In July 2008, a second version of the LIF system was used in Borneo during a campaign for measurements of NO2, peroxynitrates (ΣPNs) and alkylnitrates (ΣANs).
In the summer of 2008 the TD-LIF instrument, developed by the same group, was used during this international campaign for measurements of NO2, peroxynitrates (ΣPNs) and alkylnitrates (ΣANs). The OP3 campaign (Oxidant and Particle Photochemical Processes above) was organized in the Borneo forest, using a 75 m high observation tower, with the aim of investigating, among other things, the role of carried out by oil palm plantations in tropospheric chemistry in a region typically characterized by rainforest. The high-frequency measurements (10 Hz) of the TD-LIF were used to evaluate the NO2 flows through the Eddy Covariance technique.
More details on the OP3 project can be found here.
Associated publications:
Fowler, D., E. Nemitz, P. Misztal, C. Di Marco, U. Skiba, J. Ryder, C. Helfter, J. N. Cape, S. Owen, J. Dorsey, M. W. Gallagher, M. Coyle, G. Phillips, B. Davison, B. Langford, R. MacKenzie, J. Muller, J. Siong, C. Dari-Salisburgo, P. Di Carlo, E. Aruffo, F. Giammaria, J. A. Pyle, C. N. Hewitt, Effects of land use on surface–atmosphere exchanges of trace gases and energy in Borneo: comparing fluxes over oil palm plantations and a rainforest
Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. B-Biological Science, 366, 3196-3209, 2011. (Impact factor 2011: 6.401)
Hewitt C. N., Lee J., M. P. Barkley, N. Carslaw, Chappell N.A., Coe H., Collier C., Commane R., Davies F., Di Carlo P., C. F. Di Marco, P. M. Edwards, M. J. Evans, D. Fowler, K. L. Furneaux, M. Gallagher, A. Guenther, D. E. Heard, C. Helfter, J. Hopkins, T. Ingham, M. Irwin, C. Jones, A. Karunaharan, B. Langford, A. C. Lewis, S. F. Lim, S. M. MacDonald, A. R. MacKenzie, A. S. Mahajan, S. Malpass, G. McFiggans, G. Mills, P. Misztal, S. Moller, P. S. Monks, E. Nemitz, V. Nicolas-Perea, H. Oetjen, D. Oram, P. I. Palmer, G. J. Phillips, J. M. C. Plane, T. Pugh, J. A. Pyle, C. E. Reeves, N. H. Robinson, D. Stewart, D. Stone, and L. K. Whalley, Oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rain forest (the OP3 project): introduction, rationale, location characteristics and tools,
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 169-199, 2010. (Impact factor 2010: 5.309)
Hewitt C. N., Lee J., M. P. Barkley, N. Carslaw, Chappell N.A., Coe H., Collier C., Commane R., Davies F., Di Carlo P., et al., Oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rain forest (the OP3 project): introduction, rationale, location characteristics and tools,
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 563-564, 2010. (Impact factor 2010: 5.309)
Hewitt C.N., A.R. MacKenzie, P. Di Carlo et al., Nitrogen management is essential to prevent tropical oil palm plantations from causing ground level ozone pollution,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 106, 44, 18447-18451, 2009. (Impact factor 2009: 9.432)