Polluted Troposphere TORCH1: Tropospheric ORganic CHemistry Experiment (TORCH1) Ground-based Atmospheric Components Measurements Collection at Writtle College as part of the Polluted Troposphere Programme

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• Last updated: 06 March 2017
• Topic: Environment
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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 1 took place in July and August 2003 at Writtle College, near Chelmsford, Essex.

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.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
BADC Doc: Polluted Troposphere Publications	N/A	06 March 2017	Not available
Other Polluted Troposphere Projects	N/A	19 December 2016	Not available
NERC Polluted Troposphere website	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Polluted Troposphere Data Protocol	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Dataset Homepage	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-07-17
• Access contraints: Restricted; Access groups: ecmwftrj polltro; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf
• Harvest GUID: f21ebf33-2eb8-43c3-a09f-1e17d24a9fdf
• Extent: Latitude: 80.0° to 0.0°
• Extent: Longitude: -90.0° to 20.0°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2007-12-10T02:41:25 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2007-12-10T02:41:25 (creation)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: (ceda_officer, author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (curator, publisher, distributer, custodian, point_of_contact, metadata_owner); University of York (author); University of Manchester (author); Polaris House (author); School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (author); Department of Chemistry (author); University of East Anglia (author); University of Leeds (author); University of Leicester (author); University of Birmingham (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: series
• Metadata language: eng
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Restricted; Access groups: ecmwftrj polltro; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf