NERC Data Catalogue Service
PROFIL: Vertical Profiles of Wind, Temperature, Turbulence, Sensible Heat, Aerosol and Trace-Gas Concentrations and Fluxes
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.
The thematic programme began in 1998 and lasted for 7 years.
This project provided facilities in the form of a low cost, highly instrumented aircraft designed for probing the turbulent and aerosol-cloud microphysical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Priority use was given to the PUMA (Pollution of the Urban Midlands) consortia during the field trials planned for June 1999 and January / February 2000. The main objectives were:
-to provide high resolution 3-D wind turbulence, temperature and trace-gas variances of the urban ABL
-to provide measurements of the vertical and horizontal profile of aerosol concentration and volumetric size distribution over the Birmingham conurbation
-to provide a database of aircraft urban ABL case studies, which will be available to the PUMA and ASURE modelling communities via the appropriate NERC database committee
-to provide, where current UMIST instrumentation and facilities allow, the aircraft as a measurement platform for specific URGENT user measurement requests
-to measure the vertical entrainment and venting rates of trace-gas and aerosol between the urban ABL and the lower troposphere
-to measure the net aerosol / condensation nucleus flux downwind over an urban environment
-to construct and install a low cost aerosol collection sampling system to provide complementary aerosol chemical composition data to the PUMA measurement campaigns and to the PUMA modelling efforts.
A flight programme of ten flight days / case studies was designated solely to the PUMA consortia. Five additional flights were made available for either (a) instrument testing required by PUMA, which required the removal of the base-line instruments due to space and weight limitations, or (b) specific flights to accommodate other URGENT requirements.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2001-12-10T02:43:10
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2001-12-10T02:43:10
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- URGENT
- PROFIL
- Chemistry
- Pollutants
- Air 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
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- Begin date
- 1999-06-15T23:00:00
- End date
- 2000-02-11T23:59:59
- 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
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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- 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.
- 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
- 650515908b44d7a0ded50baa1ef770c0 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
- 2023-11-21T01:01:16
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
