Amazonica: Greenhouse gas profile measurements (CO, CO2, CH4) above the forest canopy at four sites

Profiles of greenhouse gases CO, CO2 and CH4 taken on board a small aircraft descending in a spiral from approximately 4,420m to about 300m a.s.l. (as close to the forest canopy as possible). Samples were taken by semi-automatically filling 12 (for the Tabatinga (TAB 69.7W, 6.0S), Alta Floresta (ALF 56.7W, 8.9S) and Rio Branco (RBA 67.9W, 9.3S) sites) and 17 (for the Santarem (SAN 65.0W, 2.9S) site) 0.7-litre flasks controlled from a microprocessor and contained in one suitcase.

The profiles were taken frequently throughout the measurement campaign (2010-2012) between 12:00 and 13:00 local time - at which time, the boundary layer is close to being fully developed. Once a vertical profile had been sampled (one suitcase filled) it was analysed at the IPEN Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Sao Paulo, using a replica of the NOAA/ ESRL trace gas analysis system.

Date (Publication): 2016-11-29T09:57:54

Date (Creation): 2016-11-29T09:57:54

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5f56428ca2674a45bbf97179d853df0e

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 5f56428ca2674a45bbf97179d853df0e

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Gloor, Manuel	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Gatti, Luciana	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Miller, John	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

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Amazonica
carbon
methane
carbon dioxide Amazon
aircraft

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2010-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2012-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5f56428ca2674a45bbf97179d853df0e	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/amazonica/data/greenhousegases/	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/96555/1/Wilson_et_al-2016-Global_Biogeochemical_Cycles-2.pdf	Contribution of regional sources to atmospheric methane over the Amazon Basin in 2010 and 2011

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994771/	Seasonality and interannual variability of CH4 fluxes from the eastern Amazon Basin inferred from atmospheric mole fraction profiles

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7486/full/nature12957.html	Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were collected by the AMAZONICA team and analysed at the IPEN Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, using a replica of the NOAA/ ESRL trace gas analysis system; then deposited at BADC.

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Parent identifier: Amazon Integrated Carbon Analysis (Amazonica) Data
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Date stamp: 2026-03-11T03:17:22

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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