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The project of CONTRAIL (Comprehensive Observation Network for TRace gases by AIrLiners) is focusing to observe atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) with high frequency and wide area coverage using commercial airliners. Continuous CO2 measuring equipment (CME) and improved automatic air sampling equipment (ASE) were developed and installed on Boeing 747-400, 777-200ER, and 777-300ER aircraft operated by Japan Airlines (JAL). Several scientific findings by CONTRAIL such as interannual variations of CO, distributions of CH4 isotopes in the troposphere, estimation of carbon fluxes by inversion model, interhemispheric transportation of CO2, and 3-dimensional distributions of CO2 over Asia Pacific are presented. Observed data for both CME and ASE have been released with digital object identifier (DOI).
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Machida, T. (2023). Observation of Greenhouse Gases and SLCFs by Aircraft Project, CONTRAIL. In: Akimoto, H., Tanimoto, H. (eds) Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2760-9_58
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