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UK Meteorological Office (UKMO) - Meteorological Research Flight (MRF)

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Description

Research Flight (MRF) is a UK Met. Office facility, which flies a well instrumented C-130 Hercules aircraft for research purposes.

Flight time is made available to the UK academic community through the NERC Airborne Research Support Facility (ARSF). The BADC holds data from NERC funded flights, such as those made during ACSOE and UTLS. The basic set of measurement include ozone, nitrogen oxides, water vapour, aerosols, wind, position and temperature.

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These are often supplimented by project spacific measurements. The aircraft has a maximum working altitude of 10km and a flight time of 12hours. Link to the data set home page: "badc.rl.ac.uk/data/mrf/" [

Summary

Extracted from the BADC Home Page]

Links

Documentation and papers

  • nerc.ac.uk ↗

    The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Home Page.

    documentation · from NASA CMR

  • metoffice.gov.uk ↗

    The Meteorological Office UK. Global weather services from the UK.

    documentation · from NASA CMR

Catalogue records · 2

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Atmospheric sciences 69%
Provenance · 1 source records, 25 field assertions
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concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/particulate-mattersource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/air-quality/tropospheric-ozonesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/altitude/barometric-altitudesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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