The TD-LIF, installed on the FAAM BAE146 aircraft, was used in July 2010 during the RONOCO campaign, aimed at studying the NO3 at night.
In 2010, the TD-LIF instrument was certified for installation on board the English instrumental aircraft BAE146 (FAAM, Cranfield, UK).
The TD-LIF, on board this scientific plane, has been used in several international campaigns. In the summer of 2010, in particular between 12 and 30 July 2010, the RONOCO Summer campaign took place, whose PI was Prof. Rod Jones (Cambridge University).
The main objective of the RONOCO campaign (ROle of Nighttime Chemistry in Controlling the Oxidizing Capacity of the atmOsphere) was the study of the processes and the role of NO3 in nocturnal chemistry in Western Europe in different seasons and chemical-physical conditions of the troposphere. The flights, in fact, took place mainly at night, affecting the areas of the southern United Kingdom, the English Channel and the North Sea from the East Midland (UK) reference airport.
Further information: Ronoco Flight and info.
Associated publications:
Morgan W:T., B. Ouyang, J. D. Allan, E. Aruffo, P. Di Carlo, O. J. Kennedy, D. Lowe, M. J. Flynn, P. D. Rosenberg, P. I. Williams, R. Jones, G. B. McFiggans, and H. Coe, Influence of aerosol chemical composition on N2O5 uptake: airborne regional measurements in North-Western Europe,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 973-990, doi:10.5194/acp-15-973-2015, 2015. (Impact factor 2015: 5.114)
Lowe D., S. Archer-Nicholls, W. Morgan, J. Allan, S. Utembe, B. Ouyang, E. Aruffo, M. Le Breton, R. A. Zaveri, P. Di Carlo, C. Percival, H. Coe, R. Jones, and G. McFiggans, WRF-chem model predictions of the regional impacts of N2O5 heterogeneous processes on nighttime chemistry over north-western Europe,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 1385-1409, 2015. (Impact factor 2015: 5.114)
Aruffo, E., Di Carlo, P., Dari-Salisburgo, C., Biancofiore, F., Giammaria, F., Busilacchio, M., Lee, J., Moller, S., Hopkins, J., Punjabi, S., Bauguitte, S., O’Sullivan, D., Parcival, C., Le Breton, M., Muller, J., Jones, R., Forster, G., Reeves, C., Heard, D., Walker, H., Ingham, T., Vaughan, S., Stone, D., Aircraft observations of the lower troposphere above a megacity: alkyl nitrate and ozone chemistry,
Atmospheric Environment, 94, 479–488, 2014. (Impact factor 2014: 3.281)
Stone D., M. J. Evans, H. Walker, T. Ingham, S. Vaughan, B. Ouyang, O. J. Kennedy, M.W. McLeod, R. L. Jones, J. Hopkins, S. Punjabi, R. Lidster, J. F. Hamilton, J. D. Lee, A. C. Lewis, L. J. Carpenter, G. Forster, D. E. Oram, C. E. Reeves, S. Bauguitte, W. Morgan, H. Coe, E. Aruffo, C. Dari-Salisburgo, F. Giammaria, P. Di Carlo, and D. E. Heard, Radical chemistry at night: comparisons between observed and modelled HOx, NO3 and N2O5 during the RONOCO project,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 1299–1321, 2014. (Impact factor 2014: 5.053)