MRF A754 ACTO flight: Airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft
The Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) was a Met Office facility, which flew a well-instrumented C-130 Hercules aircraft for atmospheric research purposes.
This dataset contains airborne atmospheric and chemistry measurements taken on board the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft flight A754 for the Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport of Ozone in the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS) (ACTO) campaign. The flight was located over the North Atlantic.
The objective of this flight was to investigate the chemistry and physics of uplifted air, contrasting air masses in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. The flight was just under six hours in duration.
Most instrumentation ran well throughout the flight, in particular the carbon monoxide instrument was operational for the first time during the campaign.
Three hours and 30 minutes into the flight a PFC fire extinguisher was discharged in the rear van. After investigation, by the load master and the flight leader, a decision was made not to evacuate the van or initiate a smoke and fumes incident. There is some concern that bottle samples taken during the flight may be contaminated.
The mission scientists were pleased with the flight: we intercepted a northerly conveyor belt with uplifted Mediterranean air. We were able to do runs parallel with the filaments both to the north and south of the gradient. Throughout the flight the clouds and haze were exactly as expected from the satellite pictures and met. forecasts.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2006-12-10T03:09:18
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2006-12-10T03:09:18
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 8de1173e90fb4d8b8b85f790f923c77c
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- UTLS
- ACTO
- Chemistry
- temperature
- pressure
- wind
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2000-05-13T10:01:15
- End date
- 2000-05-13T16:27:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are ASCII formatted
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Data are ASCII formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data collected by instruments on-board the MRF C-130 during flight A754. Data acquired by BADC for archiving during the ACTO project.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8de1173e90fb4d8b8b85f790f923c77c XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- UTLS-Ozone ACTO: Met Research Flight (MRF) C-130 Hercules aircraft atmospheric chemistry measurements and model output collection 7ca95b35d9e378c10343f2730a880549
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-25T01:04:14
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3