ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data

Description

This dataset provides aircraft navigational parameters and related meteorological data (often referred to as "housekeeping" data) in support of the research activities for the two aircrafts that flew for the NASA Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America (ACT-America) project. ACT-America's mission spans five years and includes five 6-week intensive field campaigns covering all 4 seasons and 3 regions of the central and eastern United States. Two instrumented aircraft platforms, the NASA Langley Beechcraft B200 King Air and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's C-130H Hercules, were used to collect high-quality in situ measurements across a variety of continental surfaces and atmospheric conditions. During these flights, aircraft positional, meteorological, and environmental data are recorded by a variety of instruments. For this dataset, measurements include, but are not limited to: latitude, longitude, altitude, ground speed, air temperature, and wind speed and direction. These data are incorporated into related ACT-America flight-instrumented datasets to provide geotrajectory file information for position, attitude, and altitude awareness of instrumented sampling.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/actamerica/ACTAMERICA_Hskping/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/ACTAMERICA_Hskping.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1574
33 ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data: Platform_C130.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/ACTAMERICA_Hskping/comp/Platform_C130.pdf
33 ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data: Platform_B200.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/ACTAMERICA_Hskping/comp/Platform_B200.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1574
21 USE SERVICE API https://opendap.earthdata.nasa.gov/
22 The ACT-America team on the tarmac with the B-200 King Air and C-130 Hercules NASA aircraft in Shreveport, Louisiana. https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/ACTAMERICA_Hskping_Fig1.jpg
21 ACT-America Campaign Site https://actamerica.ornl.gov
21 The THREDDS location for this Collection. https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalog/ornldaac/1574/catalog.html
33 ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data: ACTAMERICA_Hskping.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/ACTAMERICA_Hskping/comp/ACTAMERICA_Hskping.pdf
33 ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data: DC8_Experimenter_Handbook_Jan2011v2.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/ACTAMERICA_Hskping/comp/DC8_Experimenter_Handbook_Jan2011v2.pdf

Tags

  • altitude
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • spectral-engineering
  • platform-characteristics
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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