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Trace-gas profiles of the boundary layer from Multi-Axis Differential Optical Spectroscopy MAX-DOAS collected during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012

The current data set contains spectral atmospheric measurements from:

- Multi-Angle Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (MAX-DOAS) - built in-house at NIWA Lauder by Dr Karin Kreher, Mr Paul Johnston and Mr Alan Thomas.

Instrument description and setup details:


MAX-DOAS

Instrument Description:

The MAX-DOAS instrument consists of a Czerny-Turner type ISA HR320 flat-field spectrograph with a focal length of 320 mm and an aperture ratio of F/4. The array detector is a Hamamatsu C7042 detector head with S7032-1007 sensor chip. The chip is back-thinned, allowing light to enter from the rear of the silicon substrate, which substantially increases the quantum efficiency over the whole spectral range, especially in the UV region (less than 400 nm). The sensitivity in the UV is important in order to obtain a good signal-to-noise ratio for BrO measurements. The detector signal is then passed to the computer via a 16-bit analogue to digital converter card. The detector is cooled to -20oC using a Peltier cooler to minimise the dark current noise caused by thermally excited electrons. The entrance optics consisted of an angled telescope mirror that reflects the measured light down through a focusing lens onto the entrance of a quartz fibre optic bundle leading into the spectrograph. The field of view of the telescope is ~0.5o. A webcam, also housed close to the entrance optics, records images of the sky in the spectrometer viewing direction at one minute intervals. These images are included in the dataset.


Instrument Setup:

The spectrometer was scanning wavelength regions in the UV-Vis region with a variable resolution spread over the pixel array CCD. Spectra were taken at multiple viewing angles (1,2,3,4,6,8,15,30,90o) in the open water and (-5,1,2,4,6,8,15,30,90o) in the ice (5th October - left ice) above the horizon. 90o is used as the reference viewing angle.


Scattered sunlight was fed into the spectrometer using an optical fibre whose input was placed at the focal point of a lens receiving light from the rotating mirror which was setup to automatically adjust for the roll of the ship to maintain its viewing angle.


The data is processed using 2 wavelength fitting regions as follows: M region: 323-348 nm in the UV retrieving: XS1=NO2 x 1e16, XS2=O3 x 1e19, XS6=O4x1e42, XS7=BrOx1e14, XS11 HCHOx1e16, XS12=slope O3 (to improve fit of O3 due to air mass changes with wavelength). And S region (visible) 416-443 nm, retrieving XS1=NO2 x 1e16, XS6=H2O x 1e22, XS7=O4x1e42, XS11=IOx1e14


The entrance optics of the tracker were cleaned daily using kimwipes.


The dataset contains the following files:

- FPS files, which are binary files generated by in-house software written by The National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA).

- A MAX-DOAS log file, in text format

- A MAX-DOAS error file, in text format

- A configuration file, in text format

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Identification info

Alternate title
Trace-gas profiles of the boundary layer from Multi-Axis Differential Optical Spectroscopy MAX-DOAS collected during the SIPEX II voyage of the Aurora Australis, 2012
Date (Publication)
2014-09-01
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/53266BD1D37E6

Originator

Schofield, R., Kreher, K., Johnston, P., Thomas, A. and Humphries, R.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

SCHOFIELD, ROBYN
University of Melbourne
Melbourne
Victoria
3001
Australia
+61 3 8344 7304

Principal investigator

KREHER, KARIN
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)
Lauder
Private Bag 50061
Omakau
Central Otago
New Zealand
+64 3 440 0447
+64 3 447 3348 (facsimile)

Principal investigator

JOHNSTON, PAUL
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)
Lauder
Private Bag 50061
Omakau
Central Otago
New Zealand
+64 3 440 0446
+64 3 447 3348 (facsimile)

Principal investigator

THOMAS, ALAN
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)
Lauder
Private Bag 50061
Omakau
Central Otago
New Zealand
+64 3 440 0446

Principal investigator

HUMPHRIES, RUHI
University of Wollongong
Wollongong
New South Wales
2500
Australia
+61 2 42213196

Collaborator

SCHOFIELD, ROBYN
University of Melbourne
Melbourne
Victoria
3001
Australia
+61 3 8344 7304

Collaborator

KREHER, KARIN
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)
Lauder
Private Bag 50061
Omakau
Central Otago
New Zealand
+64 3 440 0447
+64 3 447 3348 (facsimile)

Collaborator

JOHNSTON, PAUL
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)
Lauder
Private Bag 50061
Omakau
Central Otago
New Zealand
+64 3 440 0446
+64 3 447 3348 (facsimile)

Collaborator

THOMAS, ALAN
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)
Lauder
Private Bag 50061
Omakau
Central Otago
New Zealand
+64 3 440 0446

Collaborator

HUMPHRIES, RUHI
University of Wollongong
Wollongong
New South Wales
2500
Australia
+61 2 42213196
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_MAX-DOAS

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

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Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2012-09-14 2012-11-05
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES
Keywords
  • MAX-DOAS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • Spectrometers
  • DOAS > Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometers
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • ACE/CRC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

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Planned available datetime
2014-09-01T00:00:00
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Statement
MAX-DOAS mirror angle function not functioning properly on 16 and 17 September until 1010 UT The controlling computer froze a number of times throughout the voyage which caused a few hours of data loss. See log for details.
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Maintenance and update frequency
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Maintenance note
2013-05-17 - record created by Dave Connell from a template completed by Robyn Schofield. 2014-03-17 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a data set DOI.

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Metadata identifier
string/SIPEX_II_MAX-DOAS

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
Citation identifier
SIPEX_II

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Dataset

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gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
65b47d28-3daf-423c-938a-657531c6b7ef

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gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T07:47:56

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Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SIPEX_II_MAX-DOAS

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Date info (Creation)
2013-05-17T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-04-26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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