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Feasibility of aerial measurements of methane emissions from landfills (2014)
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Allen, G., Gallagher, M., Hollingsworth, P., Illingworth, S., Kabbabe, K., & Percival, C. (2014). Feasibility of aerial measurements of methane emissions from landfills. Bristol: Environment Agency

This desk-based study has identified the most suitable aerial system, instrumentation and methods to measure the amount of methane released to the atmosphere from UK landfill sites.

It will help the Environment Agency and other government bodies t... Read More about Feasibility of aerial measurements of methane emissions from landfills.

Atmospheric composition and thermodynamic retrievals from the ARIES airborne FTS system – Part 1: Technical aspects and simulated capability (2014)
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Illingworth, S., Allen, G., Newman, S., Vance, A., Marenco, F., Harlow, R., Taylor, J., Moore, D., & Remedios, J. (2014). Atmospheric composition and thermodynamic retrievals from the ARIES airborne FTS system – Part 1: Technical aspects and simulated capability. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7(4), 10833-10887. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1133-2014

In this study we present an assessment of the retrieval capability of the Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System (ARIES): an airborne remote-sensing Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) operated on the UK Facility for Airborne Atmospheric... Read More about Atmospheric composition and thermodynamic retrievals from the ARIES airborne FTS system – Part 1: Technical aspects and simulated capability.

Measurement of boundary layer ozone concentrations on-board a Skywalker unmanned aerial vehicle (2014)
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Illingworth, S., Allen, G., Percival, C., Hollingsworth, P., Gallagher, M., Ricketts, H., Hayes, H., Ładosz, P., Crawley, D., & Roberts, G. (2014). Measurement of boundary layer ozone concentrations on-board a Skywalker unmanned aerial vehicle. Atmospheric Science Letters, 15(4), 252--258. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl2.496

This study demonstrates novel measurements of in situ ozone (O3) concentrations and thermodynamics sampled on‐board an instrumented Skywalker Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Small spatial and temporal gradients were observed over a localized region, w... Read More about Measurement of boundary layer ozone concentrations on-board a Skywalker unmanned aerial vehicle.

The Blue Marble: a model for primary school STEM outreach (2013)
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Muller, C. L., Roberts, S., Wilson, R., Remedios, J., Illingworth, S., Graves, R., Trent, T., Henderson, J., Wilkinson, J., Wilkinson, M., & Desai, A. (2013). The Blue Marble: a model for primary school STEM outreach. Physics Education, 48(2), 176. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/48/2/176

As part of 'The Blue Marble' project, the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, UK, have developed day-long, interdisciplinary, hands-on workshops for primary schools to introduce space technology and the role of the research scientist. The works... Read More about The Blue Marble: a model for primary school STEM outreach.

Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios (2013)
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O'Shea, S., Allen, G., Gallagher, M., Bauguitte, S.-B., Illingworth, S., Le Breton, M., Muller, J., Percival, C., Archibald, A., Oram, D., Parrington, M., Palmer, P., & Lewis, A. (2013). Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13(24), 12451-12467. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12451-2013

In situ airborne measurements were made over eastern Canada in summer 2011 as part of the BORTAS experiment (Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Aircraft and Satellites). In this paper we pre... Read More about Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios.

Hyperspectral Earth observation from IASI: Five years of accomplishments (2012)
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Hilton, F., Armante, R., August, T., Barnet, C., Bouchard, A., Camy-Peyret, C., Capelle, V., Clarisse, L., Clerbaux, C., Coheur, P.-F., Collard, A., Crevoisier, C., Dufour, G., Edwards, D., Faijan Nadia Fourrié, F., Gambacorta, A., Goldberg, M., Guidard, V., Hurtmans, D., Illingworth, S., …Zhou, D. (2012). Hyperspectral Earth observation from IASI: Five years of accomplishments. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(3), 347-370. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00027.1

The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) forms the main infrared sounding component of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites's (EUMETSAT's) Meteorological Operation (MetOp)-A satellite (Klaes et al... Read More about Hyperspectral Earth observation from IASI: Five years of accomplishments.

A comparison of OEM CO retrievals from the IASI and MOPITT instruments (2011)
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Illingworth, S. M., Remedios, J. J., Boesch, H., Ho, S.-P., Edwards, D., Palmer, P., & Gonzi, S. (2011). A comparison of OEM CO retrievals from the IASI and MOPITT instruments. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4, 775-793. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-775-2011

Observations of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) can only be made on continental and global scales by remote sensing instruments situated in space. One such instrument is the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), producing spectrally r... Read More about A comparison of OEM CO retrievals from the IASI and MOPITT instruments.

ULIRS, an optimal estimation retrieval scheme for carbon monoxide using IASI spectral radiances: sensitivity analysis, error budget and simulations (2011)
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Illingworth, S., Remedios, J. J., Boesch, H., Moore, D. P., Sembhi, H., Dudhia, A., & Walker, J. C. (2011). ULIRS, an optimal estimation retrieval scheme for carbon monoxide using IASI spectral radiances: sensitivity analysis, error budget and simulations. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4, 269-288. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-269-2011

This paper presents a new retrieval scheme for tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO), using measured radiances from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) onboard the MetOp-A satellite. The University of Leicester IASI Retrieval Scheme (... Read More about ULIRS, an optimal estimation retrieval scheme for carbon monoxide using IASI spectral radiances: sensitivity analysis, error budget and simulations.

The nuclear ring in the barred spiral galaxy IC 4933 (2010)
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Ryder, S. D., Illingworth, S. M., Sharp, R. G., & Farage, C. L. (2010). The nuclear ring in the barred spiral galaxy IC 4933. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 27(1), 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1071/AS09016

We present infrared imaging from IRIS2 on the Anglo–Australian Telescope that shows the barred spiral galaxy IC 4933 has not just an inner ring encircling the bar, but also a star-forming nuclear ring 1.5 kpc in diameter. Imaging in the u′ band with... Read More about The nuclear ring in the barred spiral galaxy IC 4933.

Potential for the use of reconstructed IASI radiances in the detection of atmospheric trace gases (2010)
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Atkinson, N. C., Hilton, F., Illingworth, S. M., Eyre, J., & Hultberg, T. (2010). Potential for the use of reconstructed IASI radiances in the detection of atmospheric trace gases. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 3, 991-1003. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-3-991-2010

Principal component (PC) analysis has received considerable attention as a technique for the extraction of meteorological signals from hyperspectral infra-red sounders such as the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) and the Atmospheri... Read More about Potential for the use of reconstructed IASI radiances in the detection of atmospheric trace gases.