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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Aerosol and chemical transport in tropical convection (ACTIVE): Aircraft Measurements and Ozonesondes Measurements
The ACTIVE (Aerosol and chemical transport in tropical convection) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded consortium project, combined field measurements and a range of modelling tools at different scales to address questions related to the composition of the tropical tropopause layer (TTL).
Field measurements were conducted in Darwin, Australia in two phases: November-December 2005 (pre-monsoon convection), in collaboration with the SCOUT-O3 project funded by the European Commission, and January-February 2006 (monsoon convection), in collaboration with the US/Australian TWPICE project.
ACTIVE utilised the Australian Egrett aircraft operated by Airborne Research Australia (ARA) and the NERC Dornier 228 operated by the British Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) to measure chemical species and aerosol in the inflow and outflow of tropical storms. Cloud-scale and large-scale modelling studies assisted in the interpretation of the measurements to distinguish the different contributions to the TTL composition. The dataset contains the before-mentioned aircraft measurement as well as ozonesondes.
Institutions involved in ACTIVE include
The University of Manchester, UK.
The University of Cambridge, UK.
The University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK.
The University of York, UK.
The Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany.
The Forschungzentrum Julich (FZJ), Germany.
The York University, Canada.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Australia.
The Airborne Research, Australia (ARA).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2005-12-10T03:19:19
- Date (Creation)
- 2005-12-10T03:19:19
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / e3a65c1b11972f7b291f1ed4397e77c8
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- series Series
- Keywords
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- NERC
- ACTIVE
- Aircraft
- Ozonesondes
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2005-11-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2006-02-28T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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ACTIVE Project website
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ACTIVE project information
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Airborne Research Australia
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Airborne Research Australia Aircraft
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NERC Airborne Research & Survey Facility
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NERC The Dornier 228: G-ENVR
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- series Series
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- e3a65c1b11972f7b291f1ed4397e77c8 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-09T02:31:13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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