Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System | AVAPS | Gary Wick (PI) | NOAA ESRL | Global Hawk - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC | Dropsonde | Pressure, Temperature, Humidity, Wind | Vertical profile
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Airborne Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth Probe | AXCTD | Dan S. Jacob (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Dropsonde | Ocean Salinity, Temperature | In situ
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Dropsondes - DC-8 | D8D | Gerald Heymsfield (PI) | NASA GSFC | DC-8 - AFRC | Dropsonde | Temperature | ||||||||
ER-2 High Altitude Dropsonde | EHAD | Jeffrey B. Halverson (PI) | UMBC | ER-2 - AFRC | Dropsonde | Temperature | In situ
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