Balloon-Borne Full-Column Greenhouse Gas Profiling Field Campaign Report

Program Document · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2017

OSTI ID:1347151

Fischer, Marc L ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The vertical distributions of CO2, CH4, and other gases provide important constraints for the determination of terrestrial and ocean sources and sinks of carbon and other biogeochemical processes in the Earth system. The DOE Biological and Environmental Research Program (DOE-BER) and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA-ESRL) collaborate to quantify the vertically resolved distribution of atmospheric carbon-cycle gases (CO2, and CH4) within approximately 99% of the atmospheric column at the DOE ARM Southern Great Plains Facility in Oklahoma. In 2015, flights were delayed while research at NOAA focused on evaluating sources of systematic errors in the gas collection and analysis system and modifying the sampling system to provide duplicate air samples in a single flight package. In 2017, we look forward to proposing additional sampling and analysis at ARM-SGP (and other sites) that characterize the vertical distribution of CO2 and CH4 over time and space.

• Research Organization: DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• Contributing Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• OSTI ID: 1347151
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-17-008
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

Community Earth System Model
Southern Great Plains
Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Total Column Carbon Observing Network
carbon-cycle gases
Aircore