1. PROJECT
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Title: Linking Pollution, Meteorology and Climate Change
Dates: Sept 2013 - Mar 2017
Funding organisation: NERC


2. DATASET
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Title: The synoptic meteorology driving the UK's largest pollution episodes
Description: This dataset contains output from an inert-tracer study using the Met-Office HADGEM2-GA4 model. The aim of the study was to analyse why omega block events are associated with such hazardous particulate matter (PM) within the UK. The dataset includes HADGEM3-GA4 Chemistry-Climate simulation output and nudged Blocking Index Metrics (blocking index, direction of blocking index and relative importance of air masses Indices) for the same time period. These are calculated on the theta = 2 PVU field (dynamical tropopause). These are calculated on the theta = 2 PVU field (dynamical tropopause).
Publication Year: 2018

Creator: Chris Webber
Organisation: University of Reading
Rights-holder: Chris Webber


3. TERMS OF USE
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Copyright Chris Webber 2018. This dataset is licensed by the rights-holder(s) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.


4. CONTENTS
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File listing

DB_10yr.npy Direction of Blocking Index DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08
BI_10yr.npy Blocking Index DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08
RI_10yr.npy Relative Importance of Air Masses Index DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08
BENELUX_Tracer_10yr.csv BENELUX Tracer Concentrations DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08 (HADGEM3-GA4 output)
Local_Tracer_10yr.csv UK Locally Emitted Tracer Concentrations DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08 (HADGEM3-GA4 output)
East_Poland_tracer_10yr.csv East Poland Tracer Concentrations DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08 (HADGEM3-GA4 output)
Po_Valley_Tracer_10yr.csv Po Valley Tracer Concentrations DJF Dec 98 - Feb 08 (HADGEM3-GA4 output)


5. METHOD and PROCESSING
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This dataset contains output from an inert-tracer study using the Met-Office HADGEM2-GA4 model. Blocking Index Metrics  are calculated on the theta = 2 PVU field.