Characteristics of the atmospheric CO sub(2) signal as observed over the conterminous United States during INTEX-NA

High resolution in situ measurements of atmospheric CO sub(2) were made from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-North America (INTEX-NA) campaign, part of the wider International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT...

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Published in:Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres 2008-05, Vol.113 (D7)
Main Authors: Choi, Yonghoon, Vay, Stephanie A, Vadrevu, Krishna P, Soja, Amber J, Woo, Jung-Hun, Nolf, Scott R, Sachse, Glen W, Diskin, Glenn S, Blake, Donald R, Blake, Nicola J, Singh, Hanwant B, Avery, Melody A, Fried, Alan, Pfister, Leonhard, Fuelberg, Henry E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air masses
Aircraft components
Americas
Atmospherics
Carbon dioxide
Mixing ratios
Signatures
Transport
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Summary:High resolution in situ measurements of atmospheric CO sub(2) were made from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-North America (INTEX-NA) campaign, part of the wider International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT). During the summer of 2004, eighteen flights comprising 160 h of measurements were conducted within a region bounded by 27 to 53N and 36 to 139W over an altitude range of 0.15 to 12 km. These large-scale surveys provided the opportunity to examine the characteristics of the atmospheric CO sub(2) signal over sparsely sampled areas of North America and adjacent ocean basins. The observations showed a high degree of variability (
ISSN:2169-897X
2169-8996
DOI:10.1029/2007JD008899