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ADRIEX: backward trajectories arriving over Europe from the TOMCAT model

The Aerosol Direct Radiative Impact Experiment (ADRIEX) was a joint UK Met Office/Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)/UK Royal Society/University of Oslo project aiming at improving our understanding of the radiative effects of anthropogenic aerosol and gases (ozone and methane) in the troposphere.

This dataset contains backward trajectories arriving over Europe from the TOMCAT model.

“Chemical attributes” are found by interpolating chemical distributions (in space and time) from a global chemical transport model to the origin of each trajectory (using its full length). During the ICARTT campaign the TOMCAT global CTM is being run in near-real time (about 19 hours behind present) driven by wind analyses from the ECMWF. The back trajectories are sufficiently long that a TOMCAT chemical analysis exists even at the origin of forecast trajectories. For example, the longest forecast lead time for the Azores domain is 5 days but the back trajectories are 7 days long so that the TOMCAT fields dating from 2 days before the latest meteorological analysis are used to find the attributes. For the US East Coast domain the back trajectories are shorter (3 days long) but the longest lead time is also 3 days so that the chemical attributes can be calculated as soon as TOMCAT has been brought up to date with the latest ECMWF analyses.

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Date (Publication)
2007-02-26T17:07:54
Date (Creation)
2007-02-26T17:07:54
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6439e0bc226adf01d50e20ddafca40c9
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 6439e0bc226adf01d50e20ddafca40c9
Author
  Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) - author
Building 146 , Cranfield University , MK43 0AL , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1234 754485
Author
  UK Royal Society - author
Author
  University of Oslo - author
Author
  Unavailable - Highwood, Ellie J. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Haywood, Jim ( author )
Custodian
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Principal investigator
  unknown - principal_investigator
pointofContact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Publisher
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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Keywords
  • ADRIEX
  • TOMCAT
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Begin date
2004-08-14T23:00:00
End date
2004-09-06T23:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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2010-12-08
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Aerosol Direct Radiative Impact Experiment (ADRIEX): In-situ airborne atmospheric measurements and atmospheric model data 93ab4b66ac6f532a7f384f6cfff58bd9
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Date stamp
2025-07-20T02:00:54
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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atmospheric conditions

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