Facility Costing
Mobile Instrumentation
Facility instruments are placed in bands based on their replacement market value and used to determine the daily equipment rental charge. Table 1 shows the AMOF banding structure.
| Replacement cost (£) | Band | Daily Charge ex VAT (£) |
|
< 10K |
1 |
10.00 |
|
10K – 50K |
2 |
20.00 |
|
50K – 100K |
3 |
30.00 |
|
100K – 150K |
4 |
40.00 |
|
150K – 200K |
5 |
50.00 |
|
200K – 250K |
6 |
60.00 |
|
> £250K |
7 |
70.00 |
Table 1. Equipment daily rental cost structure.
Table 2 shows the cost band for the mobile instruments available through AMOF
| Instrument | Cost Band |
| 2B Technologies Ozone Monitor Single Channel | 1 |
| 2B Technologies Ozone Monitor Dual Channel | 1 |
| 3 GHz Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) | 7 |
| 94 GHz Galileo Cloud Radar | 5 |
| Aerodynamic Particle Sizer – Units 1 and 2 | 2 |
| Aerolaser AL5002 CO Monitor | 2 |
| Ametek CO Monitor – Units 1 and 2 | 2 |
| AQD High Sensitivity NOx | 3 |
| Ceilometer | 2 |
| Chilbolton UV Raman Lidar | 5 |
| Cimel Sun Photometer | 2 |
| Cloud Particle Imager 3V-CPI (3-View Cloud Particle Imager) | 3 |
| Cloud-Aerosol & Precipitation Spectrometer with Depolarisation | 3 |
| Doppler Aerosol Lidar – mobile and IAO user configurable | 5 |
| Flux Tower – Units 1 and 2 | 1 |
| GC-MS | 3 |
| GRIMM Optical Particle Counter 1.108 | 2 |
| HATPRO Radiometer | 5 |
| High-Volume Precipitation Spectrometer | 4 |
| Ka-band Mobile Cloud Radar – operating at CAO | 5 |
| Ka-band Mobile Cloud Radar – operating away from CAO | 7 |
| Licor – Units 1 and 2 | 2 |
| Lidar Wind Profiler | 5 |
| Los Gatos Research Ultraportable Greenhouse Gas Analyzer | 2 |
| Micro Rain Radar | 2 |
| MST Radar | 7 |
| Radar Wind Profiler – operating at Cardington or CDAO | 5 |
| Radar Wind Profiler – operating away from Cardington or CDAO | 7 |
| Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer – Units 1 and 2 | 3 |
| Spectral Radiometer – Units 1 and 2 (aircraft) | 1 |
| Sonic Anemometer – Units 1 and 2 | 2 |
| Surface Energy Balance Station – Units 1 and 2 | 1 |
| TECO 42i NOx Analyser | |
| 2 | |
| TELEDYNE T200UP NOx Analyser | 2 |
| Ultrafine Condensation Particle Counter 3750 – Units 1 and 2 | 2 |
| Ultrafine Condensation Particle Counter 3776 – Unit 1 – 4 | 2 |
| Vaisala Radiosonde – Unit 1 and 2 | 3 |
| Whole Air Sampler (WAS) | 3 |
| Windsond Reusable Radiosonde – Units 1 and 2 | 1 |
| X-band Mobile Weather Radar operating at CAO | 5 |
| X-band Mobile Weather Radar operating away from CAO | 7 |
Table 2. Equipment rental costing bands.
Observatory Access for guest instruments
There is no daily charge for hosting guest instruments at any of the AMOF Observatory sites. The only costs are the additional User Costs and these cover local staff costs, power and any additional services required.
Laboratory Access
This applies to the EnFLO COZI (CO and ozone calibration) & PTU (Pressure, temperature and humidity calibration) laboratories.
The daily equipment rental for COZI and PTU
| Facility | Daily Charge ex VAT (£) |
| COZI | £40.00 |
| PTUCal | £20.00 |
Table 3. Laboratory daily rental cost.
For EnFlo a daily charge of £70 per day is only applied to the NERC schemes (including applications to UKRI cross-cutting schemes where the application comes through NERC on JeS). For all other funding pathways applications are made directly to the EnFlo Facility and any access costs incurred are discussed with them.