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 21 - 40 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
UNH Mercury UNHMERC
Robert Talbot
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence; Spectrometer (in situ) Hg
Ultra High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer UHSAS
David Rogers
(PI) 		Global Hawk - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF Spectrometer (in situ) Aerosol Size Distribution; Aerosol Concentration
UAS Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species UCATS
Brad Hall
(PI) 		Altair; Global Hawk - AFRC; DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; WB-57 - JSC; ER-2 - AFRC Gas chromatography; Spectrometer (in situ); Spectrometer (in situ) N2O; SF6; CH4; CO; O3; H2; H2O; CHCl3; CCl4; CF2Cl2; CFCl3; CF2ClCFCl2; Halon-1211
Two-Dimensional Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer 2D-STAR
David Levine
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Radiometer Soil Moisture; Ocean Salinity
Turbulent Air Motion Measurement System TAMMS
Lee Thornhill
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position; Temperature; Pressure; H2O
TSI 3563 Integrating Nephelometer TSI Neph Cessna 402B; Citation; DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; Twin Otter (DOE) Particle Extinction
Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment TWiLiTE
Bruce Gentry
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Lidar Wind
Tropospheric Ozone and Tracers from Commercial Aircraft Platforms TOTCAP
Linnea Avallone
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Laser absorption; Spectrometer (in situ) O3; H2O; CO2
Trace Organic Gas Analyzer TOGA
Eric Apel
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; C-130 - NSF Gas chromatography; Spectrometer (in situ) VOCs; alkanes; alkenes; aromatics; NMHC; Hydrocarbons; OVOCs; halogenates; alkyl nitriles; Alkyl Nitrates; sulfur-containing VOCs
Tissue Equivalent Particle Counter TEPC
Donna Gallagher
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC
Three-View Cloud Particle Imager 3V-CPI
Jorgen Jensen
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF Particle imager; Spectrometer (in situ) Imagery
Thickness from Offbeam Returns THOR
Bob Cahalan
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Lidar Cloud Thickness
Thermal-Dissociation Laser Induced Fluorescence TD-LIF
Ronald C. Cohen
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence NO2; ∑PNs; ∑ANs; HNO3
Thematic Mapper Simulator TMS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		ER-2 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Telescopic High Definition Television THDTV
Edward Schilling
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Submillimeter Limb Sounder SLS
Robert Stachnik
(PI) 		Balloon; ER-2 - AFRC Limb Sounder ClO; O3; HCl; HNO3; N2O
SPP-100 SPP
Paul Lawson
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC Optical particle counter; Spectrometer (in situ) Particle concentration
Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research 4STAR
Meloe S. Kacenelenbogen
(Co-I) 		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
Spectro-Polarimeter for Exploration - Airborne SPEX Airborne
Otto Hasekamp
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Polarimeter
Soluble Acidic Gases and Aerosols SAGA
Jack Dibb
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Ion Chromatography Na; NH4; K; Mg; Ca+2; Cl; Br-; NO3; SO4; C2O4-2; Be-7; Pb-210; HNO3

 

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