Taking regional atmospheric inversions to the next level: Lessons from the ACT-America mission

Kenneth J Davis1, David Baker2, Bianca Baier3, Zachary Barkley1, Alison Boyer4, Edward V Browell5, Gao Chen6, A Scott Denning7, Joshua P DiGangi8, Jeremy Todd Dobler9, Sha Feng10, Alan Fried11, Tobias Gerken12, Andrew R Jacobson13, Klaus Keller14, Thomas Lauvaux15, Bing Lin16, Amin R Nehrir17, Michael D Obland17, Christopher O'Dell18, Sandip Pal15, Anke Roiger19, Andrew E Schuh20, Colm Sweeney3, Yaxing Wei4, Christopher A Williams21 and ACT-America science team, (1)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (2)NOAA, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA ESRL, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)Spectral Sensor Solutions LLC, Environmental Sensing, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (10)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (13)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (15)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (16)NASA Langley Research Center - LARC, Hampton, VA, United States, (17)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (18)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (19)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (20)Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (21)Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States