The Newly-Operating and Validated Instruments Comparison Experiment (NOVICE) is a series of test flights for airborne instruments that require their initial flight after construction or require additional performance assessments after heavy modifications. Additional mature instruments that have flown in previous science campaigns will provide the validated measurements of chemical species for the newer instruments. The flight series will be performed from Ellington Field on NASA’s WB-57F during the first two weeks of September 2008.
Many of the instruments are being designed for flying on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as the NASA Global Hawk in future atmospheric missions. With the emphasis of NOVICE being a functional and performance test aided by the availability of heritage coincident measurements allows NOVICE to focus on the comparison component to elucidate anomalous instrument behaviors, such as offsets, drifts, and transient phenomena, rather than as a rigorous double blind intercomparison of stable, well characterized, calibrated instruments.
Instruments on the NOVICE payload include:
| ACAM NASA GSFC - Scott Janz Optical photo w/ NO2 filter |
Argus NASA Ames - Max Loewenstein CO and CH4 |
| DCS NASA Ames - Jeff Meyers Optical photo |
DLH NASA Langley - Glenn Diskin Open-path H2O vapor |
| Frostpoint NOAA ESRL - Ru-Shan Gao H2O frostpoint |
Harvard Water Vapor Harvard University - Elliot Weinstock Lyman Alpha H2O vapor |
| HHH Harvard University - David Sayres Closed-path H2O vapor |
JLH Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Robert Herman Open path H2O vapor |
| MMS NASA Ames - Paul Bui p, T, u, v, w |
NOAA Ozone NOAA ESRL - Ru-Shan Gao O3 |
| NOBALT NASA Ames - Jim Podolske CO, CH4 and N2O |
TILDE Harvard University – Mark Witinski CO2, CH4, N2O, H2Ov |
| UAS Ozone NOAA ESRL – Ru-Shan Gao O3 |
ULH Jet Propulsion Lab Open-path H2O vapor |