Vicinity of the Wash

Concentration of alkanes in the atmosphere; Concentration of nitrogen species in the atmosphere; Carbon monoxide and dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere; Concentration of alkenes and alkynes in the atmosphere; Atmospheric particulates; Air pressure; Air temperature; Atmospheric humidity; Precipitation and evaporation; Wind strength and direction; Concentration of other hydrocarbons in the atmosphere; Ozone and oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere; Sulphur species concentrations in the atmosphere; Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere

Anemometers; meteorological packages; atmospheric radiometers; particulates samplers; precipitation gauges; gas chromatographs; aerosol samplers; continuous air samplers; discrete air samplers

The dataset contains a variety of atmospheric measurements including time series of air temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, irradiance and humidity. A comprehensive atmospheric sampling programme provided measurements of atmospheric particulates, aerosols and gases, including hydrocarbons, nitrogen, oxygen, ozone and sulphur species, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrous and hydrochloric acids. Additional measurements of photolysis rates and ion and radical concentrations were also collected. The data were collected from the vicinity of the north Norfolk coast between 1994 and 1997. The bulk of the data were collected during two field campaigns in the winter (October/November) of 1994 and the summer (May/June) of 1995. During these campaigns data were collected continuously from the University of East Anglia (UEA) Atmospheric Observatory at Weybourne on the north Norfolk coast. The widest range of parameters is available for this station. An instrumented vessel (MV Guardian) was stationed offshore to provide a second sampling site to allow changes in a given air mass to be monitored. The Imperial College London Jetstream Research aircraft made one flight during each campaign to provide a link between the two surface stations and four additional flights in 1996 and 1997. The River-Atmosphere-Coast Study (RACS) was the component of the LOIS programme looking at processes from the river catchment into the coastal sea. Professor John Plane from the Environmental Sciences Department at UEA was the scientific co-ordinator of this sub-project of LOIS. The data are held by BODC as a series of ASCII data files conforming to the NASA AMES 1001 format together with a PDF document that describes the data set.

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