Airborne in-situ data from mounted instruments on board the NASA ER-2 aircraft for the Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition II (AASE II) Project

The Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition II (AASE II) which was based in Bangor, Maine between October 1991 and March 1992, with ER-2 flights from Ames Research Center, Fairbanks (Alaska), and Bangor; and DC-8 flights from Ames, Bangor, Anchorage (Alaska), Stavanger (Norway), and Tahiti, was a follow-up to an earlier AASE campaign in 1989. The dataset consists of measurements collected onboard the NASA ER-2 and DC-8 aircraft (for example, ClO, BrO, HCl, O3, NOx, N2O, HNO3, whole air samples and aerosol measurements). In addition, there are ozonesonde soundings from six Canadian stations, global grid point values of Nimbus 7 TOMS ozone, and selected radiosonde soundings from stations in the region of the experiment. Theory teams provided calculations of potential vorticity, temperature, geopotential, horizontal winds, parcel back trajectories, and concentrations of short lived species along the aircraft flight tracks; and northern hemispheric analyses of potential vorticity, temperature, geopotential, horizontal winds, and radiative heating rates.

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Date (Publication)
2007-01-26T01:23:38
Date (Creation)
2007-01-26T01:23:38
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c0dcdf5728f9d240b22e96d188dbd8b7
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / c0dcdf5728f9d240b22e96d188dbd8b7
Author
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - author
USA
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  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
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  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
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - principal_investigator
USA
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
  • ATMOSPHERICWINDS
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE
  • ALTITUDE
  • ATMOSPHERICCHEMISTRY
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, 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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  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1991-10-03T23:00:00
End date
1992-03-26T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format

  • Data availability and file format

    The data are held on CD-ROM at the BADC and are available for browsing

    purposes.If you want to use the data in earnest you should order a

    copy of the CD from one of the contact addresses listed below.

    All files within this release are standard

    MS-DOS ASCII files with variable length

    records.

    In general, the file naming convention uses a two-character prefix to

    identify the measurement, followed by a six digit number (yymmdd) giving

    the year, month, and day (UT) of the flight, balloon launch, or model

    result. To identify the measurement platform, a three character extension

    of EA1, DA1, Bhh, or Ghh is used to denote the data is from the ER-2,

    DC-8, balloon, or grid point model output (hh denotes the UT hour of

    balloon launch or model result). Exceptions to this convention are the

    SFyymmdd.Enn files which use the extensions E00, E01, E05, E30 to denote

    aerosol loading factors; the TOMS data files which have the extensions

    N7; and the chemical modelling result MA911006.H00.

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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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Data collected onboard the NASA ER-2 and DC-8 aircraft based in Bangor, Maine between October 1991 and March 1992.

Copy of CD-ROM published by NASA contains the final data from the Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition II (AASE II).
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Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition II (AASE II): airborne, satellite and model atmospheric chemistry data 1793a892e540cdca61e72fdae4ae4573
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Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:01:39
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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