| Title | Abbreviation | Operator | Abstract | Licence | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120-degree x-wire anemometer in wind tunnel | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| AATSR | AATSR | unknown | AATSR on ENVISAT | ||
| Aberystwyth: frost point hygrometer (Snow White) | snow_white | unknown | Frost point hygrometer (Snow White) developed by Meteorlabor, Switzerland. This device offers the possibility of water vapour measurements above the tropopause. It can be flown together with an ozone… | ||
| Aberystwyth: SAOZ | aber_saoz | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Aberystwyth: Tunable Laser Diode (TDL) Spectrometer for water vapour | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| ACE | None | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | The NASA Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite enables SWPC to give advance warning of geomagnetic storms. Geomagnetic storms are a natural hazard, like hurricanes and tsunamis, which the Nat… | ||
| ACE-FTS | None | The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) is a high-resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometer flying on the Canadian SCISAT-1 satellite. | |||
| ACGS | None | The Atmospheric Carbon-dioxide Grating Spectrometer (ACGS) is one of the instruments on the Chinese TANSAT satellite. It is a three-band NIR / SWIR grating spectroradiometer designed for the measur… | |||
| Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor I (ACRIM I) | acrim_1 | unknown | The Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM) I was launched in 1980 on the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) spacecraft and produced total irradiance data until 1989. | ||
| Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor II (ACRIM II) | acrim_2 | unknown | ACRIM II was launched on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in September 1991. | ||
| ADEOS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) | adeos_toms | unknown | The ADEOS TOMS instrument was launched on 17th Aug 1996 from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. ADEOS is the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite, developed by NASDA (the National Space Development Age… | ||
| Admiralty meteorological observations | None | unknown | The images of historical weather observations are from various sources held by the National Meteorological Archives of the UK Met Office, being mainly from 'Climatological Returns', 'Weather diaries'… | ||
| ADS40 from Leica Geosystems | None | The ADS40 utilises a pushbroom technique, i.e. a set of sensors scanning below as the aeroplane flies to capture Color InfraRed (CIR) imagery. | |||
| Adsorption Desorption Sytem (ADS) / GC-MSAdsorption Desorption Sytem (ADS) / Gas Chromtography Mass Spectrosocpy (GC-MS) | None | unknown | Adsorption Desorption Sytem (ADS) / Gas Chromtography Mass Spectrosocpy (GC-MS) | ||
| Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) | aatsr | unknown | The Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) measures global Sea Surface Temperature (SST) from space to the highest possible levels of accuracy and stability, as required for climate researc… | ||
| Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) | None | The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B AMSU-B measures five microwave channels: One channel in the 89 GHz ‘window’ channel, one at 150 GHz and remaining three around the 183 GHz water vapor line (see… | |||
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 2 (AVHRR/2) | avhrr2 | unknown | The AVHRR is a radiation-detection imager that can be used for remotely determining cloud cover and the surface temperature. Note that the term surface can mean the surface of the Earth, the upper su… | ||
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 3 (AVHRR/3) | avhrr3 | unknown | The AVHRR is a radiation-detection imager that can be used for remotely determining cloud cover and the surface temperature. Note that the term surface can mean the surface of the Earth, the upper su… | ||
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) | avhrr | The AVHRR is a radiation-detection imager that can be used for remotely determining cloud cover and the surface temperature. Note that the term surface can mean the surface of the Earth, the upper su… | |||
| Advanced Visible and Near InfraRed Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR 2) | None | The Advanced Visible and Near InfraRed 4-band Radiometer type-2 (AVNIR-2) is a visible and near infrared 4-band radiometer offering 10m spatial resolution optical imagery that is often used for land … | |||
| Aerodyne Quadrupole Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) | None | David Green | The instrument is similar in function to the related Aerosol Mass Spectrometer, but is optimised for long-term monitoring, with a lower specification of mass spectrometer and no sizing capability. Ae… | ||
