Polluted Troposphere TORCH2: Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry Experiment (TORCH2) Ground-based Atmospheric Components Measurements Collection from the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory, Norfolk
The Polluted Troposphere Programme was a 5-year NERC thematic research programme which was centred upon the study of polluted boundary layer air and its transport to the free troposphere. The programme focussed on the regional scale, defined as intermediate between urban and hemispheric.
This dataset collection contains measurements of O3, CO, NO, NO2, C2-C8 hydrocarbons, C1-C4 oxygenated hydrocarbons, PAN, Peroxides (Organic and Inorganic), Organic nitrates, OH and HO2 radicals, Sum of RO2 + HO2 radicals, OH chemical lifetime, Photolysis frequencies (e.g. j(O1D), j(NO2), j (HCHO), Aerosol number and size distribution, Aerosol composition, Local meteorology, and 5 and 10 day back trajectories. Many of the instruments are also part of the Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM).
TORCH 2 took place in April and May 2004 at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory, on the north Norfolk coast.
The goals were to provide both a detailed data set on organic composition in the polluted atmosphere, and to develop theoretical and modelling tools which may be used in defining future air quality policy.
This collection also includes data collected as part of the NERC Polluted Troposphere "Advanced GC-MS technology for observing OVOCs and NMHCs in the polluted troposphere" project.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-12-10T02:41:25
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-12-10T02:41:25
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 6ac7dd15c35b416d83dbebc1713c7909
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- Polluted Troposphere
- TORCH2
- Chemistry
- Meteorology
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
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- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2004-04-18T23:00:00
- End date
- 2004-05-30T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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BADC Doc: Polluted Troposphere Publications
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NERC Polluted Troposphere website
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Polluted Troposphere Data Protocol
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Other Polluted Troposphere Projects
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Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
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- 6ac7dd15c35b416d83dbebc1713c7909 XML
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- EnglishEnglish
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- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
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- series Series
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- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:27:14
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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