1. Title Observations at Vostosnaya East
2 Acronym: NA
3 date 30 September, 2008 (final data) - planned
4 Time period
  • Septmeber 2006 - December 2007 (data missing periods included)
  • 5 Location: Vostosnaya East (42o 38' 48.4"N, 76o 04' 23.5"E, 3592 m asl), Kyrgyz
    6 List of observed (output) species Ozone, Carbon monoxide, PM1 black carbon
    7 Time resolution, averaging time, time stamp 1 hour
    8 QA/QC For O3 and CO, see
  • Pochanart P., et al. (2003), Regional background ozone and carbon monixde variations in remote Siberia/East Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2001JD001412; and
  • Tanimoto, H. et al. (2007), Direct assessment of international consistency of standards for ground-level ozone: strategy and implemetation toward metrological traceability network in Asia, J. Environ. Monitor., 9, 1183-1193

    For BC, see
  • Kanaya, Y., et al. (2008), TBD
  • 9 Simple description of the data
  • Continuous ozone, CO, and BC data from Vostosnaya East, Kyrgyz measured by UV absorption ozone analyzer, Thermo Model 49, NDIR CO analyzer, Thermo Model 48 with Zero gas generator, Thermo Model 111, and MAAP analyzer, Thermo Model 5012 MAAP, respectively. Original raw data is 1-min intervals. Data obtained as a research collaboration between FRCGC/JAMSTEC, Japan and KRSU, Kyrgyz
  • 10 Contact info
  • Contact: Pakpong Pochanart (FRCGC, JAMSTEC), 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan., (pakpong@jamstec.go.jp )
  • data ownership: Pakpong Pochanart (JAMSTEC)
  • 11 Data availability Type 2a, fully open to public from institute site under certain condition
    12 Policy of the data use Co-authorship basis (Please contact Pakpong Pochanart when data are to be used.)
    13 URL of more info NA
    14 URL of the data set
  • O3: to be open

  • CO: to be open

  • BC: to be open
  • 15 Others NA
    1. Data type: Research Long-term observation (observations)
    2. Parameters General Photo Oxidants, Tropospheric Chemistry, Aerosol Chemistry
    3. Site Classification Regional