PHYTOX: laboratory atmospheric pollution measurements
The NERC URGENT thematic programme was set up to integrate urban environmental research across the geological, ecological, freshwater and atmospheric sciences. It worked in partnership with city authorities, industry and regulatory bodies.
Airborne Particulate Pollutants: PHYsicochemistry and TOXicity (PHYTOX) is a NERC Urban Regeneration and the Environment (URGENT) Air project (GST/02/2222 - Duration: 1/10/1998 - 30/9/2001) led by Prof Roy Richards, University of Wales, Cardiff.
The objectives of this project were:
-to collect and provide detailed physiochemical analysis of PM10 (defined as particulate matter which has an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10microns) from four sites (industrial, densely populated urban, open cast mining and rural) in the South Wales conurbation
-to examine the ability of the characterised samples of PM10 to produce lung inflammation, increase lung permeability or initiate epithelial damage
-to determine if the effects are transient or progressive.
This project has a multi-disciplinary approach to collect, quantify, physicochemically characterise and determine the respiratory toxicology of different samples of airborne particles. The research is especially timely because of the increasing concerns by government, medical and environmental professionals about possible adverse health effects of particulate pollution. In addition, there is growing public concern, particularly amongst asthmatics and the healthy population, who live near traffic or other particle-generating sources, that airborne pollutants may be detrimental to health.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2001-12-10T02:44:23
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2001-12-10T02:44:23
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 2415d3d77d9acf6f76497cef7072a564
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- URGENT
- PHYTOX
- pollution
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2001-04-26T23:00:00
- End date
- 2001-06-10T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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URGENT website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
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- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
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- Resource Locator
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URGENT Data Protocol
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- Resource Locator
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Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
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- Resource Locator
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Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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URGENT website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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URGENT Data Protocol
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2415d3d77d9acf6f76497cef7072a564 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-25T01:05:55
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3