CO20020316_V02.DAT

Brenninkmeijer, Carl A.M.; CARIBIC Team

Dataset
Summary
Instrument: The CO analyzer for CARIBIC is a modified commercial gas chromatograph. The actual CO detection is based on the reaction of CO with hot mercuric oxide to produce CO2 and elemental mercury, which is sensed by its strong light absorption from a low-pressure mercury vapor lamp at 254 nm. Prior to detection the CO is separated on a gas chromatography column. The detection limit is better than 3 nmole/mole and sufficient to gauge CO in clean remote air masses. The repetition rate of the CO measurement is 130 s. (See also experiment and project summary.) Data format: Dataset consists of eight columns representing Date(UT), Time(UT), Longitude, Latitude, Pressure[hPa], p_height[m], Tpot[K] and CO[ppbv]. Coordinates of data probes are given explicitly while the 'boundary box' meta entries just represent the coordinates of start and destination airports. The data rows are headed by a set of text lines in CARIBIC metadata format - for interpretation cf homepage www.caribic-atmospheric.com. Special comments to this flight:
Project
CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrumentation Container)
Location(s)
intercontinental
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -81.3 to 11.8 Latitude 23.1 to 48.4 Altitude: 1000 hPa to 100 hPa
Temporal Coverage
2002-03-16 to 2002-03-16 (calendrical)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Access constraints
registered users
Size
16.14 KiB (16532 Byte)
Format
ASCII with prefix
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
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Cite as
[ Derived from parent entry - See data hierarchy tab ]
Brenninkmeijer, Carl A.M.; CARIBIC Team (2002). 2002/03/16: fwd-flight from Munich/Germany (48.4N, 11.8E) to Varadero/Cuba(81.3W, 23.1N). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://hdl.handle.net/21.14106/f8fee4d041aac0f89b2765615a617001b64813a3

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Description
The detection limit is better than 3 nmole/mole and sufficient to gauge CO in clean remote air masses.
Description
Dataset covers one measuring flight
VariableCodeAggregationUnit
carbon monoxide CO
CO (CARIBIC: 6)
130secppbv
Contact typePersonORCIDOrganization
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Parent

2002/03/16: fwd-flight from Munich/Germany (48.4N,11.8E) to Varadero/Cuba(81.3W, 23.1N)
Details
[Entry acronym: CO_20020316_MUC_VRA_45F_V02] [Entry id: 2023263]