09-30-2016, 04:41 AM
high CO2 at Mauna Loa they were during times the trade winds had died down... the CO2 censors being only a few miles from one of the largest continuous CO2 vents in the world contributed to the higher readings.
Kilauea generally does not affect the readings at the observatory as Kilauea is about 9000 feet lower in elevation than the Mauna Loa Observatory:
Mauna Loa was originally chosen as a monitoring site because, located far from any continent, the air was sampled and is a good average for the central Pacific. Being high, it is above the inversion layer where most of the local effects are present and there was already a rough road to the summit built by the military. The contamination from local volcanic sources is sometimes detected at the observatory, and is then removed from the background data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa_Observatory
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Kilauea generally does not affect the readings at the observatory as Kilauea is about 9000 feet lower in elevation than the Mauna Loa Observatory:
Mauna Loa was originally chosen as a monitoring site because, located far from any continent, the air was sampled and is a good average for the central Pacific. Being high, it is above the inversion layer where most of the local effects are present and there was already a rough road to the summit built by the military. The contamination from local volcanic sources is sometimes detected at the observatory, and is then removed from the background data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa_Observatory
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. -Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (1547-1616)
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