APPRAISE Clouds: ground and airborne in-situ aerosol measurements

Ground based and airborne in-situ aerosol measurements during the APPRAISE-CLOUDS (Aerosol cloud interactions and climate) project from the Chilbolton Atmospheric Observatory, Hampshire (South West England) and on board the FAAM BAE-146 research aircraft.

The data were collected for use in the CLOUDS project, which is one of multiple projects within the APPRAISE (Aerosol Properties, PRocesses And Influences on the Earth's climate) programme.

Airborne measurements for the APPRAISE-CLOUDS project were also carried out using the FAAM BAe146 aircraft. In total 20 flights were carried out as part of this project with the aircraft operating from Cranfield, Exeter and Oberpffafenhofen, Germany.

For the APPRAISE-CLOUDS project the aircraft was equipped with a range of cloud and aerosol instruments including FSSP (cloud droplets), CPI (ice particles), 2DS (ice particles), 2DC (ice particles), 2DP (ice particles), CAPS (droplets, ice, large aerosol), AMS (aerosol chemistry), SP2 (soot aerosol), PCASP (aerosol size), SMPS (aerosol size), Filters (aerosol chemistry), CVI (cloud particle residuals), Nephalometers (aerosol scattering), PSAP (soot aerosol), Whole Air Samplers (trace gases - post flight analysis), Trace gas analysers (NOx, O3, SO2).

Missions typically involved flight legs above and below cloud to characterise aerosol in the vicinity of the clouds, and flight legs within cloud to characterise cloud properties and attempt to measure cloud particle residuals. In total 110 flight hours were allocated to this project.

Flight No. Date Location

B331 6/12/07 SW England

B336 8/01/08 SW England

B337 15/01/08 SW England

B338 17/01/08 SW England

B376 15/05/08 SW Germany

B377 17/05/08 Switzerland

B378 18/05/08 Switzerland

B421 17/12/08 Cardigan Bay

B422 15/01/09 SW England

B423 20/01/09 Bristol Channel

B424 21/01/09 SW England

B425 22/01/09 SW England

B426 28/01/09 SW England

B430 18/02/09 SW England

B431 26/02/09 SW England

B432 27/02/09 Scotland

B433 3/03/09 SW England

B434 3/03/09 SW England

B449 27/05/09 SW England

B456 6/06/09 SW England

Identification info

Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2007-12-10T03:13:16

Dataset Reference Date (): 2007-12-10T03:13:16

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0d6c9fd85d1c46c191ad1129f4a0c941

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 0d6c9fd85d1c46c191ad1129f4a0c941

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - author

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

01793 411500

Unavailable - Capes, Gerard ( author )

Unavailable - Bower, Keith N. ( author )

Unavailable - Gallagher, Martin W. ( author )

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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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Keywords

APPRAISE
FAAM
Cloud

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

atmospheric conditions

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Begin date: 2007-12-06T08:43:17

End date: 2009-06-06T14:45:50

Code: WGS 84

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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: NERC APPRAISE website
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Resource Locator: APPRAISE-clouds Ground measurements website
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Resource Locator: APPRAISE-clouds Airborne measurements
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Resource Locator: FAAM Aircraft website
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Resource Locator: NERC APPRAISE website
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Resource Locator: APPRAISE-clouds Ground measurements website
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Resource Locator: FAAM Aircraft website
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Quality Scope: series

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

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Metadata Date: 2022-05-24T01:07:26

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

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