Harvard Total Water

Status

Operated By
PI

The design of the newly developed total water instrument is based on the same principles as the water vapor instrument, and is intended to fly in conjunction with it. Conceptually, the total water instrument can be thought of as containing four subsystems:
1. An inlet through which liquid and/or solid water particles can be brought into an instrument duct without perturbing the ambient particle density.
2. A heater that efficiently evaporates the liquid/solid water before it reaches the detection axis.
3. Ducting through which the air flows to the detection axis without perturbing the (total) water vapor mixing ratio.
4. A water vapor detection axis that accurately and precisely measures the total water content of the ambient air.

Instrument Type
Fluorescence
Measurements
H2O (total)
Aircraft
WB-57 - JSC,
ER-2 - AFRC
Point(s) of Contact
Elliot Weinstock
(Prev PI),
Jessica B. Smith
(POC; PI),
David Sayres
(PI)

 

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