ASDC | FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data

FIREX-AQ Level 2

Entry Title: FIREX-AQ DC-8 In-Situ Aerosol Data

Entry ID: FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1

Aerosols

Description

FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data are in-situ aerosol measurements collected onboard the DC-8 aircraft during FIREX-AQ. This product features data collected by the AMS, CPC, PSAP, CCN, CDP, Nephelometers, and a variety of other in-situ instrumentation. Data collection for this product is complete.

Completed during summer 2019, FIREX-AQ utilized a combination of instrumented airplanes, satellites, and ground-based instrumentation. Detailed fire plume sampling was carried out by the NASA DC-8 aircraft, which had a comprehensive instrument payload capable of measuring over 200 trace gas species, as well as aerosol microphysical, optical, and chemical properties. The DC-8 aircraft completed 23 science flights, including 15 flights from Boise, Idaho and 8 flights from Salina, Kansas. NASA’s ER-2 completed 11 flights, partially in support of the FIREX-AQ effort. The ER-2 payload was made up of 8 satellite analog instruments and provided critical fire information, including fire temperature, fire plume heights, and vegetation/soil albedo information. NOAA provided the NOAA-CHEM Twin Otter and the NOAA-MET Twin Otter aircraft to measure chemical processing in the lofted plumes of Western wildfires. The NOAA-CHEM Twin Otter focused on nighttime plume chemistry, from which data is archived at the NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC). The NOAA-MET Twin Otter collected measurements of air movements at fire boundaries with the goal of understanding the local weather impacts of fires and the movement patterns of fires. NOAA-MET Twin Otter data will be archived at the ASDC in the future. Additionally, a ground-based station in McCall, Idaho and several mobile laboratories provided in-situ measurements of aerosol microphysical and optical properties, aerosol chemical compositions, and trace gas species.

The Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) campaign was a NOAA/NASA interagency intensive study of North American fires to gain an understanding on the integrated impact of the fire emissions on the tropospheric chemistry and composition and to assess the satellite’s capability for detecting fires and estimating fire emissions. The overarching goal of FIREX-AQ was to provide measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions for wildfires and prescribed fires in great detail, relate them to fuel and fire conditions at the point of emission, characterize the conditions relating to plume rise, and follow plumes downwind to understand chemical transformation and air quality impacts.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC/FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1

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Publications which Cite this Collection

Turney, Francis A.; Saide, Pablo E.; Jimenez Munoz, Pedro A.; Muñoz‐Esparza, Domingo; Hyer, Edward J.; Peterson, David A.; Frediani, Maria E.; Juliano, Timothy W.; DeCastro, Amy L.; Kosović, Branko; Ye, Xinxin; Thapa, Laura H. (2023). Sensitivity of Burned Area and Fire Radiative Power Predictions to Containment Efforts, Fuel Density, and Fuel Moisture Using WRF‐Fire.

Kumar, Aditya; Pierce, R. Bradley; Ahmadov, Ravan; Pereira, Gabriel; Freitas, Saulo; Grell, Georg; Schmidt, Chris; Lenzen, Allen; Schwarz, Joshua P.; Perring, Anne E.; Katich, Joseph M.; Hair, John; Jimenez, Jose L.; Campuzano-Jost, Pedro; Guo, Hongyu (2022). Simulating wildfire emissions and plume rise using geostationary satellite fire radiative power measurements: a case study of the 2019 Williams Flats fire.

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ER-2 instrument suite for the Summer 2019 FIREX-AQ field campaign

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ORGANIC PARTICLES
AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES
SULFATE PARTICLES
NITRATE PARTICLES
AEROSOLS

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (S: 15, N: 60), (W: -135, E: -75)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal Vertical
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEOGRAPHIC REGION WESTERN HEMISPHERE VERTICAL LOCATION TROPOSPHERE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2019-07-15 - 2019-09-05

Platforms

Jet

NASA DC-8

NASA Douglas DC-8

TSI-3563 Neph

TSI-3563 Nephelometer

ION CHROMATOGRAPHS

AMS

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETER

SPECTROMETERS

CPC

Cloud Particle Counter

CPSPD

Cloud Particle Spectrometer with Polarized Detection

TSI CPC-3010

TSI Condensation Particle Counter 3010 Manufactured by TSI Inc.

TSI LAS-3340

TSI Laser Aerosol Spectrometer 3340 Manufactured by TSI Inc.

CCN

CCN Counter

CDP

Cloud Droplet Probe

PSAP

3-Wavelength Particle Soot Absorption Photometer Manufactured by Radiance Research

SMPS

Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer

PHOTOMETERS

UHSAS

Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer

LWCC

Liquid Waveguide Capillary Cells

Metadata Dates

Created on 2020-05-29

Last updated on 2024-08-19

FIREX-AQ Level 2

Entry Title: FIREX-AQ DC-8 In-Situ Aerosol Data

Entry ID: FIREXAQ_Aerosol_AircraftInSitu_DC8_Data_1

Aerosols

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Spatial Information

Locations

Temporal Information

Platforms

Jet

NASA Douglas DC-8

TSI-3563 Neph

TSI-3563 Nephelometer

ION CHROMATOGRAPHS

ION CHROMATOGRAPHS

AMS

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETER

SPECTROMETERS

CPC

Cloud Particle Counter

CPSPD

Cloud Particle Spectrometer with Polarized Detection

TSI CPC-3010

TSI Condensation Particle Counter 3010 Manufactured by TSI Inc.

TSI LAS-3340

TSI Laser Aerosol Spectrometer 3340 Manufactured by TSI Inc.

CCN

CCN Counter

CDP

Cloud Droplet Probe

PSAP

3-Wavelength Particle Soot Absorption Photometer Manufactured by Radiance Research

SMPS

Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer

PHOTOMETERS

UHSAS

Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer

LWCC

Liquid Waveguide Capillary Cells

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