Tropospheric Chemistry: Instruments

Carbon Monoxide (CO)

Decommissioned

CO instrument in pod on aircraft — Pod containing CO instrument installed on NOAA WP-3D aircraft

Principle of the Measurement

Vacuum ultraviolet resonance fluorescence

Species Measured

CO

Time Response / Detection Limit

1 Hz / 1 ppbv

Field Projects

SOS 1994
SOS 1995
NARE 1996
STEREO 1996
NARE 1997
SOS 1999
TexAQS 2000
PACJET 2001
ITCT 2002
ITCT/ICARTT 2004
TexAQS 2006
ARCPAC 2008
CalNex 2010
SENEX 2013
SONGNEX 2015

Key Publication

Holloway, J.S., R.O. Jakoubek, D.D. Parrish, C. Gerbig, A. Volz-Thomas, S. Schmitgen, A. Fried, B. Wert, B. Henry, and J.R. Drummond, Airborne intercomparison of vacuum ultraviolet fluorescence and tunable diode laser absorption measurements of tropospheric carbon monoxide, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2000JD900237, 2000.