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 | 1 | 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)