ASDC | FIREXAQ_Analysis_Data

FIREX-AQ Level 2

Entry Title: FIREX-AQ Analysis and Supplementary Data

Entry ID: FIREXAQ_Analysis_Data_1

Field Campaigns

Description

FIREXAQ_Analysis_Data are supplementary analysis and ancillary data collected during FIREX-AQ. This product includes plume ratios, and supplementary datasets regarding the wildfires sampled during the campaign. 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. Data collection is complete.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC/FIREXAQ_Analysis_Data_1

Citation Styles for this Dataset

Resources and Documentation

Earthdata Forum

PROJECT HOME PAGE

ESPO home page for FIREX-AQ

NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) Overview of FIREX-AQ

FIREX-AQ Project Home Page

AERONET Data for FIREX-AQ

ORNL MASTER FIREX-AQ Data

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GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

PRODUCTION HISTORY

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

PUBLICATIONS

NASA Earth Observatory Article “Flying through a Fire Cloud” (August 7, 2019)

From GCMD Science Keywords:

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
ATMOSPHERIC CARBON MONOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
EMISSIONS
METHANE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
AIR QUALITY
TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

ICARTT

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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

NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NORTHERN HEMISPHERE WESTERN HEMISPHERE TROPOSPHERE

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2019-07-01 - 2019-09-06

Platforms

Models

Data Analysis

LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM

DACOM

Differential Absorption CO, CH4, N2O Measurements

CAMS

Compact Atmospheric Multispecies Spectrometer

Metadata Dates

Created on 2020-11-04

Last updated on 2024-08-19