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Amazonica: Greenhouse gas profile measurements (CO, CO2, CH4) above the forest canopy at four sites
Profiles of greenhouse gases CO, CO2 and CH4 taken on board a small aircraft descending in a spiral from approximately 4,420m to about 300m a.s.l. (as close to the forest canopy as possible). Samples were taken by semi-automatically filling 12 (for the Tabatinga (TAB 69.7W, 6.0S), Alta Floresta (ALF 56.7W, 8.9S) and Rio Branco (RBA 67.9W, 9.3S) sites) and 17 (for the Santarem (SAN 65.0W, 2.9S) site) 0.7-litre flasks controlled from a microprocessor and contained in one suitcase.
The profiles were taken frequently throughout the measurement campaign (2010-2012) between 12:00 and 13:00 local time - at which time, the boundary layer is close to being fully developed. Once a vertical profile had been sampled (one suitcase filled) it was analysed at the IPEN Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Sao Paulo, using a replica of the NOAA/ ESRL trace gas analysis system.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-11-29T09:57:54
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-11-29T09:57:54
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 5f56428ca2674a45bbf97179d853df0e
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- Amazonica
- carbon
- methane
- carbon dioxide Amazon
- aircraft
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2012-12-31T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are ASCII and NASA Ames formatted
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Seasonality and interannual variability of CH4 fluxes from the eastern Amazon Basin inferred from atmospheric mole fraction profiles
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Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were collected by the AMAZONICA team and analysed at the IPEN Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, using a replica of the NOAA/ ESRL trace gas analysis system; then deposited at BADC.
- File identifier
- 5f56428ca2674a45bbf97179d853df0e XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Amazon Integrated Carbon Analysis (Amazonica) Data a9b7329a84ae3477cb826e2f55b12a39
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-06-23T02:15:33
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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