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    • ASCENDS: Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This dataset provides in situ airborne measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over California and Nevada on February 10-11, 2016. Measurements were taken onboard a DC-8 aircraft during this Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) airborne deployment. CO2 was measured with NASA's Atmospheric Vertical Observations of CO2 in the Earth's Troposphere (AVOCET) instrument while over California and Nevada. The objective of this deployment was to assess the performance of the 2016 version of the CO2 Sounder LiDAR. The two flights were flown to compare results from an experimental LiDAR sensor with the AVOCET instrument. Aircraft navigation and flight meteorological data are also provided. The data are provided in ICARTT and comma-separated values (CSV) formats.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    (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).

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2734409850-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2022-12-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-18
    Category ASCENDS Airborne, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Abshire, J.B., J. Mao, H. Riris, S.R. Kawa, and X. Sun. 2022. ASCENDS: Active Sensing of CO2 With AVOCET, California and Nevada, 2016. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2115
    Graphic Preview Description (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).
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ASCENDS/guides/ASCENDS_AVOCET_CA_NV_Feb_2016_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id ed734d53-d071-4ae4-b650-4b14026ffc4c
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2115
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -122.1 34.55 -113.53 41.61
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0ee4d40236770b92f66a5100386900dd1c42ac5fea5dfa883a24460d397dc712
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2016-02-10T14:35:28Z/2016-02-12T02:46:50Z

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