Activity
Operation of EMEP Supersite at Harwell
Part of the UK's contribution to a Europe-wide programme of air monitoring under the UN Economic Commission for Europe's Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution. The monitoring is done under the auspices of EMEP (Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe), and contributes data to a central European database (currently in Norway). The results are used to evaluate the levels of air pollution across Europe, to identify trends, and for comparison with computer model outputs. Harwell is also used as part of the the Automated Urban and Rural Network (AURN), the UK Precipitation Network, the UK Hydrocarbons Network, and the UK Heavy Metals Rural Network. A second EMEP site is located at Auchencorth Moss, which is run (on behalf of Defra) by CEH.
General Information
- Objectives
- This is one of two sites that provides the UKs contribution to the EMEP monitoring strategy based on the creation of two Level II `supersites'. Additional measurements are made at Harwell to qualify it as an EMEP Level III site.The second site is based at Authencorth Moss and is run by CEH. Data from these sites at hourly or daily frequency are supplemented by long-term integrating measurements from existing Defra-funded monitoring networks across the UK (http://www.nilu.no/projects/ccc/network/index.html)
- Environmental domain
- Atmosphere
- Purpose Of collection
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Innovation/advancing science
Modelling
Statuory advice
International collaboration
Ministerial commitment - Keywords
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HNO3
O3
NO2
NH3
NO
NOx
SO2
Mercury in precipitation
wet-only deposition
Bulk deposition of inorganic ions
Meteorological data
Carbonyls
EC/OC
water-soluble particulate material (salts) and black carbon
VOCs
CO2 and water vapour fluxes
Speciated mercury in air
CH4
PM2.5
PM10
Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution
EMEP
heavy metal
Supersite - Parameters measured
- air pollutant
- erff keywords
- A4, B2, C1, D4.2, E3.1.2.3, C13.9, E1.2.2, G2.2.1, S4.15
- Essential climate variables
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Surface temperature
Precipitation
Surface water vapour
Surface wind speed
Aerosols properties
Greenhouse gasses
Ozone
Precursors (Supporting the Aerosols and Ozone ECVs)
Location
- Bounding box
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Contacts
- Lead organisation
- Ricardo-AEA Harwell Didcot OXON OX11 0QR UK enquiry@ricardo-aea.com +44 (0) 1235 75 3000 http://www.ricardo-aea.com/
- Lead funder
- Defra Nobel House 17 Smith Square LONDON SW1P 3JR UK defra.helpline@defra.gsi.gov.uk +44 20 7238 6951 http://www.gov.uk/defra
Metadata
- Publication status
- PUBLIC
- Record identifier
- a972b580-22a6-495e-ab0b-0f18fc09d765
- Last modified
- 2017-08-24 10:58:30
- Metadata author
- Ricardo-AEA
- Other identifier
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Envirobase 1422284
UKEOF 25882