Airborne Science Instrument Database

The Airborne Science Instrument Database provides details on the science instruments that have been used as part of NASA-funded airborne research.

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Currently displayed: instruments 181 - 200 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
HIAPER Airborne Radiation Package HARP
Samuel R. Hall
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF; C-130 - NSF; ER-2 - AFRC Radiometer Actinic Flux; Irradiance
High Altitude Monolithic Microwave integrated Circuit (MMIC) Sounding Radiometer HAMSR
Shannon Brown
(Mgr) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC Sounder; Microwave Radiometer Temperature; H2O
High Altitude Lidar Observatory HALO
Amin R. Nehrir
(PI) 		DC-8- AFRC; C-130- WFF; P-3 Orion - WFF; B200 - LARC; B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC; DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - JSC; Gulfstream III - LaRC Lidar water vapor profiles; methane columns and profiles; Aerosol Depolarization Ratio; Aerosol Scattering Ratio; Aerosol Backscattering; Aerosol Extinction
Harvard Halogen Instrument HAL
David Wilmouth
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; ER-2 - AFRC Fluorescence BrO; ClO; CIONO2
Georgia Tech NO Instrument GT-NO
L. Greg Huey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Chemiluminescence NO
Georgia Tech Laser-Induced Fluorescence GT-LIF
David Tan
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence NO; CH2O; NO2
Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer GT-CIMS
L. Greg Huey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF CIMS HNO3; SO2; HNO4; HCl; Br2; BrO; PAN
GPS Remote Sensing Instrument GPSRS
Michael Grant
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Soil Moisture
Sea Surface Wind Speed GPS-R Winds
Jim Garrison
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; P-3 Orion - WFF Sounder Wind
GPS Flight Management System GPFMS
William Krabill
(Prev PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position
Airborne Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer GLISTIN-A
Delwyn Moller
(PI) 		Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC Interferometer; Radar Topography
Global Ice-sheet Mapping Orbiter GISMO
Ken Jezek
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Interferometer; Radar Topography
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer GIFS
Sam Yee
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer Cloud Thickness
GeoCAPE Airborne Spectrometer GCAS
Scott Janz
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer NO2; CH2O
Gas and Aerosol Measurement Sensor/Langley Airborne A-Band Spectrometer GAMS/LAABS
Michael Pitts
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Solar Occultation; Spectrometer (in situ) Optical Depth
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer FTIR
Michael Coffey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer HCl; ClONO2; N2O; NO; NO2; HNO3; HF; CH4; C2H6; H2O; CO2; CF2Cl2; O3
Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe FSSP
Paul Lawson
(PI) 		Citation; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Optical particle counter Particle size distribution
Fabry-Perot Interferometer FPI
Jay R. Herman
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Interferometer O2; CO2
FSSP-300 Aerosol Spectrometer FPCAS ER-2 - AFRC Aerosol Scattering Ratio
Frost Point (NOAA) FP
Andrew Rollins
(Co-I) 		WB-57 - JSC; ER-2 - AFRC H2O

 

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