I’ve been interested in geophysical instrumentation for many decades now. One of the first projects of my career involved building a measurement array to detect atmospheric methane for the energy industry; one of my more recent project involved a similar goal for carbon dioxide.
Other than the computers and programming languages used, not much has changed …
I was only an auxiliary member of the recent project, but I saw what I perceived as some problems and it got me interested in “How would I do it?
I started putting a series of articles together and realized I was beginning to write something resembling a book-length presentation. Rather than wait until I had the whole series complete, I decided to post the sections in no particular order as I complete the initial drafts.
As it so happens, the 1st article to be sufficiently complete for review is tentatively “Part 5 – Atmosphere” (the number comes from my initial outline and is subject to change as the whim strikes). [Update: The main page is now ready]
So here it is – Read the Article