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{ "count": 1624, "next": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/?format=api&limit=100&offset=1100", "previous": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/?format=api&limit=100&offset=900", "results": [ { "ob_id": 14416, "uuid": "e2868732b207415b95697871cd109ce3", "title": "T-NAWDEX (Pilot) - THORPEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream", "abstract": "T-NAWDEX (Pilot) - THORPEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impact Experiment, 20 hours, Nov-Dec 2009 or Feb-Mar 2010.\r\n\r\nThis T-NAWDEX- Pilot project aims to measure the thermodynamic properties of structures where cloud and water vapour processes are most active within extratropical weather systems. \r\nIn particular the T-NAWDEX Pilot project will:\r\n\r\nTest our ability to observe the thermodynamic properties of air (including gradients) within frontal systems in sufficient detail to estimate latent heat release, cloud microphysics, mixing and potential vorticity generation.\r\nFurther test the abilities of BAe146 to measure turbulent quantities (heat, moisture and momentum fluxes) in the atmospheric boundary layer.\r\nTest typical sorties through developing fronts and warm conveyor belts embedded within baroclinic waves, in preparation for the international multi-aircraft T-NAWDEX experiment and any future research flying within frontal cyclones in the vicinity of the UK.\r\nInstrument fit: Core Consoles. AVAPS, SAW, BBRs, Mini Lidar, Core chemistry. WAS. Cloud Physics: 2D-C, 2D-P, PCASP, Fast FSSP, SID2, SID3, CIP25, CIP100, CDP, FWVS, CCN Counter, TSI -3025- CPG, FWVS. Nephelometer, PSAP, Filters, Bag Sampling.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9105/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17057/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/55962/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/78376/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/78377/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14417, "uuid": "700cb5101892487fb3577a8bd96ebdc0", "title": "OMEGA (BAFFLES)", "abstract": "Aims:\r\n\r\nTo investigate the possible use of aerodynamic baffles on an airfield, behind an aircraft’s point of take-off, to encourage the natural dispersion of emitted pollutants.\r\nMeteorological Conditions: . \r\nRestrictions that may lead to cancellation\r\nMeasurements of the FAAM aircraft exhaust plume are weather dependent. Adverse weather conditions will lead to a postponement of the trials, as this will affect the quality of the measurements and safety on the airfield.\r\n1) Wind direction and speed : SW less than 15 knots. If the wind is such that Runway 03 flight operations are required, the trial will be postponed until another day. In addition, high winds and/or rain would not be conducive to obtaining good and repeatable measurements.\r\n2) Visibility: If the visibility is below 6000 m, the field study will be postponed until another day.\r\n3) Precipitation: Rain on the day of the trials at Cranfield, other than a light shower, may also lead to a postponement.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9092/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/18902/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/55963/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14418, "uuid": "68e236b95ba34e8cb770efefe14fc5ad", "title": "MAGIC", "abstract": "MAGIC Operating Areas: North Sea gas fields, Sodankyla, Abisko, Pallas, Svalbard\r\n \r\n\r\nScience Objectives:\r\n\r\nMAGIC will conduct a series of aircraft measurements from 50N to 80N in the Arctic region. Each mission will aim to conduct a series of deep vertical profiles in the region between southern Finland and Svalbard. The profiles will extend into the stratosphere at the northern end of the sectors. Up to 5 missions will be conducted, covering the period from early spring when Arctic haze remains prevalent, through to late summer when Arctic wetland thaw is at its maximum. Each mission, lasting 3 days, will include measurements of in situ methane and nitrous oxide concentrations using a combination of cavity ring down (CRDS), continuous wave quantum cascade laser absorption spectrometer (CW-QCLAS) instruments and whole air samples for post analysis by colleagues at RHUL and UEA.\r\nIn collaboration with the UK Met Office we will use high altitude flights to measure atmospheric methane columns using the ARIES radiometer. These can be directly compared with those derived by IASI/SCIAMACHY satellite column measurements and validated by the situ measured methane profiles.\r\nSource studies of changing isotopic signature will be carried out to investigate advected sources from Scandinavia and Russia\r\nFlask sampling will be carried out on airborne campaigns for isotopic analysis of CO2 and CH4\r\nProcess studies of CH4, CO2 and N2O using eddy covariance and chambers over contrasting sites will be made within the flight path of aircraft missions. (2x6 week campaigns to validate the aircraft measurements and to investigate the relative importance of the key processes responsible for the methane flux during the study period (i.e. water table, temperature, plant transport, ebullition, wind, soil properties)).\r\n ", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9079/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15540/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/55964/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14419, "uuid": "cd67864395b24e02aead20935dfa0bd5", "title": "MACCLOUD", "abstract": "This project is synergistic with a major European experiment at the Mace Head Observatory to investigate the sources of marine organic aerosol and their impact on marine stratocumulus clouds.\r\nInstrument Test Flying - 15 flying hours\r\n\r\nISMAR -International Sub-Millimetre Airborne Radiometer\r\nMarVal - Met Office Defence flying off south coast\r\nFGGA - Fast Greenhouse Gas Analyser\r\nFENNEC ( including ALABAMA - Aircraft-Based Laser Ablation Aerosol Mass Spectrometer)\r\nMACLOUD Inc Scientific Objectives:\r\n\r\nTwo ground based experiments are to be run in December 2010 and May 2011 to contrast the biologically active summer with the quiescent wintertime. The aircraft experiments will provide detailed in situ cloud and aerosol data to compare with the ground based aerosol data and the remotely sensed cloud properties as measured by radar and lidar at Mace Head. Specific objectives include:\r\n\r\nto source apportion marine aerosol\r\nquantify formation and evolution characteristics\r\nquantify hygroscopic and CCN properties\r\nquantification of marine aerosol impacts on cloud microphysics.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9087/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [] }, { "ob_id": 14426, "uuid": "1f97e3900136472da16821dabe5069ba", "title": "UTLS-Ozone: Egrett", "abstract": "The Aberystwyth Egrett Experiment: Gravity Waves, Turbulence, Mixing and Filamentation in the Tropopause Region was a Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Round 2 project led by Dr J. Whiteway and Dr G. Vaughan, Department of Physics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.\r\n\r\nDataset contains: airborne measurements, by the Egrett aircraft, of turbulence, ozone, water vapour, CH4 and CFCs; Ground based measurements, by the NERC MST Radar, of atmospheric structure, mesoscale dynamics, and turbulence; Balloons measurements of ozone, water vapour, wind, temperature and pressure; Lidar of ozone, water vapour, temperature and cirrus clouds.\r\n\r\nObjectives and Methodology\r\n\r\nThe main objectives are outlined as follows.\r\n\r\n-Gravity waves, turbulence and mixing. The processes by which gravity waves break and cause turbulence has been investigated. It will be determined whether the mixing associated with this turbulence has a significant influence on the distribution of constituents in the tropopause region. Particular emphasis has been placed on mixing at and across the tropopause\r\n-Gravity wave spectra. This involved measurements of the vertical, horizontal, and temporal spectra of temperature and wind fluctuations. The influence of specific meteorological conditions have been identified in each of the different types of spectra.\r\n-Gravity wave variability. The spatial variability of gravity wave activity has been determined with respect to specific meteorological patterns (e.g. the jet stream).\r\n-Distribution of filamentation. Determined whether and how filamentary structure becomes less prominent with altitude above the jet.\r\n-Scale of filamentation. The across-flow scales of filaments will be determined at different altitudes above the jet stream, and this was compared to model predictions\r\n-Filamentation and mixing. It was determined if there was a clear evidence of mixing (e.g. ozone-rich moist air) in filaments near the tropopause, in regions downstream of expected or observed gravity-wave breaking. Generally, the mixture of tracer concentrations were used to gauge the extent to which air near the tropopause region is genuinely mixed, with respect to the synoptic meteorological pattern.\r\n\r\nDeliverables\r\n\r\nAirborne measurements: A unique stratospheric research aircraft, the Egrett aircraft, performed 10 separate flights in the UTLS region above Aberystwyth. The Egrett was equipped with advanced instrumentation for measurements of turbulence, ozone and water vapour.\r\n\r\nGround based measurements: The ground based facilities at Aberystwyth were operated to their full capacity during the Egrett campaign. The NERC MST Radar provided measurements of atmospheric structure, mesoscale dynamics, and turbulence. Balloons carryed instruments for measuring ozone, water vapour, wind, temperature and pressure. Three separate lidar systems provided measurements of ozone, water vapour, temperature and cirrus clouds.\r\n\r\nAnalysis of gravity waves and turbulence: The above measurements were conducted when gravity waves were breaking and causing turbulence. The combination of the Egrett and ground based measurements have been used to determine if this process is significant for transport of chemical constituents in the UTLS region. These measurements also provided a new basis for testing theories and models of the wave breaking process.\r\n\r\nAnalysis of filamentation: The Egrett aircraft was directed to fly through regions of filamentation in the lower stratosphere. This provided new data to test theories and models of mixing through turbulence at the edges of filaments.", "keywords": "UTLS, Egrett, meteorology, chemistry", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6604/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/55983/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129715/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129716/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129717/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/55984/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14431, "uuid": "40e37317e38d4264ae57ecb515b781fa", "title": "ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative Project", "abstract": "The ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative Project is part of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative to produce long term datasets of Essential Climate Variables (ECV's) from historic satellite data.\r\n\r\nLand cover is defined as the (bio) physical cover at the earth surface including grass, trees, bare ground and water. Land cover is fundamental to better understand the climate through the estimation and validation of fluxes of water, carbon, and energy. It plays a role in adaptation and mitigation assessments at various scales.\r\n\r\nThe projects objective is to critically revisit all algorithms required for the generation of global land product in the light of GCOS requirements, and to design and demonstrate a mature system delivering in a consistent way over years and from multi-mission Earth Observation instruments, the longest possible global land cover map series at 300m, matching the needs of key users belonging to the climate change and land cover communities. The focus is placed on ESA and Member States missions, providing near daily global surface reflectance observation at moderate spatial resolution from 1999 onwards (MERIS Full Resolution (FR) & Reduced Resolution (RR), SPOT VEGETATION, PROBA-V and ASAR data), while the contribution of the AVHRR sensor tackles specific past years back to 1992.", "keywords": "ESA, Land Cover, CCI", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/14430/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/11009/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129742/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129743/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129744/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56002/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56001/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14434, "uuid": "b7afa77087be4853bd2988ecdf0f1108", "title": "UTLS-Ozone: Dynamics and Chemistry of Frontal Zones (DCFZ)", "abstract": "Frontal zones are regions where are descending from the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere comes in close proximity to rising air of recent boundary-layer origin. Such zones are often strongly sheared and subject to shearing instability and mixing.\r\n\r\nThe aim of the UTLS-DCFZ project was to investigate the nature and effect of the mixing of the two airmasses which may be characterised by very different chemical compositions. In particular, the experimental campaign helped answer questions concerning:\r\n\r\nThe distribution of chemical species around fronts.\r\nThe role of frontal systems in transporting chemical species from the boundary layer and the stratosphere into the troposphere.\r\nThe extent and rate of mixing between the differing air-masses in the vicinity of fronts.\r\nThe effect of this mixing on the photochemistry of OH and ozone.\r\nThe effect of this mixing on the dynamical structure of the front, which will feed back through 1. and 2. above.\r\n\r\nFive flights were carried out between January and April 1999, two of which were in the period which overlapped with MAXOX. These flights sampled a range of frontal situations, so the main improvement which could be made to the dataset would be to sample more fronts in a similar way, to improve the statistical basis for any analysis. Aircraft measurements of the chemical (e.g. CO, O3, NOx as well as MAXOX measureables during some of the flights), thermodynamic, physical (e.g. liquid water content, CCN etc.) and dynamical characteristics of a number of frontal situations were made. Chilbolton radar images are also available.", "keywords": "UTLS, Egrett, meteorology, chemistry", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6573/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56011/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14435, "uuid": "7f90dfc24c3b4ce5b4c230996dd2bf62", "title": "UTLS-Ozone: Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport of Ozone (ACTO)", "abstract": "The Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport of Ozone in the UTLS (ACTO) was a round 2 UTLS project led by Stuart Penkett, University of East Anglia.\r\n\r\nThe objectives were:\r\n\r\nTo quantitatively assess the role of in situ chemistry and transport of stratospheric and lower tropospheric air on the ozone budget in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, focussing on the North Atlantic in spring and summer.\r\nQuantify the role of in-situ photochemistry (production and destruction) of ozone in layers of different composition through a combination of chemistry measurements.\r\nQuantify the sources of radical species (HOx and ROx) from photolysis of various molecules and to investigate the form and source of NOy in the UTLS region.\r\nAssess the impact of transport and mixing on the ozone budget in the UTLS through the identification of air masses each with a distinct origin and composition and to study their photo-chemical evolution in the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere.\r\nDetermining the extent to which the existence of layering influences the chemistry of the UTLS and quantifying the impact of mixing between air masses on the photochemical activity at their interfaces.\r\n\r\nMethodology\r\nThe overall methodology was to analyse existing data, to collect new data, including that collected by some new instruments, in a part of the atmosphere rarely examined before (UTLS), and to interpret this data using a range of numerical models.\r\n\r\nData were already collected on the composition and structure of the troposphere as part of OCTA, ACSOE, and TACIA programmes, UTLS-DCFZ and EU-MAXOX during campaigns in the first half of 1999. There was an obvious progression from the objectives of the previous experiments and those of this project. Therefore analysis of the data from these programmes were valuable for the planning of the new measurement campaign, which were collected in the UTLS using the UKMO C-130 during 40 hours flying time, in the spring/summer period of the 2000. Flights were 3-6 hours and did take place in the North Atlantic off northern Britain and were predominantly in the upper troposphere (4 to 11km) with only occasional sorties into the lower stratosphere. Flights were designed to examine the chemical composition and reactivity of different air masses: boundary layer air (marine and (polluted) continental); tropical and subtropical air; upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric air; and polar air. Detailed meteorological and chemical forecast data were obtained from ECMWF, UKMO and NILU. Domain filling trajectory calculations, with forecast wind fields, were used to locate layers and to determine their orientation, whilst the NILU chemical forecast model provided information on the expected chemical composition of the different air masses. To determine the origin, composition and chemical activity of the different air masses found in the UTLS, measurements were made from a large number of tracers, ozone precursors, reactive species and photochemical products.", "keywords": "UTLS, Egrett, meteorology, chemistry", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/2322/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56013/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14439, "uuid": "ab2ed568b11d4bc7aa023e7a1b63bb08", "title": "UTLS-Ozone ERA40: Evaluation of the ozone and water vapour datasets of the 40 year European re-analysis of the global atmosphere", "abstract": "Evaluation of the Ozone and Water Vapour Datasets of the 40-Year European Re-analysis of the Global Atmosphere Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Round 2 project led by Prof. A. O Neill, Dr W. Lahoz and Prof. B. Hoskins, Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.\r\n\r\nRe-analyses datasets, such as the 40-year re-analysis dataset has been produced by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ERA-40). This has provided an invaluable tool for a wide range of modelling, theoretical and observational studies of the atmosphere, including the UTLS region. This is because they have the advantage of being global, self-consistent and relatively long-term. It was vital that the ERA-40 dataset was carefully evaluated before, for example, projects studying the UTLS region draw conclusions based on its use. To this end, this project an evaluation of ozone and water vapour fields (important for climate, radiation and dynamics) in the UTLS region using mainly independent satellite data from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), and aircraft data from the Measurements of Ozone by Airbus In Service Aircraft (MOZAIC) programme, and measurements from fields campaigns (e.g. the European Arctic Stratospheric Experiment (EASOE), and the Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Mid-latitude Experiment (SESAME).\r\n\r\nObjectives\r\n\r\nTo evaluate the ozone and water vapour datasets in ERA-40, including the identification of shortcomings and suggestions for improvements.\r\nTo gain intimate knowledge of the data quality and shortcomings of ERA-40 datasets other than ozone and water vapour, via membership of the ERA-40 data evaluation team.\r\nTo provide users with quality-controlled, three dimensional ozone and water vapour datasets from the ERA-40 analyses, together with error statistics on the reliability of the fields.