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FLEXPART Influence Functions for ACT-America, 2016-2017

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2023-02-14
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Flight paths for five airborne campaigns of ACT-America that provided receptor locations and CO2 measurements for these FLEXPART simulations. Flights were concentrated on three study areas: the northeast, south-central, and mid-west regions of the United States.

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A set of Lagrangian particle dispersion simulations of carbon dioxide concentrations using the FLEXible PARTicle (FLEXPART) model.

ACT-America: L2 Weighting Functions for Airborne Lidar CO2

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-06-27
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Locations of ACT-America flights collecting MFLL carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements over eastern and central U.S. in 2016-2018.

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Vertical weighting function coefficients of the L2 remotely sensed column-average CO2 concentrations during Summer 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018.

CPL-derived Atmospheric Boundary Layer Top Height

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-01-09
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Top: Annotated time-height cross-section of aerosol backscatter profiles measured using CPL onboard C-130 aircraft on 2016-07-26. Wavelet-derived ABL top (black solid-circles) height overlaid. Middle: Secondary aerosol layers overlaid on the top panel. Bottom: Final attributed ABL top heights. 

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ABL top heights and the altitudes of the two additional aerosol layers derived from CPL measurements using the Haar wavelet transform method.

Greenhouse Gases Measured from Instrumented Communication Towers

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The communication tower at the Wessington, South Dakota site. This site was instrumented from January of 2017 to September of 2019.

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Level 1 atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are available for towers across the central and eastern USA.

ACT-America: L3 Integrated Measurements and 2019 Data

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ACT-America 2019 summer airborne campaign showing the flight paths for the two aircrafts and location of ground towers. Flights were concentrated on three study domains: northeast, south-central, and midwest regions of the United States.

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A new version of merged in situ atmospheric trace gases and flask data from the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America project is now available.