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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14-channel NASA Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometer | AATS-14 | Stephen Broccardo (PI) | NASA ARC | DC-8 - AFRC, J-31, P-3 Orion - WFF, Convair 580 NRC, Twin Otter International, C130H - WFF | Photometer | Aerosol, H2O, O3, Optical Depth, NO2 | Integrated vertical column
| Solar tracking
| ||||||
Cloud Physics Lidar | CPL | John Yorks (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Lidar | Aerosol, Optical Depth, Particle size distribution | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 30 m
| 335 nm; 532 nm; 1064 nm | ||||
Direct beam Irradiance Airborne Spectrometer | DIAS | Samuel R. Hall (PI) | NCAR | DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Aerosol, Optical Depth, O3 | Integrated slant column
| Solar tracking
| 280-650 nm | |||||
Gas and Aerosol Measurement Sensor/Langley Airborne A-Band Spectrometer | GAMS/LAABS | Michael Pitts (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Solar Occultation, Spectrometer (in situ) | Optical Depth | In situ
| 1024 channels at 430-1030 nm; 800 channels at 759-771 nm | solar spectrometer |