\r\nTo provide support for measurement campaigns associated with the study of chemistry/ climate interactions.\r\nTo provide support to the scientific community in the form of climatologies for studies of atmospheric variability and predictability.\r\nTo provide interdisciplinary training in data evaluation and analysis techniques, earth observation sciences and atmospheric modelling.", "keywords": "UTLS, ERA40, chemistry, ECMWF", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6648/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56025/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14440, "uuid": "b5e7c32f7fd5489aaaa6f56139469f86", "title": "UTLS-Ozone: Ozone and water vapour measurements in the tropopause region", "abstract": "Ozone and water vapour in the tropopause region was a joint project between the Physics Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.\r\n\r\nBackground and objectives\r\n\r\nAir at the base of the stratosphere, within 1-2 km of the tropopause, was considered intermediate in character between stratosphere and troposphere. The ozone concentration increases steeply with height from ~80 ppbv at the tropopause to several hundred ppbv 2 km above it. The water vapour concentration was more variable, but generally decreases from ~100 ppmv at the tropopause to the standard 5-6 ppmv in the same height region. Other tracers of tropospheric origin behave likewise, which means that the lowest 2 km of the stratosphere is of quite a different chemical character to the remainder of the stratosphere.\r\n\r\nWater vapour was a key molecule in the UTLS region, and one that has traditionally been poorly measured above the tropopause. Even though the newest generation of radiosonde at that time (e.g. the Vaisala RS90) performed much better than its predecessors in the upper troposphere it still did not measure adequately in the stratosphere. The MOZAIC humidity sensor was of this type, and was also unable to extend into the stratosphere; indeed, it cannot measure reliably below 100 ppmv in the upper troposphere. Satellite instruments extend water vapour profiles into the UTLS region but their limited resolution in a region of strong vertical gradients limits their value. Measurements of UTLS humidity have therefore relied on in-situ research instrumentation, either balloon-borne or aircraft-borne. Aircraft and large balloons are expensive and cannot provide a proper climatology for water vapour, and the long sequence of NOAA frost-point hygrometer profiles do so only in one location (Boulder). This project seeked to develop a small, relatively cheap package to measure water vapour and ozone in the region around the tropopause.\r\n\r\nSpecific objectives of this project\r\n\r\nThe hygrometers to be used in this project are:\r\n\r\nCommercially-available frost point hygrometer (Snow White) developed by Meteorlabor, Switzerland. This device offered the possibility of water vapour measurements above the tropopause. It can be flown together with an ozonesonde and a radiosonde on a standard ozonesonde package, and was sufficiently cheap to be regarded as a throwaway device.\r\nA surface-acoustic-wave sensor developed by Cambridge University, which was capable of greater sensitivity and accuracy than conventional frost-point hygrometers. This method is described briefly below. Flying this device with the Snow White instrument tested the capabilities of each instrument as well as providing a unique geophysical data set. Cambridge are have developed this instrument to measure methane as well as water vapour and flights with the methane instrument will be conducted towards the end of the project.\r\nMethodology\r\n\r\nThe measurement phase of the project consisted of four month-long campaigns, for June, September and December 2001 and March 2002. An average of three flights a week were conducted during these periods - a total of 48 flights. These flights were targeted as far as possible, at different air masses in the lower stratosphere over Aberystwyth, with a particular emphasis on north-westerly jet streams. Forecast charts have been used to identify suitable conditions (350 K potential vorticity forecasts from ECMWF were available from NILU, Norway for 1 and 2 days ahead).", "keywords": "UTLS, chemistry, ozone, water vapour", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6697/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56026/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14448, "uuid": "02fa1c3ccddd43528ebab0589f3be896", "title": "UTLS-Ozone: Night-Time Chemistry of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere", "abstract": "NERC-UTLS Ozone Thematic Program, 'Night-Time Chemistry of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere' project measuring sunrise NO3 and sunset NO2 column densities above Aberystwyth.", "keywords": "UTLS, Night time, Chemistry", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/14450/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56056/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14464, "uuid": "a6ff6910ec164e00b21e69c12e1bffef", "title": "UTLS-Ozone: The SLIMCAT Reference Atmosphere project", "abstract": "The SLIMCAT Reference Atmosphere for UTLS-Ozone was a set of example output from the SLIMCAT three-dimensional chemical transport model (CTM). It includes three-dimensional global fields of chemical (and sometimes meteorological) variables as computed for twelve dates in 1997, near the middle of each month.\r\n\r\nThis data set includes 12 files, each of them corresponding to one output time near the middle of each month of Year 1997 (12 Jan, 11 Feb, 13 Mar, 12 Apr, 12 May, 11 Jun, 11 Jul, 10 Aug, 19 Sept, 19 Oct, 18 Nov, 18 Dec). Each file contains the calculated 3-D distribution of 37 chemical species or families and 6 meteorological variables. The model used is the SLIMCAT chemistry transport model (CTM). The model was run from October 1991 and forced by the UK Met Office analyses. The model usesd 18 isentropic levels. The vertical coordinate in the data files is the globally averaged altitude. The real lat/lon-dependent altitude is given in the ALT field recorded in the files. The THETA field gives the real model theta levels (which are constant with latitude/longitude).\r\n\r\nData from Martyn Chipperfield, University of Leeds. NERC Research Programme UTLS-Ozone (Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere) and National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).", "keywords": "UTLS, model, SLIMCAT", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/2751/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2325/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56114/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14514, "uuid": "df021ea6dd0248e5a8a411f3b80e9859", "title": "EUCLEIA: European Climate and weather Events: Interpretation and Attribution", "abstract": "Climate change is expected to impact extreme weather in Europe. There is therefore a clear need to adapt effectively to climate change, particularly in Europe, where recent heatwaves, floods and droughts have demonstrated the vulnerability of European citizens to extreme weather. However, scientifically robust information about the extent to which recent extreme weather can be linked to climate variability and change is often lacking.\r\n\r\nAims:\r\n* provide well verified assessments of the extent to which such weather-related risks have changed due to human influences on climate.\r\n* identify those types of weather events where the science is still too uncertain to make a robust assessment of attributable risk.\r\n\r\nApproach:\r\nEUCLEIA will work closely with stakeholders to establish their requirements for event attribution products, and to help develop climate attribution strategies. Stakeholder groups include: insurance industry, regional managers, policy makers, general public, legal field.", "keywords": "eucleia, event, attribution, extreme, validation", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/8814/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/14515/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56301/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56302/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56304/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71726/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56303/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/169539/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56315/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56311/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56316/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56310/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56312/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56309/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56317/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56318/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56314/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/56313/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14742, "uuid": "e327069454b1483cb7c1d7e1df916461", "title": "Cascade - Scale interactions in the tropical atmosphere", "abstract": "Cascade was a NERC funded consortium project to study organized convection in the tropical atmosphere using large domain cloud system resolving model simulations.\r\n\r\nWithin the Cascade project a version of the Met Office Unified Model (UM) at horizontal resolutions of 1.5km - 40km was used Africa, Indian Ocean and West Pacific Ocean. The horizontal resolution allowed the individual cloud systems to simulate the large-scale organization. The combination of the high resolution and large domains allowed the upscale transports of heat, moisture and momentum and investigated the impact of these transports on the evolution of the synoptic and planetary scale systems.\r\n\r\nTwo domains of interest were chosen to represent continental and oceanic convection respectively. Simulations of the West African Monsoon region were used to understand the range of factors which influence the diurnal cycle of convection over complex topography and to identify the impact of the diurnal cycle and other mesoscale organization on the synoptic organization of convection by African Easterly Waves. Simulations of the Indian Ocean and West Pacific Warm Pool were used to investigate the role of mesoscale and synoptic scale organization on the evolution of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the influence of the diurnal cycle (e.g. land-sea breeze circulations) on the maintenance of the climate of the Maritime Continent region. In addition, simulations over an idealized ocean surface were used to investigate the organization of convection by equatorially trapped wave modes.", "keywords": "Cascade, atmosphere, UM, Unified Model, tropical", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6666/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57156/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57157/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14828, "uuid": "a637bb95b5fc471ca1bd17215d4bcf22", "title": "ACAS - Airborne Cloud and Aerosol Science Project", "abstract": "A detachment to Rotterdam in April 2008 to provide training for about 15 student attending an EUFAR Summer School in Utrecht in gathering and exploting cloud and microphysical data.", "keywords": " ACAS, FAAM, Met Office, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9027/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9172/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17586/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57585/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57586/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57587/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57583/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57584/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105832/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14829, "uuid": "c5bdcd2e3fc844ce909b92430f5e9040", "title": "ACEMED - Evaluation of CALIPSO's Aerosol Classification scheme over Eastern MEDiterranean", "abstract": "The EUFAR project ACEMED aims to evaluate CALIPSO's algorithm for aerosol type classification using airborne and ground-based measurements over Eastern Mediterranean.", "keywords": " ACEMED, FAAM, Met Office, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9029/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9171/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17959/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57588/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57589/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57590/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105766/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74208/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105831/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14830, "uuid": "783fa5a4ac4e469ab634dc8e1490f95a", "title": "AEGEAN-GAME2 - AEGEAN Pollution: Gaseous and Aerosol airborne Measurements project", "abstract": "EUFAR project to: 1.To investigate the physical and chemical processing of polluted air masses transported over the Aegean troposphere during the Etesian winds (the most important synoptic meteorological condition that occurs over the Aegean \r\n Sea during summer), and to evaluate the representation of these processes in models of atmospheric composition and transport.\r\n 2.The experiment will involve flying of several tracks, spaced by about 10-20 km, over the region at heights up to 10 km to continuously monitor aerosols, gaseous pollutants, radicals and meteorological parameters. \r\n The interpretation of the airborne measurements will be enriched by the analysis of in situ continuous air pollution and meteorological measurements that will be conducted on the islands of Lesvos and Crete, at the northern and \r\n southern Aegean respectively.\r\n 3.Available measurements using instruments onboard vessels commuting across the Aegean Sea will be used for the interpretation of the results.\r\n 4.The measured physical parameters and chemical/aerosol concentrations will be compared with model predictions to assess their ability to capture various processes that take place in the atmosphere over the Aegean Sea.", "keywords": " AEGEAN-GAME, FAAM, Met Office, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9032/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9170/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17981/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57593/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57594/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57595/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57592/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57591/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105880/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14832, "uuid": "11eab7ddc94446e68215e92664f6d158", "title": "AQUM - Air Quality forecasting and modelling in the Unified Model project, general Met Office flying", "abstract": "AQUM - Air Quality forecasting and modelling in the Unified Model project, general Met Office flying", "keywords": " AQUM, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9036/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15864/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57601/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57602/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57603/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14833, "uuid": "0880f55fb8aa42b29d5e442809267156", "title": "CONSTRAIN - Cold Cloud Microphysical Parameterisation Studies", "abstract": "The main issues are the pristine ice number concentration, snow evolution leading to surface precipitation, mixed-phase and cold cloud length scales. \r\nThe main goals in order of priority are: \r\n * To provide statistical datasets to act as a critical holistic test of three phase microphysics as RICO did for warm cloud microphysics (e.g. cold air outbreak). \r\n * To test whether the background aerosol concentration active as ice nuclei can be used to predict the pristine ice concentration in cases where there is limited ice multiplication. \r\n * To test detailed microphysical assumptions in model, which include capacitance, aggregation efficiency vs temperature (conversion rate from 'ice' to 'snow' categories), mass-dimension relations and area-dimension relations (these combine to give fall-speed). \r\n * To investigate small ice (sub 100 microns) concentration controversy.", "keywords": " CONSTRAIN, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9050/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15217/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57605/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57606/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57607/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57608/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57604/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75326/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14834, "uuid": "b38e4178d70249e89f0b25cc65909c32", "title": "EUCAARI-LONGREX (European Integrated Project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality Interactions)", "abstract": "The EUCAARI-LONGREX project was a series of coordinated research flights involving the FAAM BAe-146 and the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Falcon 20-E5 research aircraft. The aim of the campaign was to evaluate the climate impacts of aerosols over Europe with an emphasis on their relationship to long range transport processes. The 15 FAAM research flights during LONGREX covered a large spatial area, ranging from the western coast of Ireland to the boreal forests of Finland. A significant high-pressure system dominated the first week of the campaign, allowing for the repeated sampling of pollution as it circulated over Europe. This allowed us to examine the aging of the pollution as it travelled from east to west over Europe. The University of Manchester was responsible for measurements of aerosol composition, mixing state and cloud microphysical properties using a variety of instruments.", "keywords": " EUCAARI, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9061/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15475/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57609/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57610/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57611/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14835, "uuid": "b28437e5f95c47e0b80f9092c8ac3231", "title": "EXMIX Project Details", "abstract": "Project details needed. Please contact CEDA for additional information.", "keywords": " EXMIX, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9062/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16277/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57612/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57613/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57614/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14836, "uuid": "6e625b1a0a5648f3b01cede0e2806e78", "title": "GERBIL - GERB Intercomparison of Longwave Radiation", "abstract": "GERBIL - GERB Intercomparison of Longwave Radiation - more details needed", "keywords": " GERBIL, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9068/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16342/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57615/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57616/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57617/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57618/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57619/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14837, "uuid": "4908f9c47f14418b990bd46dae55e304", "title": "ISMAR Test flight: International Sub-Millimetre Airborne Radiometer", "abstract": "Project details needed. Please contact CEDA for additional information.", "keywords": " ISMAR, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9024/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15565/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57620/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57621/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57622/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14838, "uuid": "c711a4aadc7a45f598577b4e4780df17", "title": "Local And Non local Fog Experiment (LANFEX)", "abstract": "Keys aims of LANFEX include: ?Improve understanding of fog formation and development controls, in terms of dynamics and radiative feedback; ?Evaluation and improvement of kilometre-scale and higher resolution MetUM simulations for fog and local boundary-layer evolution in general. Extensive observations, ending end of March 2016, are being made at sites in the shallow valley of the River Great Ouse around Bedford and deeper valleys in Shropshire. High-resolution MetUM numerical simulations and an ensemble of MetUM numerical simulations using MOGREPS-UK are being performed for these regions.", "keywords": " LANFEX, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9078/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16583/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57623/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57624/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57625/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14839, "uuid": "03b8d260a3f64753bfdba0a3c3c505bf", "title": "Maritime Validation", "abstract": "Met Office Defence flying off south coast", "keywords": " MARVAL, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9081/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16792/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57626/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57627/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57628/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14840, "uuid": "550c8714d59a4af7a115ed81433ae699", "title": "Microwave Emission Validation over sub-Arctic Lake Ice", "abstract": "MEVALI is a Met Office FAAM BAe-146 project with the following objectives:\r\n 1.Simulation of grain size depth profiles most difficult demand on snow module.