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ASCENDS: Airborne CO2 LAS Retrieval, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2014

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2023-04-14
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CO2 Sounder instrument photographs. a) The aircraft rack with the new seed laser subsystem. b) The aircraft racks containing the laser power amplifiers and the lidar's detector subsystem. c) The lidar's transmitter and receiver telescope assembly, which is positioned over the nadir window assembly in the aircraft fuselage. The optical pulses from the fiber amplifiers, and the received optical signals are coupled via fiber optics. d) The instrument operator's console, with the control computer screens folded away (Abshire et al., 2018).

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In situ airborne measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over Indianapolis, Indiana (IN) on September 3, 2014 during the morning commuter period with heavy traffic emissions.

Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2023-02-14
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(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).

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In situ airborne measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over California and Nevada on February 10-11, 2016.