2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

APPENDIX D
ASP Bibliography Project
NSERC began working on a NASA Airborne
Science bibliography in September 2007. Scopus
(www.scopus.com), an on-line database product
of Elsevier Publishing Co., was used to conduct
the search. Scopus currently contains 33 million
references and is continuously updated. References
date back to 1869. Scopus contains references from
15,000 peer-reviewed journals representing all the
sciences, in addition to conference proceedings,
book series, trade publications, and other sources.
Keywords were provided by NASA’s Airborne
Science Program, and were searched in both
acronym and expanded form. A list of keywords
used is given below. From the keyword searches,
1,357 journal articles, 244 conference papers, and
53 review papers were found. Each journal article
abstract was read to confirm its relevance to NASA
Airborne Science. As of November 2009, the
tally for the number of citations related to journal
articles is 15,437. The content of journal articles
and conference proceedings published during
2009 included the CAMEX, INTEX, NAMMA,
CRYSTAL-FACE, AVE, STRAT, TC4, ARCTAS
and ATV-1 Jules Verne missions.
The bibliography is constructed as an Excel file
that can be sorted on many different parameters
including year published, author and research
aircraft. This file can be accessed at www.nserc.und.
edu/missions/ASbiblio.html. References dating
from 1979 to November 2009 are represented.
The information compiled to date is likely
incomplete. Scopus is not able to conduct fulltext
search of references. Thus, if a keyword is
not present in the abstract or title of a reference,
the reference will be absent from bibliography
as-is. Work will continue to locate additional
NASA Airborne Science references. Plans for
improving the bibliography include searching on
more variations of the keywords; searching for key
authors; and searching in alternate databases.
Key words used for SCOPUS and Scirus search:
1. African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses
(AMMA/NAMMA)
2. Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment (AAOE)
3. Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
(NASA AASE)
4. Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone
Experiment (ASHOE)
5. Arctic Mechanisms for Interaction Between
Surface and Atmosphere (AMISA)
6. Arctic Research of the Composition of the
Troposphere (ARCTAS)
7. ATV-1 Jules Verne
8. Aura Validation Experiment (AVE/NASA
AVE/CR-AVE)
9. Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and
Cirrus Layers (CRYSTAL-FACE)
10. DC 8 mission
11. DC-8
12. ERAST
13. Intercontinental Chemical Transport
Experiment (INTEX/INTEX-A/INTEX-B)
14. KWAJEX
15. Measurement for Assessing the Effects of
Stratospheric Aircraft (MAESA)
16. NASA Convection And Moisture Experiment
(NASA CAMEX)
17. NASA DC 8
18. NASA DC-8
19. NASA ER-2
20. NASA ERAST
21. NASA Ozone and Nitrogen Experiment
22. NASA P-3B
23. NASA POLAR AVE
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