Site Latitude	variable	Go to interactive map
Site Longitude	variable
Site Elevation	variable
Site code	NHA
Dataset	co2_nha_aircraft-pfp_1_allvalid_5000-6000masl (GLOBALVIEW identifier NHA_01P2)
Assimilated	Yes Switch to unassimilated subset
Selection scheme	all valid measurements
Data provider	Colm Sweeney, NOAA GML, 325 Broadway R/GML-1, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, United States, and Kathryn McKain, NOAA GML, 325 Broadway R/GML-1, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, United States, and Ed Dlugokencky, NOAA GML, 325 Broadway R/GML-1, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, United States
Partner(s)	No partner information available.
Laboratory	NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 325 Broadway, NOAA R/GML-1, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, United States
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(a) Time series of CO₂ mole fractions, both simulated and observed, at this CarbonTracker observation site. In the top panel, measured mole fractions (open black circles) are plotted along with CarbonTracker simulated values (filled light blue circles). Any observations that CarbonTracker can not assimilate successfully are shown as filled red circles.

(b) The time series of model residuals--the difference between the simulated and measured mole fractions--shown with dark green filled circles. These residuals should be uncorrelated in time, unbiased (i.e., have a mean of zero), and distributed normally. Also shown in the lower panel is the imposed model-data mismatch ("MDM", orange lines), which in part defines the rejection criterion (see documentation). Any model first guess value which is more than three times the MDM away from zero, after accounting for potential adjustments to the simulated value due to optimizing fluxes, is rejected by the optimization system. Rejected values, if there are any, are shown with filled red circles.

(c) Summary statistics for model residuals from to . Residuals are defined as simluated values minus observed values. "Bias" is the mean of the residuals; "std. dev." is the standard deviation, and RMSE is root-mean-square error. All quantities are in ppm of CO2. The time period over which these quantities are computed is set by the graphs (a) and (b).

(d) Seasonal histograms of residuals

(d) Seasonal histograms of the residuals for this dataset. See caption for top figure for the definition of residuals. The left panel collects all residuals for each northern hemisphere summer (June through September); the right panel is the northern hemisphere winter (November through April). Residuals before 1 Jan 2001 are excluded from this analysis to avoid an effect of CarbonTracker burn-in from a poorly-known initial CO2 distribution. The tan color shows the histogram of the residuals themselves; the blue lines and statistics shown in blue text are a summary of the residuals interpreted as a normal distribution. For this assimilated dataset, the assumed model-data mismatch averaged over the seasonal span is shown in green (lines and text). The vertical scales are relative, determined by the number of observations and how tightly they are grouped, with the area under the histogram forced to unity.