Unknown
File Format:
Data are NASA Ames formatted

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Process overview

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

Instrument/Platform pairings

MRF - C-130 aircraft in-situ Instrumentation Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF: Fluorescence water vapour sensor Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF - C-130 - UV Absorption instrument Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
UEA: Peroxides instrument Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
UEA: PEroxy Radical Chemical Amplification (PERCA) technique Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
UEA: Formaldehyde (HCHO) instrument or Fluorometric Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
UEA: NOxy 4 channel NO, NO2, NOy, NOy* chemiluminescence analyser Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF - C-130 - Aethalometer - Particle Soot AbsorptionPhotometer (PSAP) Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
Fast Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (PMS canister instrument) Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF - C-130 - Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (PCASP) Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF - C-130 - PAN gas chromatograph Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Flight summary Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Flight log Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
Met Office - Lyman-Alpha Hygrometer Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(O1D) Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
University of Leeds: GC-FID Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF: Johnson-Williams Liquid Water Content Meter Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF: Condensation Nucleus Counter Model 3025A Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF: In Cloud Temperature probe Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft
MRF - C-130 - 2D-C instrument Deployed on: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft

Mobile platform operations

Mobile Platform Operation 1 MRF Flight C-130 A774
Output Description

None

  • long_name: Air Temperature
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0027
  • gcmd_keyword: Air Temperature
  • names: Air Temperature, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0027
  • long_name: Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds
  • names: Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds
  • long_name: Carbon Monoxide
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0112
  • gcmd_keyword: Carbon Monoxide
  • names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0112, Carbon Monoxide
  • long_name: Deiced Temperature
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0201
  • gcmd_keyword: Deiced Temperature
  • names: Deiced Temperature, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0201
  • long_name: Dew Point Temperature
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0210
  • gcmd_keyword: Dew Point Temperature
  • names: Dew Point Temperature, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0210
  • long_name: Geopotential Height
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0341
  • gcmd_keyword: Geopotential Height
  • names: Geopotential Height, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0341
  • long_name: Height From Radar Data
  • names: Height From Radar Data
  • long_name: Humidity
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G239
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Humidity
  • names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G239, EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Humidity
  • long_name: Hydrostatic Pressure
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0391
  • gcmd_keyword: Hydrostatic Pressure
  • names: Hydrostatic Pressure, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0391
  • long_name: J(NO2)
  • alt_names: ['Reaction rate of NO2']
  • names: Reaction rate of NO2
  • long_name: J(O1D)
  • alt_names: ['Reaction rate of O1D']
  • names: Reaction rate of O1D
  • long_name: Methane
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G138
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry/Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds > Methane
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry/Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds > Methane, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G138
  • long_name: Non-methane Hydrocarbons
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0563
  • gcmd_keyword: Non-methane Hydrocarbons
  • names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0563, Non-methane Hydrocarbons
  • long_name: Oxygen Compounds
  • names: Oxygen Compounds
  • long_name: Ozone
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G164
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry/Oxygen Compounds > Ozone
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry/Oxygen Compounds > Ozone, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G164
  • long_name: Peroxide
  • names: Peroxide
  • long_name: Peroxy Radicals
  • names: Peroxy Radicals
  • long_name: Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN)
  • names: Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN)
  • long_name: Photolysis Rates
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0625
  • gcmd_keyword: Photolysis Rates
  • names: Photolysis Rates, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0625
  • long_name: Trace Gases
  • names: Trace Gases
  • long_name: Trace Species
  • names: Trace Species
  • long_name: Volatile Organic Compounds
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0928
  • gcmd_keyword: Volatile Organic Compounds
  • names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0928, Volatile Organic Compounds

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2000-08-03T08:24:45
End time:
2000-08-03T14:54:45
Geographic Extent

 
50.0000°
 
6.0000°
 
13.0000°
 
48.0000°