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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Cloud Lidar System | CLS | James Spinhirne (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Lidar | Cloud Thickness | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 532 nm; 1064 nm | |||||
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer | GIFS | Sam Yee (PI) | JHU APL | P-3 Orion - WFF | Spectrometer | Cloud Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Thickness from Offbeam Returns | THOR | Bob Cahalan (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Lidar | Cloud Thickness | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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