Colm Sweeney

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University of Colorado, Boulder

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

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(303) 497-4771

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NOAA
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305
United States

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NOAA Aircraft Group

First Author Publications

Sweeney, C., et al. (2023), Using atmospheric trace gas vertical profiles to evaluate model fluxes: a case study of Arctic-CAP observations and GEOS simulations for the ABoVE domain, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 6347-6364, doi:10.5194/acp-22-6347-2022.

Note: Only publications that have been uploaded to the ESD Publications database are listed here.

Co-Authored Publications

Jin, Y., et al. (2024), Improved atmospheric constraints on Southern Ocean CO2 exchange, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.2309333121.
Li, J., et al. (2023), A novel, cost-effective analytical method for measuring high-resolution vertical profiles of stratospheric trace gases using a gas chromatograph coupled with an electron capture detector, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 2851-2863, doi:10.5194/amt-16-2851-2023.
Loechli, M., et al. (2023), Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 37, e2022GB007520, doi:10.1029/2022GB007520.
Allen , H.M., et al. (2022), H2O2 and CH3OOH (MHP) in the Remote Atmosphere: 1. Global Distribution and Regional Influences, J. Geophys. Res., 127, doi:10.1029/2021JD035701.
Bourgeois, I.E.V., et al. (2022), Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.2109628118.
Feng, S., et al. (2022), Covariation of Airborne Biogenic Tracers (CO2, COS, and CO) Supports Stronger Than Expected Growing Season Photosynthetic Uptake in the Southeastern US Nicholas C. Parazoo1 , Kevin W. Bowman1 , Bianca C. Baier2,3 , Junjie Liu1 , Meemong Lee1 , Le Kuai1 , , Global Biogeochem. Cycles.
Friedlingstein, P., et al. (2022), Global Carbon Budget 2021, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1917-2005, doi:10.5194/essd-14-1917-2022.
Hu, L., et al. (2022), Continental-scale contributions to the global CFC-11 emission increase between 2012 and 2017, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-22-2891-2022.
Gonzalez, Y., et al. (2021), Impact of stratospheric air and surface emissions on tropospheric nitrous oxide during ATom, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 11113-11132, doi:10.5194/acp-21-11113-2021.
Kulawik, S.S., et al. (2021), Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH4 profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 335-354, doi:10.5194/amt-14-335-2021.
Liu, J., et al. (2021), Carbon Monitoring System Flux Net Biosphere Exchange 2020 (CMS-Flux NBE 2020), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 299-330, doi:10.5194/essd-13-299-2021.
Long, M.C., et al. (2021), Strong Southern Ocean carbon uptake evident in airborne observations, Science, 374, 1275-1280.
Orbe, C., et al. (2021), Tropospheric Age-of-Air: Influence of SF6 Emissions on Recent Surface Trends and Model Biases, J. Geophys. Res., 126, e2021JD035451, doi:10.1029/2021JD035451.
Thompson, C., et al. (2021), The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0315.1.
Basu, S., et al. (2020), Estimating US fossil fuel CO2 emissions from measurements of 14C in atmospheric CO2, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.1919032117/-/DCSupplemental.y.
Bourgeois, I.E.V., et al. (2020), Global-scale distribution of ozone in the remote troposphere from ATom and HIPPO airborne field missions., Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-2020-315.
Brune, W.H., et al. (2020), Exploring Oxidation in the Remote Free Troposphere: Insights From Atmospheric Tomography (ATom), J. Geophys. Res., 125, doi:10.1029/2019JD031685.
Nalli, N., et al. (2020), Validation of Carbon Trace Gas Profile Retrievals from the NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System for the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder, Remote Sens., 12, doi:10.3390/rs12193245.
Thames, A.B., et al. (2020), Missing OH reactivity in the global marine boundary layer, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 4013-4029, doi:10.5194/acp-20-4013-2020.
Wang, S., et al. (2020), Global Atmospheric Budget of Acetone: Air‐Sea Exchange and the Contribution to Hydroxyl Radicals, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2020JD032553, doi:10.1029/2020JD032553.
Asher, E., et al. (2019), Novel approaches to improve estimates of short-lived halocarbon emissions during summer from the Southern Ocean using airborne observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 14071-14090, doi:10.5194/acp-19-14071-2019.
