ATom: Measurements from the UAS Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species (UCATS)
This dataset from the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) was collected using the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species (UCATS) and provides atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide (N2O), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), methane (CH4), hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO), water vapor (H2O), and ozone (O3). The UCATS system is three different instruments in one enclosure: a two-channel chromatograph with electron capture detectors (one measures N2O and SF6, the other measures CH4, H2 and CO), a tunable diode laser instrument for H2O, and a dual-beam O3 photometer.
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, including UCATS, 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. See all ORNL DAAC data from ATom.
Data Citation: Elkins, J.W., E.J. Hintsa, and F.L. Moore. 2019. ATom: Measurements from the UAS Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species (UCATS). ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1750
Data Center: ORNL DAAC
Sponsor: ESDIS
