LISTOS Flax Pond Ground Site Data

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LISTOS_Ground_FlaxPond_Data is the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) ground site data collected at the Flax Pond ground site during the LISTOS field campaign. This product is a result of a joint effort across multiple agencies, including NASA, NOAA, the EPA Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), Maine Department of Environmental Protection, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and several research groups at universities. Data collection is complete. The New York City (NYC) metropolitan area (comprised of portions of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut in and around NYC) is home to over 20 million people, but also millions of people living downwind in neighboring states. This area continues to persistently have challenges meeting past and recently revised federal health-based air quality standards for ground-level ozone, which impacts the health and well-being of residents living in the area. A unique feature of this chronic ozone problem is the pollution transported in a northeast direction out of NYC over Long Island Sound. The relatively cool waters of Long Island Sound confine the pollutants in a shallow and stable marine boundary layer. Afternoon heating over coastal land creates a sea breeze that carries the air pollution inland from the confined marine layer, resulting in high ozone concentrations in Connecticut and, at times, farther east into Rhode Island and Massachusetts. To investigate the evolving nature of ozone formation and transport in the NYC region and downwind, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) launched the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS). LISTOS was a multi-agency collaborative study focusing on Long Island Sound and the surrounding coastlines that continually suffer from poor air quality exacerbated by land/water circulation. The primary measurement observations took place between June-September 2018 and include in-situ and remote sensing instrumentation that were integrated aboard three aircraft, a network of ground sites, mobile vehicles, boat measurements, and ozonesondes. The goal of LISTOS was to improve the understanding of ozone chemistry and sea breeze transported pollution over Long Island Sound and its coastlines. LISTOS also provided NASA the opportunity to test air quality remote sensing retrievals with the use of its airborne simulators (GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator (GCAS), and Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensory Optimization (GeoTASO)) for the preparation of the Tropospheric Emissions; Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) observations for monitoring air quality from space. LISTOS also helped collaborators in the validation of Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) science products, with use of airborne- and ground-based measurements of ozone, NO2, and HCHO.

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Name Format Description Link
21 DOI data set landing page for LISTOS_Ground_FlaxPond_Data_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/LISTOS/Ground_FlaxPond_Data_1
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSuborbital%2FLISTOS%2FGround_FlaxPond_Data_1
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Earthdata Search for LISTOS_Ground_FlaxPond_Data_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1981393051-LARC_ASDC
21 LISTOS Project Home Page https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/listos/index.html
21 Overview of the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) by Miller, P. J. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFM.A34B..01M/abstract
33 EPA Fact Sheet for Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) https://archive.epa.gov/epa/sites/production/files/2018-06/documents/listos_factsheet_final.pdf
21 NESCAUM Project Page for Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) https://www.nescaum.org/documents/listos
21 LISTOS Support Documentation https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/LISTOS/pdocuments
21 LISTOS 2018 Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) Power User Interface (UI) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/LISTOS/2018
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for LISTOS_Ground_FlaxPond_Data_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/LISTOS/Ground_FlaxPond_Data_1/
21 LISTOS Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) Power User Interface (UI) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/LISTOS/2017
21 LISTOS Nasa.gov “NASA Joins Effort to Sniff Out Ozone in the Northeast” Article https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/nasa-joins-effort-to-sniff-out-ozone-in-the-northeast
21 LISTOS EPA “By Air, Land, and Sea: Tackling the Ozone Issue on Lake Michigan’s Shores” Article https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/air-land-and-sea-tackling-ozone-issue-lake-michigans-shores

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • air-quality
  • earth-science

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