ACEPOL: Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar
LIREX: LIdaR EXperiment
NASA and SRON (Nederlands) will collaborate in the ACEPOL/LIREX field campaign, based at the Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in Palmdale, California, to acquire data with advanced active and passive remote sensors. Instruments will be deployed on the high altitude ER-2 aircraft. Data will be used to develop and assess algorithms for retrieving profiles of aerosol optical and microphysical properties for various atmospheric applications. The measurements and algorithms are applicable to future satellite missions such as ACE, PACE, METOP-SG, and EarthCare.
| Instruments | AirMSPI, RSP, AirSPEX, AirHARP, HSRL-2, CPL |
| Dates | October 19, 2017 to November 9, 2017 |
| Location | California Central Valley, Western US, Coastal Pacific Ocean |
| Aircraft | ER-2 (806) |
| Flights | Roughly 8-9 six hour science flights |
For more information, please see the data archive and planning site at NASA LaRC.
The Global Modeling and Assimilation office has an ACEPOL support site here.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) also has an ACEPOL website.
