Róisín Commane
CalNex: Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change
2010
Cartoon copyright of
Jim Henson Co.
Extensive air quality campaign based in California in summer 2010. We worked aboard the NOAA-P3 to measure greenhouse gases and the R/V Atlantis from San Diego measuring OCS.
I travelled to San Diego to help researchers from Aerodyne Research setup a QCL instrument to measure OCS on the R/V Atlantis, which had come over from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Analysis of this data was finally published in 2013.
I then went to Ontario, CA to help run the Harvard QCL instrument to measure CO2, CO, N2O, CH4 on the NOAA P3 research aircraft called Miss Piggy.
CALNEX; CO2, CO, CH4, N2O; OCS analysis
May - June 2010
All photographs copyright of Roisin Commane
CalNex Publications:
R. Commane, S. C. Herndon, M. Zahniser, B. M. Lerner, J. B. McManus, J. W. Munger, D. D. Nelson and S. C. Wofsy: Carbonyl sulfide in the marine boundary layer: Coastal and continental influences, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, CalNex Special Issue, 118, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50581, 2013
B. Xiang, S. Miller, Eric Kort, G. Santoni, B. Daube, R. Commane, J. Pittman, E. Gottlieb, W Angevine, T. Ryerson, M. Trainer, A. Andrews, T. Nehrkorn, H. Tian, S. Wofsy: Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from California based on 2010 CalNex Airborne Measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, CalNex Special Issue, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50189, 2013
I. B. Pollack, T. B. Ryerson, M. Trainer, D. D. Parrish, A. E. Andrews, E. L. Atlas, D. R. Blake, S. S. Brown, R. Commane, B. C. Daube, J. B. Gilman, J. A. de Gouw, W. P. Dubé, J. Flynn, G. J. Frost, N. Grossberg, J. S. Holloway, J. Kofler, E. A. Kort, W. C. Kuster, P. M. Lang, B. Lefer, R. A. Lueb, J. A. Neuman, J. B. Nowak, P. C. Novelli, J. Peischl, A. E. Perring, J. M. Roberts, G. Santoni, J. P. Schwarz, J. R. Spackman, N. L. Wagner, C. Warneke, S. C. Wofsy, B. Xiang: Airborne and ground-based observations of a weekend effect in ozone, precursors, and oxidation products in the California South Coast Air Basin, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D00V05, doi:10.1029/2011JD016772, 2012