\r\n 2.Field data will provide pit profiles distributed in time and space.\r\n 3.With distributed met data we can evaluate snow modules that generate snow profiles of temperature, grain size, density, wetness, etc.(Essery)\r\n 4.With observed microwave and IR brightness temperatures we can evaluate snow microwave radiative transfer routines (Harlow).\r\n 5.Carry out evaluation of snow RT at frequencies above 100 GHz.\r\n 6.Measurements on the ground of grain and temp profiles\r\n 7.Measurements of brightness temperatures with radiometers e.g. ARIES and Heimann.\r\n 8.Dropsondes key for modelling absorption of atmospheric profile", "keywords": " MEVALI, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9082/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15705/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57629/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57630/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57631/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57632/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57633/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14841, "uuid": "b6145269754747f29678d12647509e52", "title": "MEVEX - Middle East Validation EXperiment.", "abstract": "The purpose of MEVEX is to perform a variety of validation experiments from a base in the middle East (Oman) April-May 2009. These experiments include work for the Ministry of Defence and elements of the IASI and LAND-EMISS programmes together with dust storm measurements", "keywords": " MEVEX, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9083/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15738/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57634/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57635/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57636/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57637/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57638/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14842, "uuid": "87a32f00ddf941248598b2efe98e4cfb", "title": "Met Office Mixed Phase Cloud Studies", "abstract": "Project details needed. Please contact CEDA for additional information.", "keywords": " MIXED PHASE CLOUD, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9085/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16755/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57639/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57640/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57641/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14843, "uuid": "e5037002773544ea87a80b488aa97164", "title": "Met Office Civil Contingency Aircraft intercomparison", "abstract": "Project details needed. Please contact CEDA for additional information.", "keywords": " MOCCA, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9086/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16736/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57642/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57643/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57644/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14844, "uuid": "8fefc02a17ad4558ad171459bb544dad", "title": "Met Office PIKNMIX campaigns: cloud pyhsics and radiation events", "abstract": "PIKNMIX is a range of Met Office cloud pyhsics and radiation campaigns including cold air outbreak studies. \r\n Objectives: \r\n 1.To obtain microphysical and dynamical measurements in a variety of cloud regimes including cold air outbreaks, cirrus and mid-level mixed phase clouds.\r\n 2.Flights in combination with the operational weather radar at Stornaway & Aberdeen.\r\n 3.Potential intercomparison flight with MOCCA.Cold air outbreak up towards Iceland (potential overnight if hangar available).\r\n 4.Spiral descent in Cirrus", "keywords": "PIKNMIX, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9094/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10512/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15806/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57646/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57647/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57648/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57649/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57645/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14845, "uuid": "7195a9c87b23483297ff3b91e9a19a9d", "title": "RAINCLOUDS- Mixed phase precipitating clouds study", "abstract": "Met Office project to study microphysical and radiative properties of mixedphase precipitating clouds and cirrus in conjunction with Chilbolton radar.", "keywords": " RAINCLOUDS, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9096/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16574/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57651/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57652/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57653/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57654/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57650/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14846, "uuid": "5deb59748f464395aeb17e23993b8e48", "title": "SALSTICE Semi-Arid Land Surface Temperature IASI Cal/val", "abstract": "Background: SALSTICE is a follow on campaign to the JAIVEx campaign in 2007 (based out in Houston, Texas) with the newly launched MetOp-A satellite. In its original acronym of ?IASI-2? SALSTICE was planned as a follow-on campaign after the launch of MetOp-B in September 2012. The Met Office wish to make this more than just a satellite cal/val campaign and now plan a large element focusing on land surface temperature (LST). Campaign location \r\n is Tucson, Arizona in the semi-arid southwestern USA where model LST performs poorly. \r\n \r\n Scientific motivation: \r\n 1.The instruments on MetOp-B are currently in check-out mode - their performance needs testing and airborne cal/val is an important part of this process\r\n 2.We can compare infrared measurements from ARIES with similar data from IASI instrument on MetOp\r\n 3.Release of dropsondes and in situ measurements (temperature, water vapour, chemistry) will be used to validate retrievals of these quantities from satellite\r\n 4.Cal/val is needed in different conditions (over land/sea; in clear and cloudy skies)\r\n 5.The Met Office forecast model appears to get LST wrong the daytime - this is particularly the case over certain regions (southern USA, central Africa, parts of Eurasia)\r\n 6.These biases can be BIG - around 10 K too high in Arizona\r\n 7.It is advantageous to tie in measurements from surface sites in Arizona run by US Dept of Agriculture (flux towers and other data)\r\n 8.We need a comprehensive data set of aircraft measured LST, emissivity, radiative fluxes and momentum/moisture fluxes", "keywords": " SALSTICE, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9098/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/18290/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57657/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57658/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57659/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57660/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57655/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57656/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14847, "uuid": "a1d16f2dfd934381b390e22760d1136b", "title": "Met Office Saharan Dust", "abstract": "Need to write an abstract", "keywords": " SAVEX, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9100/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17611/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57661/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57662/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57663/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14848, "uuid": "7455b62a65ae4247931f6cc6244eb143", "title": "SONATA- School ON Aircraft Techniques for the studies of Atmospheric chemistry.", "abstract": "EUFAR Summer School to provide PhD level students and early career scientists, a comprehensive overview about airborne measurement techniques, data analysis and specifics relevant to atmospheric chemistry research. The SONATA Summer school took place over 14 days in August-September 2011 and included lectures, hands on measurements on the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft based at Pescara airport, and post flight data analysis.", "keywords": " SONATA, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9102/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17972/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57666/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57667/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57668/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57664/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57665/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105889/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14849, "uuid": "7458ec06ec2d4367890f023a080d4b00", "title": "STICCS - Submillimetre Trial In Cirrus and Clear Skies", "abstract": "STICCS is a Met Office project using the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft. The project aims to: \r\n- Evaluate the performance of the ISMAR instrument.\r\n- To measure the submillimetre spectral signature of cirrus and clear skies. Other aircraft instruments are required to provide ?truth? and provide closure measurements.\r\n- To obtain microwave, submillimetre, infrared and visible aircraft data simultaneously with satellite overpasses (e.g. A-train, METOP).\r\n- To overfly ground based sites (Chilbolton radar) in cirrus conditions and obtain submillimetre and in-situ cirrus measurements.", "keywords": " STICCS, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9103/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/17170/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57671/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57672/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57673/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57669/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57670/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14850, "uuid": "4bacecb176b5476ba95371b28dddde57", "title": "SUMEX-14: Met Office Summer Campaign, 2014", "abstract": "Project theme: Instrument testing and development. Measurements to validate case-studies using operationap NWP models.\r\n \r\n Measurements to be made by aircraft: Several types of flight will be undertaken within the period, in response to the available weather conditions. These include: i) Functional testing and initial scientific use of ISMAR (International Sub-Millimetre Airborne radiometer), ii) microphysics and dynamics of boundary-layer clouds for comparison with high-resolution operation NWP models, iii) validation case studies of the Air Quality Unified Model (AQUM), iv) structure and properties of mixed-phase stratiform cloud layers, v) studies of mountain lee-waves\r\n \r\n Time constraints: Within the overall period, 6 weeks are set aside for flying commencing on the following dates: 16 and 23 June, 21 and 28 July, 8 and 15 September.\r\n \r\n Flights (number and patterns): A total of 8 flights (40 flight hours) is anticipated during the 6 available flying weeks.", "keywords": " SUMEX, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9104/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15574/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57674/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57675/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57676/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57677/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57678/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14851, "uuid": "af591c94e8b440dfb3f34b1f39be1bcf", "title": "Variational Assimilation of Cloud Affected Radiances (VACAR)", "abstract": "This Met Office FAAM BAe-146 aircraft campaign sought to gather a diverse set of observations of different cloud types over land and ocean to trial a new 1D-Var code and develop techniques to allow the assimilation of cloud-affected radiances in the Met Office Unified Model for NWP.\r\n \r\n Equipment: Core Consoles, Core Chemistry, Cloud Physics (FFSSP,2D-P,2D-C,PCASP,SID1,SID2,CIP), AVAPS, FWVS/CCN, INC, CPI, Nephelometer/PSAP, Wet-Nephelometer, SWS/SHIMS, Radiometeters 1&2 (ARIES,DEIMOS,MARSS,IRR), Lidar", "keywords": " VACAR, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9107/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/15357/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57679/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57680/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57681/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57682/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57683/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14852, "uuid": "bf410d523261435f9763337ab3916095", "title": "Volcanic and Atmospheric Near- to far-field Analysis of plumes Helping Interpretation and Modelling", "abstract": "The VANAHEIM (Volcanic and Atmospheric Near- to far-field Analysis of plumes Helping Interpretation and Modelling) consortium was born during the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 causing unprecedented disruption of air transport across Europe. We are a group of nine UK institutes working with multiple international partners (including research centres, forecasting agencies, regulatory authorities and airlines).", "keywords": " VANAHEIM, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9023/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16557/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57684/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57686/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57687/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57688/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57685/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14853, "uuid": "c052926a570444fd86722f784382f256", "title": "VIROSS - Visible Reflectance of the Sea Surface", "abstract": "The regulatory response for ensuring aviation safety during events such as the Eyjafjallajökull eruption depends on dispersion models. The accuracy of the dispersion predictions depend on the intensity of the eruption, on the model representation of the plume dynamics and the physical properties of the ash and gases in the plume. Better characterisation of these processes and properties will require improved understanding of the near-source plume region.", "keywords": " VIROSS, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9109/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16823/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57689/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57690/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57691/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57692/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57693/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 14854, "uuid": "3619d0f19b424a72a5e568051b003054", "title": "URBan VISibility in UK", "abstract": "VisUrb was a Met Office FAAM project which aimed to study the microphysical and radiative properties of urban aerosol around the UK. Flights on the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft upwind and downwind of major urban aerosols sources were flown to characterize the aerosol and compare distributions with Mesoscale model.", "keywords": " VISURB, FAAM, Met Office", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9110/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/16155/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6300/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57694/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57695/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57696/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57697/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/57698/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19089, "uuid": "45c07d898be045cfbc5e0ec2076e3ada", "title": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID)", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe specific scientific objectives of the RAPID programme were agreed by the Rapid Climate Change Steering Committee and are detailed in the RAPID Science Plan.\r\n\r\nApproximately £11M were awarded to proposals that were submitted in response to the RAPID First round of funding. Of this about £5M was committed to design a system to continuously monitor the strength and structure of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This design effort was being matched by comparative funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for collaborative projects reviewed jointly with the NERC proposals. This monitoring effort continued in the NERC-funded follow-on programme RAPID-WATCH 2008-20014.\r\n\r\nA 2nd and last round of funding was completed in 2005 with two parallel Announcements of Opportunity. A total of 5 bids were funded under the Joint International AO, with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Research Council of Norway, and 11 bids under the RAPID 2nd \"Science\" AO. \r\n\r\nDr Meric Srokosz was the Science Co-ordinator for the programme and Dr Val Byfield was the Deputy Science Co-ordinator, having taken over from Dr Christine Gommenginger from 1 April 2005. In autumn 2005 Dr. Craig Wallace joined the team as Knowledge Transfer co-ordinator.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10246/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10247/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10248/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10249/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10250/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10251/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10252/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10253/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/10254/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/12879/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/877/?format=api", "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19138/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19105/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19093/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19090/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19145/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/13397/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19162/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19140/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19094/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19141/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19092/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19143/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19166/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71854/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71855/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71856/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/203040/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19090, "uuid": "de282694b1624843b00c6a2ed3eb1a6b", "title": "RAPID Round 1: Quantitative applications of high-resolution late Holocene proxy data sets: estimating climate sensitivity and thermohaline circulation influences", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThis project analysed the output from state-of-the-art coupled climate models in conjunction with very long instrumental climate data and an extensive archive of annual- and selected decadal-resolution palaeoclimate data to study climate changes during the past millennium. Actual and model-derived synthetic networks of palaeoclimate data have been used to estimate the extent to which (i) variations in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation strength; (ii) variations in the North Atlantic Oscillation; and (iii) the sensitivity of climate to external forcing changes can be reconstructed from different networks of palaeoclimate data, making assumptions about coverage, seasonality of response and reliability of expressed climate signal.