Atmospheric CO2 Data
Aircraft Campaign Data (1958-1961)
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations (ppm) derived from flask air samples taken aboard aircraft at 700, 500 and 300 hPa over North Pacific, Alaska, and Arctic Ocean from April 1958 through December 1961, spanning 11° 54' N to 86° 18' N latitude, and 105° 18' W to 166° 12' W longitude.
| Measurement | Frequency | Data File | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO2 | intermittent | flx_aircraft.csv | 1958 - 1961 |
Supplemental Material
| Documentation |
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| Documentation of steps to process legacy aircraft data (pdf) |
| C.D. Keeling 1968 Aircraft Project Report (pdf) |
| C.D. Keeling 1968 Aircraft Project Report Data Tables (pdf) |
| Raw Data Sets |
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| Scan of original data set (Bollenbacher Brown Book) (pdf) |
| OCR of original data set and quality-checked CO2 data in I index (txt) |
| Fortran Program Routines and Input Files | |
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| qflcor08a_pub.f | Fortran processing program that converts I index data values to final CO2 values, with text line numbers added for reference. |
| pecor.dat | ascii file of period corrections used by qflcor08a_pub.f |
| SHPRES.DAT | ascii file listing pressure of sample cell of NDIR analyzer indexed to sample sheet numbers (SHPRES = sheet pressure) used by qflcor08a_pub.f |
| qflcor08a_pub.job | Unix script for executing program qflcor08a_pub.f |
| qflcor08a_pub-all.job | Unix script for executing qflcor08a_pub.job for a specified aircraft flight. |
| checkdata.f | Fortran program used to perform one of the data checks of fli.all data |
Citation
Please cite as:
C. D. Keeling, T. B. Harris, and E. M. Wilkins, 1968. Concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide at 500 and 700 millibars, Journ. Geophys. Research 73(14), 4511-4528.