TRACER-AQ JSC G-V Aircraft Remotely Sensed GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator (GCAS) Data

Description

TRACERAQ_AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data is the remotely sensed GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator (GCAS) data collected onboard the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Gulfstream V (G-V) aircraft during the TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment – Air Quality (TRACER-AQ) field study. Data collection is ongoing. The TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment – Air Quality (TRACER-AQ) campaign is a field study co-sponsored by NASA and TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality), with partners from DOE (Department of Energy) TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment (TRACER), and several academic institutions. This synergistic effort aims to gain an updated understanding in photochemistry and meteorological impact on ozone formation in the Houston region, particularly around the Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico; provide observations for evaluating air quality models and satellite observations; and identify injustices due to air quality in relation to socioeconomic factors. The primary TRACER-AQ field observations period lasted from mid-August to late September 2021, coinciding with the peak ozone season in East Texas, with a second deployment in summer 2022 with a subset of ground-based assets. The observing system includes airborne remote sensing, mobile (boat/vehicle) laboratories, and stationary ground-based assets. The airborne component was based on the NASA Gulfstream V aircraft instrumented with GCAS (GEOCAPE Airborne Simulator) for making measurements of column NO2 and HCHO as well as a lidar system, HSRL-2 (High Spectral Resolution Lidar-2), to measure O3 and aerosol vertical profiles over the course of 12 flight days. Ground-based assets include ground-based ozone lidars from the Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet), ceilometers, Pandora spectrometers, AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) remote sensors, ozonesondes, and stationary and mobile laboratories of in situ air quality and meteorological observations. This coordinated observing system provides updated or unseen perspectives in spatial and temporal distribution of the key photochemical species and atmospheric structure information, particularly with a focus on the temporal evolution of observations throughout the daytime in preparation for upcoming geostationary satellite air quality observations.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Earthdata Search Client for TRACERAQ_AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data_1 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2342535199-LARC_ASDC
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for TRACERAQ_AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/TRACER-AQ/AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data_1/
21 OPeNDAP data access for TRACERAQ_AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/TRACER-AQ/AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data_1/contents.html
21 How to Cite ASDC Data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
33 TRACER-AQ Science Plan https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/tracer-aq/docs/TRACERAQ_SciencePlan_v1.pdf
21 Department of Energy TRACER Home Page https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/amf2021tracer
21 TOLNet Home Page https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/TOLNet/
21 Article, "Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator over Houston, Texas" https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/11/5941/2018/
21 GCAS NASA Tech Port Home Page https://techport.nasa.gov/view/11974
21 DOI Data Set Landing Page for TRACERAQ_AircraftRemoteSensing_GV_GCAS_Data_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC/SUBORBITAL/TRACERAQ/DATA001/GV/AircraftRemoteSensing/GCAS_1
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC%2FSUBORBITAL%2FTRACERAQ%2FDATA001%2FGV%2FAircraftRemoteSensing%2FGCAS_1

Tags

  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • earth-science

Topics

Categories