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JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 397-406Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00063.1
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- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science [DE-FG02-06ER64315]
- U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA/Office [NA08OAR4310533]
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Prevalent methods for making high-accuracy tower-based measurements of the CO2 mixing ratio. notably nondispersive infrared spectroscopy (NDIR), require frequent system calibration and sample drying. Wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) is an emerging laser-based technique with the advantages of improved stability and concurrent water vapor measurements. Results are presented from 30 months of field measurements from WS-CRDS systems at five sites in the upper Midwest of the United States. These systems were deployed in support of the North American Carbon Program's Mid-Continent Intensive (MCI) from May 2007 to November 2009. Excluding one site. 2 sigma of quasi-daily magnitudes of the drifts, before applying field calibrations, are less than 0.38 ppm over the entire 30-month field deployment. After applying field calibrations using known tanks sampled every 20 h, residuals from known values are, depending on site, from 0.02 +/- 0.14 to 0.17 +/- 0.07 ppm. Eight months of WS-CRDS measurements collocated with a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA)/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) NDIR system at West Branch, Iowa, show median daytime-only differences of -0.13 +/- 0.63 ppm on a daily time scale.
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