Data have been collected from the 4th of April 2002 to the present by the Ultra-violet Raman lidar at Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire. The dataset contains measurements of attenuated backscatter coefficients of aerosols within the atmosphere, and humidity mixing ratios. Plots of the attenuated backscatter coefficient, and of the humidity mixing ratios, at different heights are also available.

The Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) aimed to further the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the initiation of precipitating convection in the maritime environment of southern England; i.e. to understand why convective clouds form and develop into precipitating clouds in a particular location. Data have been collected from the 13th June 2005 to the 25th August 2005 by the Ultra-violet Raman lidar at Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire. The dataset contains measurements of attenuated backscatter coefficients of aerosols within the atmosphere, and humidity mixing ratios. Plots of the attenuated backscatter coefficient, and of the humidity mixing ratios, at different heights are also available.

The Convective Storm Initiation Project (CSIP) aimed to further the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the initiation of precipitating convection in the maritime environment of southern England; i.e. to understand why convective clouds form and develop into precipitating clouds in a particular location. Data have been collected from the 6th July 2004 to the 29th July 2004 by the Ultra-violet Raman lidar at Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire. The dataset contains measurements of attenuated backscatter coefficients of aerosols within the atmosphere, and humidity mixing ratios. Plots of the attenuated backscatter coefficient, and of the humidity mixing ratios, at different heights are also available.

This dataset contains direct measurement of solar actinic UV flux from which photolysis frequencies are calculated made at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics land station (IAP), Beijing site during the summer and winter APHH-Beijing campaigns for the Atmospheric Pollution & Human Health in a Chinese Megacity (APHH) programme. Photolysis rates were derived from the product of absorption cross-section of the precursor molecule, the quantum yield of the photo-product and the actinic flux density (cm-2s-1nm-1). The actinic flux is measured between 280 - 650 nm (<1 nm resolution) using a spectral radiometer attached to a quartz receiver optic. Absorption cross sections and quantum yields are taken from the latest IUPAC recommendations. The instrument was calibrated between 250 - 750 nm using a spectral Irradiance of Standard Tungsten-Halogen lamp before and after the campaign.

This dataset contains UV solar model experiment data using the Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model version 3 at the Global Coupled model 2.0 (HadGEM3 GC2) configuration (Williams et al 2015). The model was used as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Climate of the LAst Millennium (CLAM): An Integrated Data-Model Approach to Reconstruct and Interpret Annual Variability in North Atlantic Circulation project (NE/N001176/1). The model performs step changes in the UV forcing and integrate for 50 years to identify multi-decadal changes due to solar radiation adjustment. The simulations are 0.25 degree ocean resolution (eddy-permitting) and so ocean dynamics and ocean-atmosphere coupling are more realistic than in models used in previous work evaluating the effect of UV forcing. Each simulation has an equivalent control simulation, and an experiment with a total solar irradiance change in addition to the UV forcing experiments.