A modular approach to volatile organic compound samplers for tethered balloon and drone platforms

Guagenti, Meghan; Dexheimer, Darielle; Ulinksi, Alexandra; Walter, Paul; Flynn III, James H.; Usenko, Sascha

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2125-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2125-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2125-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

Research article

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15 May 2025

Research article |

| 15 May 2025

A modular approach to volatile organic compound samplers for tethered balloon and drone platforms

Meghan Guagenti, Darielle Dexheimer, Alexandra Ulinksi, Paul Walter, James H. Flynn III, and Sascha Usenko

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2125-2025-supplement

Data sets

TRACER-Tethersonde VOC data Paul Walter et al. https://doi.org/10.5439/1995524

TRACER-Tethersonde ozone data Paul Walter et al. https://doi.org/10.5439/2007751

Short summary

A robust, automatic volatile organic compound (VOC) collection system was developed for vertical VOC sampling associated with the 2022 DOE ARM-program-led TRACER in Houston, Texas. This modular sampler has been developed to measure vertical profiles of VOCs to improve near-surface characterization. This article helps fill the current lack of commercially available options for aerial VOC sampling and serves to support and encourage researchers to build and develop custom samplers.