NURTURE Participants - Instrumentation

Groups
NURTURE Participants
Subgroups
APR-3 / VIPR / CloudCube View

Airborne Third Generation Precipitation Radar

Profiles of radar reflectivity, vertical velocity, Ku, Ka, W band

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Vapor In-cloud Profiling Radar

In-cloud profiles of H2O 159-175 GHz

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Cubesate radar demonstrator

239.5 GHz Profiles of radar reflectivity

Members
Name Organization Title
William Chun JPL Researcher
Ken Cooper JPL Researcher
Gregg Dobrowalski JPL Researcher
Simik Ghookasian JPL Researcher
Subash Khanal JPL Researcher
Matthew Lebsock JPL Researcher
Ninoslav Majurec JPL Researcher
Luis Millan JPL, UCLA Researcher
Mehmet Ogut JPL Researcher
Mark Richardson JPL Researcher
Raquel Rodriguez Monje JPL Researcher
Jose V. Siles JPL Researcher
HALO View

High Altitude Lidar Observatory

Profiles of H2O, aerosol, cloud; surface winds, PBLH

Members
Name Organization Title
Christian Heske DLR
James E. Collins NASA LaRC, CAI Analyst
Brian Collister NASA LaRC Scientist
Ewan Crosbie NASA LaRC
David Harper NASA LaRC Engineer
Maddie Hetlage Texas A&M
Amin R. Nehrir NASA LaRC Lead Instrument Platform Scientist
HSRL-2 View

High Spectral Resolution Lidar 2

Profiles of ozone, aerosol, cloud, ocean; surface winds, PBLH

Members
Name Organization Title
Amy Jo Scarino NASA LaRC, Coherent Applications, Inc. (RSES)
Johnathan W. Hair NASA LaRC
Taylor Shingler NASA LaRC
AWP View

Aerosol Wind Profiler

Profiles of wind direction and speed

Members
Name Organization Title
Kristopher Bedka NASA LaRC
John Marketon NASA LaRC
CoSSIR / COSMIR View

Sub-mm Wavelength Radiometer

Profiles of ice cloud, H2O; snowfall

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Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer

Profiles of H2O, T

Members
Name Organization Title
Rachael Kroodsma NASA GSFC, U Maryland
S-HIS View

Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder

Profiles of H2O, T, composition

Members
Name Organization Title
Douglas Adler UW Madison Engineer
Fred Best UW Madison Engineer
Lori Borg UW Madison Researcher
Dusty Brunner UW Madison Engineer
Dan DeSlover UW Madison
Ray Garcia UW Madison Engineer
Denny Hackel UW Madison Engineer
Hank Revercomb UW Madison Researcher
David Tobin UW Madison Co-I
Elisabeth Weisz UW Madison Researcher
Joe Taylor UW Madison PI
AVAPS / TAMMS View

Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (Dropsondes)

Profiles of H2O, T, P, wind speed, wind direction

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Turbulent Air Motion Measurement System

Aircraft level winds (20-100 Hz)

Members
Name Organization Title
Lee Thornhill NASA LaRC, SSAI
DLH View

Diode Layer Hygrometer

Open path measure of water vapor at aircraft

Members
Name Organization Title
Yonghoon Choi NASA LaRC, AMA
Joshua P. DiGangi NASA LaRC
Glenn S. Diskin NASA LaRC
RDR-400 View
Members
Name Organization Title
Steven Harrah NASA LaRC
Trace Gas View

Takes in-situ measurements of trace gases.

Members
Name Organization Title
Yonghoon Choi NASA LaRC, AMA
Jason Miech NASA LaRC, ORAU
ARO View

Limb sounding profiles of bending angle and refractivity

Members
Name Organization Title
Priyankar Bhattacharjee UCSD
Noah Barton UCSD
B. Cao UCSD
Jennifer Haase UCSD
LARGE View

Langley Aerosol Research Group

Members
Name Organization Title
Matthew Brown NASA LaRC
Francesca Gallo NASA LaRC
Richard Moore NASA LaRC
Michael Shook NASA LaRC
Edward L. Winstead NASA LaRC
Luke D. Ziemba NASA LaRC