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Atmospheric facilities
NERC provides access to a range of Facilities in support of atmospheric research. These include two aircraft which provide airborne in-situ chemistry and radiation measurements on a world-wide basis; three radar systems which enable study of phenomena and processes throughout the atmospheric column; a laboratory providing high-quality absorption, extinction, reflectance and emission spectra from solid, liquid, aerosol and gaseous samples; and a GPS data archive enabling georeferencing of aircraft and radar observations.
- Airborne Research & Survey Facility
- British Isles continuous GNSS Facility
- Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric & Radio Research
- European Incoherent Scatter Radar Support Facility
- Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements
- Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere Radar
- Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (moving to NERC pay-as-you-go recognised status)