page_title: Met Office
section_title: FAAM
hierarchical_section_title: Met Office / Meteorological Research Unit and the Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) / FAAM
caption_attribution_description: BAe 146-300 aircraft of the FAAM (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Experiments) takes off from RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, England during Royal International Air Tattoo departures day.
context_page_description: The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy led by CEO Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018, the first woman to do so. The Met Office makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.
context_section_description: The Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM), part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, is based at Cranfield Airport. It is a collaboration with the Natural Environment Research Council.
  The FAAM was established as part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), itself part of NERC, to provide aircraft measurement for use by UK atmospheric research organisations on worldwide campaigns. The main equipment is a modified BAe 146 type 301 aircraft, registration G-LUXE, owned and operated by BAE Systems on behalf of Directflight Limited.
  Areas of application include: 
  Radiative transfer studies in clear and cloudy air;
  Tropospheric chemistry measurements;
  Cloud physics and dynamic studies;
  Dynamics of mesoscale weather systems;
  Boundary layer and turbulence studies;
  Remote sensing: verification of ground-based instruments;
  Satellite ground truth: radiometric measurements and winds;
  Satellite instrument test-bed;
  Campaigns in the UK and abroad.
caption: FAAM BAe146-300 takes off at RIAT, RAF Fairford, England
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