Airborne Measurements and Analyses of Trace Gases

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 1286

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Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Interests: air quality; greenhouse gases; tropospheric composition; long range transport; wildfires; ground-based and airborne measurements
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Dear Colleagues,

Airborne measurements of trace gases play in invaluable role in advancing our understanding of questions related to atmospheric chemistry, dynamics, and impacts on air quality. As such, the datasets are of interest to a wide variety of research areas dependent on objectives, location, time, and synoptic conditions; the datasets generated can be highly interdisciplinary.

We are pleased to announce that this Special Issue of Atmosphere will focus on Airborne Measurements and Analyses of Trace Gases, including airborne-based, balloon-based, and unmanned systems. We invite researchers to submit original research manuscripts which focus on the following topics: quantifying emissions sources of trace gases (including wildfires, urban, oil and gas, agriculture, etc.), analyses of atmospheric transport processes, as well as impacts on ground-based air quality.

Dr. Emma Yates
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • airborne measurements
  • trace gases
  • airborne field campaigns
  • airborne datasets
  • innovative airborne measurement techniques

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Long-Term Tropospheric Ozone Data Analysis 1997–2019 at Giordan Lighthouse, Gozo, Malta
by Brunislav Matasović, Martin Saliba, Rebecca Muscat, Marvic Grima and Raymond Ellul
Atmosphere 2023, 14(9), 1446; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14091446 - 17 Sep 2023
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Long-term data analysis of the hourly ozone volume fractions in the middle of the Mediterranean Seawas carried out covering a period of 22 years. It was noticed that the amount of ozone during this period very rarely exceeded the recommended upper limit value [...] Read more.
Long-term data analysis of the hourly ozone volume fractions in the middle of the Mediterranean Seawas carried out covering a period of 22 years. It was noticed that the amount of ozone during this period very rarely exceeded the recommended upper limit value of 80 ppb and that the amount of tropospheric ozone in the area is rather low. Fourier data analysis shows the presence of only a seasonal cycle in ozone concentrations. Statistical analysis of the data is showing a slightly negative trend in ozone concentrations of −0.46 ± 0.08 ppb/year for average values and a slightly higher negative trend of −0.54 ± 0.11 ppb/year for the 95th percentile values. These results obtained through simple linear regression were confirmed using the more appropriate Mann–Kendall test. The possible quadratic trend was not observed for the whole series of data. Air mass trajectories were calculated for those days in the year with the highest pollution, indicating that during those days horizontal air transfer, in most cases, brings the air mass from the North and from Sicily in Southern Italy. Full article
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