| Aerodyne Research NOx | ari-no-no2 | unknown, Scott Herndon | NO, NO2 and NOx (NO +NO2) samplers operated by Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Rd., Billerica, MA 01821 for Clearflo IOP winter campaign (London 2012). Instruments are Thermo Scientific 42i (NO)… | ||
| Aerolaser CO | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Aerolaser HCHO | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Aethalometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| AGAGE GC-FID | agage_gc_fid | unknown | Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) Gas Chromatography (GC)/Flame Ionization Detector (FID) | ||
| AGAGE GC/RGA3 | agage_rga3 | unknown | Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) Mercury Oxide detector. | ||
| Aginova Sentinel Micro Temperature sensor | None | Small WiFi battery based Temperature sensor used in the HiTemp project | |||
| AIMMS-20 (Airborne Integrated Meteorological Measurement System) | metoffice-aimms | Phil Brown | The AIMMS-20 (Airborne Integrated Meteorological Measurement System) is a canister-mounting probe flown on the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft. Its primary purpose is to provide high-frequency measurements of … | ||
| AIMMS20 instrument on the AWI-polar5 aircraft | awi-aimms20 | AIMMS20 Instrument onboard the AWI-polar5 aircraft operated by Alfred Wegener Institute. Used in EUFAR flights. | |||
| Airborne Droplet Analyser | ADA | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Airborne Prism Experiment (APEX) | apex | APEX Consortium | The Airborne Prism Experiment (APEX) instrument is a hyperspectral remote sensing imaging spectrometer developed by a Swiss-Belgian consortium on behalf of ESA. It is being operated jointly by VITO … | ||
| Air Quality Design NOx, noncore FAAM measurements of NO and NO2 | faam-aqd-nox-instrument | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Air quality instruments for the Environmental Baseline Project | None | Collection of instruments including Thermo-o3, FIDAS 200 particle counter and NO/NO2/NOX Analyser University of York NO/NO2/NOX Analyser: In the photolytic process the sample gas passes through … | |||
| air-sea-flux | None | P. A Cook | Air-Sea fluxes using either measurements from the BAe-146 flights or calculated values from those measurements The data are a long list of 2-minute straight low-level runs from a number of BAe-146… | ||
| A JAVAD AT4 4-antenna GPS system | None | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | A JAVAD AT4 4-antenna GPS system records heading, pitch and roll at 20Hz and velocites at 10 Hz. Antennas are permanently fitted to each wingtip and fore and aft of the fuselage. | ||
| AL5002 Carbon Monoxide instrument | AL5002 CO | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) | atsr2 | unknown | An enhanced version of ATSR (Along Track Scanning Radiometer), ATSR-2, was successfully launched on board the European Space Agency (ESA) ERS-2 (European Remote Sensing - 2) spacecraft on 21st April … | ||
| Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR-1) | atsr1 | unknown | An infra-red radiometer capable of measuring sea surface temperature to better than 0.3K. Launched onboard ERS-1 on 21st July 1991. | ||
| Althens ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Althens ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| AltiKa | None | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) | The Ka-band Altimeter (AltiKa) is flown on the SARAL satellite | ||
| Amazonica: FID (Flame Ionization Detector) chromatography | None | Manuel Gloor | Methane measurements were collected for the Amazonica project using a FID (Flame Ionization Detector) chromatography (HP 6890 Plus) with a 198 cm, 3/16″ O.D. precolumn of length (Silica Gel 80/100mes… | ||
| AMI-SAR | None | A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was launched onboard European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (ERS-1) in July 1991 and ERS-2 in April 1995 as part of the Active Microwave Instrument (AMI). | |||
| AMI-SCAT | None | AMI-SCAT (Active Microwave Instrument - Scatterometer) is a C-band (5.3 GHz) scatterometer flying on the ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites. It measures the sea surface wind vector and large-scale soil mois… | |||
| AMSR-2 | None | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer -2, flying on the Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) series of satellites flown by JAXA | |||
| AMSR-E | None | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS | |||
| Anemometer | None | Met Office | An anemometer is an instrument used to measure wind speed and direction. Munro Anemometers and Dines Pressure Tube Anemometers are used by observation stations worldwide before data is used by the Me… | ||
| Anemometer | None | An anemometer or wind meter is a device used for measuring wind speed, and is a common weather station instrument. | |||
| Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics: Broadband Cavity enhanced Spectrophotmeters | None | Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics | Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM) Broadband Cavity enhanced Spectrophotmeters sensitive technique for direct measurement of atmospheric trace gases. | ||
| Aquarius | None | The Aquarius Instrument is a passive microwave radiometer for measuring ocean salinity and soil moisture. It has been flown the SAC-D satellite (Satélite de Aplicaciones Cientificas - D). The Aqu… | |||
| Aragats -atmospheric electric potential gradient | aragats-pg | A Boltek EFM-100 Electric Field Monitor measures the static electric field generated by thunderclouds electric field in Volts per meter (measurement accuracy 5%). Lightning is detected as a sudden ch… | |||
| Aragats Space Environmental Center Boltek EFM 100 | None | Khanikyants Yeghia | Aragats Space Environmental Center Boltek EFM 100. Boltek EFM-100 Electric Field Monitor measures the static electric field generated in Volts per meter (measurement accuracy 5%). Lightning is detect… | ||
| Armagh Automatic Weather Station (AWS) | armagh-aws | Armagh Observatory | Automatic weather station operating at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland since 1868. The automatic weather station erected by the Board of Trade in 1868, which was demolished in the early 19… | ||
| ARSF Airborne Thematic Mapper (ATM) Azimuth systems 16 (AZ-16) | ATM AZ-16 | unknown | NERC ARSF ATM AZ-16 Airborne Thematic Mapper operated from 1996 to present | ||
| ARSF Airborne Thematic Mapper (ATM) Daedalus-1268 | ATM DAED-1268 | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | NERC ARSF Airborne Thematic Mapper Daedalus 1268 instrument. The Daedalus (now ArgonST) 1268 ATM is a passive multispectral scanner providing 11 fixed wavelength position bands in the visible, near, … | ||
| ARSF APPLANIX | Applanix | unknown | The ApplanixPOS AV is a hardware and software system specifically designed for direct georeferencing of airborne sensor data. Supported by Applanix' industry expertise and technological innovation, P… | ||
| ARSF Compact Airbone Spectrographic Imager 1 (CASI-1) | CASI1 | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | NERC ARSF Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager 1 | ||
| ARSF Compact Airbone Spectrographic Imager 2 (CASI-2) | CASI2 | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | NERC ARSF Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager 2 in operation since January 2000. The ItresCompact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI-2) contains a two-dimensional CCD array-based pushbroom i… | ||
| ARSF Navigation | None | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | Navigation data includes longitude, latitude, altitude, air temperature, relative humidity, pressure, SO2 and mass concentration measurements. | ||
| ARSF Optech Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper 3033 LIDAR | arsf-lidar | unknown | The NERC Airborne Research & Survey Facility (ARSF) provides the UK environmental science community with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data from an Optech ALTM 3033 instrument. The sensor is on… | ||
| ARSF Rollei Digital Camera | arsf-aerial-photography, ROLLEI | unknown | The ARSF ROLLEI digital camera is used to obtain imagery at the same time as the other instruments. This camera replaces the previous film format Wild RC series cameras(?) | ||
| ARSF Specim AISA Eagle | arsf-eagle, NEODC_ARSF_SPECIM_EAGLE | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | The AISA Eagle is a 12 bit, pushbroom, hyperspectral sensor with a 1000 pixel swath width, covering the visible and near infra-red spectrum 400 - 970nm. The maximum spectral resolution of the sensor … | ||
| ARSF Specim AISA Hawk | arsf-hawk, AISA Hawk | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | The AISA Hawk is a 14 bit sensor able to capture short wave infrared wavelengths, 970 - 2450nm. This makes the Hawk an ideal tool for data acquisition on spectral signatures characteristic to chemica… | ||
| ARSF WILD-RC10 Analogue Photographic camera | NEODC_ARSF_RC10 | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | Airborne analogue photographic camera used by the NERC ARSF 199? - 2006. Negatives of frames obtained using this instrument have now been scanned and are available online in JPEG2000 format. | ||
| ARSF WILD-RC8 Analogue Photographic camera | NEODC_ARSF_RC8 | Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) | The Wild (now Leica) RC-10 Aviphot Aerial Camera System is designed for taking near-vertical serial exposures from the air. The standard negative format is 230x230mm. The lens cones may be interchang… | ||
| ASCAT | None | ASCAT (Advanced Scatterometer) is a C Band (2.55 GHz) Scatterometer flown on the Metop series of satellites. It measures the sea surface wind vecotr and large-scale soil moisture. | |||
| At-Bristol Science -atmospheric electric potential gradient | bristol-science-pg | Potential gradient is measured using a JCI Chilworth 131F fast response adverse conditions field meter, with operational health monitoring. It is mounted on a 2 m pole attached to the edge of the ro… | |||
| Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) LI-COR LI-7500 Gas Analyser | cfarr-licor | Judith Agnew | A LI-COR LI-7500 open path gas analyser has been deployed at the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research site in Chilbolton, Hampshire. The instrument operates at infra-red wavelengths… | ||
| ATSR2 | ATSR2-instrument | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Auchencorth Moss Atmospheric Observatory Met Instruments | None | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) | The meteorological measurements were initially made to assist with interpretation of the fluxes and as such weren't installed with the intention of providing WMO standard measurements but since 2014 … | ||
| Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisations (ANSTO) 1500L low-level radon monitor | uea-radon-1 | Grant Forster | The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisations (ANSTO) 1500L low-level radon monitor provides a unique technology for highly sensitive measurements of atmospheric radon (< 100 mBq m-3) a… | ||
| Automatic Soil Water Station (ASWS) | asws | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Automatic Weather Station (AWS) | AWS | unknown | An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labour or to enable measurements from remote areas. The system may report in near r… | ||
| Aveiro ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | AveiroALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| AVHRR-3 | AVHRR-3 | unknown | The AVHRR/3, on board the EPS MetOp satellite series, scans the Earth surface in six spectral bands in the range of 0.58 - 12.5 microns. It provides day and night imaging of land, water and clouds, m… | ||
| AVHRR series | AVHRR | unknown | The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor is a broad-band, 4- or 5- channel scanning radiometer, sensing in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared. Its objective is to pro… | ||
| AWI - BRUKER IFS 120M FTIR spectrometer | AWI_FTIR | unknown | A Fourier Transform InfraRed spectrometer operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. | ||
| AWI: Ozone DIAL | awi_lidar | unknown | DIfferential Absorption (DIAL) LIDAR operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). | ||
| Backscatter Sonde | backscatter_sonde | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Barometer | None | Met Office | A barometer is an instrument used to measure pressure. Climate Data Loggers (CDL), Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) and Enhanced Synoptic Automatic Weather Station (ESAWS) have barometric pressure se… | ||
| BAS: Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) - Isotherm Analysis | bas-bet-isotherm | unknown | BET theory aims to explain the physical adsorption of gas molecules on a solid surface and serves as the basis for an important analysis technique for the measurement of the specific surface area… | ||
| BAS-CIP25 Cloud Imaging Probe | bas-cip25 | The CIP25 is part of a suite of Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) 2-Dimensional Optical Array Probes. It is flown on the BAS MASIN Twin-Otter aircraft and operated by BAS. Shadow images of pa… | |||
| BAS Masin Twin-Otter Core instruments | core-masin | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | A set of core instruments on board the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) MASIN twin-otter aircraft. The instrument suite includes standard temperature and water vapour sensors as well as a turbulence … | ||
| BAS: Picarro (G2301) gas analyser | bas-picarro | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Picarro (G2301) gas analyser is a fast CO2, CH4, H2O analyser used for Eddy Covariance studies and long-term atmospheric monitoring. The heart of the Picarro is a sophi… | ||
| Berne: Millimeter Wave Radiometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bilbao ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Bilbao ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Birmingham: Air Filter - various analytical techniques | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: Ammonia gas analyser | None | Rob Tilling | Analysis for ammonium from PTFE membrane filters collected by MOUDI - at 5m on tower | ||
| Birmingham: CO analyser | None | Rob Kinnersley, Alan Turnbull | CO analyser | ||
| Birmingham: CO, NO2, NO, O3, PM10, SO, SO2, PM2.5, gas analysers | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: Continuous Condensation Particle Counter | None | Ji Ping Shi, Aftab Khan | A condensation particle counter or CPC is a particle counter that detects and counts aerosol particles by first enlarging them by using the particles as nucleation centers to create droplets in a sup… | ||
