Description
This dataset provides in situ airborne measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over California and Nevada on February 10-11, 2016. Measurements were taken onboard a DC-8 aircraft during this Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) airborne deployment. CO2 was measured with NASA's Atmospheric Vertical Observations of CO2 in the Earth's Troposphere (AVOCET) instrument while over California and Nevada. The objective of this deployment was to assess the performance of the 2016 version of the CO2 Sounder LiDAR. The two flights were flown to compare results from an experimental LiDAR sensor with the AVOCET instrument. Aircraft navigation and flight meteorological data are also provided. The data are provided in ICARTT and comma-separated values (CSV) formats.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | (a) Flight track for 10 February 2016 flight over Edwards AFB, California. (b) Time-tagged location and altitude plot for the spiral-down maneuver over Edwards AFB for the same flight (Abshire et al., 2018). | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ASCENDS: Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016: ASCENDS_AVOCET_CA_NV_Feb_2016.pdf | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ASCENDS: Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016: ASCENDSFinalDraft81915_ID0.pdf | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ASCENDS: Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016: Co2LidarBackscatProfiles_1-19-2021_ID4.pdf | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ASCENDS: Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016: NASA_TP_2018-219034_ASCENDS_ID1.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |