Progress toward improving regional atmospheric inversions using airborne measurements: Results from ACT-America

Kenneth J Davis1, Bianca Baier2, David F Baker3, Zachary Barkley4, Emily Bell5, Kevin W Bowman6, Edward V Browell7, Joel Campbell7, Hans Weiteng Chen8, Yonghoon Choi9, Joshua P DiGangi7, Jeremy Todd Dobler10, Wayne H. Erxleben11, Tai-Fang Fan12, Sha Feng13, Alan Fried14, Brian John Gaudet15, Andrew R Jacobson16, Klaus Keller17, Susan A Kooi12, Thomas Lauvaux15, Bing Lin7, Matthew J McGill18, Doug McGregor19, Anna Michalak20, Michael D Obland7, Christopher O'Dell21, Sandip Pal15, Nicholas Parazoo5, Rebecca Pauly22, Nina Alessandra Randazzo23, Arkayan Samaddar15, Andrew E Schuh24, Colm Sweeney25, Daniel Wesloh4, Christopher A Williams26, Fuqing Zhang27 and Yu Zhou28, (1)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (8)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, (9)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (10)Spectral Sensor Solutions LLC, Environmental Sensing, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (11)Harris Corporation Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (12)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (16)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (17)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (18)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (19)Harris Space and Intelligence Systems, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (20)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, (21)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States, (22)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (23)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (24)Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (25)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (26)Clark University, Worcester, United States, (27)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, (28)Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China