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CarbonTracker

Brief Description:

• A Subset of the GMD Carbontracker Dataset

Temporal Coverage:

• Daily values 2000-2006.

Spatial Coverage:

• 4.0 degree latitude x 6.0 degree longitude global grid (60x45)
• 90N - 90S, 180W - 180E

Levels:

• 25 Model Levels (see 'pressure' variable)

Update Schedule:

• Annaul. Please update files with the latest version.
• This is the CarbonTracker CT2007B release.

Download/Plot Data: (Download Issues)

Variable	Statistic	Level	Download File	Create Plot/Subset
CO2 Mole Fraction	Daily Mean	' '	CT2007B.molefrac.nc

Usage Restrictions:

• CarbonTracker is an open product of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories using data from the Global Monitoring Laboratory greenhouse gas observational network and collaborating institutions. Results including data, figures and tabular material found on the CarbonTracker website may be used for non-commercial purposes without restriction but we request that the following acknowledgement text be included in documents or publications made using CarbonTracker results:
  CarbonTracker results provided by NOAA/ESRL
  Boulder, Colorado, USA, http://carbontracker.noaa.gov.

Detailed Description:

• Since GMD expects to continuously update the CarbonTracker product, it is important to identify which version you are using. To provide accurate citation, please include the version of the CarbonTracker release in any use of these results. The CarbonTracker team welcomes special requests for data products not offered by default on this website, and encourages proposals for collaborative activities. Contact us the team at carbontracker.team@noaa.gov.

Additional information is available from GMD at the Carbontracker Webpage http://carbontracker.noaa.gov

Caveats:

• Please make sure you have the latest version of the data files.

Related File Naming & Structure Information:

File Names:

• CT2007B.nc   (In directory: /Datasets/carbontracker/)

OpenDap File Names:

• http://psl.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/carbontracker/CT2007B.nc   

Dataset Format and Size:

• PSL standard NetCDF xx Mbyte file for each daily file.

Missing Data:

• Missing data is flagged with a value of xxxxx f.

Citation:

• Please note: If you acquire Carbontracker data products from PSL, we ask that you acknowledge us in your use of the data. This may be done by including text such as Carbontracker data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at / in any documents or publications using these data. We would also appreciate receiving a copy of the relevant publications. This will help PSL to justify keeping the Carbontracker data set freely available online in the future. Thank you!
• For dataset:

but we request that the following acknowledgement text be included in documents or publications made using CarbonTracker results:

Citation:

• Peters et al, 2007, "An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker", PNAS, November 27, 2007 , vol. 104, no. 48, 18925-18930.

Original Source:

• NOAA/ESRL GMD created the original dataset. More info is found at the CArbontracker webpage: http://carbontracker.noaa.gov.

Contact:

• Physical Sciences Laboratory: Data Management
  NOAA/ESRL/PSL
  325 Broadway
  Boulder, CO 80305-3328
  psl.data@noaa.gov