URGENT: Project No GST/02/2225 - Data Summary

Summary of data collected during the summer 1999 and winter 2000 campaigns of Project No GST/02/2225.
Measurements were made onboard a Cessna aeroplane above a region located South of Woodford, West Midlands (UK). Flights were based at Woodford, Greater Manchester, about 78 miles (125 km) North of Birmingham. For details on the instrumentation onboard and error estimates, see details in data files.

Team: Karl Beswick and Rachel Burgess, UMIST.

Summer 1999 Flight number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Flight date 16 June 18 June 22 June 29 June 2 July Aborted 7 July 8 July 9 July

Winter 2000 Flight number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Flight date Aborted 2 February 2 February 9 February 9 February 11 February 11 February

Recorded data Unit Technique Note
Longitude deg Range: -2.6 to -1.6 °W
Latitude deg Range: 52.2 to 53.4 °N
Radar altitude m Altitude of aircraft above ground level, when this altitude is < or = 2500 feet (762 m). At higher flight levels, altitude has to be derived from pressure.
Pressure hPa
Potential temperature °K
Surface temperature °C KT19
Rosemount temperature °C
Reverse flow temperature °C
Dew point temperature °C
Wind speed m.s-1
Corrected wind direction deg
Water mass mixing ratio kg.kg-1 LiCOR
Specific humidity kg.kg-1
Relative humidity %
NOX volume mixing ratio ppbv LMA4
Ozone volume mixing ratio ppbv GFAS
Particles concentration cm-3 ASASP-X Number density of particles with a diameter in the range 0.1 - 3 micrometres
Particles concentration cm-3 TSI 3010 CPC Number density of particles with a diameter in the range 0.01 - 3 micrometres

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