Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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2 Channel Selected Ion Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | SI/CIMS-2 | Fred Eisele (PI) | NCAR | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF | CIMS | OH, H2SO4, CH4SO3, DMSO, NH3, Aerosol | In situ
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Airborne Earth Science Microwave Imaging Radiometer | AESMIR | Edward Kim (PI) | NASA GSFC | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF | Radiometer | Imagery, Snow Thickness, Sea Ice Surface Elevation, H2O, Temperature | Ground
| Cross-track scanning, Conical scanning
| 6-100 GHz | |||||
Airborne Topographic Mapper | ATM | William Krabill (Prev PI) | NASA WFF | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC | Lidar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 0.2 m (at 0.8 km)
| 532 nm | Pulsed at 5 kHz | |||
Axial Cyclone Cloud-water Collector | AC3 | Ewan Crosbie (Co-I) | NASA LaRC | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, HU-25 Falcon - LaRC | Ion Chromatography | Aqueous concentrations of bulk cloud-water species (e.g., Sulfate, Nitrate, sodium, Ca+2, TOC, pH) | In situ
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BroadBand Radiometers | BBR | Anthony Bucholtz (PI) | NPS | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, WB-57 - JSC | Radiometer | Solar and IR radiative flux; Total, Direct, Diffuse Solar radiative flux | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards) (angles: 0,180)
| 1 Hz
| 200-3600 nm; 4500-42000 nm | Solar Broadband | |||
Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | CIT-CIMS | Paul Wennberg (PI) | Cal Tech | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC | CIMS | HNO3, H2O2, CH3OOH, HCN, PAA, SO2, multifunctional VOC oxidation products. | In situ
| 10 Hz
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Cloud Integrating Nephelometer | CIN | Hermann Gerber (PI) | Gerber Scientific, Inc. | C-130H - WFF, Citation, Twin Otter - GRC, WB-57 - JSC | Optical particle counter | Asymmetry Parameter, Optical Extinction Coefficient, Extinction-to-Backscatter Ratio | In situ
| 4-2500 µm | ||||||
Cloud Spectrometer and Impactor | CSI | Andrew Heymsfield (PI) | NCAR | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Counterflow virtual impactor, Spectrometer (in situ) | Cloud Liquid Water Content, H2O (total) | In situ
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Continuous Flow Streamwise Thermal Gradient CCN Counter | CFSTGC | Richard Moore (Co-I) | NASA LaRC | Balloon, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, HU-25 Falcon - LaRC | CN counter | CCN | In situ
| 1 Hz
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Digital Mapping System | DMS | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC, Gulfstream V - NSF | Camera | Imagery | Ground
| Downwards pointing but not directly downwards
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HOx Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | HOxCIMS | Christopher A. Cantrell (PI) | NCAR | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC | CIMS | OH, HO2, HO2+RO2 | In situ
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Ku-band Radar Altimeter | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, C-130H - WFF | Radar | Sea Ice Surface Elevation | Ground
| 13-17 GHz | |||||||
Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor | LVIS | J. Bryan Blair (PI) | NASA GSFC | B200 - LARC, C-130H - WFF, Cessna 402B, Citation, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream V - JSC, Gulfstream V - NSF, B200 - Dynamic Aviation | Lidar | Vegetation, Vegetation structure, surface topography, ice and sea ice elevations, ocean surface topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 2000 m (at 10 km)
| 20 m (at 10 km)
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Langley Aerosol Mass Spectrometer | Langley HR-ToF-AMS | Luke D. Ziemba (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, HU-25 Falcon - LaRC, C-130H - WFF | Spectrometer (in situ) | Aerosol Mass Concentrations of Organics, Sulfate, Nitrate, Ammonium, Chloride | In situ
| 1 Hz
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Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment | LARGE | Luke D. Ziemba (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC, C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, HU-25 Falcon - LaRC, King Air B-200 - LaRC, Twin Otter - CIRPAS - NPS | CN counter, Nephelometer, Optical particle counter | Aerosol Number Concentration, Aerosol Size Distribution, Scattering Coefficient, Absorption Coefficient | In situ
| 1 Hz
| 405 nm; 530 nm; 700 nm | |||||
