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Description

This dataset provides in situ airborne measurements of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and water vapor concentrations, plus air temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and wind speed values over Alaska and the Yukon and Northwest Territories of Canada during the Arctic Carbon Aircraft Profile (Arctic-CAP) monthly sampling campaigns from April-November 2017. Observations have been averaged to a 10-second interval and are reported with the number of samples (N) and standard deviation. During each of the six monthly campaigns, flights over the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) domain included 25 vertical profiles, from the surface up to 6 km altitude, at locations selected to complement regular long-term vertical profiles, remote sensing data, and ground-based flux tower measurements.

Product Summary

Platforms
NASA DC-8
Instruments
PICARRO G2401-mc CO2, CH4, CO, H2O INSTRUMENT ,
HUMIDITY SENSORS ,
WIND MONITOR
Spatial Extent

N: 71.2874 S: 40.0387 E: -104.112 W: -166.045

Location
ARCTIC ,
ALASKA ,
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES ,
YUKON TERRITORY
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2017-04-26 to 2017-11-05
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2162185379-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ,
Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide ,
Upper Air Temperature ,
Methane ,
Humidity ,
Wind Speed

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Sweeney, C., & McKain, K. (2019). ABoVE: Atmospheric Profiles of CO, CO2 and CH4 Concentrations from Arctic-CAP, 2017 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1658 Date Accessed: 2026-04-30

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Coastal Upwelling Enhances Winter Arctic Ocean Methane Emission Li, S., Dou, T., Du, Z., Wang, L., Zhou, R., Hua, W., Xiao, C. Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Tropopause, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Surface Pressure, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Wind Speed
Using atmospheric observations to quantify annual biogenic carbon dioxide fluxes on the Alaska North Slope Schiferl, Luke D., Watts, Jennifer D., Larson, Erik J. L., Arndt, Kyle A., Biraud, Sebastien C., Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Goodrich, Jordan P., Henderson, John M., Kalhori, Aram, McKain, Kathryn, Mountain, Marikate E., Munger, J. William, Oechel, Walter C., Sweeney, Colm, Yi, Yonghong, Zona, Donatella, Commane, Roisin Air Temperature, Alpine/Tundra, Solar Induced Fluorescence, Soil Temperature, Vegetation Cover, NET ECOSYSTEM CO2 EXCHANGE (NEE), Primary Production, Respiration Rate, Biogeochemical Cycles, Carbon, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Boundary Layer Winds, Soil Respiration, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Wind Dynamics, Methane, Carbon Flux, Carbon, Soil Respiration, Permafrost, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Upper Air Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Forests, Reflectance, Dominant Species
Using atmospheric trace gas vertical profiles to evaluate model fluxes: a case study of Arctic-CAP observations and GEOS simulations for the ABoVE domain Sweeney, Colm, Chatterjee, Abhishek, Wolter, Sonja, McKain, Kathryn, Bogue, Robert, Conley, Stephen, Newberger, Tim, Hu, Lei, Ott, Lesley, Poulter, Benjamin, Schiferl, Luke, Weir, Brad, Zhang, Zhen, Miller, Charles E. Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Air Quality, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Industrial Emissions, Fossil Fuel Burning, Biomass Burning, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Compounds, Halocarbons And Halogens, Atmospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Methane, Humidity, Wind Speed, Nitrous Oxide, Molecular Hydrogen, Chlorinated Hydrocarbons, Methyl Chloride, Methyl Bromide
Objective evaluation of surface- and satellite-driven carbon dioxide atmospheric inversions Chevallier, Frederic, Remaud, Marine, O'Dell, Christopher W., Baker, David, Peylin, Philippe, Cozic, Anne Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Upper Air Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Vegetation Cover, Canopy Characteristics, Reflectance, Leaf Characteristics
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