NERC Data Catalogue Service
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) flights
The FAAM is a large atmospheric research BAE-146 aircraft, run by the NERC (jointly with the UK Met Office until 2019). It has been in operation since March 2004 and is at the scientists' disposal through a scheme of project selection.
Data collected by this aircraft is stored in the FAAM data archive and includes "core" data, provided by the FAAM as a support to all flight campaigns, and "non-core" data, the nature of which depends on the scientific goal of the campaign.
FAAM instruments provide four types of data:
- parameters required for aircraft navigation;
- meteorology;
- cloud physics;
- chemical composition.
The data are accompanied by extensive metadata, including flight logs. The FAAM apparatus includes a number of core instruments permanently onboard and operated by FAAM staff members, and a variety of other instruments, grouped into chemistry kit and cloud physics kit, that can be fitted onto the aircraft on demand.
FAAM is also a member of the EUropean Facility for Airborne Research (EUFAR) fleet of research aircraft.
As per NERC data policy (see documents), FAAM data are openly available upon registration with the CEDA archive (anyone can register) under the Open Government Licence. Raw data are retained for longterm preservation but are not intended for general use.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2004-12-10T03:10:23
- Date (Creation)
- 2004-12-10T03:10:23
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- series Series
- Keywords
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- FAAM
- NCAS
- NERC
- Met Office
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2000-01-01T09:06:21
- End date
- 2024-04-17T15:50:41
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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FAAM website
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How to acknowledge FAAM data
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- OnLine resource
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Archive content by flight number
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- OnLine resource
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FAAM Campaigns
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- OnLine resource
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FAAM data file name convention
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Instructions on FAAM core data submission
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Archive content by campaign
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- OnLine resource
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FAAM Flight Schedule
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- OnLine resource
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Core parameters per flight
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- OnLine resource
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Instrument Metadata
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- OnLine resource
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TARDIS Met Office software to process raw core data on VMS computers
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- OnLine resource
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Useful information for FAAM data users
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NERC Data Policy
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Open Government Licence
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- Hierarchy level
- series Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- affe775e8d8890a4556aec5bc4e0b45c 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
- 2025-11-15T03:26:39
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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