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Title: ACE-ENA: Best Estimate Aerosol Size Distribution by airborne measurements

Dataset ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5439/1867870· OSTI ID:1867870

These data were collected during the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic  field campaign as part of ARM Aerial Facility deployment (ACE-ENA, https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/aaf2017ace-ena). The ARM Aerial Facility Gulfstream-1 was deployed at Lajes Air Base (IATA: TER, ICAO: LPLA), on Terceira Island in the Azores, Portugal, for the two Intensive Observation Periods from June 20 through July 22, 2017 (IOP#1) and from January 11 through February 22, 2018 (IOP#2). The G-1 aircraft performed 20+19 research flights over the ARM Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) site and Atlantic Ocean to measure atmospheric turbulence, cloud water content and drop size distributions, aerosol precursor gases, aerosol chemical composition and size distributions. The current data set presents Best Estimate Aerosol Size Distribution: a merged aerosol size distribution composed of the data from 4 sensors: two aerosol spectrometers (FIMS and PCASP) and two cloud probes (CAS and FCDP). Aerosol chemical composition, measured by the Aerodyne High Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS), was used to estimate aerosol refractive index (RI) required for correction of the equivalent optical size into geometric size.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
PNNL, BNL, ANL, ORNL
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1867870
Availability:
ORNL
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English