WP-3D Instrumentation
Download N43RF Instrument Layout (latest version December 8, 2009)
Location | Abbreviation | Full name | Description | PI | Affiliation |
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Sta. FD |
TDL H2O |
tunable diode laser water vapor |
open-path fast-response tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer |
Dana Naeher |
NOAA AOC |
Sta. FD |
LTI |
low turbulence inlet |
decelerating inlet to provide sample air to aerosol instruments in fuselage |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. FD & B cab. |
WLOPC |
white-light optical particle counter |
counts and sizes supermicron aerosol particles (mostly soil and sea-salt); samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 2 forward |
CCN |
cloud condensation nucleus counter |
counts number of particles that serve as a core for new cloud water droplets; samples from LTI |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Sta. 2 |
CRD-AES |
cavity ringdown-aerosol extinction spectrometer |
measures total dry aerosol light extinction and extinction as f(RH); samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 2 |
PSAP |
particle soot absorption photometer |
measures total aerosol light absorption by filter darkening; samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 2 |
PAS |
photoacoustic absorption spectrometer |
measures total aerosol light absorption by photoacoustics; samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 2 |
ultrahigh sensitivity aerosol size spectrometer |
counts and sizes 0.07-1.0 μm aerosol particles; samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 3 |
single-particle soot photometer |
counts, sizes, and measures the mass and coating state of soot particles |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 3 |
PILS |
particle-into-liquid sampler |
dissolves small aerosol particles into liquids for postflight chemical composition analysis; samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 3 |
AMS |
aerosol mass spectrometer |
counts, sizes, and measures the chemical composition of aerosol particles; samples from LTI |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. C3X |
nitrogen oxides and ozone |
chemiluminescence detection with photolytic or catalytic conversion |
Tom Ryerson, Ilana Pollack |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 4 |
N2O, CH4, CO2, CO |
nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide |
QCLS - quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy |
Harvard University |
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Sta. 5 |
carbon dioxide and methane |
IR laser absorption in a high-finesse cavity |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 5 |
PANs |
peroxyacyl nitrates |
chemical ionization mass spectrometry using I- as reagent ion |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 6a |
sulfur dioxide |
pulsed UV fluorescence |
John Holloway |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 6b |
SSFR/CG4 |
solar spectral flux radiometer and pyrgeometer |
up- and down-welling irradiance of visible (SSFR) and infrared (CG4) light |
Peter Pilewskie |
NASA/AMES |
Sta. 7 |
nitric acid |
chemical ionization mass spectrometery using SiF5- as reagent ion |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 7 |
NH3 |
ammonia |
chemical ionization mass spectrometry using the protonated acetone dimer as reagent ion |
NOAA ESRL |
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Dual passenger |
cavity ringdown absorption spectrometer |
laser absorption in high-finesse cavities |
NOAA ESRL |
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Sta. 8 |
proton transfer reaction mass spectrometer |
chemical ionization mass spectrometer using H3O+ as reagent ion |
NOAA ESRL |
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J cab. |
spectral actinic flux radiometer |
measures solar radiation using spectroradiometers |
NOAA ESRL |
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AMPS pod |
NMASS |
nucleation mode aerosol size spectrometer |
counts and sizes 0.004-0.07 nm aerosol particles |
NOAA ESRL |
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AMPS pod |
AWAS |
whole air sampler |
canister samples for postflight GC analysis of hydrocarbons, alkyl nitrates, and halocarbons |
University of Miami |
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CO pod |
carbon monoxide |
vacuum UV resonance fluorescence | John Holloway |
NOAA ESRL |
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LWS 485 |
Droplet Measurement Technologies cloud probes |
optical measurements to determine cloud droplet physical properties |
NOAA ESRL |
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