RAF Instrumentation

The EOL home page for airborne instrumentation presents a broad range of the resources available for request as part of airborne research projects. This page covers only the airborne instruments that are housed at the EOL Research Aviation Facility and maintained by the RAF scientists and technicians.

The main categories of instruments that RAF deploys on its aircraft include:

• State parameters (pressure, temperature, air speed, 3D winds)
• Cloud physics
• Chemistry
• Remote sensing (radiometers)

These instruments provide just a basic set of measurement that are typically used on most airborne field campaigns. Each project uses other instruments, provided by the participants from universities, industry, NASA, NOAA or other agencies that can address more specific needs of a particular project.