TCCON Sites

TCCON Site Details (last revised 2009-01-16)

Site Established Lat Lon Altitude (km) Principal Investigator Instrument Detectors Acq kHz AP Pins Scan Mode
Arrival Heights, Antarctica ??2010 78S 167E 0.25 Sherlock/Connor/Wood              
Ascension Island ??2009 8S 14W 0.05 Feist              
Bialystok, Poland ?Mar-09 53N 23E 0.15 Notholt/Warnecke              
Bremen, Germany Jul-04 53N 9E 0.04 Notholt/Warnecke  125HR xInGaAs    1   10***  0  DC since Jul-08, double scans 
Darwin, Australia Aug-05 12S 131E 0.03 Griffith  125HR  xInGaAs Si InSb  2 10   2  0 DC since Oct-05, F&R single scans
Eureka, Canada# Jul-07 80N 86W 0.61 Strong  125HR  InSb HgCdTe  1 7.5   1   0 AC, F&R single scans 
Garmisch, Germany Jul-07 47N 11E 0.74 Sussman  125HR  InGaAs Si  2  7.5  0  0 DC, double scans
Izana, Tenerife May-07 28N 17W 2.37 Blumenstock  125HR*  xInGaAs InSb HgCdTe  1  40  0  1 DC since Jun-08, F&R averages (3)
Lamont, OK (USA) Jul-08 37N 97W 0.32 Wennberg  125HR  xInGaAs Si  2  10  0  0 DC, F&R single scan
Lauder, New Zealand Jun-04 45S 170E 0.37 Sherlock/Connor  120HR  xInGaAs InSb HgCdTe  1  40  0  0 AC, F-only single scans since Jun-06
Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen Apr-02 79N 12E 0.02 Notholt/Warnecke/Schrems  120HR  xInGaAs**  1  20  0  1  AC, double scans
Orleans, France ?Feb-09 48N 2E 0.13 Notholt/Warnecke              
Park Falls, WI (USA) May-04 46N 90W 0.44 Wennberg  125HR  xInGaAs Si  2  7.5  9  0 DC since Jun-06, F&R single scans
Sodankyla, Finland Jan 2009 67N 27E 0.18 Kyro  125HR  xInGaAs Si  2  7.5  0  0  
Tsukuba, Japan ?Winter 08/09 36N 140E 0.03 Morino              
Wollongong, Australia May-08 34S 151E ?0.01 Griffith  125HR  xInGaAs InSb Si  1  40  0  0 AC, double scans?
Yekaterinburg, Russia ?Oct-08 57N 60E 0.30 Yurganov/Zakharov              
Zugspitze, Germany ??? 47N 11E 2.96 Sussman    InSb          

Established = Date when NIR observations began
# Intermittent TCCON observations
*Upgraded from 120HR
xInGaAs = extended InGaAs (3900cm-1 cut-on frequency
InGaAs = Standard InGaAs (5600 cm-1 cut-on frequency)
** since Mar 2005
Acq: 1 = single-channel acquisition; 2 = dual-channel acquisition
kHz = Laser Fringe Rate (Bruker call this the "Scan Velocity")
***since Jul 2008
AP = Number of coincident Aircraft Profiles
Pins = Pressure Inside FTS (0= evacuated; 1= ambient pressure)


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