Polluted Troposphere TORCH2: Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry Experiment (TORCH2) Ground-based Atmospheric Components Measurements Collection from the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory, Norfolk

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Summary

The Polluted Troposphere Programme was a 5-year NERC thematic research programme which was centred upon the study of polluted boundary layer air and its transport to the free troposphere. The programme focussed on the regional scale, defined as intermediate between urban and hemispheric.

This dataset collection contains measurements of O3, CO, NO, NO2, C2-C8 hydrocarbons, C1-C4 oxygenated hydrocarbons, PAN, Peroxides (Organic and Inorganic), Organic nitrates, OH and HO2 radicals, Sum of RO2 + HO2 radicals, OH chemical lifetime, Photolysis frequencies (e.g. j(O1D), j(NO2), j (HCHO), Aerosol number and size distribution, Aerosol composition, Local meteorology, and 5 and 10 day back trajectories. Many of the instruments are also part of the Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM).

TORCH 2 took place in April and May 2004 at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory, on the north Norfolk coast.

The goals were to provide both a detailed data set on organic composition in the polluted atmosphere, and to develop theoretical and modelling tools which may be used in defining future air quality policy.

This collection also includes data collected as part of the NERC Polluted Troposphere "Advanced GC-MS technology for observing OVOCs and NMHCs in the polluted troposphere" project.

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BADC Doc: Polluted Troposphere Publications N/A 06 March 2017 Not available
Other Polluted Troposphere Projects N/A 19 December 2016 Not available
Polluted Troposphere Data Protocol N/A 12 September 2016 Not available
NERC Polluted Troposphere website N/A 12 September 2016 Not available
Dataset Homepage N/A 12 September 2016 Not available

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2017-07-17
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Restricted; Access groups: ecmwftrj polltro; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf
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75772868-f46d-4cca-9f0c-603f4c3579e8
Extent
Latitude: 80.0° to 0.0°
Longitude: -90.0° to 20.0°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date
2007-12-10T02:41:25 (publication)
2007-12-10T02:41:25 (creation)
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(ceda_officer, author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (publisher, curator, metadata_owner, point_of_contact, custodian, distributer); University of York (author); University of Manchester (author); Polaris House (author); University of East Anglia (author); University of East Anglia (UEA) (author); University of Leeds (author); University of Leicester (author)
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