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CRYSTAL-FACE Instruments

Instruments
by Platform in order of altitude



ER-2



Proteus



WB-57



P-3

CoSSIR
- Conical Scanning Sub-mm wave Imaging Radiometer
CRS
- Cloud Radar System
DROPSONDE
- Vaisala Dropsonde System
EDOP
- ER-2 Doppler Radar
JLH
- JPL Laser Hygrometer
MAS
- MODIS Airborne Simulator
MMS
- Meteorological Measurment System
MTP
- Microwave Temperature Profiler
RAMS
- Radiation Measurment System
SSFR
- Solar Spectral Flux Radiometers

CPL
- Cloud Physics Lidar


FIRSC
- Far-Infrared Sensor for Cirrus
NAST-I
- NPOESS Airborne Sounder Testbed - Interferometer

NAST-M

- NPOESS Airborne Sounder Testbed - Microwave
POLDER
- Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectance
RSP
- Research Scanning Polarimeter

ALIAS
- Airborne Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer
Argus CO
/ CH4 - Carbon Monoxide / Methane
CAPS
- Cloud, Aerosol, Precipitation Spectrometer
CH4
- IR TDL Methane Spectrometer
CIMS
- Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer
CIN
- Cloud Integrating Nephelometer
CLH
- Closed-Path Laser Hygrometer Total Water
CO2
- Carbon Dioxide
CPI
- Cloud Particle Imager
FCAS
- Focused Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer
FPH
- Lyman- Total Water
/ CO2

H2O-V
(HU)
- Harvard Lyman
Water Vapor
HVPS
- Hydrometeor Imager
JLH
- JPL Laser Hygrometer
MACS
- Multiple Aerosol Collection System
MASP
- Multiangle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
MMS
- Meteorological Measurement System
MTP
- Microwave Temperature Profiler
N-MASS
- Nucleation-Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer
NO/NOy
-Total Reactive Nitrogen Oxides
O3
- Ozone Photometer
PALMS
- Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry
PANTHER

P
/ T
- Aircraft Pressure and Temperature
RAMS
- Radiation Measurement System
SPP-100

SSR
- Solar Spectral Radiometer
T-H2O
(HU)
- Harvard Lyman
Total Water
VIPS
II

ADS
- Airborne Data System In-Situ Instrumentation
ELDORA
- Electra Doppler Radar



Citation



Twin Otter



Ground-based

West-Coast



Ground-based

East-Coast

2DC

CFDC
- Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber
CIN
- Cloud Integrating Nephelometer
CPI
- Cloud Particle Imager
CVI
- Counterflow Virtual Impactor
FSSP
- Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
HVPS
- High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer
TDL
H2O - TDL Water Vapor

AMS
- Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
APS

- Aerodynamic Particle Spectrometer
BSR
- Broadband Solar Radiometer
CAPS
- Cloud, Aerosol, Precipitation Spectrometer
CCN
- Cloud Condensation Spectrometer
CO

CPC
- Condensation Particle Counter
DMA

FSSP-100
- Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
LEISA

MACS
- Multi-sample Aerosol Collection System
MOULDI
- Impactor System
PCASP
- Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
SSFR
- Solar Spectral Flux Radiometers
UFCPC
- Ultrafine Condensation Particle Counter


523
nm Lidar - Scanning 523 nm Lidar
BBSS
- Balloon Borne Sounding System
N-POL
- N-POL Radar
PARSL
- PNNL Atmospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory
- 94 GHz Cloud Radar
- 35 GHz Cloud Radar

- Scanning LIDAR (532 nm)
- Surface Met (temperature, humidity, pressure,rain gauge)

- Broadband radiometer suite
- PSP-Eppley Precision Solar Radiometer

- PIR-Eppley Precision Infrared Radiometer
- Eppley Black/White Radiometer

- Kipp & Zonen solar tracker
- IRT-Infrared Radiometer

- RSR-Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
- MFRSR-Yankee Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer

- MWR-Radiometerics Microwave Radiometer
- Vaisala Ceilometer
- TSI-Yankee Total Sky Imager


94
GHz Radars - 94 GHz Scanning Cloud Radar
Ceilometer

FARS
- 532 nm & 1060 nm Lidar
PRT-
5
- Precision Infrared Radiometer Sky Imager - Total Sky

ETL
- NOAA Portable Cloud Observatory

SMART - Surface Measurements for Atmospheric Radiation Transfer

MPL
- Micro Pulse Lidar



Theory

(Computer Modeling)

Curry:
Cloud-Resolving Models
Yale-UMd
Group:
Sherwood & Dessler (SD) Model, Philips Model
Anvil
Modeling Team:

CARMA/MATCH Transport Model
Zipser:

Anvil Cirrus and the Convective Source
Wang:

Realtime Numerical Forecast and Assimilation/Analysis for CRYSTAL-FACE
Y.
Wang:

MM5 Forecasts for CRYSTAL-FACE