NERC Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) Rivers, Atmosphere and Coasts (RACS) data set - atmospheric chemistry data (1994-1997)

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The dataset contains a variety of atmospheric measurements including time series of air temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, irradiance and humidity. A comprehensive atmospheric sampling programme provided measurements of atmospheric particulates, aerosols and gases, including hydrocarbons, nitrogen, oxygen, ozone and sulphur species, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrous and hydrochloric acids. Additional measurements of photolysis rates and ion and radical concentrations were also collected. The data were collected from the vicinity of the north Norfolk coast between 1994 and 1997. The bulk of the data were collected during two field campaigns in the winter (October/November) of 1994 and the summer (May/June) of 1995. During these campaigns data were collected continuously from the University of East Anglia (UEA) Atmospheric Observatory at Weybourne on the north Norfolk coast. The widest range of parameters is available for this station. An instrumented vessel (MV Guardian) was stationed offshore to provide a second sampling site to allow changes in a given air mass to be monitored. The Imperial College London Jetstream Research aircraft made one flight during each campaign to provide a link between the two surface stations and four additional flights in 1996 and 1997. The River-Atmosphere-Coast Study (RACS) was the component of the LOIS programme looking at processes from the river catchment into the coastal sea. Professor John Plane from the Environmental Sciences Department at UEA was the scientific co-ordinator of this sub-project of LOIS. The data are held by BODC as a series of ASCII data files conforming to the NASA AMES 1001 format together with a PDF document that describes the data set.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2018-02-06
Access contraints
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Harvest GUID
909f11ea6aa450b2a4d866e69eef65f0
Extent
Latitude: 54.00° to 52.00°
Longitude: 0.00° to 3.00°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Dataset reference date
2017-10-03 (publication)
2010-09-30 (creation)
2017-02-01 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt (originator); Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (originator); University of Birmingham, Institute of Public and Environmental Health (originator); Lancaster University, Department of Environmental Science (originator); Imperial College London, Department of Physics (originator); University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences (originator); British Oceanographic Data Centre (custodian)
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dataset
Metadata language
eng
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XML
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