CARVE is preparing for its Alaska campaign. For calibration, CARVE conducted flights over Palmdale, San Joaquin Valley, and FTS sites located at CIT, Mount Wilson, and Dryden.
The CARVE science team is preparing for presentations which will be delivered at the American Geophysical Union 46th annual fall meeting. CARVE presentations include:
The Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) FTS: Results From the 2012/13 Alaska Campaigns.
Boreal forest fires impacts on atmospheric methane, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide during the 2013 NASA CARVE campaign CARVE Measurements of Atmospheric Methane Concentrations and Emissions in Arctic and Boreal Alaska
On October 30, CARVE decided to conclude the very successful CARVE 2013 Alaska campaign. This year, CARVE 2013 completed 45 Alaskan flight days and 262 science flight hours. In addition, CARVE transferred ~ 1.4 Terabytes from the CARVE Fairbanks field computer to the JPL CARVE Grounds Data System (GDS) for processing.
Major CARVE Milestones completed during this campaign:
· All 2012 CARVE data released to the public
The CARVE crew 4 flight days and ~21 flight hours over, Barrow, Deadhorse, Minto Flats (twice), and Fort Yukon, Alaska.
On October 26, CARVE flight crew was very surprised to observe greatly enhanced CO2 and CH4 signals while flying over the Minto Flats area.
CARVE has publicly released of all the 2012 Alaska data set.
CARVE team members were interviewed for an episode of the Weather Channel’s Tipping Point series. The episode, “The Permafrost of the high Arctic”, will air at 6 p.m. on November 2.
CARVE flew 2 flight days last week for a total of 15 science flight hours over Innoko and Nome, Alaska. On August 14, with more bad weather approaching, the CARVE team concluded the August campaign; CARVE flew 42 science flight hours, over 13 calendar days in August.
The CARVE team arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska and started August flight operations. As of August 4, the CARVE team had accrued ~ 14 science flight hours, including flights over Deadhorse, Fort Yukon, and Minto flats.
CARVE flew 14 flight hours, with flights over Alaska to Minto, Innoko, Deadhorse, and Barrow. CARVE concluded the very successful June campaign on June 19.
Last week, CARVE flew 29.2 flight hours over Alaska, with flights to Fort Yukon, Barrow, Bethel, Minto, and Huslia
