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The ACT-America Campaign Catalog provides information about the airborne campaigns of the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport (ACT-America) project. ACT-America advanced atmospheric greenhouse gas inversions to a high level of accuracy and precision through new methods and models that improved knowledge of atmospheric transport, prior flux models, and space-based observations. The catalog compiles flight details for the five campaigns conducted during Summer 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, and Summer 2019 (2016-05-27 to 2019-07-26) across three regions of the eastern and central United States. Data include flight dates, regions, objectives, weather conditions, instrument status, aircraft flight paths, detailed weather reports, and measurement summary figures. A total of 121 research flights were conducted within the five six-week seasonal campaigns by each of the two instrumented aircraft platforms, the NASA Langley Beechcraft B-200 King Air and the NASA Wallops Flight Facility's C-130 Hercules. During 1,140 flight hours remote and in situ sensors onboard the two research aircraft measured greenhouse gas mole fractions, trace gases, and thermodynamic variables across a variety of continental surfaces and atmospheric conditions to study the transport and fluxes of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane. As noted in the Flight_patterns_staus field, there were flights when both aircraft flew directly under Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) overpasses to evaluate the ability of OCO-2 to observe high-resolution atmospheric CO2 variations. The C-130 aircraft was also equipped with active remote sensing instruments for planetary boundary layer height detection and column greenhouse gas measurements. The data are provided in comma separated values (CSV), compressed Keyhole Markup Language (KMZ) formats along with figures as JPEG and Portable Network Graphics images.
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exploration of daytime atmospheric boundary layer thermodynamics across fronts over land using in-situ airborne measurements | Medley, Zachary, Pal, Sandip | Weather Events, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Aerosol Backscatter, Flight Data Logs, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Planetary Boundary Layer Height | |
| Airborne Lidar Measurements of XCO2 in Synoptically Active Environment and Associated Comparisons With Numerical Simulations | Walley, Samantha, Pal, Sandip, Campbell, Joel F., Dobler, Jeremy, Bell, Emily, Weir, Brad, Feng, Sha, Lauvaux, Thomas, Baker, David, Blume, Nathan, Erxleben, Wayne, Fan, TaiFang, Lin, Bing, McGregor, Doug, Obland, Michael D., O'Dell, Chris, Davis, Kenneth J. | Weather Events, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Aerosol Backscatter, Flight Data Logs, Cloud Top Height, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species | |
| Evaluation of the High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) methane retrievals during the summer 2019 ACT-America campaign | Barton-Grimley, Rory A., Nehrir, Amin R., Kooi, Susan A., Collins, James E., Harper, David B., Notari, Anthony, Lee, Joseph, DiGangi, Joshua P., Choi, Yonghoon, Davis, Kenneth J. | Weather Events, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Aerosol Backscatter, Flight Data Logs, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction | |
| MultiSeason Evaluation of CO2 Weather in OCO2 MIP Models | Zhang, Li, Davis, Kenneth J., Schuh, Andrew E., Jacobson, Andrew R., Pal, Sandip, Cui, Yu Yan, Baker, David, Crowell, Sean, Chevallier, Frederic, Remaud, Marine, Liu, Junjie, Weir, Brad, Philip, Sajeev, Johnson, Matthew S., Deng, Feng, Basu, Sourish | 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, Weather Events, Methane, Aerosol Backscatter, Flight Data Logs, Cloud Top Height, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | |
| Atmospheric Carbon and TransportAmerica (ACTAmerica) data sets: Description, management, and delivery | Wei, Y., Shrestha, R., Pal, S., Gerken, T., Feng, S., McNelis, J., Singh, D., Thornton, M. M., Boyer, A. G., Shook, M. A., Chen, G., Baier, B. C., Barkley, Z. R., Barrick, J. D., Bennett, J. R., Browell, E. V., Campbell, J. F., Campbell, L. J., Choi, Y., Collins, J., Dobler, J., Eckl, M., Fiehn, A., Fried, A., Digangi, J. P., BartonGrimley, R., Halliday, H., Klausner, T., Kooi, S., Kostinek, J., Lauvaux, T., Lin, B., McGill, M. J., Meadows, B., Miles, N. L., Nehrir, A. R., Nowak, J. B., Obland, M., ODell, C., Fao, R. M. P., Richardson, S. J., Richter, D., Roiger, A., Sweeney, C., Walega, J., Weibring, P., Williams, C. A., Yang, M. M., Zhou, Y., Davis, K. J. | Primary Production, Ecosystems, Respiration Rate, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Cloud Top Height, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Aerosol Backscatter, Nitrogen Compounds, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Agricultural Lands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction, Carbon, Weather Events, Flight Data Logs | |
| The atmospheric carbon and transport (ACT)-America mission | Davis, Kenneth J., Browell, Edward V., Feng, Sha, Lauvaux, Thomas, Obland, Michael D., Pal, Sandip, Baier, Bianca C., Baker, David F., Baker, Ian T., Barkley, Zachary R., Bowman, Kevin W., Cui, Yu Yan, Denning, A. Scott, DiGangi, Joshua P., Dobler, Jeremy T., Fried, Alan, Gerken, Tobias, Keller, Klaus, Lin, Bing, Nehrir, Amin R., Normile, Caroline P., ODell, Christopher W., Ott, Lesley E., Roiger, Anke, Schuh, Andrew E., Sweeney, Colm, Wei, Yaxing, Weir, Brad, Xue, Ming, Williams, Christopher A. | Wetlands, Methane, Emissions, Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Weather Events, Aerosol Backscatter, Flight Data Logs, Cloud Top Height, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species |