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PACE-PAX R/V Shearwater Pandora Data

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/asdc/pace-pax/rv-shearwater/pandora

PACE-PAX_RV-Shearwater_Pandora_Data is the Pandora spectrometer data collected onboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Shearwater during the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX) campaign.

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Data collection for this product is complete. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX) was a field campaign to gather data to support PACE mission validation.

A secondary objective was help validate data from JAXA/ESA's Earth Cloud, Aerosol, and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission. PACE-PAX was conducted in September 2024 in Southern and Central California and nearby coastal regions. The team flew 81 hours on the NASA ER-2 operating out of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center and 60 flight hours on the CIRPAS Twin Otter from Marina Municipal Airport.

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A NOAA vessel, the R/V Shearwater, operated 16 day trips out of Santa Barbara, while a privately owned sailboat, the R/V Blissfully, conducted nine sorties out of Long Beach. Numerous other entities — many of which were members of the PACE Validation Science Team (PVST) — cooperated to make coincident observations. Ocean data are archived at the SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS), DOI: 10.5067/SeaBASS/PACE-PAX/DATA001 The PACE-PAX mission website contains additional campaign documentation.

For more meteorology resources supporting PACE-PAX, please visit NASA Ames Airborne Science Meteorological Support for PACE-PAX. All resources are linked as Related URLs.

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Stated by source: Cloud-Screened Total Column Nitrogen Dioxide (No2) · Research Vessel Shearwater
From keywords: Astronomy & Astrophysics · Chemistry · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics

Provenance · 2 source records, 17 field assertions

Source	Key	Last seen	Raw
NASA Earthdata CMR	C3833631660-LARC_CLOUD	12 d ago	JSON v1
NASA Data Portal	30dbecbd-1d75-48b3-ad97-f66167e66cce	9 d ago	JSON v1

Field	Assertion	Extractor	Evidence
access_level	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomy	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:chemistry	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physics	mapping · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-chemistry/nitrogen-compounds/cloud-screened-total-column-nitrogen-dioxide-no2	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:r-v-shearwater	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_date	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
description	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/Abstract
license_text	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
publication_date	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatial	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/SpatialExtent
temporal	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/TemporalExtents
title	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/EntryTitle
updated_date	source · data nasa gov	connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
version_label	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0

PACE-PAX R/V Shearwater Pandora Data

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