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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Airborne Submillimeter Radiometer | ASUR | Harry Kullmann (PI) | U Bremen | DC-8 - AFRC | Radiometer | ClO, HCl, HNO3, N2O, O3 | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards)
| 604.3-662.3 GHz | |||||
Berkeley Nitrogen Oxides Detector | BNOD | Ronald C. Cohen (PI) | UC Berkeley | DC-8 - AFRC | Fluorescence | NO2, HNO3, CH3O3NO2 | In situ
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Charged-coupled device Actinic Flux Spectroradiometers | CAFS | Samuel R. Hall (PI) | NCAR | DC-8 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC, Gulfstream III - LaRC | Spectrometer (in situ) | Spectrally resolved actinic flux and photolysis frequencies typically calculated for the following species: O3, NO2, NO3, CH2O, HONO, HNO3, N2O5, HNO4, PAN, H2O2, CH3OOH, CH3ONO2, CH3CH2ONO2, CH3CHO, CH3CH2CHO, CHOCHO, CH3COCHO, 2, 3-Butanedione, Methacrolein, MVK, (CH3)2CO, MEK, Br2, BrO, BrNO, BrNO2, BrONO, BrONO2, BrCl, HOBr, CHBr3, Cl2, ClO, ClNO2, ClONO, ClONO2 | In situ
| 1 Hz
| 280-650 nm | |||||
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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Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | NOAA CIMS | Thomas B Ryerson (PI) | Scientific Aviation | WB-57 - JSC, DC-8 - AFRC | CIMS | H2O, HNO3, HCl | In situ
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Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | GT-CIMS | L. Greg Huey (PI) | GA Tech | DC-8 - AFRC, Gulfstream V - NSF | CIMS | HNO3, SO2, HNO4, HCl, Br2, BrO, PAN | In situ
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer | FTIR | Michael Coffey (PI) | NASA HQ | DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | HCl, ClONO2, N2O, NO, NO2, HNO3, HF, CH4, C2H6, H2O, CO2, CF2Cl2, O3 | Integrated vertical column
| Upwards pointing but not directly upwards, Solar tracking
| 10 Hz
| 6 channels at 2-15 µm | ||||
JPL Mark IV Balloon Interferometer | MkIV | Geoffrey Toon (PI) | JPL | Balloon, DC-8 - AFRC | Interferometer | H2O, O3, N2O, CO, CH4, NO, NO2, HNO3, HNO4, N2O5, H2O2, ClONO2, HOCl, HCl, HF, COF2, CF4, SF6, CF2ClCFCl2, CHF2Cl, CF2Cl2, CFCl3, CCl4, CH3Cl, C2H2, C2H6, OCS, HCN, N2, O2, CO2 | ||||||||
NDACC MLO FTIR | MLOFTIR | James W. Hannigan (PI) | NCAR | Interferometer | CO, CH4, ClONO2, HCOOH, C2H6, HCN, HCl, HF, HNO3, H2O, HDO, OCS, N2O, O3, CH2O | Vertical profile
| Solar tracking
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Soluble Acidic Gases and Aerosols | SAGA | Jack Dibb (PI) | UNH | DC-8 - AFRC | Ion Chromatography | Na, NH4, K, Mg, Ca+2, Cl, Br-, NO3, SO4, C2O4-2, Be-7, Pb-210, HNO3 | In situ
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Submillimeter Limb Sounder | SLS | Robert Stachnik (PI) | JPL | Balloon, ER-2 - AFRC | Limb Sounder | ClO, O3, HCl, HNO3, N2O | In situ
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Thermal-Dissociation Laser Induced Fluorescence | TD-LIF | Ronald C. Cohen (PI) | UC Berkeley | DC-8 - AFRC | Fluorescence | NO2, ∑PNs, ∑ANs, HNO3 | In situ
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