| Birmingham: Continuous gas phase resonance fluorescence technique | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: Dichotomous sampler | None | Jianxin Yin | Carbon data collected from dichotomous sampler at 5m on tower | ||
| Birmingham: Dionex IC 2100 Ion Chromatography (IC) | birm-filters | Van Tuan Vu | Dionex IC 2100 Ion chromatography is a chromatography process that separates ions and polar molecules based on their affinity to the ion exchanger. It works on almost any kind of charged molecule—inc… | ||
| Birmingham: DRI Model 2015 Multiwavelength Thermal/Optical Carbon Analyzer | None | Van Tuan Vu | The DRI Model 2015 Multiwavelength Thermal/Optical Carbon Analyzer enhances the widely used for quantifying organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC, also termed Black Carbon [BC]), and temperature-… | ||
| Birmingham: Epiphaniometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) | None | Van Tuan Vu | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry or ICP-MS is an analytical technique used for elemental determinations. We extract the metals from filters using HCl/HNO3, then the extract was diluted an… | ||
| Birmingham: Inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) | birm-icp-oes | Inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) (model: Optima 8000; PerkinElmer) is located in University of Birmingham WG1 laboratory. ICP-OES is a trace-level, elemental a… | |||
| Birmingham: Long Path Absorption Photometer (LOPAP) | None | Louisa Kramer, Leigh Crilley | The instrument is a commercial long-path absorption photometer (LOPAP) that measures atmospheric gaseous nitrous acid (HONO) via wet chemical sampling and photometric detection. | ||
| Birmingham: MOUDI 88 stage impactor | bham-stage-impactor | Rob Tilling | Analysis for ammonium from PTFE membrane filters collected by MOUDI - at 5m on tower | ||
| Birmingham: NOx gas analyser | None | Alan Turnbull | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: Ozone analyser | None | Alan Turnbull | Ozone gas analyser from 10m tower through manifold | ||
| Birmingham: Particle Size Magnifier | None | James Brean | The Airmodus Particle Size Magnifier (PSM) grows particles as small as 1 nm in diameter into sizes detectable with a CPC, bringing the aerosol measurements down to molecular scales. | ||
| Birmingham: Partisol sampler | None | Jianxin Yin | Inorganic Anions Collected by Partisol Sampler at 5m on tower | ||
| Birmingham: PM10 gas analyser | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: PM2.5 gas analyser | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: portable automatic weather station (AWS) | None | Andrew Allen, Rob Kinnersley, Lee Grenfell | Weather station For ACSOE campaign, measurements from this instrument are recorded in files with naming convention of ccyymmdd.mt8 where cc is the platform (e.g. mh is Mace Head), yy is the two di… | ||
| Birmingham: Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometer | None | James Brean, Van Tuan Vu | A scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) is an analytical instrument that measures the size and number concentration of aerosol particles with diameters from 2.5 nm to 1000 nm. They employ a continu… | ||
| Birmingham: Scintrex LMA-3 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED The instrument had a modified inlet during ACSOE campaign. | ||
| Birmingham: Sodium Carbonate Coated Glass Denuders | None | Rob Tilling | Sodium Carbonate Coated Glass Denuders from tower at 5m | ||
| Birmingham: Sulphur Dioxide gas analyser | None | Alan Turnbull | Sulphur dioxide gas analyser at 10m through manifold | ||
| Birmingham: Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM) instrument | bham_teom | Alan Turnbull | Tapered element oscillating microbalance (TEOM) is a technique used to measure concentrations of air particles. It consists of an instrument fitted with a size-selective inlet to sample one of the… | ||
| Birmingham: TSI CN Counter 3022 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: TSI CN Counter 3025 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Birmingham: ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometry (UV-Vis) | None | The UV-Vis instrument (model: 6800UV / Vis. Spectrophotometer; JENWAY) is located in University of Birmingham WG1 laboratory. | |||
| Birmingham: X-ray fluorescence (XRF) | None | Van Tuan Vu | WD-XRF instrument (Tiger Bruker S8). Principal:The basis of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry is the interaction of X-ray photons from a separate excitation source with atoms of the elements of interes… | ||
| Bluesky high-resolution digital camera | None | Bluesky | Bluesky used a digital camera capable of capturing imagery at a resolution of 10-25cm to derive a 5m resolution Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for England and Wales. The camera was mounted on survey air… | ||
