New developments in sunphotometry, left, prototype SEASTAR (SEAgoing Sky-scanning, sun-Tracking Atmospheric research Radiometer) for ship-based deployment of sunphotometers, center, 4STAR-B (Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun Tracking Atmospheric Research - B), right, ground prototype with newly developped multi-decade radiometers for 5STAR (ultra-Stable Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun Tracking Atmospheric Research), far right, Dr. Steve Broccardo, NASA Post-doctoral Program Fellow.
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4STAR was deployed on the NASA P3 during ORACLES 2018 based out of Sao Tomé. Here our team kept 4STAR operating great for the whole deployment.
Roy is leading and presenting a new concept for a shipborne automated sunphtometer and sky radiance collector, SEASTAR, at the NASA Ames Research Center's annual innovation fair. Here he is demonstrating the use of a handheld sunphotometer 'microtops' to a group of NASA Ames colleagues.
We formed a new partnership with the Canadian National Research Council. We sucessfully integrated 4STAR onto their Convair 580, for sampling during a Canadian Oil Sands project.
4STAR, 4STARB, and AATS are standing tall at the Maun Loa Observatory, at 11000 ft altitude within the remote Pacific Atmosphere, where the nearly pristine environment, with low aerosol optical depth, is used for calibrating our measurements.
Yohei holding 4STARB in the NASA C130 cockpit getting ready for a daily install. This was 4STARB's first flight campaign, as part of the 3rd deployment of NAAMES based out of St-John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory highlighted the continued fruitful collaboration of Drs. Beat Schmid and Connor Flynn with NASA Ames Research Center' Sunphotometer Satellite Group.
http://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=4615&groupid=749
4STAR scientist and field missions are showcased in a news article:
NASA scientists are crisscrossing the globe in 2017 – from a Hawaiian volcano to Colorado mountain tops and west Pacific islands – to investigate critical scientific questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.
