Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) Aircraft Data for the VOCALS-UK [VAMOS (Variability of the American Monsoon System) Ocean Cloud Atmosphere Land Study Regional Experiment] Project

The VOCALS [VAMOS (Variability of the American Monsoon System) Ocean Cloud Atmosphere Land Study Regional Experiment] campaign was a large multi-national field campaign that has been established to investigate the coupled processes that control the climate of the South-East Pacific region. This includes the variety of interactions between the ocean surface, the overlying atmosphere and the neighbouring land. A particular focus for the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft studies was the sources of natural and anthropogenic aerosol and an understanding of their physical and chemical properties and a study of the interactions of this aerosol with the persistent stratocumulus cloud in the maritime atmospheric boundary layer. The campaign made use of instruments on board the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft to determine the strength and temperature dependence.

Date (Publication): 2008-12-10T03:06:41

Date (Creation): 2008-12-10T03:06:41

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c3a5d72a5a24058ae4d56965c18300f1

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / c3a5d72a5a24058ae4d56965c18300f1

Author

Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) - author

Building 146 , Cranfield University , MK43 0AL , United Kingdom

+44 (0)1234 754485

Author

Met Office - author

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Author

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - author

Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Swindon , SN2 1EU , United Kingdom

01793 411500

Author

Unavailable - Coe, Hugh ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Brown, Phil ( author )

Custodian

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

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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

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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

VOCALS
FAAM
Ocean
Aerosol
Clouds

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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Begin date: 2008-10-17T06:50:47

End date: 2008-11-13T15:18:28

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource: VOCALS-UK Conditions of Use
No further details.

OnLine resource: FAAM NERC website
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OnLine resource: International VOCALS website at UCAR
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OnLine resource: FAAM Archive Population - showing flights 2011 onwards
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OnLine resource: VOCALS Data Providers Guide
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OnLine resource: BADC Doc: List of FAAM Campaigns
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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2025-11-15T03:26:35

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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