VAP : Aerosol Intensive Properties (AIP)
Instrument Categories
Aerosols
The aip1ogren value-added product (VAP) computes several aerosol intensive properties. It requires as input calibrated, corrected, aerosol extensive properties from the Aerosol Observing Station (AOS). Aerosol extensive properties depend on both the nature of the aerosol and the
amount of the aerosol. Intensive properties are independent of aerosol amount, depending only on the nature of the specific aerosol. The intensive properties of hygroscopic growth factor, aerosol single-scattering albedo, hemispheric backscatter fraction and angstrom exponent are produced at a one minute sample rate. The submicron scattering and absorption fraction are produced on an hourly sample rate.
For more details, see http://science.arm.gov/vaps/aip1ogren.stm.
Output Products
- aip1ogren : Derived: Aerosol intensive properties from AOS, Delene and Ogren et al, 2001
- aipavg1ogren : Derived: Hourly Averages of Aerosol intensive properties from AOS, Delene and Ogren et al, 2001
- aipfitrh1ogren : Derived: Aerosol intensive properties from AOS (FITRH), Delene and Ogren et al, 2001
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.
- Aerosol absorption
- Aerosol backscattered radiation
- Aerosol optical properties
- Aerosol scattering
- Hygroscopic growth
Locations
- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GRW)
- Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PGH)
- ARIES Observatory, Nainital, Uttarkhand, India (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)
