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ATom: Trace Gas Measurements

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-05-02
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Photo of the interior of the PANTHER GC. This instrument was used during all ATom campaigns.
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Photo of the interior of the PANTHER GC. This instrument was used during all ATom campaigns.

The ORNL DAAC recently released the following Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) dataset by Moore, F.L., et al. (2022):

ATom: Trace Gas Measurements from PANTHER Gas Chromatograph

This dataset contains measurements of various trace gases from the PAN and Trace Hydrohalocarbon ExpeRiment (PANTHER) across the four ATom campaigns. PANTHER uses Electron Capture Detection and Gas Chromatography (ECD-GC) and Mass Selective Detection and Gas Chromatography (MSD-GC) to measure numerous trace gases, including methyl halides, HCFCs, PAN, N2O, SF6, CFC-12, CFC-11, Halon 1211, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride.

The Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-2 mission to study the impact of human-produced air pollution on greenhouse gases and on chemically reactive gases in the atmosphere. ATom deployed an extensive gas and aerosol payload on the NASA DC-8 aircraft for systematic, global-scale sampling of the atmosphere, profiling continuously from 0.2 to 12 km altitude. Around-the-world flights were conducted in each of four seasons between 2016 and 2018.

Additional data from ATom and other relevant links can be found on the ORNL DAAC's ATom Project Page.

Citation: Moore, F.L., E.J. Hintsa, D. Nance, G. Dutton, B. Hall, and J.W. Elkins. 2022. ATom: Trace Gas Measurements from PANTHER Gas Chromatograph. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1914

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