Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Aerosol Lidar | William Grant (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio | Vertical profile
| 15 m
| 532 nm; 1064 nm | ||||||
FSSP-300 Aerosol Spectrometer | FPCAS | ER-2 - AFRC | Aerosol Scattering Ratio | |||||||||||
High Altitude Lidar Observatory | HALO | Amin R. Nehrir (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8- AFRC, C-130- WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, B200 - LARC, B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC, DC-8 - AFRC, Gulfstream V - JSC, Gulfstream III - LaRC | Lidar | water vapor profiles, methane columns and profiles, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction | ||||||||
High Spectral Resolution Lidar | HSRL-1 | Chris Hostetler (Co-I) | NASA LaRC | B200 - LARC, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Lidar | Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 532 nm; 1064 nm | aerosol backscatter, depolarization, and extinction | ||||
High Spectral Resolution Lidar 2 | HSRL-2 | Johnathan W. Hair (PI) | NASA LaRC | ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, B200 - LARC, B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC, Gulfstream V - JSC, Gulfstream III - LaRC | Lidar | Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 0.1 Hz
| 15 m
| 355 nm; 532 nm; 1064 nm | |||
Raman Airborne Spectroscopic Lidar | RASL | David Whiteman (PI) | NASA GSFC | B200 - LARC | Raman spectrometer | H2O, Aerosol Scattering Ratio, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio, Aerosol Extinction, Temperature | In situ
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