NERC Data Catalogue Service
GASPOL: Airborne and In-situ Measurements of Atmospheric Chemical Species and Meteorological Parameters
The NERC URGENT thematic programme was set up to integrate urban environmental research across the geological, ecological, freshwater and atmospheric sciences. It worked in partnership with city authorities, industry and regulatory bodies.
The URGENT "Air" data were mainly in situ ground based measurements in urban and suburban areas but also include observations from aircraft, lab measurements and model results. Retrieved variables include atmospheric chemical species and aerosols, photolysis rates and meteorological/radiative parameters.
The thematic programme began in 1998 and lasted for 7 years.
Tracer and Dispersion of Gaseous Pollutants (GASPOL) was a NERC Urban Regeneration and the Environment (URGENT) Air project (GST/02/1974 - Duration: 2/9/1998 - 31/8/2001) led by Prof Peter Simmonds, University of Bristol.
The transport and dispersion of pollutants, within and from a large urban area, are important processes due to their potential environmental impact on city inhabitants and those living in nearby communities. The release of atmospheric Tracers is a powerful technique to simulate the dispersion of pollutants and to enable direct measurement of the transport path and concentrations along the trajectory. Successful Tracers a inert, non-toxic, non-depositing, with low atmospheric background concentrations, long atmospheric lifetimes, and limited commercial use. This research project developed the Tracer technology necessary to characterise atmospheric dispersion within the urban environment.
Bristol University were exploiting the many years of experience in Tracer technology coupled with recent advances in gas chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques. There were several components to developing an effective experimental Tracer technology and this project was addressing each of these in turn:
-Selection of Tracers
-Analytical instrumentation for their quantitative determination in the femtolitre/litre range
-Design and construction of automated sequential samplers
-Tracer release apparatus
-The preparation of accurate perfluorocarbon standards.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2001-12-10T02:44:42
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2001-12-10T02:44:42
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- URGENT
- GASPOL
- Chemistry
- Pollutants
- Air pollution
- Meteorology
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1999-06-30T23:00:00
- End date
- 1999-06-30T23:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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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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Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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URGENT Data Protocol
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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URGENT website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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GASPOL Final Technical Report
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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URGENT Data Protocol
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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URGENT website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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GASPOL Final Technical Report
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f7fe8f7cf1a3e877de02f5b9d1e47403 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2023-03-30T00:56:36
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
