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    • ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This dataset provides aircraft navigational parameters and related meteorological data (often referred to as "housekeeping" data) in support of the research activities for the two aircrafts that flew for the NASA Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America (ACT-America) project. ACT-America's mission spans five years and includes five 6-week intensive field campaigns covering all 4 seasons and 3 regions of the central and eastern United States. Two instrumented aircraft platforms, the NASA Langley Beechcraft B200 King Air and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's C-130H Hercules, were used to collect high-quality in situ measurements across a variety of continental surfaces and atmospheric conditions. During these flights, aircraft positional, meteorological, and environmental data are recorded by a variety of instruments. For this dataset, measurements include, but are not limited to: latitude, longitude, altitude, ground speed, air temperature, and wind speed and direction. These data are incorporated into related ACT-America flight-instrumented datasets to provide geotrajectory file information for position, attitude, and altitude awareness of instrumented sampling.

    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 June 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    The ACT-America team on the tarmac with the B-200 King Air and C-130 Hercules NASA aircraft in Shreveport, Louisiana.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2706344412-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2020-07-20
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category ACT-America, 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 Yang, M.M., J.D. Barrick, C. Sweeney, J.P. DiGangi, and J.R. Bennett. 2018. ACT-America: L1 Meteorological and Aircraft Navigational Data. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1574
    Graphic Preview Description The ACT-America team on the tarmac with the B-200 King Air and C-130 Hercules NASA aircraft in Shreveport, Louisiana.
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ACTAMERICA/guides/ACTAMERICA_Hskping_Fig1.jpg
    Harvest Object Id a493c7b0-358e-440a-8be1-5acac2a79bc3
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1574
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -106.49 27.23 -71.91 50.55
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9bd6d81f946d1bd0c39def600c1035e960f4a310f01723d70cf5d86f6b52fe13
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2016-05-27T14:40:00Z/2019-07-27T20:10:00Z

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