Catalogue description Department for Business, Energy,and Industrial Strategy and predecessors: Along-Track Scanning Radiometer ATSR-1, ATSR-2 and AATSR: Registered Files (MIS Series)

In the UK, the ATSR instrument was initially funded by the Department for the Environment through the Science and Engineering Research Council. Later responsibility and funding moved to DEFRA, DECC and BEIS and the funding to the Natural Environment Research Council. International funding was also provided by the Australian Space Office (ASO), latterly the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Responsibility for the Along-Track Scanning Radiometer originally sat with the Department of the Environment’s, Air, Climate and Toxic Substances, Global Atmosphere Division from 1991 to 1997. However, in 1998 the function was moved to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the responsibility fell under the Environment: Risks and Atmosphere, Global Atmosphere Division until 2000. In 2001, the function was transferred to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where it was led by the Climate Energy and Environment Risks, Global Atmosphere until 2006 when the name was changed to Climate Change Group, International Climate Change: Air and Analysis Directorate. In 2009 the function was transferred to Department of Energy and Climate Change, where it was lead by International Climate Change until 2015. Finally in 2016, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy assumed responsibility and it was led by Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy (SICE) until 2018.