In situ observations of greenhouse gases over Europe during the CoMet 1.0 campaign aboard the HALO aircraft

Gałkowski, Michał; Jordan, Armin; Rothe, Michael; Marshall, Julia; Koch, Frank-Thomas; Chen, Jinxuan; Agusti-Panareda, Anna; Fix, Andreas; Gerbig, Christoph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1525-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1525-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1525-2021

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26 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 26 Feb 2021

In situ observations of greenhouse gases over Europe during the CoMet 1.0 campaign aboard the HALO aircraft

Michał Gałkowski, Armin Jordan, Michael Rothe, Julia Marshall, Frank-Thomas Koch, Jinxuan Chen, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Andreas Fix, and Christoph Gerbig

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1525-2021-supplement

Data sets

HALO database re3data.org https://doi.org/10.17616/R39Q0T

Short summary

We present results of atmospheric measurements of greenhouse gases, performed over Europe in 2018 aboard German research aircraft HALO as part of the CoMet 1.0 (Carbon Dioxide and Methane Mission). In our analysis, we describe data quality, discuss observed mixing ratios and show an example of describing a regional methane source using stable isotopic composition based on the collected air samples. We also quantitatively compare our results to selected global atmospheric modelling systems.