Particle size distribution
Measurement Categories: Aerosols
Description: The number of particles present in any given volume of air within a specified size range.
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Instruments that produce the measurement
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- Aerosol Observation System (AOS)
- Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT)
- Cloud and Aerosol Spectrometer (CAS)
- Desert Research Institute Ground-Based Aerosol Instruments (DRI-GND)
- Differential Mobility Analyzer (DMA)
- Forward-Scatter Spectrometer Probe (FSSP)
- Gulfstream (G-1)
- Lear Jet (LEARJET)
- NOAA Research Vessel Ron Brown (RONBROWN)
- NPS CIRPAS Twin Otter Aircraft (CIRPAS)
- Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer (PCASP)
- SPEC Learjet (SPEC-LEARJET)
- University of North Dakota Citation Aircraft (CITATION)
- University of Washington Convair 580 Aircraft (UW-CONVAIR580)
Datastreams including the measurement
- csphotalm1dubo - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): Dubovik almucantar retrievals
- csphotaot - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness data
- csphotaotfilt - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered data
- csphotaotfiltqa - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered quality assurance data
- csphotcoarsepfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, coarse mode
- csphotfinepfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, fine mode
- csphotsize - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): derived: aerosol size distributions
- csphottotalpfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, total mode