Atmospheric trace gas data from the CONTRAIL flask air sampling over the Pacific Ocean(the most recent data)
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This data set contains trace gas mole fractions observed over the Pacific Ocean by the flask air sampling of the CONTRAIL (Comprehensive Observation Network for TRace gases by AIrLiner) project. Air samples were collected by the Automatic air Sampling Equipment (ASE) and manually by the Manual air Sampling Equipment (MSE) on board commercial aircraft of Japan Airlines (JAL).
This data set contains the most recently obtained data, whose QA/QC is still in progress. Because of this, the citation policy and format are different from those of the regular data (Machida et al., 2023). Please carefully read the citation policy written below. Furthermore, a password is required to download the data, which can be obtained by contacting the CONTRAIL PIs (contrail_pi@nies.go.jp). Note that these data will be merged into the regular data set at the next major update.
Description
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Creator
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Toshinobu Machida*1 (
 orcd.org/0000-0003-3312-8775), Hidekazu Matsueda*2,*3, Yousuke Sawa*2,*4, Yosuke Niwa*1 (orcd.org/0000-0002-7600-9816), Kazuhiro Tsuboi*2, Kentaro Ishijima*2, Keiichi Katsumata**5,*6, Shohei Murayama**7, Shinji Morimoto*8, Daisuke Goto*9, Shuji Aoki*8, Motoki Sasakawa*1*1 Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) *2 Meteorological Research Institute *3 Dokkyo University *4 Now at Atmosphere and Ocean Department, Japan Meteorological Agency *5 Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) *6 Now at TAKACHIHO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD. *7 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) *8 Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University *9 National Institute of Polar Research (NiPR) |
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Release date
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2022/07/22
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Temporal coverage
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2022/11/15 - 2022/12/06
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Data provider
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NIES
Email: cgerdb_admin(at)nies.go.jp |
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DOI
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File format
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Text
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Data volume
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11.9 KB
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Version
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ver.2023.1.0 (Last updated: 2023/07/25)
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Language
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English
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Related contents
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Dataset is part of: Atmospheric trace gas data from the CONTRAIL flask air sampling (the most recent data), DOI:10.17595/20230725.002
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Publications using this dataset
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Data Set
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Parameters
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Atmospheric mole fractions of CO2 and CH4
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| Observation period |
From April 23, 1993 (ongoing)
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| Measurement method |
Air samples were introduced to various analyzers by an automated analysis system. The CO2 mole fraction was measured using a nondispersive infrared gas analyzer (NDIR; LI-6252 or LI-6262, LI-COR) and the CH4 mole fraction was measured using a gas chromatograph (Agilent 5890 or 7890A, Agilent Technologies Inc.) equipped with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID).
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| Calculation method |
The CO2 and CH4 mole fractions in the sample air were calculated by least square fit assuming a quadratic relationship between the responses of analyzers and the mole fractions of four standard gases. The values of standard gases were based on the NIES95 scale for CO2 and the NIES94 scale for CH4.
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Keywords
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[GCMD_Platform]
Aircraft > AIRCRAFT
[GCMD_Science]Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry > Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds > Carbon Dioxide
[Free keywords]Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry > Carbon and Hydrocarbon Compounds > Methane Carbon Dioxide, CO2, Methane, CH4, Aircraft, B777-200ER, B777-300ER
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Update history
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[2023/07/25]
The data for 2022 are released. ver.2023.1.0.
[2022/07/22]Data of CO2 and CH4 are released. ver.2022.1.0.
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Acknowledgements
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The observations of the CONTRAIL project are conducted under great support from Japan Airlines, JAMCO and the JAL Foundation. The CONTRAIL project has been financially supported by the Global Environmental Research Coordination System from Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE0653, MOE1151, MOE1652, MOE2151). In addition, this Eurasian observation is supported by the GRENE Arctic Climate Change Research Project and Arctic Challenge for Sustainability project I & II (ArCS & ArCS II) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
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References
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References
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Matsueda, H., T. Machida, Y. Sawa, Y. Niwa (2015), Long-term change of CO2 latitudinal distribution in the upper troposphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2014GL062768.
Machida, T., H. Matsueda, Y. Sawa, Y. Nakagawa, K. Hirotani, N. Kondo, K. Goto, N. Nakazawa, K. Ishikawa and T. Ogawa (2008), Worldwide measurements of atmospheric CO2 and other trace gas species using commercial airlines, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25(10), 1744-1754, doi:10.1175/2008JTECHA1082.1.
Matsueda, H., T. Machida, Y. Sawa, Y. Nakagawa, K. Hirotani, H. Ikeda, N. Kondo, and K. Goto (2008), Evaluation of atmospheric CO2 measurements from new flask air sampling of JAL airliner observations, Pap. Meteorolo. Geophys., 59, 1-17, doi:10.2467/mripapers.59.1.
Umezawa, T., T. Machida, K. Ishijima, H. Matsueda, Y. Sawa, P. K. Patra, S. Aoki, and T. Nakazawa (2012), Carbon and hydrogen isotopic ratios of atmospheric methane in the upper troposphere over the Western Pacific, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 8095-8113, doi:10.5194/acp-12-8095-2012.
Matsueda, H., H. Y. Inoue, and M. Ishii (2002), Aircraft observation of carbon dioxide at 8-13 km altitude over the western Pacific from 1993 to 1999, Tellus, 54B,1-21, doi:10.3402/tellusb.v54i1.16645.
Sawa, Y., T. Machida, H. Matsueda, Y. Niwa, K. Tsuboi, S. Murayama, S. Morimoto, S. Aoki (2015), Seasonal changes of CO2, CH4, N2O, and SF6 in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere over the Eurasian continent observed by commercial airliner, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2014GL062734.
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| Citation format |
When this data set is referred to in publications, it should be cited in the following format.
Machida, T., H. Matsueda, Y. Sawa, Y. Niwa, K. Tsuboi, K. Ishijima, K. Katsumata, S. Murayama, S. Morimoto, D. Goto, S. Aoki, and M. Sasakawa (2023), Atmospheric trace gas data from the CONTRAIL flask air sampling over the Pacific Ocean (the most recent data), ver.x.x.x*1, Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES, DOI:10.17595/20220722.001. (Reference date*2: YYYY/MM/DD)
*1 The version number is indicated in the name of each data file. *2 As the reference date, please indicate the date you downloaded the files. When generally referring to the flask sampling data of CONTRAIL, please also cite Sawa et al. (2015), Matsueda et al. (2015) and Machida et al. (2008). Furthermore, the User is encouraged to cite relevant paper(s) listed at above References (see http://www.cger.nies.go.jp/contrail/pubs.html for more references).
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