ACT-America: Profile-based Planetary Boundary Layer Heights, Eastern USA

Description

This dataset provides profile-based estimates of the height to the top of the planetary boundary layer (PBL), also known as the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), in meters above mean sea level estimated from meteorological measurements acquired during ascending or descending vertical profile flight segments during NASA's Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America (ACT-America) airborne campaign. ACT-America flights sampled the atmosphere over the central and eastern United States seasonally from 2016 - 2019. Two aircraft platforms, the NASA Langley Beechcraft B-200 King Air and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's C-130 Hercules, were used to collect high-quality in situ measurements across a variety of continental surfaces and atmospheric conditions.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/actamerica/Profile_based_PBL_heights/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/Profile_based_PBL_heights.html
33 ACT-America: Profile-based Planetary Boundary Layer Heights, Eastern USA: Profile_based_PBL_heights.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/actamerica/Profile_based_PBL_heights/comp/Profile_based_PBL_heights.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1706
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1706
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/Profile_based_PBL_heights_Fig1.jpg
21 ACT-America Campaign Site https://actamerica.ornl.gov

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  • altitude
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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