NOAA Research Vessel Ron Brown (RONBROWN)
Instrument Categories: Aerosols, Radiometric, Cloud Properties, Ocean Observations, Surface Meteorology, Atmospheric Profiling
IOPs Where the Instrument was Used
Nauru99 Campaign
Tropical Western Pacific, June 16 - July 15, 1999
Primary Measurements Taken
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- Precipitation
- Surface stress
- Cloud top height
- CO2 concentration
- Horizontal wind
- Cloud fraction
- Radar Doppler
- Cloud base height
- Sea surface temperature
- Atmospheric pressure
- Latent heat flux
- Sensible heat flux
- Atmospheric moisture
- Aerosol absorption
- Cloud liquid water
- Precipitable water
- Aerosol scattering
- Atmospheric temperature
- Radar reflectivity
- Longwave spectral radiance
- Backscattered radiation
- Particle number concentration
- Particle size distribution
- Longwave spectral brightness temperature
- Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband direct downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband diffuse downwelling irradiance