Development and field testing of a rapid and ultra-stable atmospheric carbon dioxide spectrometer

Xiang, B.; Nelson, D. D.; McManus, J. B.; Zahniser, M. S.; Wehr, R. A.; Wofsy, S. C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4445-2014

Articles | Volume 7, issue 12

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 4445–4453, 2014

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4445-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 4445–4453, 2014

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4445-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 12

Research article 15 Dec 2014

Research article | 15 Dec 2014

Development and field testing of a rapid and ultra-stable atmospheric carbon dioxide spectrometer

B. Xiang et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 15 Dec 2014)
Preprint (discussion started on 05 Aug 2014)

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RC C2885: 'amt-2014-224', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Sep 2014
RC C2960: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Oct 2014
AC C3236: 'Reply to Referee #1 and #2', Bin Xiang, 18 Oct 2014

Short summary

We designed and built a spectrometer, ABsolute Carbon dioxide (ABC), to measure atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. This instrument was tested in a forest environment for almost a year. Based on results from this long-term field deployment, we proved that ABC has the capability of performing high-accuracy, unattended, continuous field measurements with minimal use of reference gas cylinders.