N: 50.5498 S: 27.2303 E: -71.9109 W: -106.494
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This dataset provides aircraft navigational parameters and related meteorological data (often referred to as "housekeeping" data) in support of the research activities for the two aircrafts that flew for the NASA Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America (ACT-America) project. ACT-America's mission spans five years and includes five 6-week intensive field campaigns covering all 4 seasons and 3 regions of the central and eastern United States. Two instrumented aircraft platforms, the NASA Langley Beechcraft B200 King Air and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's C-130H Hercules, were used to collect high-quality in situ measurements across a variety of continental surfaces and atmospheric conditions. During these flights, aircraft positional, meteorological, and environmental data are recorded by a variety of instruments. For this dataset, measurements include, but are not limited to: latitude, longitude, altitude, ground speed, air temperature, and wind speed and direction. These data are incorporated into related ACT-America flight-instrumented datasets to provide geotrajectory file information for position, attitude, and altitude awareness of instrumented sampling.
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-Atlantic US observations of radiocarbon in CO2: fossil | Baier, Bianca C., Miller, John B., Sweeney, Colm, Lehman, Scott J., Wolak, Chad, DiGangi, Joshua P., Choi, Yonghoon, Davis, Kenneth, Feng, Sha, Lauvaux, Thomas | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction | |
| Evaluation of the High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) methane retrievals during the summer 2019 ACT-America campaign | Barton-Grimley, Rory A., Nehrir, Amin R., Kooi, Susan A., Collins, James E., Harper, David B., Notari, Anthony, Lee, Joseph, DiGangi, Joshua P., Choi, Yonghoon, Davis, Kenneth J. | Weather Events, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Aerosol Backscatter, Flight Data Logs, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction | |
| Atmospheric Carbon and TransportAmerica (ACTAmerica) data sets: Description, management, and delivery | Wei, Y., Shrestha, R., Pal, S., Gerken, T., Feng, S., McNelis, J., Singh, D., Thornton, M. M., Boyer, A. G., Shook, M. A., Chen, G., Baier, B. C., Barkley, Z. R., Barrick, J. D., Bennett, J. R., Browell, E. V., Campbell, J. F., Campbell, L. J., Choi, Y., Collins, J., Dobler, J., Eckl, M., Fiehn, A., Fried, A., Digangi, J. P., BartonGrimley, R., Halliday, H., Klausner, T., Kooi, S., Kostinek, J., Lauvaux, T., Lin, B., McGill, M. J., Meadows, B., Miles, N. L., Nehrir, A. R., Nowak, J. B., Obland, M., ODell, C., Fao, R. M. P., Richardson, S. J., Richter, D., Roiger, A., Sweeney, C., Walega, J., Weibring, P., Williams, C. A., Yang, M. M., Zhou, Y., Davis, K. J. | Primary Production, Ecosystems, Respiration Rate, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Cloud Top Height, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Aerosol Backscatter, Nitrogen Compounds, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Precipitation Amount, Agricultural Lands, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Soil Chemistry, Soil Classification, Halocarbons And Halogens, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction, Carbon, Weather Events, Flight Data Logs | |
| RegionalScale, SectorSpecific Evaluation of Global CO2 Inversion Models Using Aircraft Data From the ACTAmerica Project | Gaudet, B. J., Davis, K. J., Pal, S., Jacobson, A. R., Schuh, A., Lauvaux, T., Feng, S., Browell, E. V. | Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Air Quality, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Industrial Emissions, Fossil Fuel Burning, Biomass Burning, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Compounds, Halocarbons And Halogens, Atmospheric Ozone, Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles, Methane, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction, Planetary Boundary Layer Height | |
| Observations of Greenhouse Gas Changes Across Summer Frontal Boundaries | Pal, Sandip, Davis, Kenneth J., Lauvaux, Thomas, Browell, Edward V., Gaudet, Brian J., Stauffer, David R., Obland, Michael D., Choi, Yonghoon, DiGangi, Josh P., Feng, Sha, Lin, Bing, Miles, Natasha L., Pauly, Rebecca M., Richardson, Scott J., Zhang, Fuqing | Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles, Methane, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Airspeed/Ground Speed, Altitude, Vertical Profiles, Attitude Characteristics, Flight Level Winds, Wind Speed, Dew Point Temperature, Wind Direction, Planetary Boundary Layer Height |