Airborne Science Instrument Database

The Airborne Science Instrument Database provides details on the science instruments that have been used as part of NASA-funded airborne research.

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Currently displayed: instruments 1 - 20 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Warm Ice Sounding Explorer WISE
Yonggyu Gim
(PI) 		DC-3; Twin Otter - GRC Sounder Ice Sheet Thickness
Wind Radiometer WINDRAD
Steven J Dinardo
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Microwave Radiometer Brightness Temperature
Water-Based Condensation Nucleus Counter WCN
David Rogers
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF CN counter CCN; Temperature; Pressure
WB-57 Ascent Video Experiment WAVE
Marty Ross
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC Camera Imagery
Whole Air Sampler WAS (UCI)
Donald R. Blake
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Whole Air Sampling NMHCs; Halocarbons; Alkyl Nitrates; OCS; DMS; CS2
Whole Air Sampler WAS (NCAR)
Elliot Atlas
(PI) 		C-130H - WFF; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Whole Air Sampling NMHCs; Halocarbons
Vacuum UV Resonance Fluorescence CO Instrument VUV-CO
Teresa Campos
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF Fluorescence CO
Video Imaging System VIS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		ER-2 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Video Ice Particle Sampler VIPS
Andrew Heymsfield
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Particle imager Particle Composition
Vapor In-Cloud Profiling Radar VIPR
Ken Cooper
(PI) 		Twin Otter; P-3 Orion - WFF; DC-8 - AFRC Radar H2O Vapor
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Hygrometer VCSEL
Mark A. Zondlo
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF H2O
UNH Mercury UNHMERC
Robert Talbot
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence; Spectrometer (in situ) Hg
Unmanned Aerial System Laser Hygrometer ULH
Robert L. Herman
(PI) 		Global Hawk - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC H2O
Ultra High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer UHSAS
David Rogers
(PI) 		Global Hawk - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF Spectrometer (in situ) Aerosol Size Distribution; Aerosol Concentration
UAS Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species UCATS
Brad Hall
(PI) 		Altair; Global Hawk - AFRC; DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; WB-57 - JSC; ER-2 - AFRC Gas chromatography; Spectrometer (in situ); Spectrometer (in situ) N2O; SF6; CH4; CO; O3; H2; H2O; CHCl3; CCl4; CF2Cl2; CFCl3; CF2ClCFCl2; Halon-1211
Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar UAVSAR
Yunling Lou
(PI) 		Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC; Gulfstream III - JSC Radar Imagery
Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Atmo Water Sensor Package UAVAWSP
Lance Christensen
(PI) 		N2O; H2O isotopes; H2O; CO; CH4
O3 Photometer - UAS (NOAA) UASO3
Troy Thornberry
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Photometer O3
Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment TWiLiTE
Bruce Gentry
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Lidar Wind
TSI 3563 Integrating Nephelometer TSI Neph Cessna 402B; Citation; DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; Twin Otter (DOE) Particle Extinction