Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) ground site data collected at Queens College. The dataset resulted from a multi-agency collaboration including NASA, NOAA, EPA NESCAUM, and state environmental departments. Primary measurement observations took place between June and September 2018.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in ground-level ozone concentrations from the Queens College site during the 2018 summer period.
- Validate satellite-based air quality retrievals from instruments like TROPOMI using ground-based measurements of ozone, NO2, and HCHO.
- Study the impact of sea breeze circulation on pollutant transport by correlating ground site data with meteorological conditions.
- Investigate the spatial transport of pollution from New York City over Long Island Sound using this ground site data as a key observational node.
Strengths
- Data collection involved a multi-agency collaboration ensuring methodological rigor.
- Focused on a critical air quality issue affecting a metropolitan area of over 20 million people.
- Supports validation for major satellite missions like TEMPO and TROPOMI.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column names, and measurement frequency are unknown.
- Temporal coverage is limited to a primary campaign from June to September 2018.
- Geographic scope is focused on a single ground site in Queens, New York.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA's Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) via the LARC_ASDC organization.
- Collection Method
- In-situ measurements collected at the Queens College ground site during the LISTOS field campaign.
- Time Range
- Primary observations between June-September 2018.
- Freshness
- Data collection is complete; last updated in June 2019.
- Geography
- Queens College ground site in the New York City metropolitan area, focusing on Long Island Sound and downwind regions.