WE-CAN Test Phase payload is a subset of the full payload with respective locations on the C-130 preserved. The drawing is also available as a PDF file.
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Measurement |
Instrument |
PI/Contact |
Notes |
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NMVOCs, HONO, HCN, CH3CN |
U of Montana compact PTR-TOF-MS |
Lu Hu |
Instrument is current being built in Austria. Shipping rack will help meet test flight timing. |
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NH3 |
Aerodyne TILDAS |
Ilana Pollack |
Tentative plans for Ilana to come to RAF to view the inlet/winglet used on Twin Otter on Feb 15. Instrument training at Aerodyne Feb 22-24. |
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Fine-mode aerosol composition |
HR-ToF-AMS |
Delphine Farmer Sonia Kreidenweis |
New postdoc starting July 1. Moving dates to September would resolve this, and ensure AMS can fly in test flights. |
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Aerosol Absorption |
U of Wyoming Custom Photoacoustic Absorption Spectrometer with Thermal Denuder |
Shane Murphy |
PAS instrument is committed both to this project and to another project chasing forest fires in mobile lab this summer – Thus September is better. |
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Aerosol extinction, scattering and absorption |
U of Wyoming Aerodyne CAPSSSA |
Shane Murphy |
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Cloud condensation nuclei number concentration |
CSU DMT Cloud Condensation Nucleus (CCN) counter |
Paul DeMott |
Needs modification for operating at a constant inlet pressure.
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Black carbon mass in individual particles |
Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2)
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Delphine Farmer Sonia Kreidenweis
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Aerosol Inlet System |
Solid Diffuser Aerosol Inlet (SDI) |
RAF
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Ultrafine particles number concentration and size distributions |
NCAR Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometer (SMPS) |
John Ortega |
We are going to have Ezra Levin (Research Scientist with Kreidenweis and DeMott) reach out directly to John Ortega to figure out how much effort is needed. Test flights could be used for John to train operator. |
| CO-CO2-CH4 |
NCAR ACOM Picarro or Los Gatos analyzer
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Teresa Campos | |
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Cloud and aerosol
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UW Cloud Lidar nadir | Shane Murphy | Aft downward looking port only |
