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The Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species (HATS) group of NOAA/GML has designed and built instruments since 1991 for implementation on aircraft and/or balloon platforms. Each instrument is a multi-channel gas chromatograph (GC) that measures halogenated trace gases (e.g., chlorofluorocarbons and halons) and other important atmospheric tracers. All of the HATS airborne instruments make measurements using gas chromatography with electron capture and/or mass selective detectors (ECDs).
The data obtained from these instruments permit studies of chemistry and transport in the upper atmosphere. Ongoing efforts at supplementing and packaging these measurements for public distribution are described on a separate HATS Airborne Data page.
Data can be found for all of these missions on the NASA ESPO Data Archive web site. The aircraft data uses the prefix "GC", "MSD" and "BC".
(partnership with Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Moscow), MPI, Harvard, U. of North Dakota, and NASA)
For Further Information Contact: Dr. Fred Moore or Dr. James Elkins