CMDL Summary Report #27
Table of Contents
Preface
CMDL Organization, 2003 CMDL Staff, 2003 CMDL Station Information
1. Observatory Operations and Meteorology
1.1. Mauna Loa Observatory
1.1.1. Operations
1.1.2. Programs
1.2. Barrow Observatory
1.2.1. Operations
1.2.2. Programs
1.3. Samoa Observatory
1.3.1. Operations
1.3.2. Programs
1.4. South Pole Observatory
1.4.1. Operations
1.4.2. Programs
1.5. Trinidad Head Station
1.5.1. Operations
1.5.2. Programs
1.6. Meteorological Measurements
1.6.1. Meteorology Operations
1.6.2. Station Climatologies
2.1.7. References
Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
2.1. Carbon Dioxide
2.1.1. In situ CO2
2.1.2. Flask Sample Carbon Dioxide Measurements
2.1.3. The Carbon Dioxide Calibration Scale and Reference Gas Calibrations
2.1.4. Isotopes of Greenhouse Gases
2.2. Methane, Nitrous Oxide and Sulfur Hexafluoride
2.2.1. In Situ Methane Measurements
2.2.2. Measurements of Methane in Discrete Samples
2.2.3. Nitrous Oxide and SF6 Measurements
2.3. Carbon Monoxide
2.3.1. Measurements of Carbon Monoxide
2.3.2. CO Reference Gases
2.4. Measurements On Tall Towers
2.5. Data Integration (GLOBALVIEW)
2.6. A Web-Based Interactive Atmospheric Data Visualization Tool: Near Real-Time Access to Data from the CMDL CCGG Observing Network
2.7. Aircraft Sampling Program
2.8. Atmospheric Transport Modeling and Model-Data Synthesis
2.8.1. The Fixed-Lag Kalman Smoother
2.8.2. Modeling Atmospheric Transport with a Nested-Grid Model: Implications for Inversions of Trace Species
2.8.3. Use of Geostatistical Inverse Modeling for Constraining Budgets of Atmospheric Trace Gases
2.8.4. An Application: Bayesian Inverse Modeling of Global Nitrous Oxide Surface Fluxes
2.8.5. Summary
2.9. References
3. Aerosols and Radiation
3.1. Aerosol Monitoring
3.1.1. Scientific Background
3.1.2. Experimental Methods
3.1.3. Annual Cycles
3.1.4. Long-Term Trends
3.1.5. Special Studies
3.2. Solar and Thermal Atmospheric Radiation
3.2.1. Radiation Measurements
3.2.2. Solar Radiation Facility
3.2.3. Baseline Surface Radiation Network
3.2.4. Data processing
3.2.5. Spectral UV Measurements
3.2.6. Applications and Results from STAR Research
3.2.7. References
4. Ozone and Water Vapor
4.1. Continuing Programs
4.1.1. Total Ozone Observations
4.1.2. Umkehr Observations
4.1.3. Calibration of Dobson Spectrophotometers
4.1.4. Surface Ozone
4.1.5. Ozonesondes
4.1.6. Atmospheric Water Vapor
4.1.7. Atmospheric Transport
4.1.8. Stratospheric Aerosols
4.2. Special Projects
4.2.1. Water Vapor Instrument Development
4.2.2. Arctic Water Vapor Measurements
4.2.3. Stratospheric water vapor campaigns
4.2.4. Sensitivity of Isentropic and 3-D Trajectories to Temporal Interpolation
4.2.5. Tropospheric Ozone at Trinidad Head, California
4.3. References
5. Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species
5.1. Overview
5.2. Flask Sample Programs
5.2.1. Overview
5.2.2. GC-ECD Results
5.2.3. GC-MS Analysis of Flasks
5.2.4. Trends in Chlorinated Gases and Total Chlorine from Flask and In Situ ECD Instruments
5.2.5. Trends in Brominated Gases and Total Bromine from Flask Measurements
5.2.6. Trends in Equivalent Chlorine
5.2.7. Analysis of Calibration Tanks on The Flask GC-MS
5.2.8. Analysis of Firn Air
5.3. In Situ Gas Chromatograph Program
5.3.1. CATS Program
5.3.2. The RITS Dataset
5.4. Gravimetric Standards
5.4.1. Improvements in N2O analysis
5.4.2. Calibration Scales
5.5. Airborne Projects
5.5.1. ACATS-IV, LACE, and PANTHER Gas Chromatographs
5.5.2. Monitoring of Stratospheric Chlorine and Bromine
5.5.3. 2003 COBRA-NA
5.5.4. 2003 SOLVE-II
5.6. Special ProjectIn Situ Gas Chromatography
5.6.1. Mass Selective Detector System
5.6.2. Development of Key Systems
5.6.3. Testing of Adsorbent Trapping Materials
5.6.4. Scientific Issues Regarding the Choice of Deployment Location
5.7. References
6. Cooperative Programs
Facilitating a View of Energy Deposition in the Neutral Atmosphere G. Anderson, A. Berk, J. Harris, E. Dutton, A. Jordan, R. Stone, E. Andrews, and E. Shettle
UV Spectroradiometer Monitoring Program: Spectral Global Irradiance and Total Column Ozone Measurements at South Pole and Barrow G. Bernhard, C.R. Booth, and J.C. Ehramjian
Global Positioning System Measurements of Water Vapor, Barrow, Alaska J.T. Freymueller
Microclimate Data from an Evapotranspiration Station at Cape Matatula, Tutuila, American Samoa S.K. Izuka, T.W. Giambelluca, M.A. Nullet, and F.O. Asalele, Jr.
Rossby Wave Breaking over Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, During Summer 2002 T. Leblanc, I.S. McDermid, and A. Hauchecorne
Artificial Windshielding of Precipitation Gauges in the Arctic R.J. McClure
Investigation of Chemical Transfer Processes between Atmosphere and Snow at South Pole J.R. McConnell and R.G. Bales
Measurement of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange Using Eddy Covariance Technique in Arctic Wet Coastal Sedge Tundra W.C. Oechel, H. Kwon, S. Running, and F.-A. Heinsch
Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) R.G. Prinn, R.F. Weiss, D.M. Cunnold, P.J. Fraser, and P.G. Simmonds
Results from Simultaneously Measured Aerosol Chemical and Optical Properties at Barrow, Alaska P.K. Quinn, J.A. Ogren, E. Andrews, and G.E. Shaw
University of Denver Fourier Transform Spectrometer R. Van Allen, F.J. Murcray, R.D. Blatherwick, and T.M. Stephen
7. Publications by CMDL Staff, 2002-2003
8. Specialized Abbreviations and Acronyms