The UTLS Ozone archive (top level directory /badc/utls/) currently contains the following data and documentation.
| Round 1 | |||||
| Project name | Principal investigator | Archive directory | Data description | File format | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamics and Chemistry of Frontal Zones (DCFZ) | Keith Browning, Reading | /data/dcfz/ | 2-D plots of Chilbolton radar winds | JPEG | Public |
| In situ data (meteorological parameters and chemical species) collected onboard the MRF C-130 aircraft in January-April 1999 | NASA Ames | Public | |||
| Extension of THESEO balloon-borne measurements of atmospheric tracers and chemically active gases in the mid-latitude lower stratosphere for tests of atmospheric transport (THESEO) | Rod Jones, Cambridge | /data/theseo/ | Methane profiles measured by balloon-borne near-infra-red tunable diode laser spectrometer from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), launched from Kiruna | NASA Ames | Public |
| Round 2 | |||||
| Project name | Principal investigator | Archive directory | Data description | File format | Access |
| Atmospheric chemistry and transport of ozone in the UTLS (ACTO) | Stuart Penkett, UEA Norwich | /data/acto/ | Meteorological images | Compressed (gzipped) postscript | Public |
| In situ data collected onboard the MRF C-130 aircraft in May 2000 | NASA Ames | Public | |||
| An experiment to investigate gravity waves, mixing and filamentation in the tropopause (EGRETT) | Jim Whiteway, UW at Aberystwyth | /data/egrett/ |
In situ measurements onboard the Egrett aircraft in May-June 2000:
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NASA Ames | Public |
| /data/mst/ | Data from the Meso-Strato-Tropo (MST) radar at Aberystwyth: winds, signal power, etc. In 2 vertical resolutions (150 & 300 m) and on 2 reference systems (radial & cartesian). | NASA Ames | Public | ||
| /doc/egrett/ | Data description and Egrett flight logs | Public | |||
| Evaluation of the ozone and water vapour datasets of the 40 year European re-analysis of the global atmosphere | Alan O'Neill, Reading | /data/era-40_validation/ | Intercomparison of ozone and water vapour data: ERA-40 versus HALOE (1991-1999), MLS (1991-1993 for water vapour, 1991-1999 for ozone) and MOZAIC (1994-1999). Data submitted by Emmanouil Oikonomou. | ASCII | Restricted to UTLS participants, on application |
| /doc/era-40_validation/ | Report on the validation of ERA-40 ozone and water vapour data. | Public | |||
| Round 3 | |||||
| Project name | Principal investigator | Archive directory | Data description | File format | Access |
| Ozone and water vapour measurements in the tropopause region | Geraint Vaughan, University of Wales at Aberystwyth | /data/tropopause_O3_and_H2O/ | Balloon-borne ozonesonde profiles and Snow-White hygrometer relative humidity, Nov. 99 - Jul. 02. | NASA Ames | Public |
| Round 5 | |||||
| Project name | Principal investigator | Archive directory | Data description | File format | Access |
| Anthropogenic influence on UTLS clouds and aerosol (CIRRUS) | Tom Choularton, Manchester | /data/cirrus/ | Processed core data collected from April 2005 to [...] on board the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft | NetCDF | Public, on application |
| /doc/cirrus/ | Documentation on FAAM flights | HTML | Public | ||
| Flight logs | Public | ||||
| Intercontinental transport of ozone and precursors, North Atlantic study (ITOP-UK) | Ally Lewis, York | /data/itop/ | Processed core data collected in July & August 2004 on board the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft | NetCDF | Public, on application |
| Processed non-core data collected in July & August 2004 onboard the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft | ICARTT (similar to NASA Ames) | Restricted to UTLS or ICARTT participants, on application | |||
| ITOP-UK forecast products for the ICARTT campaigns (forecast back- and forward trajectories from/to Europe, the Azores and the North American West coast, chemical concentrations along trajectories, etc.) | Restricted to UTLS or ICARTT participants who have been granted access to ECMWF derived products, on application | ||||
| /doc/itop/ | Documentation on FAAM flights and ITOP data | HTML | Public | ||
| Flight logs | Public | ||||
| RDF Planner Users Guide V2.5 | Public | ||||
| Data set name | Data provider | Archive directory | Data description | File format | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECMWF Met Images | Jamie Kettleborough, RAL | /data/met_images/ | Meteorological images derived from ECMWF products for April, May and June 2000 | GIF | Public |
| Ozone profiles | Geraint Vaughan, UW Aberystwyth | /data/ozprof/ | Ozone profiles from LiDAR and ozone sondes provided from January 1999 to August 2000 as a support to DCFZ, ACTO and EGRETT (UTLS Ozone projects) and to THESEO and TRACAS (European projects) | NASA Ames | Public |
| EXPORT | Participants to EXPORT | /data/export/ | Data collected on board 3 aircrafts (MRF C-130, DLR Falcon and the Service d'Aéronomie Mystère) in February 2001, provided in the context of and as a support to DCFZ I. | NASA Ames | Public but require application |
| SLIMCAT 1997 Reference Atmosphere | Martyn Chipperfield, Leeds | /data/slimcat/ | Modelled 3-D distributions of stratospheric chemical species computed by the SLIMCAT chemistry-transport model constrained by Unified Model analysed winds for Year 1997 (the data also include the dynamical fields). One output per month, around the middle of each month. | NetCDF | Public |
| /doc/slimcat/ | Metadata pertaining to the SLIMCAT 1997 Reference Atmosphere | Public |