NAWDEX Field Project Diary - Day 4
Posted in Field project, Jet stream, Weather, NAWDEX on Oct 6th, 2016 Comments
Join Hugo and Bogdan to find out more about weather balloons. What are they? What do they measure?

Posted in Field project, Jet stream, Weather, NAWDEX on Oct 6th, 2016 Comments
Join Hugo and Bogdan to find out more about weather balloons. What are they? What do they measure?
Posted in Field project, Jet stream, NAWDEX, Weather forecasting on Sep 23rd, 2016 Comments
Since today we are not launching weather balloons for the NAWDEX project, Hugo had some time to test other meteorological instruments installed at Capel Dewi. Today we are briefly introduce the SODAR (SOnic Detection and Ranging).
Posted in Field project, Jet stream, Weather, NAWDEX on Sep 22nd, 2016 Comments
Today's episode focusses on the science behind the NAWDEX project as explained by special guest Prof. Geraint Vaughan from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS).
Posted in Field project, Jet stream, Weather, NAWDEX on Sep 21st, 2016 Comments
Welcome to our first of hopefully daily updates on a project called NAWDEX, in which Hugo and Bogdan will be describing the day-to-day life during a field project. We aim to post daily updates on the science and practical aspects of field work.
Posted in Field project, CAST, Ozone, Tropical storms on Jul 30th, 2014 Comments
Join Hugo, Richard and Geraint on a tropical island adventure where we discover the importance of ozone near the equator. We discuss how ozone is transported though the atmosphere and ask the question: "How do the towering storm clouds in the tropics affect the composition of the atmosphere?" We travelled halfway across the globe to Papua New Guinea with our weather balloons to gather the data that we needed to find out.
This was recorded in February 2014 during the Co-ordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics (CAST) campaign.
Posted in Field project, Air pollution, RONOCO, Geoengineering on Mar 31st, 2014 Comments
Jennifer Muller chats to Will Morgan and Michelle Cain (@civiltalker), from the University of Cambridge, after the Royal Meteorological Society's Atmospheric Chemistry Special Interest Group meeting on "When the sun goes down: Atmospheric chemistry at night".
Posted in Field project, INUPIAQ, Clouds, Ice on Feb 3rd, 2014 Comments
Gary Llyod reports on the INUPIAQ (Ice NUcleation ProcessInvestigation And Quantification) Project, which is based in the Swiss Alps, at the Jungfraujoch (3571m), Shilthorn (2970m) and Kleine Scheidegg (2061m) sites.
In this episode Gary talks to Dr Keith Bower from the Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Manchester about his role in the INUPIAQ campaign, James Bond, and the importance of upwind and downwind measurements.
George Lazenby clearly isn't impressed by Gary's carrier bag.
Posted in Field project, GAUGE, Greenhouse Gases, Climate on Jan 30th, 2014 Comments
In this latest episode of the Barometer, Sam talks to Dr Matt Rigby from the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol about the role that models will have to play in the GAUGE project.
As well as talking about a modeller’s wish list, Matt and Sam also talk about the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) network, and what exactly it is that modellers do whilst the instrument scientists are out getting the data.
To avoid confusion, this is not the kind of model that we are talking about.
Posted in Field project, GAUGE, Greenhouse Gases, Climate on Jan 27th, 2014 Comments
In this episode of the Barometer, Sam catches up with Dr Hartmut Bösch, from the Earth Observation Science Group at the University of Leicester to discuss how satellites will be used during the GAUGE project.
Posted in Field project, GAUGE, Greenhouse Gases, Climate on Jan 23rd, 2014 Comments
In this episode of the Barometer, Jen catches up with Dr Grant Allen, from the Centre of Atmospheric Science at the University of Manchester,to discuss the airborne aspects of the GAUGE campaign.
As well as talking about how aircraft measurements from the UK's Atmospheric Research Aircraft will be used to help constrain emission estimates across the whole of the UK, Grant also talks about a potential dedicated flight campaign that encompasses the Northern conurbations of Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester AKA the Robbie Fowler Triangle.