URGENT Air Science Projects

First Call for Proposals (Awarded November 1997)

• GST/02/1971 - A Thermal Climatology of the West Midlands
  1/4/1998 - 31/5/2000
  Lead Researcher: Dr. J. Thornes.
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• GST/02/1974 - Tracers and Dispersion of Gaseous Pollutants
  2/9/1998 - 31/8/2001
  Lead Researcher: Dr. P. Simmonds.
  Data Manager: Dr. K. Cooke.
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• GST/02/1981 - Observation, Modelling and Management of Urban Air Pollution (PUMA Consortium)
  1/1/1998 - 30/9/2001
  Lead Researcher: Prof. R. Harrison.
  Data Manager: Dr. A. Turnbull.
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• GST/02/1983 - Characterisation, Source-Receptor Modelling and Fate of Organics in Airborne Particles
  1/4/1998 - 31/3/2000
  Lead Researcher: Dr. S. Smith.
  Data Manager: Dr D. Waterman.
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• GST/02/1996 - Development of a User-Friendly Software Package for Predicting the Concentration of Pollutant in the Atmosphere from Chimney Emissions in Urban Environments
  2/3/1998 - 28/2/2000
  Lead Researcher: Prof. D. Ingham.
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• GST/02/2090 - Diode Laser Detection of Peroxy Radicals in the Atmosphere
  3/8/1998 - 30/4/1999
  Lead Researcher: Prof. G. Hancock.
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Second Call for Proposals (Awarded August 1998)

• GST/02/2222 - Airborne Particulate Pollutants: Physicochemistry and Toxicity
  1/10/1998 - 30/9/2001
  Lead Researcher: Prof. R. Richards.
  Data Manager: Dr. T. Jones.
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• GST/02/2225 - An Instrumented Aircraft Facility to Provide Vertical Profiles of Wind, Temperature, Turbulence, Sensible Heat, Aerosol and Trace-Gas Concentrations and Fluxes within the Urban Boundary Layer for PUMA Consortia Model Validation
  1/4/1999 - 31/3/2002
  Lead Researcher: Dr. M. Gallagher.
  Data Manager: Dr K. Beswick.
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• GST/02/2229 - Development of a Lumped Gas Phase Mechanism for Use in Urban Chemical Transport Models
  1/10/1999 - 30/9/2002
  Lead Researcher: Dr. A. Tomlin.
  Data Manager: L. Whitehouse.
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• GST/02/2231 - Universities Weather Research Network (UWERN) Urban Meteorology Programme
  1/1/1999 - 30/6/2002
  Lead Researcher: Dr. S. Belcher.
  Data Manager: J. Barlow.
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• GST/02/2244 - Sources and Sinks of Urban Aerosols
  2/11/1998 - 31/10/2001
  Lead Researcher: Prof. D. Fowler.
  Data Manager: E. Nemitz.
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• GST/02/2254 - Evolution of the Particle Size Distribution of Vehicular Emissions in the Urban Atmosphere
  25/3/1999 - 24/3/2001
  Lead Researcher: Dr. A. Clarke.
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Third Call for Proposals (Awarded July 1999)

• GST/02/2602 - Experimental Quantification and Modelling of Dispersion of Particles in Urban Street Canyons
  1/10/1999 - 30/9/2002
  Lead Researcher: Prof. C. Baker.
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