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6694/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71858/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72359/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72360/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72361/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71857/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19092, "uuid": "0a7b86857c6f4567b42ff231c161cdf0", "title": "RAPID Round 2: Assimilation in ocean and coupled models to determine the thermohaline circulation", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nTo make the best use of the historical research ship records as well as new observations from autonomous ocean profiling floats and special observing programs such as Rapid climate change, it was proposed to assimilate all of the available data from the past 40 years into a high quality ocean circulation model that can represent complete fields of ocean properties. In this way derived quantities such as the north-south mass and heat transports which are vital to understanding the oceans role in controlling climate, could be determined. The project also put into context the various timeseries of observations that have been compiled from local regions which suggest that important changes in ocean circulation and transports have been ongoing in the past decades. These timeseries have been put into a basin scale and global scale context of ongoing change. The program determined the relationship between hydrographic signals in different parts of the ocean basins (particularly the N Atlantic). The program provided a method for assimilating data from the thermohaline monitoring arrays into an ocean model that could then be used as part of a coupled climate model for multi-annual climate prediction.\r\n", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6739/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71861/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72356/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72357/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72358/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71860/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19093, "uuid": "c9e821ce3c0344d7b00eea0775cd596b", "title": "RAPID Round 1: ISOMAP UK: a combined data-modelling investigation of water isotopes and their interpretation during rapid climate change events", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe aims of the proposal were to compare high-resolution isotope records from terrestrial archives in NW Europe with model simulations of isotopes in precipitation in order to investigate the role of different forcing factors in rapid climate change during the late glacial and Holocene and to undertake model validation. The proposal constitutes a UK contribution to the PAGES ISOMAP initiative. A water isotope model was developed for the UK Hadley centre model HadCM3. Comparisons have been made between simulations of the isotopic composition of precipitation during periods of rapid climatic change and reconstructions from well-dated and well-calibrated palaeo-archives (lake sediments, peat and speleothem) generated in this study and obtained from the literature, in order to investigate the causes and nature of abrupt climatic events.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6283/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71862/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72353/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72354/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72355/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71863/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19094, "uuid": "066f7506840c46609504a78f65f55958", "title": "RAPID Round 2: The impact of climate change on the North Atlantic and European storm-track and blocking", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe major impact of climate change in the European region is likely to be through changes in the storms coming through from the North Atlantic storm-track and in the blocking high-pressure systems that can occur there. Changes in the latitude, frequency or intensity of storms would have implications in terms of flooding and wind damage as well as average precipitation. Blocking highs bring settled spells with little precipitation and temperatures that can be much above average in summer and below average in winter, sometimes with snow. Again changes in their position, frequency or intensity would have important impacts. Reduction in the strength of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic could induce rapid climate change through its impact on the storm-track and blocking. Even smoothly increasing greenhouse gases could lead to rapid changes in the storm-track and blocking either through a reduced thermohaline circulation or a non-linear response. At present there is little confidence in the climate models' abilities to project such changes. In this project, new high-resolution atmospheric models, new analyses of the atmosphere since 1958 and new diagnostic techniques have been used to give such projections and an assessment of the confidence that can be had in them.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, storms, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/4446/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72307/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71865/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72305/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72308/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72306/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71866/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72309/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19105, "uuid": "d5632e84af604af499d64b44d73c3c8c", "title": "RAPID Round 1: The role of Air-Sea forcing in causing rapid changes in the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe main aims of this proposal were to determine the role that surface forcing variability plays in causing rapid changes in the ocean circulation and to examine the effect of such changes on climate. These issues are addressed through a combined analysis of coupled model output and observational datasets. The focus of the analysis was in the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) although the results have been interpreted in the broader context of the global climate system. Variations in the air-sea fluxes of surface heat and freshwater have the potential to cause rapid changes in the ocean circulation eg through their influence on deep convection. However, the relationship between surface forcing variability and rapid changes in the ocean remains to be properly determined; our goal was to significantly improve understanding of this area.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/3952/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72351/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72352/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72365/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72350/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71902/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/71903/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72366/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19138, "uuid": "156a7dcbb69a44d3ab54d1eaabd6fc6e", "title": "RAPID Round 2: Predictability of rapid climate change associated with the Atlantic thermohaline circulation", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nForecasts of the future behaviour of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (THC) are needed to inform policy on climate change. Such forecasts must be probabilistic taking into account the principal sources of uncertainty. It is not possible to sample exhaustively all sources of uncertainty because the number of degrees of freedom is too great. Consequently a future forecasting system will be reliant on strategies to identify those dimensions of uncertainty that are most important. This project developed an objective methodology to identify the dominant sources of uncertainty in General Circulation Model predictions of the THC. Perturbations to oceanic initial conditions and climate model parameters that generate the most rapid change in the THC and related aspects of climate were identified. These perturbations were used to produce an early probabilistic forecast for the behaviour of the THC up to 2100. The results were also feed directly into the next generation of ensemble climate predictions being developed at the UK Hadley Centre.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6577/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72001/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72347/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72348/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72349/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72000/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19140, "uuid": "262cf5be6f5a463c84d6a0f43c271eb5", "title": "RAPID Round 1: Improving our ability to predict rapid changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation climatic phenomenon", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe objective was to use a combination of palaeoclimate reconstruction from annually-banded corals and the fully coupled HadCM3 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model to develop an understanding of the controls on variability in the strength and frequency of ENSO, and to improve our ability to predict the likelihood of future rapid changes in this important element of the climate system. To achieve this, we targeted three periods:0-2.5 ka: Representative of near-modern climate forcing; revealing the internal variability in the system.6-9 ka: a period of weak or absent ENSO, and different orbital forcing; a test of the model's ability to capture externally-forced change in ENSO.200-2100 AD: by using the palaeo periods to test and optimise model parameterisation, produce a new, improved, prediction of ENSO variability in a warming world.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, El Nino", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6301/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72006/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72344/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72345/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72346/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72005/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19141, "uuid": "7f6c166a0abc4f77a3dcfa6568a2904a", "title": "RAPID Joint International A0 project: Mass balance and freshwater contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a combined modelling and observational research", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe thermohaline circulation is a global ocean circulation, driven by differences in the density of the sea water that is controlled by temperature (thermal) and salinity (haline). In the north Atlantic, the thermohaline circulation transports warm and salty water to the north, where it, together with the North Atlantic Drift (the north-eastern most extension of the Gulfstream), contributes to the warm sea surface along the coast of western Europe and to the relatively mild European winters. From ice cores drilled in Greenland, there is evidence that rapid climate changes took place during the last glacial (the period roughly from 100,000 to 20,000 years before present): over a period of just several decades, northern European winter temperature dropped by as much as 10 degrees for periods typically lasting 1000 years. The present explanation is that large, pulse-like freshwater fluxes (probably from icebergs that originated from the continental ice sheets) were released into the north Atlantic where they weakened or shut down the thermohaline circulation. In a warmer greenhouse climate, it is also likely that the freshwater flux into the north Atlantic will increase; using a scenario of doubling CO2 within the next 70 years, most atmospheric models predict an increase in precipitation in high latitudes. One of the great uncertainties in these projections is the role of the Greenland ice sheet, which is situated in the middle of the area of interest. We know so little about the variability in its meltwater production and its sensitivity to regional warming that its contribution to the problem of the north Atlantic thermohaline circulation is often ignored, in spite of the fact that the Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to rise global sea level by 6 m! In this proposed research we quantifyed in detail how, where and when the Greenland ice sheet has fed fresh water through iceberg calving, subglacial melting and meltwater runoff into the surrounding ocean during the last half century. The melting and runoff was calculated using a coupled snow - atmosphere model that is run over Greenland at very high resolution (11 km in the horizontal), which took about 1 year on a supercomputer to run!", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/3788/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72008/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72341/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72342/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72343/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72007/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19143, "uuid": "939b33ab24414a618f6056cf499c1cb2", "title": "RAPID Round 1: Processes controlling dense water formation and transport on Arctic continental shelves", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe Barents Sea is an important site for the production of dense intermediate water. Up to one half of this intermediate water flows into the North Atlantic over the Scotland-Greenland Ridge, constituting an important branch of the global thermohaline circulation. The presence of numerous coastal polynyas and the relatively low river input into the Barents Sea explain why this region is a significant site for water for water mass transformation. Parameterisations for dense water production in polynyas for application in non-polynya resolving ocean circulation models, were developed and tested in a coupled sea ice-shelf sea model of the Barents Sea. The latter were used to study present day water mass transformation processes and to predict how they will change in a warmer climate.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/6425/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72012/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72339/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72340/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72338/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72011/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19145, "uuid": "a4672c7e4db6412c800aaa78c84254e5", "title": "RAPID Round 2: Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related rapid climate change", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe main tools that are used for making projections of climate change in the coming century resulting from greenhouse-gas and other emissions are detailed coupled three-dimensional models of the atmosphere and ocean. However, such models give widely different results for some important aspects of climate change, thus limiting our ability to make practically useful projections. One such aspect is changes that may happen in the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation, often referred to as the Gulf Stream. This circulation transports a great deal of heat northwards. If it weakened, future warming in Europe in particular could be reduced or possibly reversed. The spread of model results basically reflects limitations in current understanding of how the large-scale climate system operates. The aim of this project was to identify which are the most important aspects of that uncertainty by making comparisons of the responses simulated by a range of climate models. The results were intended to help improve the models by focusing attention on the aspects which require further theoretical or observational study.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19146/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72015/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72335/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72337/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72336/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72016/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19162, "uuid": "1a95a209214d4baaa1ddbeb0a3e3b6d1", "title": "RAPID HadCM3", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19163/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72334/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72086/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19166, "uuid": "f5ddf65bff5744bc9445b3c8dc350375", "title": "RAPID Round 1: Circulation overflow and deep convection studies in the Nordic Seas using tracers and models", "abstract": "Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme for the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.\r\n\r\nThe project investigated two aspects of the Nordic Seas circulation of importance to the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC): (1) Sources of water in the Greenland-Scotland overflows: recent tracer release and transient tracer observations were used to constrain inverse models of the sources of Denmark Straits and Faroe-Bank channel overflow waters. (2) The initiation of convection and its relation to submesoscale hydrodynamics: very high-resolution non-hydrostatic models for the Central Greenland Sea were used to model recent observations, which show convection to be intimately related to local sub-mesoscale structure.: The objective was to develop improved descriptions of convection for use in OGCMs, to more accurately describe how the sinking branch of the MOC will be affected by changes in forcing.", "keywords": "RAPID, Climate change, Nordic Sea", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/2866/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19089/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72331/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72106/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72332/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72333/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72107/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19199, "uuid": "d20de783666d4085b4c4916c3f71b433", "title": "Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon", "abstract": "This NERC programme aims to improve understanding of the variability of the South Asian monsoon. The focus is on developing a better understanding of processes driving variability, seasonality and predictability in the South Asian monsoon, with the goal of improving predictions on all timescales. This programme is a partnership with the Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) in India and will allow UK researchers to collaborate with Indian scientists to research the links between small-scale processes and larger-scale monsoon variability. NERC will fund the UK contribution to the programme and MoES the Indian contribution.