Alpha Jet Atmopsheric eXperiment Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) Data

Description

The Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX) is a partnership between NASA's Ames Research Center and H211, L.L.C., facilitating routine in-situ measurements over California, Nevada, and the coastal Pacific in support of satellite validation. The standard payload complement includes rigorously-calibrated ozone (O3), formaldehyde (HCHO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) mixing ratios, as well as meteorological data including 3-D winds. Multiple vertical profiles (to ~8.5 km) can be accomplished in each 2-hr flight. The AJAX project has been collecting trace gas data on a regular basis in all seasons for over a decade, helping to assess satellite sensors' health and calibration over significant portions of their lifetimes, and complementing surface and tower-based observations collected elsewhere in the region. AJAX supports NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2/3) and Japan's Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) and GOSAT-2, and collaborates with many other research organizations (e.g. California Air Resources Board (CARB), NOAA, United States Forest Service (USFS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)). AJAX celebrated its 200th science flight in 2016, and previous studies have investigated topics as varied as stratospheric-to-tropospheric transport, forest fire plumes, atmospheric river events, long-range transport of pollution from Asia to the western US, urban outflow, and emissions from gas leaks, oil fields, and dairies.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 ASDC Data Citation Policy https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 AJAX Project Website https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/earthscience/programs/ajax
21 AJAX on Daily Planet (Discovery Channel Canada, aired Feb 15, 2018) https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/earthscience/programs/ajax/media
21 AJAX YouTube Video https://youtu.be/ZtGQLrkepes
21 This Week at NASA (Aug 2016 at 0:48, Soberanes wildfire flights) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WSQ5Ga9awI
21 Ames focus of Years of Living Dangerously documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slLTUMgEoFM&feature=youtu.be
21 2014 Seminar at Ames Research Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjxNZ3CwCFE
21 DOI data set landing page for AJAX_MMS https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC/AJAX_MMS
21 A Collection of Airborne Measurements and Analyses of Trace Gases Emitted From Multiple Fires in California https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021EA002116
33 AJAX Flight Objectives https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ajax/AJAX-DefinitionofFlightObjectivesTags.pdf
33 AJAX Wildfire Measurements Compendium https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/ajax/AJAX-WildfireMeasurementsCompendium.pdf
21 AJAX Flight Catalog Tutorial https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/outreach-materials#name-alpha-jet-experiment-ajax-flight-catalog-storymap
21 AJAX Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) Power User Interface (UI) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/AJAX/2011
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for AJAX_MMS_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/AJAX/MMS_1/
33 ICARTT V2.0 Documentation https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/6158/ESDS-RFC-029v2.pdf
21 Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC%2FAJAX_MMS
21 This Week at NASA (15 Feb 2013 at 5:53) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyFAGnhnsM0
21 AJAX Overview Paper - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/97/3/bams-d-14-00241.1.xml
21 Earthdata Search for AJAX_MMS_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2166631725-LARC_ASDC

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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