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AN: SF21A-0015    [Abstracts]
TI: A Digital Atlas of Atmospheric Chemistry Fields from Aircraft Campaigns
AU: * Delnore, V E
EM: v.e.delnore@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, 21 Langley Blvd, Hampton, VA 23681 United States
AU: Crawford, J H
EM: james.h.crawford@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, 21 Langley Blvd, Hampton, VA 23681 United States
AU: Aknan, A A
EM: a.a.aknan@larc.nasa.gov
AF: SAIC, One Enterprise Parkway, Hampton, VA 23666 United States
AU: Westberg, D J
EM: d.j.westberg@larc.nasa.gov
AF: SAIC, One Enterprise Parkway, Hampton, VA 23666 United States
AU: Brown, C C
EM: c.c.brown@larc.nasa.gov
AF: SAIC, One Enterprise Parkway, Hampton, VA 23666 United States
AB: NASA Langley Research Center is establishing a temporally- and spatially-ordered digital atlas of atmospheric chemistry fields, using data from the GTE (Global Tropospheric Experiment) airborne missions and other field campaigns. Design of the atlas is based on fields, not point measurements, because of the differences in satellite vs. aircraft instrument fields of view and statistics. Information in the atlas will be searchable by geographical grid and time-of-year, and where appropriate, by altitude. Because some of the input data will show the effects of ephemeral events such as volcanic eruptions, pollution plumes, and forest fires, those data will be tagged. This atlas will have widespread application for modeling, satellite validation, and the planning of future aircraft campaigns in atmospheric chemistry.
UR: http://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/
DE: 3337 Numerical modeling and data assimilation
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting