| Summary: | Progress Code: onGoing Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual Statement: Samples were analysed by gas chromatography with Electron Capture Detection (ECD). The scale maintained at CSIRO was established using six high-pressure cylinder standards (of a high purity N2O/CO2 mixture diluted with varying amounts of zero air) that were gravimetrically prepared by NOAA/CMDL in 1993. Flask data are assigned flags to indicate whether they are classified as retained or rejected. Monthly means are calculated as the mean of daily values from a smooth curve fit to the data using the curve-fitting routines described by Thoning et al. (1989). Credit CSIRO - Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Environment Canada (EC). Credit Paul Krummel (CSIRO) Credit Paul Steele (CSIRO) Credit Ray Langenfelds(CSIRO). The CSIRO Global Atmospheric Sampling Laboratory (GASLAB) Flask Sampling Network archive for the atmospheric trace gas nitrous oxide (N2O) concentrations. GASLAB principally analyzes air samples that have been captured at eleven fixed geographic sites and one moving (aircraft over bass strait and Cape Grim), but also includes other sites at various locations globally on a less regular or as needed basis. The flask air sample is analyzed for the 5 atmospheric trace gases Methane (CH4), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Hydrogen (H2) and N2O (Nitrous Oxide). Data about the relative concentrations of these are particularly important for Global Warming studies as CO2 and CH4 are the two most effective anthropogenic greenhouse gases; CO and H2 influencing concentrations of the hydroxyl radical (OH), thereby affecting the main sink for atmospheric CH4. H2 is produced in a sequence of reactions following the reaction of OH with CH4. Measurements of N2O concentrations are made through the use of a Gas Chromatograph with electron ...
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