Gulfstream (G-1)
Instrument Categories: Aerosols, Airborne Observations
General Overview
The ARM Climate Research Facility uses a variety of airborne platforms to supplement its ground-based measurements. Manned and unmanned aircraft offer mobile platforms that provide data for the study of clouds and atmospheric radiation from above, below, and inside cloud layers. By flying at different altitudes, appropriately instrumented aircraft can measure the rate of energy absorption in the atmosphere, differences between up-welling and down-welling radiation, and cloud properties, such as phase, liquid water content, particle size and shape, etc. In addition, aircraft provide the means to physically sample the actual clouds.
For more information about the Gulfstream-1 Research Aircraft, please see http://www.pnl.gov/atmospheric/programs/raf_g1.stm.
IOPs Where the Instrument was Used
Cloud Radar IOP
Southern Great Plains, April 2-22, 1997Fall 1997 Aerosol IOP
Southern Great Plains, September 15 - October 5, 1997Fall 1997 Water Vapor IOP
Southern Great Plains, September 15 - October 5, 1997Shortwave Radiation and Aerosol Intensive Observation Periods
Southern Great Plains, August 3-28, 1998Spring 1997 Aerosol IOP
Southern Great Plains, April 1997
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.
- Horizontal wind
- Atmospheric pressure
- Atmospheric moisture
- Aerosol absorption
- Atmospheric turbulence
- Aerosol concentration
- Aerosol scattering
- Aerosol particle size
- Atmospheric temperature
- Backscattered radiation
- Particle number concentration
- Particle size distribution
- Shortwave broadband total upwelling irradiance
- Shortwave narrowband total upwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave narrowband total downwelling irradiance