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe South Asian summer monsoon provides 80 per cent of annual precipitation to around a billion people. Agriculture, which is the main occupation in the region, depends heavily on the monsoon rains and their timing.\r\n\r\nAccurate prediction of monsoon rainfall and meteorology is therefore an important societal challenge. It must be effective at many timescales, from daily weather forecasting up to multidecadal changes.\r\n\r\nThere is much research in progress on monsoon modelling and prediction, but a key gap (and opportunity) lies in better measurement and understanding of processes operating at small space and timescales; for example interactions between the land surface and atmosphere; boundary layer processes; aerosol processes, dynamics of mesoscale convective systems and cloud microphysics; and how such processes affect larger-scale variability and teleconnections.\r\n\r\nThis programme aims to provide an opportunity for UK scientists to form substantial collaborations with Indian colleagues aimed at understanding the links between small-scale processes and larger-scale monsoon variability. The understanding developed through this work will be applied to develop improved parametrisations and data assimilation methods for predictive models.\r\n\r\nThe programme aims to bring together intensive field observations (possibly including deployment of airborne research platforms), high-resolution modelling and data assimilation with analysis of current and historical observations from ground-based observing sites.\r\n\r\nIn this programme there will be a specific focus on better characterisation of monsoon variability at small space (kilometres) and time (hours to days) scales; how these scales interact with larger-scale variations; and the opportunities this characterisation generates for improved predictability.\r\n\r\n3 main projects have been funded: \r\nINCOMPASS - Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea \r\nBoBBLE - Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment\r\nSWAAMI - South West Asian Aerosol Monsoon Interactions", "keywords": "South Asian Monsoon, sa-monsoon", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19203/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19201/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19202/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/114735/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/114734/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/114736/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/114737/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/114738/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/114733/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19200, "uuid": "17f7c4658b8742b79c9d66ec46be8f63", "title": "The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)", "abstract": "The WCRP mission is to facilitate analysis and prediction of Earth system variability and change for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society. The two overarching objectives of the WCRP are to determine the predictability of climate; and to determine the effect of human activities on climate.\r\n\r\nRecent progress in the understanding of climate system variability and change makes it possible to gauge its predictability, and to use this predictive knowledge in developing adaptation and mitigation strategies. Such strategies assist global communities in responding to the impacts of climate variability and change on major social and economic sectors including food security, energy and transport, environment, health and water resources.\r\n\r\nThe main foci of WCRP research are:\r\n\r\n - observing changes in the components of the Earth system (atmosphere, oceans, land and cryosphere) and in the interfaces between these components;\r\n - improving our knowledge and understanding of global and regional climate variability and change, and of the mechanisms responsible for this change;\r\n - assessing and attributing significant trends in global and regional climates;\r\n - developing and improving numerical models that are capable of simulating and assessing the climate system for a wide range of space and time scales; and\r\n - investigating the sensitivity of the climate system to natural and human-induced forcing and estimating the changes resulting from specific disturbing influences.\r\n\r\nThe World Climate Research Programme is sponsored by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.", "keywords": "WCRP, climate change, WMO", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/11970/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/11993/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/13249/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/12257/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/25061/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/26972/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/11975/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76357/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76358/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19201, "uuid": "2fb5f31126a3425f9af15e3ea85c552f", "title": "Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS)", "abstract": "The monsoon supplies the majority of water for agriculture and industry in South Asia, and is therefore critical to the well-being of a billion people. Active and break periods in the monsoon have a major influence on the success of farming, while year-to-year variations in the rainfall have economic consequences on an international scale. The growing population and developing economy mean that understanding and predicting the monsoon is therefore vital. Despite this, our capability to model the monsoon, and to make forecasts on scales from days to the season ahead is limited by large errors that develop quickly. The relatively poor performance of weather prediction models over India is due to a very strong and complex relationship between the land, ocean and atmosphere, which are linked by the process of convection, in the form of the rain-bringing cumulonimbus clouds. Forecast errors occur primarily because the convective clouds are not accurately linked to the large-scale circulation or to the surface conditions, and these errors persist to long time scales. Worldwide, weather and climate forecast models are gaining resolution, and yet the errors in monsoon rainfall are not diminishing. A lack of detailed observations of the land, ocean and atmospheric parts of the monsoon system, on a range of temporal and spatial scales, is preventing a more thorough understanding of processes in monsoon convective clouds and at the land surface, and their interaction with the large-scale circulation. \r\n\r\nThe project used a programme of new measurements over India and the adjacent oceans to advance monsoon forecasting capability in the Indo-UK community. The first detachment of the FAAM research aircraft to India, in combination with an intensive ground-based observation campaign, will gather new observations of the land surface, the boundary layer structure over land and ocean, and atmospheric profiles. We will institute a new long-term series of measurements of energy and water exchanges at the land surface. Research measurements from one monsoon season will be combined with long-term observations on the Indian operational networks. Observations will be focused on two transects: in the northern plains of India, covering a range of surface types from irrigated to rain-fed agriculture, and wet to dry climatic zones; and across the Western Ghats, with transitions from land to ocean and across orography. The observational analysis will represent a unique and unprecedented characterization of monsoon processes linking the land, ocean and atmospheric patterns which control the rainfall. Long-term measurements will allow the computation of statistical relationships between the various factors. \r\n\r\nThe observational analysis fed directly into improved forecasting at the Met Office and NCMRWF. The Met Office Unified Model, which is used for weather forecasting at both institutions, was set up in a range of different ways for the observational period. In particular, the project pioneered the test development of a new 100m-resolution atmospheric model, which greatly improved the representation of land-ocean-atmosphere interactions. Another priority was to improve land surface modelling in monsoon forecasts. By comparing the results of the very high resolution models on small domains with lower-resolution models representing the global weather patterns, it was possible to describe the key processes controlling monsoon rainfall, and to indicate how these need to be represented in different applications, such as weather predictions or climate predictions. Through model evaluation at a range of scales, the development of simple theoretical understanding of the rainfall processes, and working with groups responsible for operational model improvement, the project led directly to improvements in monsoon forecasts. \r\n\r\nObjectives: The grand objective of this project was to improve the skill of rainfall prediction in operational weather and climate models by way of better understanding and representation of interactions between the land surface, boundary layer, convection, the large-scale environment and monsoon variability on a range of scales.\r\n\r\nSpecific objectives:\r\n\r\n1a) To document and evaluate the characteristics of monsoon rainfall on sub-daily to intraseasonal time scales, as influenced by surface, thermodynamic and dynamic forcing, as monsoon air moves from the ocean inland and across the subcontinent.\r\n1b) To evaluate the representation of these rainfall processes in the Met Office Unified Model at a range of resolutions, and thereby to indicate the priorities for model development.\r\n\r\n2) Quantify land surface properties and fluxes, using in-situ and remote sensing measurements, as they interact with the monsoon on hourly to monthly time scales and from kilometre to continental spatial scales. \r\n\r\n3a) Quantify the role of the Indian land surface in the progression of the monsoon during the onset, and in monsoon variability, and relate it to the role of the ocean.\r\n3b) Evaluate the impact of improved land-surface representation on monsoon prediction and make recommendations for future land-atmosphere modelling strategy.\r\n\r\n4a) Evaluate the influence of local and short-term structures in convection and the boundary layer, on rainfall variability on intraseasonal and seasonal timescales, using observations, idealized models and a range of operational models. \r\n4b) Make recommendations for priorities in the parametrization of convective rainfall in the monsoon system.", "keywords": "Monsoon, Precipitation, FAAM", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9021/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/20240/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19199/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/102454/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72270/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/102457/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72272/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/102455/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/102456/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72271/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19202, "uuid": "3f348e446ee040c6a7f293d8e2e75f80", "title": "South West Asian Aerosol Monsoon Interactions (SWAAMI)", "abstract": "SWAAMI contributed to the joint NERC-MoES programme: Drivers of Variability in the Asian Monsoon, through a detailed determination of aerosol physical and chemical properties across India in the advance of, and during, the Indian monsoon using UK and Indian research aircraft. The measurements delivered a chemical and physical characterisation of the aerosol that is considerably more detailed than any previous and enabled an assessment of aerosol composition and mixing state, provided source characterisation and deliver quantification of aerosol optical properties such as extinction, absorption and single scattering albedo. Such detailed characterisation allowed representations of aerosol properties in regional and global climate models. Aircraft measurements were combined with syntheses of long term data from across the continent and previous field studies to provide a data set that can challenge how well models represent aerosol across the region. Improving model representations of aerosol properties and testing the extent to which this improves model performance against data provided a framework for ensuring model aerosol schemes improve and in doing so allowed more reliable predictions of aerosols effects on the heat budget of the region and hence improve our knowledge of how aerosols may influence the Indian monsoon.\r\n\r\nSWAAMI combined measurements of the properties of aerosols across northern India and the Bay of Bengal during the pre-monsoon in unprecedented detail with long term measurements from ground based networks and data from previous intensive campaigns in order to challenge model representations of aerosols over India and their effects on the monsoon.\r\nKey objectives of SWAAMI were to:\r\n*Assess the impact of mineral dust, black carbon aerosol and co-emitted organic and inorganic species on the radiation budget via the direct, semi-direct and indirect effects\r\n*Assess the impact of the aerosol radiative forcing on the local energy budget, atmospheric dynamics and hydrological cycle over India\r\n*Assess the impact of the forcings and feedbacks arising from aerosols over Indian region on regional and global climate.\r\n\r\nGrant ref: NE/L013886/1", "keywords": "Monsoon, Precipitation, FAAM, SWAMMI, Aerosol", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9022/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/20235/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19199/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/101897/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72273/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/102147/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72275/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/101898/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/101899/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72274/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19203, "uuid": "65a91c2729704918a6d6eaed05757ec7", "title": "Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE)", "abstract": "The South Asian summer monsoon (June-September) provides 80% of the annual rainfall for over one billion people, many of whom depend on monsoon rains for subsistence agriculture and freshwater. It is critical to forecast accurately not only the seasonal rainfall, but also rainfall variations within the summer. Sub-seasonal active and break phases can last weeks, resulting in floods and droughts across broad areas of South Asia.\r\n \r\nAir-sea interactions are key to understanding and predicting monsoon behaviour. Ocean surface temperatures in the Bay of Bengal, east of India, remain very warm (above 28 Celsius) throughout the summer. Evaporation from the Bay provides moisture and energy to monsoon depressions that form over the Bay and bring substantial rain to India. It is not understood how the Bay remains warm despite losing energy to these systems. Ocean temperature and salinity variations across the Bay are known to drive changes in rainfall over the Bay and surrounding land, but it is not clear how these arise or how they are maintained. This is particularly true for east-west variations in the southern Bay, a focus of this project. Although air-sea interactions are important to the monsoon, weather predictions are made with models of only the atmosphere. There is potential to improve monsoon forecasts by including well-represented air-sea interactions in models.\r\n \r\nThe Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE) comprises of an observational campaign for the southern Bay, during the established monsoon (mid-June to mid-July). BoBBLE will deploy two ships, six ocean gliders and eight floats to collect an unprecedented range of oceanic and air-sea flux observations. The ships will occupy locations in the southwest and southeast Bay, as well as tracing east-west and north-south paths between those locations, measuring ocean temperature, salinity and currents. Two gliders (automated underwater vehicles) will accompany each ship, with two others between the ships, diving to 500 metres every 2 hours to measure temperature, salinity and currents. Diurnal variations in air-sea fluxes and ocean temperatures may affect the development of weather systems. A novel configuration of the gliders will allow computations of horizontal transports of heat and salt. The floats (automated submersibles) will be deployed in the Bay to measure the ocean to 2000 metres every 5 days. They will remain in the Bay after BoBBLE, enhancing the observing network. Ships and gliders will also measure ocean chlorophyll, which absorb sunlight and alter near-surface ocean temperature, influencing air-sea interactions.\r\n \r\nBoBBLE scientists will analyse these observations, along with routine datasets, to understand the evolution of conditions in the Bay and how they influence the atmosphere. Particular emphasis will be placed on estimating the uncertainty in existing datasets of air-sea fluxes by validating them against available observations. The best-performing datasets will be used to improve estimates of air-sea exchanges and their variability on daily to decadal timescales, to calculate budgets of heat and freshwater fluxes in the Indian Ocean and the Bay, and to validate model simulations.\r\n \r\nA hierarchy of model simulations will reveal how conditions in the Bay are maintained and how air-sea interactions influence the monsoon. Simulations with an ocean model, forced by and validated against BoBBLE observations, will isolate the roles of air-sea fluxes (including the diurnal cycle), chlorophyll and horizontal transports in maintaining and recharging ocean structure after each weather system passage. Retrospective forecasts of the BoBBLE period with atmosphere-only and atmosphere-ocean coupled models will demonstrate how air-sea interactions influence monsoon rainfall predictions. Multi-decadal simulations will evaluate how air-sea interactions and coupled-model systematic errors influ\r\n\r\nThe overall aim of this project is to determine, quantify and model ocean-atmosphere interactions that drive variability in the South Asian monsoon. The Bay of Bengal (BoB) is identified as a key region for these processes, where oceanic and ocean-atmosphere processes have a major impact on monsoon precipitation and circulation, but are inadequately measured and understood. The objectives are to answer the following questions:\r\n\r\nHow does ocean-atmosphere interaction in the BoB impact monsoon precipitation?\r\n\r\nHow do ocean mixed layer and dynamical processes across the BoB affect sea surface temperature (SST) and subsequently monsoon precipitation?\r\n\r\nWhat causes the large-scale SST gradients in the BoB, and how do they impact the monsoon?\r\n\r\nHow do these processes vary on a range of spatio-temporal scales, specifically related to the diurnal cycle, individual weather systems, and intraseasonal oscillations?\r\n\r\nWhat are the best estimates of the surface fluxes that drive ocean-atmosphere interaction over the Indian Ocean, with uncertainties?\r\n\r\nHow well do models, particularly the UK Met Office Unified Model, simulate these processes and how does this impact prediction of monsoon variability?\r\n\r\nWhat is the heat and freshwater budget of the BoB, and how does this constrain model simulations?