Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1757-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1757-2018
Research article
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28 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 28 Mar 2018

The NASA Carbon Airborne Flux Experiment (CARAFE): instrumentation and methodology

Glenn M. Wolfe, S. Randy Kawa, Thomas F. Hanisco, Reem A. Hannun, Paul A. Newman, Andrew Swanson, Steve Bailey, John Barrick, K. Lee Thornhill, Glenn Diskin, Josh DiGangi, John B. Nowak, Carl Sorenson, Geoffrey Bland, James K. Yungel, and Craig A. Swenson

Data sets

Carbon Airborne Flux Experiment NASA https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/carafe/index.html

Model code and software

A practical guide to wavelet analysis C. Torrence and G. Compo http://atoc.colorado.edu/research/wavelets/

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Short summary
We describe a new NASA airborne system for directly observing the surface–atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases and energy over regional scales. Such measurements are needed benchmark model and satellite products and can improve process-level understanding of greenhouse gas sources and sinks over forest, croplands, wetlands, urban areas, and other ecosystems.