Project Instrumentation

Aerosol Instrumentation

Light Absorption – Magee AE-31 Aethalometer, 7-wavelength – C. Corrigan

Light Scattering – TSI 3563 Nephelometer, 3-wavelength – J. Ogren

Total Particle Concentration – TSI 3022A CPC – C. Corrigan

Inorganic Composition – Filters, TSP and PM1 – D. Savoie

Organic Composition – Filters, TSP and PM1 – J. Schauer

Black Carbon – Filters, Aethalometer – J. Schauer, C. Corrigan

Aerosol Optical Depth – CIMEL Sun Photometer – B. Holben

Size Distribution (< 500 nm) – TSI SMPS – C. Corrigan

Size Distribution (> 500 nm) – TSI APS – C. Corrigan

 

Radiation Instrumentation

Global and Diffuse Radiation (0.2-3.6 μm) - Kipp & Zonen CM21,CM22 type Pyranometers

Direct Radiation (0.2-4.0 μm) - Kipp & Zonen CH1 Pyrheliometer / Epply NIPs (quartz & calcium floride window)

Broadband IR (4.5-42 μm) - Kipp & Zonen CG4 Pyrgeometer

Solar tracking - Kipp & Zonen 2AP-GD

PAR (400-700 nm) - BSI / GUV-2511 (Global & diffuse)

Spectral Radiation (325-1075 nm) - ASD FieldSpec Handheld; Grating Spectrometer

Aerosol Vertical Profiles - MPL Lidar

Meteorological Parameters - R.M. Young instruments (WS, WD, T, RH, P, and Rain Gauge)

(Instrument PIs: M. Ramana, V. Ramanathan, J. Welton, E. Dutton)

 

Intensive Ground Instrumentation

Single Particle Composition – ATOFMS (Aerosol Time Of Flight Mass Spect) – K. Prather

Precipitation chemistry – Rodhe, Granat, Ferm; Lariviere

Balloons (Gan Observatory) – Palmer, Smout, Gillham

Aerosol Absorption – Strawa, Hallar

Whole air sampler – Schauer, Lough