Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS
The European Research Infrastructure IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) operates a global-scale monitoring system for atmospheric trace gases, aerosols and clouds utilising the existing global civil aircraft. This new monitoring infrastructure builds on the heritage of the for...
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Andreas Petzold Valerie Thouret Christoph Gerbig Andreas Zahn Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer Martin Gallagher Markus Hermann Marc Pontaud Helmut Ziereis Damien Boulanger Julia Marshall Philippe Nédélec Herman G. J. Smit Udo Friess Jean-Marie Flaud Andreas Wahner Jean-Pierre Cammas Andreas Volz-Thomas Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography IAGOS MOZAIC CARIBIC atmospheric composition atmospheric monitoring research infrastructure climate research |
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Andreas Petzold Valerie Thouret Christoph Gerbig Andreas Zahn Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer Martin Gallagher Markus Hermann Marc Pontaud Helmut Ziereis Damien Boulanger Julia Marshall Philippe Nédélec Herman G. J. Smit Udo Friess Jean-Marie Flaud Andreas Wahner Jean-Pierre Cammas Andreas Volz-Thomas |
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Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS |
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Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS |
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Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS |
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Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS |
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Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS |
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global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the european research infrastructure iagos |
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Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography |
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The European Research Infrastructure IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) operates a global-scale monitoring system for atmospheric trace gases, aerosols and clouds utilising the existing global civil aircraft. This new monitoring infrastructure builds on the heritage of the former research projects MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone and Water Vapour on Airbus In-service Aircraft) and CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container). CARIBIC continues within IAGOS and acts as an important airborne measurement reference standard within the wider IAGOS fleet. IAGOS is a major contributor to the in-situ component of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), the successor to the Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security – Atmospheric Service, and is providing data for users in science, weather services and atmospherically relevant policy. IAGOS is unique in collecting regular in-situ observations of reactive gases, greenhouse gases and aerosol concentrations in the upper troposphere and lowermost stratosphere (UTLS) at high spatial resolution. It also provides routine vertical profiles of these species in the troposphere over continental sites or regions, many of which are undersampled by other networks or sampling studies, particularly in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. In combination with MOZAIC and CARIBIC, IAGOS has provided long-term observations of atmospheric chemical composition in the UTLS since 1994. The longest time series are 20 yr of temperature, H2O and O3, and 9–15 yr of aerosols, CO, NO
y
, CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, Hg, acetone, ~30 HFCs and ~20 non-methane hydrocarbons. Among the scientific highlights which have emerged from these data sets are observations of extreme concentrations of O3 and CO over the Pacific basin that have never or rarely been recorded over the Atlantic region for the past 12 yr; detailed information on the temporal and regional distributions of O3, CO, H2O, NO
y
and aerosol particles in the UTLS, including the impacts of cross-tropopause transport, deep convection and lightning on the distribution of these species; characterisation of ice-supersaturated regions in the UTLS; and finally, improved understanding of the spatial distribution of upper tropospheric humidity including the finding that the UTLS is much more humid than previously assumed. |
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IAGOS MOZAIC CARIBIC atmospheric composition atmospheric monitoring research infrastructure climate research |
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doaj-660a42b9d37648c585382781e51349662020-11-25T01:38:54ZengTaylor & Francis GroupTellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography1600-08702015-10-0167012410.3402/tellusb.v67.2845228452Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOSAndreas Petzold0Valerie Thouret1Christoph Gerbig2Andreas Zahn3Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer4Martin Gallagher5Markus Hermann6Marc Pontaud7Helmut Ziereis8Damien Boulanger9Julia Marshall10Philippe Nédélec11Herman G. J. Smit12Udo Friess13Jean-Marie Flaud14Andreas Wahner15Jean-Pierre Cammas16Andreas Volz-Thomas17 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung 8: Troposphäre, DE-52425 Jülich, Germany Laboratoire d'Aérologie, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, FR-31062 Toulouse, France Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, DE-07745 Jena, Germany Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, DE-55128 Mainz, Germany Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, DE-04318 Leipzig, Germany CNRM, Météo-France, FR-31057 Toulouse, France DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DE-82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Laboratoire d'Aérologie, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, FR-31062 Toulouse, France Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, DE-07745 Jena, Germany Laboratoire d'Aérologie, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, FR-31062 Toulouse, France Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung 8: Troposphäre, DE-52425 Jülich, Germany Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, DE-69117 Heidelberg, Germany Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), CNRS, FR-7583 Créteil, France Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung 8: Troposphäre, DE-52425 Jülich, Germany Laboratoire d'Aérologie, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, FR-31062 Toulouse, France Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung 8: Troposphäre, DE-52425 Jülich, GermanyThe European Research Infrastructure IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) operates a global-scale monitoring system for atmospheric trace gases, aerosols and clouds utilising the existing global civil aircraft. This new monitoring infrastructure builds on the heritage of the former research projects MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone and Water Vapour on Airbus In-service Aircraft) and CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container). CARIBIC continues within IAGOS and acts as an important airborne measurement reference standard within the wider IAGOS fleet. IAGOS is a major contributor to the in-situ component of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), the successor to the Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security – Atmospheric Service, and is providing data for users in science, weather services and atmospherically relevant policy. IAGOS is unique in collecting regular in-situ observations of reactive gases, greenhouse gases and aerosol concentrations in the upper troposphere and lowermost stratosphere (UTLS) at high spatial resolution. It also provides routine vertical profiles of these species in the troposphere over continental sites or regions, many of which are undersampled by other networks or sampling studies, particularly in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. In combination with MOZAIC and CARIBIC, IAGOS has provided long-term observations of atmospheric chemical composition in the UTLS since 1994. The longest time series are 20 yr of temperature, H2O and O3, and 9–15 yr of aerosols, CO, NO y , CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, Hg, acetone, ~30 HFCs and ~20 non-methane hydrocarbons. Among the scientific highlights which have emerged from these data sets are observations of extreme concentrations of O3 and CO over the Pacific basin that have never or rarely been recorded over the Atlantic region for the past 12 yr; detailed information on the temporal and regional distributions of O3, CO, H2O, NO y and aerosol particles in the UTLS, including the impacts of cross-tropopause transport, deep convection and lightning on the distribution of these species; characterisation of ice-supersaturated regions in the UTLS; and finally, improved understanding of the spatial distribution of upper tropospheric humidity including the finding that the UTLS is much more humid than previously assumed.http://www.tellusb.net/index.php/tellusb/article/view/28452/pdf_39IAGOSMOZAICCARIBICatmospheric compositionatmospheric monitoringresearch infrastructureclimate research |