Measurement : Particle size distribution
The number of particles present in any given volume of air within a specified size range.
Categories
Aerosols
Instruments
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
- AOS : Aerosol Observing System
- CSPHOT : Cimel Sunphotometer
- CAS : Cloud and Aerosol Spectrometer
- DRI-GND : Desert Research Institute Ground-Based Aerosol Instruments
- DMA : Differential Mobility Analyzer
- FSSP : Forward-Scatter Spectrometer Probe
- G-1 : Gulfstream
- LEARJET : Lear Jet
- RONBROWN : NOAA Research Vessel Ron Brown
- CIRPAS : NPS CIRPAS Twin Otter Aircraft
- PCASP : Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer
- SPEC-LEARJET : SPEC Learjet
- TDMA : Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer
- TDMA-AIR : Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer- Airborne
- UHSAS : Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer
- CITATION : University of North Dakota Citation Aircraft
- UW-CONVAIR580 : University of Washington Convair 580 Aircraft
Datastreams
- CSPHOT : Cimel Sunphotometer Datastreams
- CSPHOTAOT : Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness data
- CSPHOTALM1DUBO : Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): Dubovik almucantar retrievals
- CSPHOTSIZE : Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): derived: aerosol size distributions
- CSPHOTAOTFILT : Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered data
- CSPHOTPFN1 : Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): Aerosol phase functions derived from almucantar sky radiances
- CSPHOTAOTFILTQA : Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered quality assurance data
- TDMA : Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer Datastreams
- TDMASIZE : Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer: size-resolved concentrations