ORCAS Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2)

The NCAR Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2) was mounted onboard the NSF/NCAR GV HIAPER (Gulfstream-V High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research) aircraft (Tail Number N677F) during the ORCAS (O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean Study) campaign with research flights from Punta Arenas, Chile from 5 January to 29 February 2016. The submitted AO2 data are in 1 flat ascii text file per flight. Each file contains 1 Hz interpolated values (of the original ~ 2.5-second data) matching the times in the RAF data files. The files are in NASA Ames 1001 format, with a final comment line of variable names (UT CO2_AO2orig O2_AO2orig APO_AO2orig CO2_AO2 O2_AO2 APO_AO2), spaces separating columns, and 9999.99 for missing data. The reported times correspond to when the air entered the inlet. This instrument measures O2/N2 ratio as well as CO2 concentration.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
    End:  2016-02-29T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2016-02-29T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat -30.00000
Bounding Box South Lat -80.00000
Bounding Box West Long -105.00000
Bounding Box East Long -30.00000
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Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : AO2_readme_210126.pdf

112.134 : is a companion to dataset 490.015
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Resource Format ASCII: ASCII Text (text/plain)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 22 MB
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Author Britton B. Stephens
Jonathan Bent
Andrew Watt
Ralph F. Keeling
Eric J. Morgan
Sara Afshar
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2021-01-29T17:43:53
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N29VC6
Alternate Identifier 490.015
Resource Version 2.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:42:47Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::490.015
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Britton B. Stephens, Jonathan Bent, Andrew Watt, Ralph F. Keeling, Eric J. Morgan, Sara Afshar. (2021). ORCAS Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2). 2.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N29VC6. Accessed 23 April 2024.

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