{"access":"For access to the air quality equipment testing and calibration facility, contact the site manager: Matt Jones, UKCEH Edinburgh.","capabilities":"The Edinburgh Bush station including cabins are equipped for Air Quality Equipment Testing: 10m meteorological mast; manifold for atmospheric composition; calibrators and atmospheric composition instruments; storage; plus outdoor area for instrumentation testing.","description":"The Air Quality Equipment Testing facility at Edinburgh Bush Station has three purposes: (1) to conduct atmospheric research; (2) to conduct atmospheric monitoring as part of wider networks of monitoring stations: Defra Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN) and SEPA flood monitoring network; (3) to test and calibrate atmospheric chemistry analysers (Thermos, Picarros, MARGAs etc).","fundingSources":"Funding sources for the Air Quality Equipment Testing facility include: NERC National Capability LTSS: UK-SCaPE programme; Defra Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN); research project grants.","id":"385d892f-475f-49da-a25e-86c867a44fc3","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"labsTest","description":"Test labs","infrastructureClass":"Analytical facilities","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/labsTest"},"infrastructureChallenge":[{"value":"Pollution","uri":"http://vocab.ceh.ac.uk/ri#Pollution"}],"lifecycle":"The Edinburgh Bush Air Quality facility was built in the 1970s, initially to measure sulphur dioxide.  Since then it has been further developed for: Air Quality Equipment testing, research and monitoring (as a member of UK networks including UKEAP, AURN and SEPA flood monitoring).","locationText":"This facility is located 20 metres from UKCEH Edinburgh.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:17","owners":[{"displayName":"Matt Jones","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","address":{"city":"Edinburgh"},"fullName":"Matt Jones"}],"partners":"No external partners help to operate the air quality equipment testing and calibration facility.","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue-staging.ceh.ac.uk/id/3836aa0d-05cf-4a18-abc4-d9867e762432"},{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/385d892f-475f-49da-a25e-86c867a44fc3"}],"scienceArea":"Atmospheric Chemistry and Effects","title":"Air Quality Equipment Testing : Edinburgh Bush Cabins","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"The Edinburgh Bush Air Quality facility provides important contributions and long-term data to UK air quality monitoring networks, and houses a wide array of atmospheric monitoring equipment that can be flexibly deployed.","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/385d892f-475f-49da-a25e-86c867a44fc3","users":["Users of the Air Quality Equipment Testing facility include: UKCEH scientists; Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA); DEFRA - Environment Agency; Bureau Veritas."]}