\r\n\r\nWhat is the role of ocean biogeochemistry in the BoB and its impact on the monsoon? \r\n\r\nData from this project will be stored at the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)", "keywords": "BoBBLE, Monsoon Precipitation Ocean", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19199/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72276/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72277/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129718/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129719/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/129720/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72278/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19241, "uuid": "50eba91c22414cfd948c0b8e49dc558c", "title": "Meteosat Geostationary Satellites First Generation", "abstract": "Meteosat Geostationary Satellites First Generation was operated by EUMETSAT and provided almost continuous images to meteorologists and researchers in Europe and around the world. \r\n\r\nMeteosat-7 and its predecessors were the first generation of earth observation dedicated geostationary satellites located at 36000 km above the intersection of the Equator and the Greenwich Meridian. Although superseded by MSG-1 (renamed Meteosat-8) in 2005, Meteosat-7 remained as back-up at 0o longitude until 14th June 2006. Meteosat-7 will be moved to 63oE longitude to continue coverage of the Indian Ocean and take over from Meteosat-5.\r\n\r\nMeteosat-7 was launched by the European Space Agency and operated by Eumetsat.", "keywords": "MSG, Visible, Infra-Red, meteorology", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/4024/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2648/?format=api", "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2648/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72669/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19260, "uuid": "af7b7d3d918248dfbf2a8bec4ecb07ad", "title": "Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)", "abstract": "The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) was an instrument aboard ERS-2. The main scientific objective of the GOME mission is to measure the global distribution of ozone and several trace gases which play an important role in the ozone chemistry of the Earth's stratosphere and troposphere, for example, NO2, BrO, OClO, and SO2.", "keywords": "GOME, ozone", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/2742/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/8202/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/2648/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72758/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19273, "uuid": "da17dab196f74d64af3ccbc35624027b", "title": "Microphysics of Antarctic Clouds (MAC)", "abstract": "Microphysics of Antarctic Clouds (MAC) is an active NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) funded project (NE/K01305X/1).\r\n\r\n The largest uncertainties in future climate predictions highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC 2007) arise from our lack of knowledge of the interaction of clouds with solar and terrestrial radiation (Dufresene & Bony, 2008). In Antarctica clouds play a major role in determining the continent's ice sheet radiation budget, its surface mass balance and ozone climatology. However in spite of this there are few in situ measurements of cloud properties, aerosol numbers, Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) or Ice Nuclei (IN) with the main focus being on remote sensing data sets (see the review by Bromwich et al 2012). As a result the skill in climate and forecast models at high latitudes is significantly poorer than at mid latitudes. In this project a more representative of the Antarctic continent's coastal region was used. It is in this coastal region that clouds will have the biggest impact on the climate as in the interior of the continent the total cloud cover is less (Lachlan-Cope 2010) and those clouds that exist are more tenuous. To achieve this flights were conducted from the Halley research station.\r\n \r\nObjectives\r\n\r\n1.To investigate the nature of Ice Nuclei (IN) and Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) in coastal Antarctic and to identify the dominant mechanisms responsible for the glaciation of clouds in this region. \r\n2.To test whether the Polar Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) and the Met Office Large Eddy Cloud Resolving Model (LEM) are able to reproduce the observed cloud microphysics and the surface radiation balance below cloud. \r\n3.To develop new cloud parameterisations for this region.", "keywords": "MAC, aircraft, CCN, cloud, Antartic, NAME dispersion footprints", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19274/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/877/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72810/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72807/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72808/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72809/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/72811/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19356, "uuid": "640ebc68a38a4c44915fe4807b8dd00e", "title": "Met Office Met. Research Flight (MRF) C-130 Sorties", "abstract": "The Met. Research Flight (MRF) was a Met Office facility, which operated a well instrumented C-130 Hercules (also referred to as Mk.2 Hercules) aircraft for research purposes. The C-130 was in service from 1972 to 2001 and flew over 1800 research sorties. The large capacity and long endurance of this platform made it ideal for atmospheric research in the areas of cloud physics, atmospheric radiation, atmospheric chemistry, satellite activities, mesoscale meteorology and boundary layer studies.", "keywords": "Met Office, atmosphere, chemistry, airborne, C-130", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/431/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/4/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/73212/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/73215/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/73216/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/73213/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/73214/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19556, "uuid": "a52b2cc065a847b8a77a93896880349f", "title": "EUSTACE (EU Surface Temperature for All Corners of Earth)", "abstract": "The EUSTACE (EU Surface Temperature for All Corners of Earth) project is producing publicly available daily estimates of surface air temperature since 1850 across the globe for the first time by combining surface and satellite data using novel statistical techniques.\r\n\r\nDay-to-day variations in surface air temperature affect society in many ways; however, daily surface air temperature measurements are not available everywhere. Satellite data can be used to estimate temperatures at locations where no ground (or in situ) observations are available. To achieve this, we must develop an understanding of the relationships between traditional (land and marine) surface air temperature measurements and satellite measurements, i.e. land surface temperature, ice surface temperature, sea surface temperature and lake surface water temperature. These relationships can be derived either empirically, or with the help of physical understanding.\r\n\r\nTo achieve this the EUSTACE project is using new statistical techniques to provide information on higher spatial and temporal scales than are currently available, making optimum use of the information in data-rich eras. The final and intermediate products of EUSTACE (e.g. satellite skin temperature retrievals over all domains with consistent uncertainty estimates; station time series with discontinuities identified; information on the relationship between skin and air temperature over different domains and different seasons) will be interesting for many applications.\r\n\r\nThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640171.", "keywords": "EUSTACE", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/20098/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/109048/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74203/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74204/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19557, "uuid": "08cba893ed704464b51077c63c6792a0", "title": "A.NEW - Airborne observations of Nonlinear Evolution of internal Waves generated by internal (tidal) beams", "abstract": "The aim of the EUFAR project A.NEW was to observe the initial stages of internal solitary wave generation with high temporal resolution by combining airborne and satellite remote sensing techniques.", "keywords": " A.NEW, ARSF, EUFAR, A-NEW,EUFAR10_03", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9214/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9216/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24557/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74209/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74210/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74211/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74212/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105771/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105883/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19558, "uuid": "4d557f31ba934d68b9602520d7351b79", "title": "ADDRESSS - ADvanced Digital REmote sensing in Ecology and earth Sciences Summer School", "abstract": "The ADDRESS project was a EUFAR-funded summer school main with the aim of to sharing knowledge on the simultaneous use of several advanced airborne remote sensing methods. The project also provided hands-on experience of planning, measuring, processing and evaluating such measurements to early-stage researchers for experience in future individual studies using airborne measurements.\r\nThe following topics were researched during the project: a detailed methodology of LIDAR and hyperspectral measurements; case studies of applications in diverse environments; data processing for vegetation and land cover assessment as well as terrain modelling (LIDAR).\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 17/08/2010\r\nEnd date of project: 28/08/2010\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in Tihany, Hungary.", "keywords": "ADDRESSS, ARSF, EUFAR, EUFAR10_07", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9239/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9152/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9207/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24566/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74213/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74214/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74215/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74216/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105767/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105853/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19560, "uuid": "a152ff34ab554682922a7b3088d1cb6c", "title": "AIMWETLAB - Aerial imaging of the wetlands of Lake Balaton and the Kis-Balaton", "abstract": "The EUFAR project AIMWETLAB investigated the shore vegetation of the Lake Balaton and the Kis-Balaton constructed wetland (Hungary) and the ecological processes that controlled the regeneration of these wetlands. In particular, the resource took measurements through the use of aerial photography and initiated a hyperspectral and LIDAR annual survey of the whole shoreline of the two study sites.\r\nThe study was required as the wetlands were threatened by a dominant macrophyte, the common reed (Phragmites australis). \r\nThe main objective of the study was to gain information on the causing factors of the decline of reed-dominated wetlands on Lake Balaton and on the distribution of wetland vegetation on Kis-Balaton. \r\nThe secondary goal was to understand the water regime controlling the measured spatial and temporal patterns by a comparision of the maps with a high-resolution elevation model of the shore surveyed by LIDAR. \r\n\r\nThe investigation start date: 16-08-2010\r\nThe investigation end date: 26-08-2010\r\n\r\nThe investigation was located in Lake Balaton, Hungary", "keywords": "AIMWETLAB, ARSF, EUFAR, EUFAR10_01", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9168/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9211/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24522/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74221/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74222/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74223/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74224/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105768/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105881/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19561, "uuid": "13897d37fa144915bd29fd0573b57217", "title": "NERC project: Are tropical uplands regional hotspots for methane and nitrous oxide?", "abstract": "This project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with the following grant references; NE/H007849/1, NE/H006753/1 and NE/H006583/2. These grants were led by Professor Pete Smith, Professor Patrick Meir and Dr Yit Arn Teh respectively.\r\n\r\nTropical ecosystems are major sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which are 25 and 298 times more effective than carbon dioxide (CO2), respectively, in trapping long-wave radiation in the atmosphere. Increases in CH4 and N2O concentrations since the start of the Industrial Revolution are responsible for over one-third of global warming, and future changes in the atmospheric budgets of these GHGs have implications for the Earth's climate and environmental conditions. N2O emissions, in particular, are projected to rise in the future due to agricultural expansion and enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition.\r\n\r\nRecent studies of the global budgets of CH4 and N2O using satellite imagery, atmospheric measurements, and modelling suggest that significantly more CH4 and N2O are released from the tropics than previously thought due to unaccounted sources of CH4 and N2O. It is critical for us to identify and characterise these 'missing' sources if we wish to understand the current contribution of the tropics to GHG budgets. Knowledge of these 'missing' sources is also necessary for predicting how tropical GHG emissions are likely to respond to future environmental or climatic change. One strong potential candidate for these 'missing' sources of CH4 and N2O are tropical uplands. Tropical uplands have been conspicuously absent from existing atmospheric budgets, because scientific attention has largely focused on CH4 and N2O emissions from lowland forests, savannas, or wetlands. Studies from tropical uplands suggest that they are potentially large sources of CH4 and N2O, with emissions that are equal to or greater than those from lowland environments. Upland rainforests in Puerto Rico, for example, emit more CH4 than lowland forests, with emission rates that are on par with northern wetlands, the largest natural sources of CH4 worldwide. \r\n\r\nTo address these gaps in knowledge, a comprehensive study of CH4 and N2O cycling in the Peruvian Andes, using a mixture of field measurements, controlled environment studies, and mathematical modelling was undertaken. \r\n\r\nThe projects aims were to: \r\n1. Investigate how CH4 and N2O fluxes vary in space and time along an environmental gradient that spans 3000 m of altitude, from lowland rainforest to upper montane rainforest. \r\n2. Explore how key environmental variables (e.g., plant productivity, climate, soil moisture, carbon and nitrogen availability, oxygen) influence CH4 and N2O emissions. \r\n3. Determine if existing mathematical models are able to simulate CH4 and N2O emissions from tropical ecosystems, adapting these models as necessary to better simulate field observations. \r\n4. Determine if GHG emissions from the Andes are able to account for some of the 'missing' tropical sources of CH4 and N2O by extrapolating our field observations to the regional scale using a combination of mathematical modelling, satellite imagery, and land cover databases (i.e., GIS). \r\n\r\nThis research greatly advanced our understanding of CH4 and N2O emissions for an important but understudied region, and helped to determine the relative contribution of Andean ecosystems to the CH4 and N2O budgets for South America. Knowledge of the emission rates and environmental controls on CH4 and N2O fluxes from upland Andean ecosystems also helped evaluate whether other tropical uplands are likely to be sources of CH4 and N2O, and assess their potential contributions to the global atmospheric budgets of CH4 and N2O. Lastly, the development and adaptation of mathematical models that accurately simulate tropical CH4 and N2O fluxes allowed the project to predict the likely response of tropical uplands to future environmental or climatic change.\r\n\r\nThe goal of this research was to use the Andes as a model system for understanding the rates, spatial and temporal patterns, and environmental controls on methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes in upland tropical environments. They aimed to quantify CH4 and N2O fluxes along a 3000 m environmental gradient in the Andes, spanning lowland rainforest (220 masl) to upper montane rainforest (3000 masl). \r\n\r\nEmpirical data were used to parameterise or adapt models to extrapolate CH4 and N2O fluxes to larger spatial scales, and to predict the response of trace gas fluxes to environmental change. \r\n\r\nThe project also aimed to evaluate the importance of upland Andean ecosystems as regional sources of CH4 and N2O, exploring the extent to which CH4 and N2O emissions from these environments account for discrepancies in regional CH4 and N2O budgets. They used an integrated, multiscale approach, combining field measurements, controlled environment studies, modelling, and spatially weighted upscaling. \r\n\r\nSpecifically, objectives include: \r\n1. Determine spatial and temporal patterns of CH4 and N2O exchange from key ecosystems along an altitudinal gradient in the Andes. \r\n2. Investigate how natural variations in key driving variables (plant productivity, climate, soil moisture, soil C, soil N, and oxygen) influence rates of CH4 and N2O exchange using field observations and controlled environment studies. \r\n3. Parameterise or adapt existing models (ECOSSE, DNDC) with empirical data from a lowland to upland gradient in order to accurately simulate CH4 and N2O flux processes in tropical ecosystems. \r\n4. Use a combination of modelling and remote sensing imagery to upscale our observations to evaluate the importance of Andean uplands as regional sources of CH4 and N2O.", "keywords": "methane, nitrous oxide, Andes, Peru, tropical ecosystems, rainforest, greenhouse gases", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/8977/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19563/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74225/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74226/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74227/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74228/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74229/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74454/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74455/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19562, "uuid": "7669a7b32d8248c59b0ae6029b3fe9af", "title": "AIRES-CZM - Using AIRborne REmote Sensing for improved Coastal Zone Management", "abstract": "The objective of the EUFAR project AIRES-CZM was to develop a reliable tool to estimate coastal water quality indicators by using remote sensing techniques (both airborne and satellite). \r\nA set of semi-empirical algorithms (based on hyper-spectral airborne and in-situ data for estimating the concentrations of the water constituents) were also developed in addition to the migration of the developed algorithms into the satellite workflow. \r\nThe secondary objective was the implementation of an automatic warning system based on satellite imagery processing and the final objective was the inclusion of the information obtained by means of remote sensing in the dataset used for the calibration of regional hydrodynamic models.\r\n \r\nThe area of the Cantabrian coastal fringe faced the problem of lacking its own specific algorithms to retrieve those water quality parameters derived from remotely-sensed data. Therefore, the main issue addressed in the campain was the development of those regional algorithms. This development required the combination of both airborne and satellite data with information collected in field campaigns.