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ER-2
Proteus
WB-57
P-3
Citation
Twin Otter
Ground
(West-Coast)
Ground
(East-Coast)
Theory
(Modeling)
 
      
       Instruments by Platform in order of altitude

ER-2 Aircraft
ER-2

Proteus Aircraft
Proteus
 

WB-57 Aircraft
WB-57
 

P-3 Aircraft
P-3

CoSSIR - Conical Scanning Sub-mm wave Imaging Radiometer
CRS - Cloud Radar System 
DROPSONDE - Vaisala Dropsonde System
EDOP - ER-2 Doppler Radar
JLH - JPL Laser Hygrometer 
MAS - MODIS Airborne Simulator
MMS - Meteorological Measurment System
MTP - Microwave Temperature Profiler
RAMS - Radiation Measurment System
SSFR - Solar Spectral Flux Radiometers
CPL - Cloud Physics Lidar


FIRSC - Far-Infrared Sensor for Cirrus
NAST-I - NPOESS Airborne Sounder Testbed - Interferometer
NAST-M - NPOESS Airborne Sounder Testbed - Microwave
POLDER - Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectance
RSP - Research Scanning Polarimeter

ALIAS - Airborne Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer
Argus CO / CH4 - Carbon Monoxide / Methane
CAPS - Cloud, Aerosol, Precipitation Spectrometer
CH4 - IR TDL Methane Spectrometer
CIMS - Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer
CIN - Cloud Integrating Nephelometer
CLH - Closed-Path Laser Hygrometer Total Water
CO2 - Carbon Dioxide
CPI - Cloud Particle Imager
FCAS - Focused Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer 
FPH - Lyman- Total Water / CO2
H2O-V (HU) - Harvard Lyman Water Vapor
HVPS - Hydrometeor Imager
JLH - JPL Laser Hygrometer
MACS - Multiple Aerosol Collection System
MASP - Multiangle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
MMS - Meteorological Measurement System
MTP - Microwave Temperature Profiler
N-MASS - Nucleation-Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer
NO/NOy -Total Reactive Nitrogen Oxides
O3 - Ozone Photometer
PALMS - Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry
PANTHER
P / T - Aircraft Pressure and Temperature
RAMS - Radiation Measurement System
SPP-100
SSR - Solar Spectral Radiometer
T-H2O (HU) - Harvard Lyman Total Water
VIPS II

ADS - Airborne Data System In-Situ Instrumentation
ELDORA - Electra Doppler Radar

Citation Aircraft
Citation

Twin Otter Aircraft
Twin Otter

N-Pol Radar (West Coast)
Ground-based

West-Coast

94 GHz Scanning Cloud Radar (East Coast)
Ground-based

East-Coast
 

2DC
CFDC - Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber
CIN - Cloud Integrating Nephelometer
CPI - Cloud Particle Imager
CVI - Counterflow Virtual Impactor
FSSP - Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
HVPS - High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer
TDL H2O - TDL Water Vapor 

AMS - Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
APS
- Aerodynamic Particle Spectrometer
BSR - Broadband Solar Radiometer
CAPS - Cloud, Aerosol, Precipitation Spectrometer
CCN - Cloud Condensation Spectrometer
CO
CPC - Condensation Particle Counter
DMA
FSSP-100 - Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
LEISA
MACS - Multi-sample Aerosol Collection System
MOULDI - Impactor System
PCASP - Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
SSFR - Solar Spectral Flux Radiometers
UFCPC - Ultrafine Condensation Particle Counter


523 nm Lidar - Scanning 523 nm Lidar
BBSS - Balloon Borne Sounding System
N-POL - N-POL Radar
PARSL - PNNL Atmospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory
 - 94 GHz Cloud Radar
 - 35 GHz Cloud Radar
 - Scanning LIDAR (532 nm)
 - Surface Met (temperature,    humidity, pressure,rain gauge)
 - Broadband radiometer suite
   - PSP-Eppley Precision Solar      Radiometer
   - PIR-Eppley Precision Infrared      Radiometer
   - Eppley Black/White      Radiometer
   - Kipp & Zonen solar tracker
 - IRT-Infrared Radiometer
 - RSR-Rotating Shadowband    Radiometer
 - MFRSR-Yankee Multifilter    Rotating Shadowband    Radiometer
 - MWR-Radiometerics Microwave    Radiometer
 - Vaisala Ceilometer
 - TSI-Yankee Total Sky Imager

94 GHz Radars -  94 GHz Scanning Cloud Radar
Ceilometer
FARS - 532 nm & 1060 nm Lidar
PRT- 5 - Precision Infrared Radiometer Sky Imager - Total Sky
ETL - NOAA Portable Cloud Observatory
SMART - Surface Measurements for Atmospheric Radiation Transfer
MPL - Micro Pulse Lidar

Citation Aircraft
Theory

(Computer Modeling)

 

 

 

Curry: Cloud-Resolving Models
Yale-UMd Group: Sherwood & Dessler (SD) Model, Philips Model
Anvil Modeling Team:
CARMA/MATCH Transport Model
Zipser:
Anvil Cirrus and the Convective Source
Wang:
Realtime Numerical Forecast and Assimilation/Analysis for CRYSTAL-FACE
Y. Wang:
MM5 Forecasts for CRYSTAL-FACE

 

 

 

    
 
 
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