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ATTREX-Aircraft_RemoteSensing_Temperature_Measurements

Metadata Updated: February 21, 2025

ATTREX-Aircraft_RemoteSensing_Temperature_Measurements are remotely sensed temperature profiles collected onboard the Global Hawk Unihabited Aerial System (UAS) during the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX) campaign. This collection consists of remotely sensed temperature profiles collected by the Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) during the 2011 and 2013 deployments over California, and 2014 deployment over Guam. Data collection is complete. Even though it is typically found in low concentrations, stratospheric water vapor has large impacts on the Earth’s climate and energy budget. Studies have suggested that even relatively small changes in stratospheric humidity may have significant climate impacts and future changes in stratospheric humidity and ozone concentration in response to a changing climate are significant climate feedback. Tropospheric water vapor climate feedback is typically well represented in global models. However, predictions of future changes in stratospheric humidity are highly uncertain due to gaps in our understanding of physical processes occurring in the region of the atmosphere that controls the composition of the stratosphere, the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL, ~13-18 km). The ability to predict future changes in stratospheric ozone are also limited due to uncertainties in the chemical composition of the TTL. In order to address these uncertainties, the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) was completed. Instruments during ATTREX provided measurements to trace the movement of reactive halogen-containing compounds and other important chemical species, the size and shape of cirrus cloud particles, water vapor, and winds in three dimensions through the TTL. Bromine-containing gases were measured to improve understanding of stratospheric ozone. ATTREX consisted of four NASA Global Hawk Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) campaigns deployed from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (formally Dryden Flight Research Center). Campaigns were deployed over Edwards, CA, Guam, Hawaii, and Darwin, Australia in Boreal summer, winter, fall, and summer, respectively.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Metadata Created Date February 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from nasa test json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025
Publisher NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC
Maintainer
Identifier C1536056465-LARC_ASDC
Data First Published 2015-01-30
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
Category ATTREX, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/ATTREX/0001
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 00211c7892675d7e208c6d80096c71b2df2b88a438072090e58b34e1761e9a4c
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z/2013-03-01T23:59:59Z

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