Crowell, S., et al. (2019), The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9797-9831, doi:10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019.
Hedelius, J.K., et al. (2019), Evaluation of MOPITT Version 7 joint TIR-NIR X-CO retrievals with TCCON, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5547-5572, doi:10.5194/amt-12-5547-2019.
Kostinek, J., et al. (2019), Adaptation and performance assessment of a quantum and interband cascade laser spectrometer for simultaneous airborne in situ observation of CH4, C2H6, CO2, CO and N2O, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 1767-1783, doi:10.5194/amt-12-1767-2019.
Montzka, S.A., et al. (2019), ATom: L2 Measurements from the Programmable Flask Package (PFP) Whole Air Sampler, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1746.
Wang, S., et al. (2019), Ocean Biogeochemistry Control on the Marine Emissions of Brominated Very Short‐Lived Ozone‐Depleting Substances: A Machine‐Learning Approach, J. Geophys. Res., 124, doi:10.1029/2019JD031288.
Wolfe, G.M., et al. (2019), ATom: Column-Integrated Densities of Hydroxyl and Formaldehyde in Remote Troposphere, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1669.
Wolfe, G.M., et al. (2019), Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.1821661116.
Chen, Z., et al. (2018), Source Partitioning of Methane Emissions and its Seasonality in the U.S. Midwest, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 646-659, doi:10.1002/2017JG004356.
Jeong, S., et al. (2018), Accelerating rates of Arctic carbon cycling revealed by long-term atmospheric CO2 measurements, Science Advances, 4, eaao1167, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao1167.
Wofsy, S., et al. (2018), ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1581.
Miller, S.M., et al. (2016), A multi-year estimate of methane fluxes in Alaska form CARVE atmospheric observations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 30, 1441-1453, doi:10.1002/2016GB005419.
Miller, S.M., et al. (2016), Evaluation of wetland methane emissions across North America using atmospheric data and inverse modeling, Biogeosciences, 13, 1329-1339, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1329-2016.
Thompson, R.L., et al. (2014), TransCom N2O model inter-comparison – Part 1: Assessing the influence of transport and surface fluxes on tropospheric N2O variability, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 4349-4368, doi:10.5194/acp-14-4349-2014.
Chatterjee, A., et al. (2013), Background error covariance estimation for atmospheric CO2 data assimilation, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 10140-10154, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50654.
Inoue, M., et al. (2013), Validation of XCO2 derived from SWIR spectra of GOSAT TANSO-FTS with aircraft measurement data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 9771-9771, doi:10.5194/acp-ad-9771-2013.
Keppel-Aleks, G., et al. (2013), Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Variability in the Community Earth System Model: Evaluation and Transient Dynamics during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, J. Climate, 26, 4447-4475, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00589.1.
Saito, R., et al. (2013), TransCom model simulations of methane: Comparison of vertical profiles with aircraft measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 3891-3904, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50380.
Waugh, D., et al. (2013), Tropospheric SF6: Age of air from the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude surface, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 11429-11441, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50848.
Wofsy, S., et al. (2011), HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO): Fine-grained, global scale measurements of climatically important atmospheric gases and aerosols, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 369, 2073-2086, doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0313.
Wunch, D., et al. (2010), Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 1351-1362, doi:10.5194/amt-3-1351-2010.
Peters, W., et al. (2007), An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 104, 18925-18930, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708986104.
Yang, Z., et al. (2007), New constraints on Northern Hemisphere growing season net flux, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L12807, doi:10.1029/2007GL029742.

Note: Only publications that have been uploaded to the ESD Publications database are listed here.

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