Daniel Jacob, Isabelle Bey, Jim Yienger, and Duncan Fairlie belting out international hits including "Mr. No Problem" and "Love Love Love" at a karaoke bar in Fussa, Japan, after having downed sake bottles of all different colors to console themselves of yet another failed TRACE-P chemical forecast.

Harvard Magical Mystery Tour in the back of Pierce Hall, at an ungodly early hour (8:30 am), ready for the van trip to crash the TRACE-P Data Workshop in Norfolk. From left: Hongyu Liu, Carine Saut, Duncan Fairlie, Colette Heald, Paul Palmer, Yaping Xiao, Daniel Jacob, Mat Evans. Several car accidents, overpriced Roy Rogers hamburgers, and Daniel Jacob's embarrassing attempts at humor later we rolled into Norfolk, smelly but ready to party. Randall Martin, who took the picture, sure was glad not to be part of this trip.

Harvard University Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group Collection of NASA/GTE/TRACE-P papers Last modified January 8, 2003

TRACE-P (TRAnsport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific) was a two-aircraft mission over the western north Pacific conducted in March-April 2001 by the NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE). Its objectives were:

• to determine the chemical composition of the Asian outflow over the western Pacific in spring in order to understand and quantify the export of chemically and radiatively important gases and aerosols, and their precursors, from the Asian continent.
• to determine the chemical evolution of the Asian outflow over the western Pacific in spring and to understand the ensemble of processes that control this evolution.

• Xiao, Y, D.J. Jacob, J. Wang, J.A. Logan, P.I. Palmer, P. Suntharalingam, R.M. Yantosca, G.W. Sachse, D.R. Blake, D.G. Streets, Constraints on Asian and European sources of methane from CH4-C2H6-CO correlations in Asian outflow, J. Geophys. Res, submitted, 2004. [PDF]

• Suntharalingam, P., D. J. Jacob, P. I. Palmer, J. A. Logan, R. M. Yantosca, Y. Xiao, M. J. Evans, D. Streets, S. A. Vay and G. Sachse, Improved quantification of Chinese carbon fluxes using CO2/CO correlations in Asian outflow, J. Geophys. Res., submitted, 2004. [Full text (pdf)]

• Heald, C.L., D.J. Jacob, A.M. Fiore, L.K. Emmons, J.C. Gille, M.N. Deeter, J. Warner, D.P. Edwards, J.H. Crawford, A.J. Hamlin, G.W. Sachse, E.V. Browell, M.A. Avery, S.A. Vay, D.J. Westberg, D. R.Blake, H.B.Singh, S.T. Sandholm, R.W. Talbot, H.E. Fuelberg Asian outflow and transpacific transport of carbon monoxide and ozone pollution: An integrated satellite, aircraft and model perspective, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D24), 4804, doi:10.1029/2003JD003507, 2003. [Abstract] [Full Text (pdf)]

• Jacob, D.J., J.H. Crawford, M.M. Kleb, V.S. Connors, R.J. Bendura, J.L. Raper, G.W. Sachse, J.C. Gille, L. Emmons, and C.L. Heald, The Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission: design, execution, and first results, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 9000, 10.1029/2002JD003276, 2003. [ Full Text (pdf)]

• Heald, C.L, D.J. Jacob, P.I. Palmer, M.J. Evans, G.W. Sachse, H.B. Singh and D.R. Blake, Biomass burning emission inventory with daily resolution: application to aircraft observations of Asian outflow, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D4), 8368, doi:10.1029/2002JD002732, 2003. [Abstract (html)] [Full Text (pdf)]
• Li, Q., D.J. Jacob, R.M. Yantosca, C.L. Heald, H.B. Singh, M. Koike, Y. Zhao, G.W. Sachse, D.G. Streets, A Global 3-D Model Evaluation of the Atmospheric Budgets of HCN and CH₃CN: Constraints From Aircraft and Ground Measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8827, doi:10.1029/2002JD003075, 2003. [Full Text (pdf)]

• Hongyu Liu, Daniel J. Jacob, Isabelle Bey, Robert M. Yantosca, Bryan N. Duncan, and Glen W. Sachse, Transport pathways for Asian combustion outflow over the Pacific: Interannual and seasonal variations, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8786, 10.1029/2002JD003102, 2003. [Full Text (pdf)]

• Liu, H., D.J. Jacob, J.E. Dibb, A.M. Fiore, and R.M. Yantosca, Constraints on the sources of tropospheric ozone from ²¹⁰Pb-⁷Be-O₃ correlations, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2003. [Abstract] [Full text (pdf)]

• Palmer, P. I., D. J. Jacob, D. B. A. Jones, C. L. Heald, R. M. Yantosca, J. A. Logan, G. W. Sachse, D. G. Streets Inverting for emissions of carbon monoxide from Asia using aircraft observations over the western Pacific , J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8825, doi:10.1029/2002JD003176, 2003.

• Palmer, P. I., D. J. Jacob, L. J. Mickley, D. R. Blake, G. W. Sachse, H. E. Fuelberg, and C. M. Kiley, Eastern asian emissions of anthropogenic halocarbons deduced from aircraft concentration data, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4753, doi:10.1029/2003JD003591, 2003. [Abstract] [Full Text (pdf)]

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