Welcome to the collaborative website for the Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment (ACME). ACME04 was the first aircraft field campaign of a program supported by the NSF Biocomplexity Program and NASA Interdisciplinary Science. Field operations took place in the Colorado Front Range of the Rocky Mountains from May to August, 2004. The goal of the project is to understand carbon dynamics in montane forest regions by developing new methods for estimating carbon exchange at local to regional scales. More ...

Composite of the NSF/NCAR C-130 research aircraft flying over the Rocky Mountains near Boulder. (Photo by Carlye Calvin.)

News and Events

• 8 August 2006: ACME07 Planning page

• 17 February 2006: ACME/CME Science Meeting, NCAR Foothills Lab, EOL Atrium, 9:00 to 11:00. Agenda

• 1 February 2006: ACME/CME Science Meeting, NCAR Mesa Lab, Chapman Room, 13:00 to 15:00. Agenda

• 30 November 2005: ACME-MINT Flight Planning information is available.

• News Archive

Flight dates

• 2 August 2004: RF16
• 29 July 2004: RF14 and RF15
• 26 July 2004: RF12 and RF13
• 22 July 2004: RF11
• 20 July 2004: RF09 and RF10
• 12 July 2004: RF07 and RF08
• 28 May 2004: RF06
• 27 May 2004: RF05
• 20 May 2004: RF03 and RF04
• 14 May 2004: RF01 and RF02