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 201 - 220 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Snow Thickness Radar FMCW
Carl Leuschen
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Snow Thickness
Fast In-situ Stratospheric Hygrometer FISH
Cornelius Schiller
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC H2O
Fast Cloud Droplet Probe FCDP
Sarah Woods
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Global Hawk - AFRC; Learjet SPEC; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Optical particle counter Cloud Particle Number and Size Distributions
Focused Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer FCAS
James Wilson
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Optical particle counter Particle size distribution
Langley In Situ Fast-Response Ozone Measurements FASTOZ
Melody Avery
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Chemiluminescence O3
HAIS Fast-O3 Fast-O3
Teresa Campos
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF Chemiluminescence O3
ER-2 Doppler Radar EXRAD
Gerald Heymsfield
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Radar Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity; [tid:397]
Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer ESTAR
David Levine
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Radiometer Soil Moisture; Ocean Salinity
Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator eMAS
Steve Platnick
(Co-I) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
ER-2 High Altitude Dropsonde EHAD
Jeffrey B. Halverson
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Dropsonde Temperature
CU Aircraft Extractive Electrospray Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer EESI-TOFMS
Jose-Luis Jimenez
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer (in situ) C6H10O5; C6H5NO4
Miniature Echelle Spectrograph Echelle
Peter Jenniskens
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer (in situ) Brightness Temperature
DCOTSS Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer DPOPS
John Dykema
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer (in situ) particle number density; Particle size distribution
Doppler Scatterometry DopplerScatt
Dragana Perkovic-Martin
(PI) 		B200 (#801) - AFRC Scatterometer Doppler Velocity
Digital Mapping System DMS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; C-130H - WFF; HU-25A Guardian - LaRC; Gulfstream V - NSF Camera Imagery
Diode Laser Hygrometer DLH
Glenn S. Diskin
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; DC-8 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; WB-57 - JSC; Sherpa - WFF; HU25 Falcon - LaRC; Twin Otter - CIRPAS - NPS Laser absorption H2O
Ames Digital Imager DIM
Paul F. Wercinski
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Direct beam Irradiance Airborne Spectrometer DIAS
Samuel R. Hall
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Aerosol; Optical Depth; O3
Differential Absorption Lidar DIAL
Johnathan W. Hair
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Lidar Aerosol Backscattering; Aerosol Depolarization Ratio; Aerosol Extinction; Aerosol Optical Depth; O3
Difference Frequency Generation Absorption Spectrometer DFGAS
Alan Fried
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer (in situ) CH2O