Overview
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1880 |
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Version | 2 |
Project | |
Published | 2021-05-24 |
Usage | 372 downloads |
Citations | 1 publication cited this dataset |
Description
This dataset provides in situ atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations measured by the NCAR Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2) during airborne campaigns conducted by NASA's Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission. The AO2 Instrument measures O2 concentration using a vacuum-ultraviolet absorption technique. ATom deploys an extensive gas and aerosol payload on the NASA DC-8 aircraft for a systematic, global-scale sampling of the atmosphere, profiling continuously from 0.2 to 12 km altitude. Flights occurred in each of 4 seasons from 2016 to 2018. Flights originate from the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, fly north to the western Arctic, south to the South Pacific, east to the Atlantic, north to Greenland, and return to California across central North America. ATom establishes a single, contiguous, global-scale dataset. This comprehensive dataset will be used to improve the representation of chemically reactive gases and short-lived climate forcers in global models of atmospheric chemistry and climate.
Science Keywords
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
- CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
- ATMOSPHERE
- AIR QUALITY
- ATMOSPHERE
- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
- OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
- MOLECULAR OXYGEN
Data Use and Citation
This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the NASA Earthdata Data Use Guidance.
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Dataset Companion Files
Dataset has 2 companion files.
- ATom_AO2_Instrument_Data_V2.pdf
- AO2_readme_210126.pdf
Version History
Version | Dataset Title | Published |
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1 | ATom: L2 In Situ Measurements from the NCAR Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2) | 2019-11-18 |
2 | ATom: L2 In Situ Measurements from the NCAR Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2), V2 | 2021-05-24 |