Mobile Spectrometer Comparison to TCCON Field Campaign Report

Program Document · Thu May 30 04:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1523503

Parker, Harrison ^[1]; Mostafavipak, Seyedehnasrin; Cunningham, Liz

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1. California Institute of Technology

During the summer of 2018, a field campaign took place to help characterize off-the-shelf portable solar-viewing Fourier-transform spectroscope (FTS) instruments (EM27/SUN). These instruments retrieve greenhouse gas (GHG) abundances from direct solar spectra (Wunch et al. 2011). The campaign included assistance and instrumentation from the University of Toronto, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the California Institute of Technology and took place at the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) observatory from July 22 to July 28, 2018. The instruments were sited on the outside landing of the guest trailer (Figure 1) and were set up and taken down each morning and afternoon. During the campaign, we had minor inconveniences like overheating computers, but the experience involving the ARM site itself held nothing out of the ordinary for July in Oklahoma.

• 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: University of Toronto
• OSTI ID: 1523503
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-19-003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

greenhouse gases
Southern Great Plains
Total Column Carbon Observing Network
Fourier-transform spectroscopy
data quality
instrument calibration