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 19-07-2010\r\nEnd date of project: 20-07-2010\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in the Cantabrian coastal fringe\r\n", "keywords": "AIRES-CZM, ARSF, EUFAR, EUFAR10_02", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9169/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9213/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24539/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74230/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74231/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74232/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74233/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105769/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105863/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19598, "uuid": "bfeb7062c7e3488b82fd9f69d49b9425", "title": "ALISA - Atmosphere-surface interactions over the Larsen Ice Shelf and Weddell Sea, Antarctic", "abstract": "The main objectives of this EUFAR airborne experiment were to study the energy budget of the snow surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer during various flow conditions over the Larsen ice shelf and the effective albedo at the ice shelf margin. \r\n\r\nThe ALISA experiment investigated the Larsen Ice Shelf, which is very sensitive to the effects of climate change and addressed some aspects that could only be observed with an airborne experiment, such as the effective surface albedo and the large-scale three-dimensional characterization of the boundary layer turbulence and radiative transfer.\r\nIn an area like Larsen Ice Shelf, which is very difficult to access, the only available methods to derive the surface energy balance were the automatic weather stations (AWS), aircraft measurements, and satellite observations associated with atmospheric modelling. \r\n\r\nStart date of project: 09-02-2010 \r\nEnd date of project: 08-03-2010\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place by the Larsen Ice Shelf and Weddell Sea, Antarctic\r\n", "keywords": "ALISA, AWI, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9164/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24242/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74277/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74278/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74280/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74279/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105770/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105882/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19599, "uuid": "a843b8ebffba4ae6981ae220948ce381", "title": "ARMSRACE - Archaeological and Relief Modeling of the Sárvíz valley for Reconstruction of Ancient Climate Events", "abstract": "This EUFAR project used hyperspectral instruments to investigate connecting archeological settlement patterns with historic geomorphological and hidrological modelling based on remote sensing data in the Sarviz valley (Hungary).\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 19-08-2010\r\nEnd date of project: 19-08-2010\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in Sármellék, Hungary\r\n", "keywords": "ARMSRACE, ARSF, EUFAR, EUFAR10_06", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9163/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9218/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24552/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74281/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74282/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74283/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74284/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105772/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105884/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19600, "uuid": "71a8dfb87bd34f75adb86dc11aa88abf", "title": "BLLATE1 - Boundary Layer Late Afternoon Transition Experiment 1", "abstract": "The aim of this EUFAR project was to observe and understand the dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer during the transition from convective to stable condition. \r\n\r\nStart date of project: 14-06-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 25-06-2011\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in Lannemezan, France\r\n", "keywords": "BLLATE1, PIPER AZTEC, SAFIRE, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9165/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24283/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74285/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74286/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74287/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74288/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105773/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105846/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19601, "uuid": "1eb5c43f083146289596118cefa739b6", "title": "BLLATE2 - Boundary Layer Late Afternoon Transition Experiment 2", "abstract": "The aim of this EUFAR project was to observe and understand the dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer during the transition from convective to stable conditions. \r\n\r\nStart date of project: 14-06-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 27-06-2011\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in Lannemezan, France\r\n", "keywords": "BLLATE2, ERA SkyArrow, IBIME, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9166/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24316/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74291/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74289/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74290/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74292/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105774/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105848/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19602, "uuid": "474303fe11d24d93ae37046d0859815f", "title": "DeInVader - Tracing the invasion of an exotic tree species in protected West-Mediterranean dune ecosystems", "abstract": "This EUFAR project aimed to Detect and analyse the spread of exotic Acacias in West-Mediterranean biodiverse costal dunes with hyperspectral images and LiDAR. \r\n\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 04-04-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 08-04-2011\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in the West-Mediterranean\r\n", "keywords": "DeInVader, ARSF, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9167/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9205/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24607/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74293/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74294/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74295/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74296/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105775/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105885/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19603, "uuid": "4ff44482abbf460b922801a2819a3861", "title": "DRAMAC - Draconid meteor shower outburst multi-instrument aircraft campaign", "abstract": "The aim of this EUFAR mission was to study the 2011 Draconid meteor shower, that occured on the 8 October 2011. \r\n\r\nThe meteor shower was studied and recorded though a variety of methods. The measurement and calculations of the atmospheric trajectories and heliocentric orbits was of particular interest in addition to the measurement of the deceleration. The deceleration also allowed the group to infer the internal structure of the meteoroids. Additional information on the meteoroid composition was provided by spectral cameras.\r\nAmong other goals of the proposed mission were – mapping of the dust distribution in the Earth’s vicinity, measuring of the shower activity profile, duration and the peak time, density of the particles, magnitude and mass distribution as well as the flux of the Draconid meteoroids.\r\n\r\nThe airborne observations greatly increased the likelihood of observing the event as there was a near guarantee to have clear sky once above the cloud line and to be high above the densest part of the atmosphere.\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 05-10-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 09-10-2011\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place between Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Kiruna, Sweden\r\n", "keywords": "DRAMAC, DLR, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9160/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74297/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74298/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74299/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105776/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74300/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105875/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19604, "uuid": "fd3ce12eeed14c908ca4e695efeca9ac", "title": "EDOCROS - Early detection of crop water and nutritional stress by remotely sensed indicators", "abstract": "This was a EUFAR project exploring the potential of hyperspectral remote observation and thermal imaging for the early detection and mapping of crop water and nutritional stress for a sustainable use of resources. \r\n\r\nStart date of project: 18-07-2010\r\nEnd date of project: 23-07-2010\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place near Pisa, Italy\r\n", "keywords": "EDOCROS, CASA 212 RS, INTA, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9162/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24114/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74301/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74302/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74303/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74304/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105777/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105886/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19605, "uuid": "c6d56aa8b2ac45f19948bfa06bdf63da", "title": "HyperForest - Advanced airborne hyperspectral remote sensing to support forest management", "abstract": "This was a EUFAR project exploring the potential of hyperspectral remote observation and LiDAR for forest structure characterization. \r\nStart date of project: 23-08-2010\r\nEnd date of project: 03-09-2010 ", "keywords": "HyperForest, CASA 212 RS, INTA, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9161/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24140/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74305/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74306/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74307/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74308/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105781/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105851/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19606, "uuid": "7e6319050c38419489b92ae25c96bfa7", "title": "GEOMAD - Measuring the geoid over Madeira", "abstract": "GEOMAD - was a EUFAR project using airborne gravimetry to measure the geoid over Madeira\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 24-08-2010\r\nEnd date of project: 05-09-2010", "keywords": "GEOMAD, SAFIRE, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9159/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24039/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74309/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74310/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74311/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74312/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105778/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105847/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19609, "uuid": "5a91704a9e9741259d5b0370cdcca19a", "title": "HABlakes - Spectral characterization of harmful algal blooms in Mantua lakes (Italy)", "abstract": "This was a EUFAR project using the APEX hyperspectral instruments to study water quality. \r\nSome particular algal blooms (especially cyanobacteria) can produce toxic substances, which are dangerous for the aquatic fauna and human health.\r\nThe investigation therefore, aimed to estimate the amount of harmful cyanobacteria blooms in the existing algae blooms.\r\nThis was researched through the use of in situ and remotely hyperspectral measurements as well as the creation of reliable algorithms based on remote sensing techniques for monitoring the cyanobacteria blooms.\r\n\r\nThe type of cyanobacteria can be identified by the algae's spectral response. Hence, the extent of the algal bloom was detected using hyperspectral sensors.\r\n\r\nThe investigation also helped to deepen the ecological knowledge of the correlation between the occurrence of algal bloom and their abundance and both physic-chemical and hydrodynamics parameters.\r\n\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 09-09-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 21-09-2011\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place by the Mantua lakes, Italy", "keywords": "HABlakes, DLR, EUFAR", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9158/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24346/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74336/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74337/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74338/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74339/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105779/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105876/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19610, "uuid": "6de4edfd146446618c81aa656111b17d", "title": "CASIX TOPography EXperiment (TOPEX)", "abstract": "TOPography EXperiment (TOPEX) for ocean circulation (otherwise known as Poseidon) was launched on August 10, 1992 and was a joint satellite mission between NASA, the U.S. space agency, and CNES, the French space agency, to map ocean surface topography. The first major oceanographic research vessel to sail into space, TOPEX/Poseidon helped revolutionise oceanography by proving the value of satellite ocean observations.\r\n\r\nCentre for the observation of Air-Sea Interaction and fluXes (CASIX) was responsible for the UK contribution to international TOPEX programme, undertaken as part of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).", "keywords": "TOPEX, ocean, satellite, marine", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/8436/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/5000/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74341/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74342/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74343/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74344/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19615, "uuid": "1e0fc75b3a1d4e25b9695cb13ac410f0", "title": "HyMedEcos-Gradients - Hyperspectral monitoring of Mediterranean ecosystems: gradients of land degradation", "abstract": "HyMedEcos-Gradients - Hyperspectral monitoring of Mediterranean ecosystems: gradients of land degradation was a EUFAR project using the NERC ARSF DO228 aircraft.\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 29-03-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 27-04-2011\r\n\r\nThe investigation took place in the Mediterranean", "keywords": "HyMedEcos-Gradients, ARSF, EUFAR, EUFAR11_04", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9157/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9223/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9224/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24588/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74352/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74353/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74354/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105780/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74355/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105836/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19617, "uuid": "02fc413fd1ea468ba5e6c65291e1bc44", "title": "HYPERSTRESS - Use of high spatial and spectral resolution imagery to estimate water stress levels in citrus orchards", "abstract": "The main scientific objective of this EUFAR project is to pre-visually estimate water stress in citrus orchards using the combination of airborne hyperspectral and multispectral UAV data. This main objective encloses different sub-objectives to\r\n1/ assess the performance of hyperspectral stress related indices (e.g. PRI) for estimating the water stress levels in the citrus orchards under investigation \r\n2/estimate the fluorescence signal at the field level to assess if the fluorescence signal is useful for water stress detection in orchards \r\n3/test and validate a spatial unmixing algorithm on real hyperspatial (cm), multispectral UAV images and hyperspectral airborne data\r\n\r\nStart date of project: 05-09-2011\r\nEnd date of project: 16-03-2012", "keywords": "HYPERSTRESS, DLR, EUFAR, hyperspectral ", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/9185/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/24355/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/6385/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74363/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74364/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74365/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74366/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105782/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105835/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19624, "uuid": "b5b75aa0921840afa4f88f0d61916020", "title": "Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI)", "abstract": "IASI main aim was to payload instrument for the purpose of supporting Numerical Weather prediction. It provides information on the vertical structure of the atmospheric temperature and humidity in an unprecedented accuracy of 1 K and a vertical resolution of 1 km, which is needed to decisively improve NWP. \r\n\r\nIASI provides infrared soundings of the temperature profiles in the troposphere and lower stratosphere, moisture profiles in the troposphere, and some of the chemical components playing a key role in the climate monitoring, global change and atmospheric chemistry. Data were directly acquired from Eumetsat and are held at the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC).", "keywords": " IASI, EPS, satellite, temperature, troposphere, stratosphere", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/8566/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/8205/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74388/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74389/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74390/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19625, "uuid": "62fe80946b06412a97fea19c8e9c1910", "title": "Environmental baseline monitoring in the Vale of Pickering and Lancashire", "abstract": "British Geological Survey (BGS), the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and York and partners from Public Health England (PHE) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), are conducting an independent environmental baseline monitoring programme in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire. This is the area where North Yorkshire County Council has granted planning permission to Third Energy to hydraulically fracture one of their wells.\r\n\r\nThe monitoring allows the characterisation of the environmental baseline before any hydraulic fracturing and gas exploration or production takes place in the event that planning permission is granted. The investigations are independent of any monitoring carried out by the industry or the regulators, and information collected from the programme will be made freely available to the public. \r\n\r\nThe monitoring in and around the Vale of Pickering and Lancashire includes:\r\n\r\n water quality (groundwater and surface water)\r\n seismicity\r\n ground motion\r\n air quality\r\n radon\r\n soil gas", "keywords": "Air quality, surface meteorology, DECC, BGS, fracking, hydraulic fracture", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/identifiers/8963/?format=api" ], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19978/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74391/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75962/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75963/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76170/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/206619/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75961/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76171/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/105609/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76172/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76173/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76174/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76175/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76176/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/76177/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19678, "uuid": "c84774a88f554bfcad15bf25079ce3e4", "title": "Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III)", "abstract": "SAGE III was successfully launched onboard a Meteor-3M spacecraft on December 10, 2001 at 17:18:57 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite is in a sun-synchronous orbit with an ascending node time of about 9 AM. Routine measurement operations began in March 2002. The Meteor-3M mission, along with the SAGE III mission, was terminated on March 6, 2006, because of a power supply system failure resulting in loss of communication with the satellite.