LMOS Grafton Ground Site: Lake Michigan Ozone Study Data

NASA-led LMOS collected ground site data during May-June 2017 to investigate elevated ozone along Lake Michigan's coast. Multiple agencies including NOAA, EPA, and NSF collaborated on this field campaign using airborne, ship, mobile, and fixed platforms. The study aimed to understand ozone formation and transport, particularly the lakeshore gradient and rural concentration peaks.

Use Cases

• Model ozone forecasts for the Lake Michigan region based on observational air quality and meteorology datasets
• Analyze the lakeshore gradient in ozone concentrations based on ground site measurements
• Study ozone formation and transport mechanisms in rural areas based on multi-platform field observations
• Validate chemical transport models using the extensive observational datasets from the LMOS campaign

Strengths

• Data collection is complete, providing a finalized observational dataset.
• Collaborative effort across multiple agencies including NASA, NOAA, EPA, and NSF.
• Includes data from airborne, ship, mobile laboratories, and fixed ground-based platforms.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• File formats include BIN, PDF, ISO, HTML, which may require specialized tools for processing.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Field campaign using a combination of airborne, ship, mobile laboratories, and fixed ground-based observational platforms.

Time Range

May through June 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 01:07:51.333072; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Grafton ground site and the Lake Michigan region