TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatially coordinated airborne data and complementary products for aerosol, gas, cloud, and meteorological studies
T2 - the NASA ACTIVATE dataset
AU - Sorooshian, Armin
AU - Alexandrov, Mikhail D.
AU - Bell, Adam D.
AU - Bennett, Ryan
AU - Betito, Grace
AU - Burton, Sharon P.
AU - Buzanowicz, Megan E.
AU - Cairns, Brian
AU - Chemyakin, Eduard V.
AU - Chen, Gao
AU - Choi, Yonghoon
AU - Collister, Brian L.
AU - Cook, Anthony L.
AU - Corral, Andrea F.
AU - Crosbie, Ewan C.
AU - Van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan
AU - Digangi, Joshua P.
AU - Diskin, Glenn S.
AU - Dmitrovic, Sanja
AU - Edwards, Eva Lou
AU - Fenn, Marta A.
AU - Ferrare, Richard A.
AU - Van Gilst, David
AU - Hair, Johnathan W.
AU - Harper, David B.
AU - Hilario, Miguel Ricardo A.
AU - Hostetler, Chris A.
AU - Jester, Nathan
AU - Jones, Michael
AU - Kirschler, Simon
AU - Kleb, Mary M.
AU - Kusterer, John M.
AU - Leavor, Sean
AU - Lee, Joseph W.
AU - Liu, Hongyu
AU - McCauley, Kayla
AU - Moore, Richard H.
AU - Nied, Joseph
AU - Notari, Anthony
AU - Nowak, John B.
AU - Painemal, David
AU - Phillips, Kasey E.
AU - Robinson, Claire E.
AU - Scarino, Amy Jo
AU - Schlosser, Joseph S.
AU - Seaman, Shane T.
AU - Seethala, Chellappan
AU - Shingler, Taylor J.
AU - Shook, Michael A.
AU - Sinclair, Kenneth A.
AU - Smith, William L.
AU - Spangenberg, Douglas A.
AU - Stamnes, Snorre A.
AU - Thornhill, Kenneth L.
AU - Voigt, Christiane
AU - Vömel, Holger
AU - Wasilewski, Andrzej P.
AU - Wang, Hailong
AU - Winstead, Edward L.
AU - Zeider, Kira
AU - Zeng, Xubin
AU - Zhang, Bo
AU - Ziemba, Luke D.
AU - Zuidema, Paquita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/8/3
Y1 - 2023/8/3
N2 - The NASA Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) produced a unique dataset for research into aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions, with applications extending from process-based studies to multi-scale model intercomparison and improvement as well as to remote-sensing algorithm assessments and advancements. ACTIVATE used two NASA Langley Research Center aircraft, a HU-25 Falcon and King Air, to conduct systematic and spatially coordinated flights over the northwest Atlantic Ocean, resulting in 162 joint flights and 17 other single-aircraft flights between 2020 and 2022 across all seasons. Data cover 574 and 592 cumulative flights hours for the HU-25 Falcon and King Air, respectively. The HU-25 Falcon conducted profiling at different level legs below, in, and just above boundary layer clouds (< 3 km) and obtained in situ measurements of trace gases, aerosol particles, clouds, and atmospheric state parameters. Under cloud-free conditions, the HU-25 Falcon similarly conducted profiling at different level legs within and immediately above the boundary layer. The King Air (the high-flying aircraft) flew at approximately ∼9 km and conducted remote sensing with a lidar and polarimeter while also launching dropsondes (785 in total). Collectively, simultaneous data from both aircraft help to characterize the same vertical column of the atmosphere. In addition to individual instrument files, data from the HU-25 Falcon aircraft are combined into "merge files"on the publicly available data archive that are created at different time resolutions of interest (e.g., 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 s, or matching an individual data product's start and stop times). This paper describes the ACTIVATE flight strategy, instrument and complementary dataset products, data access and usage details, and data application notes. The data are publicly accessible through 10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACTIVATE/DATA001 (ACTIVATE Science Team, 2020).
AB - The NASA Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) produced a unique dataset for research into aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions, with applications extending from process-based studies to multi-scale model intercomparison and improvement as well as to remote-sensing algorithm assessments and advancements. ACTIVATE used two NASA Langley Research Center aircraft, a HU-25 Falcon and King Air, to conduct systematic and spatially coordinated flights over the northwest Atlantic Ocean, resulting in 162 joint flights and 17 other single-aircraft flights between 2020 and 2022 across all seasons. Data cover 574 and 592 cumulative flights hours for the HU-25 Falcon and King Air, respectively. The HU-25 Falcon conducted profiling at different level legs below, in, and just above boundary layer clouds (< 3 km) and obtained in situ measurements of trace gases, aerosol particles, clouds, and atmospheric state parameters. Under cloud-free conditions, the HU-25 Falcon similarly conducted profiling at different level legs within and immediately above the boundary layer. The King Air (the high-flying aircraft) flew at approximately ∼9 km and conducted remote sensing with a lidar and polarimeter while also launching dropsondes (785 in total). Collectively, simultaneous data from both aircraft help to characterize the same vertical column of the atmosphere. In addition to individual instrument files, data from the HU-25 Falcon aircraft are combined into "merge files"on the publicly available data archive that are created at different time resolutions of interest (e.g., 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 s, or matching an individual data product's start and stop times). This paper describes the ACTIVATE flight strategy, instrument and complementary dataset products, data access and usage details, and data application notes. The data are publicly accessible through 10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACTIVATE/DATA001 (ACTIVATE Science Team, 2020).
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U2 - 10.5194/essd-15-3419-2023
DO - 10.5194/essd-15-3419-2023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85170853351
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 15
SP - 3419
EP - 3472
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 8
ER -