\r\n\r\nThe Meteor-3M spacecraft is an advanced model of the Meteor spacecraft that was developed over 30 years ago. The payload includes SAGE III and other instruments designed to measure temperature and humidity profiles, clouds, surface properties, and high energy particles in the upper atmosphere. Please see the SAGE III Instrument page for further technical details.\r\n\r\nSAGE III's role in the EOS program is to provide global, long-term measurements of key components of the Earth's atmosphere. The most important of these are the vertical distribution of aerosols and ozone from the upper troposphere through the stratosphere.\r\n\r\nIn addition, SAGE III also provides unique measurements of temperature in the stratosphere and mesosphere and profiles of trace gases such as water vapor and nitrogen dioxide that play significant roles in atmospheric radiative and chemical processes.\r\n\r\nThe primary scientific objective of the three SAGE III missions is to obtain high quality, global measurements of key components of atmospheric composition (See Table of Measurements) and their long-term variability.\r\n\r\nThese measurements are vital inputs to the global scientific community for improved understanding of climate, climate change, and human-induced ozone trends.\r\n\r\nThe specific measurement objectives of SAGE III provide 1 km vertical resolution profiles of: aerosols and clouds at seven wavelengths from the mid-troposphere into the stratosphere and where appropriate, the mesosphere; O3 from the mid-troposphere to 85 km; H2O from the planetary boundary layer to 50 km; NO2 from the tropopause to 45 km; NO3 from 20 to 55 km; OClO from 15 to 25 km; and, O2 from the mid-troposphere to 70 km.", "keywords": "SAGE III, aerosols, clouds, ozone, water vapour, nitrogen dioxide", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/556/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/559/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74489/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74490/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74491/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74492/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19710, "uuid": "94d45555fd634aa6a03884e7a27a27e7", "title": "Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II)", "abstract": "The SAGE II (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II) sensor was launched into a 57 degree inclination orbit aboard the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) in October 1984. During each sunrise and sunset encountered by the orbiting spacecraft, the instrument used the solar occultation technique to measure attenuated solar radiation through the Earth's limb in seven channels centered at wavelengths ranging from 0.385 to 1.02 micrometers and to measure stratospheric aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and water vapor. \r\n\r\nThe data SAGE II collected were integral to confirming human-driven changes to ozone, and thus contributed to the 1987 Montreal Protocol that banned certain harmful chemicals. SAGE II observations helped to confirm that ozone ceased decreasing in response to this action.\r\n\r\nMajor results from SAGE II include illustrations of the stratospheric impact of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption, identification of a negative global trend in lower stratospheric ozone during the 1980s, and quantitative verification of the positive water vapor feedback in current climate models.\r\n", "keywords": "SAGE, chemistry", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/7218/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/559/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74637/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74638/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74639/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74640/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19726, "uuid": "9d286441e83e4200ad17ca36f2cc1e3b", "title": "(A)ATSR Multimissions programme", "abstract": "The (A)ATSR mission programme was funded jointly by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change External Link (DECC) and the Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research External Link (DIISR). \r\n", "keywords": "AATSR, ATSR, temperature, reflectance, satellite ", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19905/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19910/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19899/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74662/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74664/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74665/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74666/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74667/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74663/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19798, "uuid": "f9b6b55dfa174386a05efae2f0f76141", "title": "UK Climate Projections (UKCP)", "abstract": "The UK Climate Projections (UKCP) project provides information changes in 21st century climate for the United Kingdom.\r\n\r\nIt currently comprises the projects UKCP09 and UKCP18.", "keywords": "UK, climate, projections, UKCP", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/12930/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/26014/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/11714/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74979/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/204118/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/112330/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/112328/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74978/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/112329/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/74981/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/168558/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19801, "uuid": "818b5bd261554517be04316f5bba82c8", "title": "Alouette missons", "abstract": "Alouette 1 was a deactivated Canadian satellite that studied the ionosphere, launched in 1962. The purpose of Alouette 1 was to investigate the properties of the top of the ionosphere, and the dependence of those properties on geographical location, season, and time of day.\r\n\r\nAlouette 2 was a Canadian research satellite launched at 04:48 UTC on November 29, 1965 by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California. The Alouette 2 was built up from the identical backup satellite to Alouette 1. It had many more experiments and more sophisticated support systems than the earlier satellite. It lasted for 10 years, being terminated on August 1, 1975.", "keywords": "Alouette", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10932/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75015/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75018/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19803, "uuid": "f6e2da134d084f6884f2e436dfb50730", "title": "AMPTE (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers)", "abstract": "The AMPTE (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers) mission was designed to study the access of solar-wind ions to the magnetosphere, the convective-diffusive transport and energization of magnetospheric particles, and the interactions of plasmas in space. The mission consisted of three spacecraft: the CCE; the IRM, which provided multiple ion releases in the solar wind, the magnetosheath, and the magnetotail, with in situ diagnostics of each; and the UKS, which uses thrusters to keep station near the IRM to provide two-point local measurements. The CCE (Charge Composition Explorer) spacecraft was instrumented to detect those lithium and barium tracer ions from the IRM releases that were transported into the magnetosphere within the CCE orbit. The spacecraft was spin-stabilized at 10 rpm, with its spin axis in the equatorial plane, and offset from the earth-sun line by about 20 deg. It could adjust attitude with both magnetic torquing and cold gas thrusters. The CCE used a 2.E8-bit tape recorder and redundant 2.5-W S-band transponders. The spacecraft battery was charged by a 140-W solar array. ", "keywords": "AMPTE, spacecraft, sun", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10958/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75019/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75020/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19804, "uuid": "236edc60fd834cd0bc671f2c23750578", "title": "Viking (satellite)", "abstract": "Viking was Sweden's first satellite. It was launched on an Ariane 1 rocket as a piggyback payload together with the French satellite SPOT 1, on February 22, 1986. Operations ended on May 12, 1987. Viking was used to explore plasma processes in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere.", "keywords": "viking", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10942/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75021/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75022/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19805, "uuid": "e2fb4b5ecf4445d080f67d0b4cc8afcb", "title": "World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton", "abstract": "World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10940/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10944/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10950/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19770/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19784/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19806/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75023/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75024/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19806, "uuid": "5221e29d9716475a966be092df78509f", "title": "Ionosonde World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton", "abstract": "Ionosonde World Data Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10944/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/19805/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75026/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75025/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19807, "uuid": "64beeb303ba9440cb63e854352be8d7d", "title": "Digitisation of Solar glass plate images", "abstract": "Digital Images of the Solar Disc and Limb 1903 -1942: The asset created are a set of high resolution digital images of the solar disc in Ca II K light and H-alpha light which were taken daily at the Cambridge Solar Observatory between 1903 and 1942. The images are currently available on glass plates held by the UK Solar System Data Centre in its archive at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. This secures and improves accessibility to a valuable environmental data resource.\r\n\r\nNERC Reference: NE/L013002/1", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/877/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [] }, { "ob_id": 19808, "uuid": "3fe5c0eb3b5e4fc881c49de902137e59", "title": "Ditton Park", "abstract": "In 1920 the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research formed the Radio Research Board (which located at Ditton Park in 1924) to undertake valuable research into radio science. This was the beginning of a high-quality scientific establishment that was led by a team of enthusiastic and expert scientists including Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Jackson, Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Naismith and Reginald Leslie Smith-Rose.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10948/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75027/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75028/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19809, "uuid": "0d6d732fe2b34e81afca54f3222d1aca", "title": "Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)", "abstract": "The SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) project was carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a cooperative effort between the two agencies in the framework of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP) comprising SOHO and CLUSTER, and the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program (ISTP), with Geotail (ISAS-Japan), Wind and Polar parameters measured.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10934/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75029/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75030/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19810, "uuid": "93e60781411c410685e72199a8c9ed13", "title": "NASA Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE)", "abstract": "Solar images from the telescope on board NASA's Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE) mission. TRACE, is a mission of the Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research (a joint program of the Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and Stanford's Solar Observatories Group ), and part of the NASA Small Explorer program.", "keywords": "", "status": "", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10946/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [] }, { "ob_id": 19811, "uuid": "560180cde39445ef9a3b49e31523a0e1", "title": "Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)", "abstract": "STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) was a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched in 2006 into orbits around the Sun that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth. This enables stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10936/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [] }, { "ob_id": 19812, "uuid": "34f3219ef1fb4116a977c4d8fea4212f", "title": "RAPID-AMOC: Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation", "abstract": "RAPID-AMOC (2014-2018) builds on the RAPID (2001-2007) and RAPID-WATCH (2008-2014) programmes and will extend the time series of the strength and structure of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to 16 years.\r\n\r\nObserving and understanding the changes in the AMOC is critically important for identifying the mechanisms of decadal climate variability and change, and for interannual-to-decadal climate prediction. Sustained observations are also necessary for assessing the possibility of future abrupt change in the AMOC similar to those seen in palaeoclimate records.\r\n\r\nThe RAPID array at 26°N is key to this effort. The array of instruments across the Atlantic from Morocco to Florida measure temperature, salinity and current velocities from the near surface to the sea floor. The array data is combined with observations from the Florida current and satellite measurements of surface winds to calculate the overturning circulation: northward flow in the upper layer, and southward flow in the deep ocean.\r\n\r\nThe 26°N array was first deployed in April 2004 as part of the RAPID Programme. Measurements continued during RAPID-WATCH to yield a 10-year time series of continuous AMOC measurements. Both RAPID and RAPID-WATCH also included other research projects, which used ocean model simulations and analysis of RAPID and other observations to increase scientific understanding of the AMOC and its role in Earth's climate.\r\n\r\nObservations from the array have already revolutionised understanding of AMOC variability and documented its variability on seasonal to interannual timescales. The first few years of observations, demonstrated the feasibility of AMOC measurement, provided new insights into the seasonal cycle, and allowed apparent trends in previous historical 'snapshots' to be seen in the context of natural variability.\r\n\r\nMore recently, from autumn 2009 to spring 2010 the observations revealed a substantial weakening of the AMOC. A second weakening event occurred in late 2010. These events coincided with record low states of the North Atlantic Oscillation, and cold winter conditions over Europe. These anomalies would not have been detected without the presence of the array.\r\nThe possible role of the AMOC anomalies in the cold winter of 2009/10 and 2010/11 is now a topic of active research. Anomalies of this magnitude are not seen in state-of-the-art climate models, calling into question the reliability of these models to serve as guides for future behaviour of the AMOC.\r\n\r\nThe value of the array is likely to increase further as the length of the record increases, a more robust picture of the year-to-year variations of the AMOC develops, and perhaps further surprises emerge.\r\n\r\nThe programme's overall aim is to determine the variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and its links to climate and to the ocean carbon sink, on interannual-to-decadal time scales.\r\n\r\nThis will be achieved through the continued support of the 26°N array and by supporting use of the data in three key areas:\r\n1) Application of array data for improved ocean state estimation;\r\n2) Use of array data to understand the role of the AMOC in climate variability and predictability;\r\n3) Addition of biogeochemical sensors to the array and use to constrain biogeochemical fluxes.", "keywords": "RAPID, RAPID-AMOC, Climate change, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC", "status": "ongoing", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/877/?format=api", "subProject": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/12141/?format=api" ], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75051/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75052/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75055/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19814, "uuid": "4a906c5b950845fe94d97fc9e9ef5ad8", "title": "Lancaster University PPCAR", "abstract": "Lancaster University collated these physical archives from various sources under PPCAR project. That came to an end and then transferred physical archive to UKSSDC for long term archive.", "keywords": "", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "working", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/10956/?format=api" ], "parentProject": null, "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75077/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75078/?format=api" ] }, { "ob_id": 19826, "uuid": "4167905d118740019af899af6496e6b0", "title": "The Emissions around the M25 motorway (EM25)", "abstract": "The Emissions around the M25 motorway (EM25) campaign took place over the megacity of London in the United Kingdom in June 2009 with the aim of characterising trace gas and aerosol composition and properties entering and emitted from the urban region. It featured two mobile platforms, the UK BAe-146 Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) research aircraft and a ground-based mobile lidar van, both travelling in circuits around London, roughly following the path of the M25 motorway circling the city.", "keywords": "EM25, aerosols, pollution", "status": "completed", "publicationState": "published", "identifier_set": [], "observationCollection": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/observationcollections/19827/?format=api" ], "parentProject": "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/projects/876/?format=api", "subProject": [], "responsiblepartyinfo_set": [ "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75147/?format=api", "https://api.catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/api/v2/rpis/75148/?format=api" ] } ] }