Langley Cloud Probes | Langley In-situ Cloud | Richard Moore (Co-I) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, HU-25 Falcon - LaRC | Particle imager | Cloud Droplet Number and Size Distributions, Cloud Droplet Effective Radius and Variance, Precipitation Particle Number and Size Distribution, Cloud Liquid Water Content, Cloud Ice Water Content | In situ
| 1 Hz
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Langley Single Particle Soot Photometer | Langley SP2 | Luke D. Ziemba (PI) | NASA LaRC | P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF | Laser absorption | Black carbon mass concentrations | In situ
| 1 Hz
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Langley Wideband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor | Langley WIBS | Luke D. Ziemba (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF | Fluorescence | Biological aerosol number concentration, biological aerosol fraction | In situ
| 1 Hz
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NCAR NOxyO3 | NOxyO3 | Andrew Weinheimer (PI) | NCAR | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Chemiluminescence | NO, NO2, NOy, O3 | In situ
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PAN CIMS Instrument by Georgia Tech and NCAR | PAN-CIGAR | L. Greg Huey (PI) | GA Tech | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | CIMS | PAN, PPN, PiBN, PnBN, PBzN, MoPAN, APAN, MPAN | In situ
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Particle Into Liquid Sampler | PILS | Rodney Weber (PI) | GA Tech | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Ion Chromatography | Na, NH4, K, Mg, Ca+2, Cl, NO2, NO3, SO4, PO4, Br-, WSOC | In situ
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Passive Active L- and S-band Sensor | PALS | Sid Misra (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, DC-8 - AFRC | Radar, Scatterometer, Radiometer | Radar backscatter, Ocean Salinity, Soil Moisture | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 1.26 GHz; 1.413 GHz | scatterometer | ||||
Polarimetric Ku-Band Scatterometer | PolSCAT | Steven J Dinardo (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar, Scatterometer | Radar backscatter | Ground
| Conical scanning
| 13.95 GHz | |||||
Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometer | PTR-MS | Armin Wisthaler (PI) | UI | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Spectrometer (in situ) | CH3CHO, (CH3)2CO, CH3CN, C6H6, C4H4O, C5H8, CH3OH, MVK, C7H8, Particle Composition | In situ
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Scanning Actinic Flux Spectroradiometers | SAFS | Samuel R. Hall (PI) | NCAR | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Spectrometer (in situ) | Solar flux | In situ
| 0.1 Hz
| 280-420 nm | |||||
Single Particle Soot Photometer (NOAA) | SP2 | Joshua (Shuka) Schwarz (PI) | NOAA CSL | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC, GV - NCAR, Gulfstream III - LaRC | Photometer | Black Carbon, Aerosol | In situ
| 1 Hz
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Small Ice Detector | SID | Andrew Heymsfield (PI) | NCAR | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, Gulfstream V - NSF, WB-57 - JSC | Particle imager | Particle size distribution | In situ
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Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer | SSFR | Peter Pilewskie (Co-I) | CU Boulder | Altair, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC, J-31, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, Twin Otter - CIRPAS - NPS | Radiometer | Solar flux, Irradiance | Other
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 1 Hz
| 300-1000 nm; 950-2150 nm | ||||
Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research | 4STAR | Meloe S. Kacenelenbogen (Co-I) | NASA ARC | P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, Convair 580 NRC, Gulfstream G-1 (DOE), DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | NO2, O3, H2O, Spectral Aerosol Optical Depth, Aerosol Extinction Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Single Scattering Albedo, Aerosol Asymmetry Parameter, Aerosol Scattering phase function, Aerosol Size Distribution, Aerosol Complex Refractive Index, Cloud Optical Depth, Cloud droplet effective radius, Cloud Thermodynamic Phase, Cloud Liquid Water Content | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Upwards pointing but not directly upwards, Solar tracking (angles: The instrument can be pointed continuously around the full azimuth and over 270 degrees in elevation )
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Whole Air Sampler | WAS (NCAR) | Elliot Atlas (PI) | U Miami | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Whole Air Sampling | NMHCs, Halocarbons | In situ
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