Atmospheric Measurement Techniques www.atmos-meas-tech.net 1867-1381 1867-8548 3 4 2010 10.5194/amt-3-947-2010 http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/3/947/2010/ http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/3/947/2010/amt-3-947-2010.html http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/3/947/2010/amt-3-947-2010.pdf 947 958 2010-07-19 Total column CO₂ measurements at Darwin, Australia &ndash; site description and calibration against in situ aircraft profiles N. M. Deutscher ndeutsch@uow.edu.au D. W. T. Griffith G. W. Bryant P. O. Wennberg G. C. Toon R. A. Washenfelder G. Keppel-Aleks D. Wunch Y. Yavin N. T. Allen J.-F. Blavier R. Jiménez B. C. Daube A. V. Bright D. M. Matross S. C. Wofsy S. Park School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA now at: Centre for Organic Electronic, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia now at: Chemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, 325 Broadway St, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA now at: Sustainable Market Strategies Group, KEMA Inc, Oakland, CA, USA An automated Fourier Transform Spectroscopic (FTS) solar observatory was established in Darwin, Australia in August 2005. The laboratory is part of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network, and measures atmospheric column abundances of CO₂ and O₂ and other gases. 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