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1 Global observations of climatically important atmospheric gases and aerosols during HIPPO Britton Stephens (NIWA/NCAR) and HIPPO Science Team

2 PIs: Harvard, NCAR, Scripps, NOAA, others Global and seasonal survey of CO 2, O 2, CH 4, CO, N 2 O, H 2, SF 6, COS, CFCs, HCFCs, O 3, H 2 O, CO 2 isotopes, Ar, black carbon, and hydrocarbons NSF / NCAR Gulfstream V 5 campaigns over 4 years Continuous profiling from surface to 10 km, and to 15 km twice per flight hippo.ucar.edu (also Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) Canterbury, New ZealandBrooks Range, AlaskaPago Pago, American Samoa

3 ModelModel Name 1CSU 2GCTM 3UCB 4UCI 5JMA 6MATCH.CCM3 7MATCH.NCEP 8MATCH.MACCM2 9NIES ANIRE BTM2 CTM3 Continental-scale carbon flux uncertainties are still very large, owing to biases in atmospheric CO 2 transport [Stephens et al., 2007] Tropical Land and Northern Land fluxes plotted versus annual-mean northern- hemisphere vertical CO 2 gradient

4 Aircraft Performance Maximum Range¹6,500 nm12,046 km Maximum Cruise Altitude51,000 ft15,545 m Maximum Payload6,500 lb2,948 kg NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V Jet (GV) (HIAPER = High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research)

5 HIPPO Science Team: Harvard University: S. C. Wofsy, B. C. Daube, R. Jimenez, E. Kort, J. V. Pittman, S. Park, R. Commane, Bin Xiang, G. Santoni; (GEOS-CHEM) D. Jacob, J. Fisher, C. Pickett-Heaps, H. Wang, K. Wecht, Q.-Q. Wang National Center for Atmospheric Research: B. B. Stephens, S. Shertz, P. Romashkin, T. Campos, J. Haggerty, W. A. Cooper, D. Rogers, S. Beaton, R. Lueb NOAA ESRL and CIRES: J. W. Elkins, D. Fahey, R. Gao, F. Moore, S. A. Montzka, J. P. Schwartz, D. Hurst, B. Miller, C. Sweeney, S. Oltmans, D. Nance, E. Hintsa, G. Dutton, L. A. Watts, R. Spackman, K. Rosenlof, E. Ray UCSD/Scripps: R. Keeling, J. Bent Princeton: M. Zondlo, Minghui Diao U. Miami: E. A. Atlas TCCON: Vanessa Sherlock et al. JPL: M. J. Mahoney; (AIRS) M. Chahine, E. Olsen Cooperating modeling groups: ACTM P. Patra, K. Ishijima; GEMS-MACC R. Engelen; TM3/TM5 Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher;

6 HIPPO Aircraft Instrumentation O 2 :N 2, CO 2, CH 4, CO, N 2 O, other GHGs, CO 2 isotopes, Ar/N 2, COS, halocarbons, solvent gases, marine emission species, many more Whole air sampling: NWAS (NOAA), AWAS (Miami), MEDUSA (NCAR/Scripps) O 3 (1 Hz)‏NOAA GMD O 3 T, P, winds, aerosols, cloud waterMTP, wing stores, etc Black Carbon (1 Hz)‏NOAA SP2 H 2 O (1 Hz)‏Princeton/SWS VCSEL CO, CH 4, N 2 O, CFCs, HCFCs, SF 6, CH 3 Br, CH 3 Cl, H 2, H 2 O NOAA- UCATS, PANTHER GCs (1 per 70 – 200 s) CO (1 Hz)‏NCAR RAF CO O 3 (1 Hz)‏NOAA CSD O 3 CO 2 (1 Hz)‏Harvard OMS CO 2 O 2 :N 2, CO 2 (1 Hz)‏NCAR AO2 CO 2, CH 4, CO, N 2 O (1 Hz)‏Harvard/Aerodyne - QCLS

7 HIPPO_3 Mar/Apr 2010 (same track NB, SB) HIPPO_4 Jun 2011 (NB track TBD) HIPPO_5 Sep 2011 (NB track TBD) ~ 600 vertical profiles; nearly 1000 at HIPPO's conclusion. HIPPO_2 Nov 2009

8 HIPPO_1 Xsects along the Dateline Jan 2009

9 HIPPO_1 Xsects along the Dateline Jan 2009

10 HIPPO_2 Xsects along the Dateline Nov 2009

11 N 2 O CO CH 4 Pollution over the Arctic

12 January 12, 2009 HIPPO1 AO2 Profiles at 80 N

13 January 20, 2009 HIPPO1 AO2 Profiles at 65 S Southern Ocean O 2 outgassing

14 O 2 Cross Section, January, 2009 per meg

15 APO Cross Section, January, 2009 Atmospheric Potential Oxygen: APO = O 2 + 1.1*CO 2 per meg

16 HIPPO2 and HIPPO3 AO2 Profiles at 67 S November 2009April 2010

17 HIPPO 3 AO2 Profiles at 65 N

18 HIPPO1 Ar/N 2 Data

19 CFC-11Halon-1211 Whole-Air Sampling NWAS / AWAS (E. Atlas, S. Montzka) Mid-Pacific Sample coverage

20 Methyl chloroform Dichloromethane Ethyne Benzene

21 Dimethyl SulfideCarbonyl Sulfide Carbon DisulfideMethyl Nitrate

22 Earth Simulator – ACTM CCSR/NIES/FRCGC AGCM – P. Patra GEOS-CHEM (NASA DAO) - Harvard Team MACC-GEMS ECMWF Air Quality and Air Chemistry – R. Engelen TM3 (NIWA), TM5 planned – S. Mikaloff-Fletcher Models with detailed simulations of HIPPO Data Detailed Model results for HIPPO_1: CO2 SF6 C2H6 CO N2O CH4 O3 PAN NOx HCHO BlkC O2 GEOS_C 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 * ACTM 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 MACC 0 0 1 1, Fcst 0 1 1 1 1 1 TM3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

23 CH 4 ACTM HIPPO Obs offset 31 ppb sources and vertical and horizontal transport

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25 Jan 2009 Observed ACTM (GEIA)

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27 Profiles over Ocean NH Tropical Troposphere Arctic Boundary Layer Plume at 23N, 10km Plume RF04, 8km

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29 CarbonTracker Comparisons

30 Preliminary APO comparison Fluxes: Mean ocean O 2 : Gruber et al., 2001 Seasonal ocean O 2 and N 2 : Garcia and Keeling, 2001 Mean ocean N 2 : Gloor et al., 2001 Seasonal + mean ocean CO 2 : Takahashi et al., 2009 Fossil-fuel CO 2 and O 2 : CDIAC January Mean APO from Climatological fluxes in TM3 HIPPO1 APO Observations per meg

31 Summary: 3 of 5 HIPPO campaigns completed and data are revealing a wealth of information A new type of data: global, high-precision, fine-grained, and many species Clearly dilineate transport processes (warm-conveyor belt, strat-trop exchange, Arctic cold-dome, marine and continental PBL) and source regions (tropical N 2 O, marine reactive species, Southern Ocean O 2 and CO 2 ) in ways not achieved beforeExpected to challenge models of carbon fluxes and of atmospheric transport and chemistry Data will be publicly available 12-18 months post flight We welcome collaboration with atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial modelers and with those making measurements on other platforms

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33 NCAR Airborne Oxygen Instrument (AO2) System components:

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35 note scale change for GEMS


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