| Boltek EFM-100 Electric Field Monitor Nor-Amberd | None | Khanikyants Yeghia | Boltek EFM-100 Electric Field Monitor measures the static electric field generated by thunderclouds electric field in Volts per meter (measurement accuracy 5%). Lightning is detected as a sudden chan… | ||
| Bonn: Rayleigh LIDAR | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Boundary Layer Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (DOAS) | doas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bremen: SUMAS/SMS | bremen_sumas | unknown | Sub-millimeter wave atmospheric sounder / sub millimeter sensor operated by the University of Bremen, Germany. | ||
| Bristol: ADS-GC-ECD-ECD | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol: ADS/GC/MS | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol Gas Chromatography Reduction Gas Analser (GC-RGA) | bristol-gcrga | RGA, Trace Analytical Inc. Peak Performer 1 measures CO and H2 every 10 minutes | |||
| Bristol: Gas Chromotography Flame Ionisation detector | bristol-gcfid | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol: GC-MS hydrocarbons | bristol-gcms | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol: GC-MS-NICI | None | Kim Cooke | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol: GLC/ECD/FID | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol: HP6890 | bristol-hp6890 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol LVS -atmospheric electric potential gradient | bristol-vet-pg | Potential gradient is measured using a JCI Chilworth 131F adverse conditions field meter. It is mounted on a 2 m pole buried in the ground within the Langford Apiary. The field mill is ~ 5 m from… | |||
| Bristol MADS-GCMS | None | University of Bristol | Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is an instrumental technique, comprising a gas chromatograph (GC) coupled to a mass spectrometer (MS), by which complex mixtures of chemicals may be separ… | ||
| Bristol Medusa Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (Medusa GC-MS) | bristol-medusa | Medusa GC-MS, Agilent 7890B GC 5977 MS measures trace gas species every hour | |||
| Bristol: TEI Ozone Instrument | bristol-o3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Bristol Uni -atmospheric electric potential gradient | bristo-uni-pg | Potential gradient is measured using a JCI Chilworth 131 adverse conditions field meter. It is mounted on a 1.5 m metal frame on the roof of the medical teaching labs. The field mill is position… | |||
| British Antarctic Survey: 2b Ozone | bas-2b-o3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Aerolaser CO | bas-aerolaser-co | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Aerolaser HCHO | bas-aerolaser-hcho | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Aethalometer | bas-aethalometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: CASLAB Laboratory internal temperature | bas-caslab-temperature | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: CH4 Canisters | bas-ch4-canisters | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) | bas-cpc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Denuder HNO3 | bas-denuder-hno3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Derived parameter- Pollution filter for data filtering | bas-pollution-filter | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Filters - Ion Chromatograph analysis | bas-filters | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Metsensor (CASLAB) | bas-caslab-metsensor | unknown | Metsensors on a 4 meter mast at the Halley CASLab site (Antarctica), including instruments to measure RH, temperature, wind direction and wind speed. | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Metsensor (SIMPSON) | bas-simpson-metsensor | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: NOx chemiluminescence analyser | bas-noxy | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Snow samples - Ion Chromatograph analysis | bas-snowsamples | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Spectral Radiometer | bas-specrad | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| British Antarctic Survey: Vaisala RS92 Radiosonde | bas-vaisala-rs92-radiosonde | British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Andrew C. Moss, Corwin J. Wright | The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Vaisala RS92 radiosonde sounding system is operated at the King Edward Point launch site. Vaisala radiosonde systems are used by meteorological organizations all… | ||
| British Antartic Survey: Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer Greenhouse Gas Analyser | bas-crd | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Picarro (G2301) gas analyser is a CO2, CH4, H2O analyser used for long-term atmospheric monitoring. The heart of the Picarro is a sophisticated time-based measurement t… | |||
| Broad Band (pyranometers and pyrgeometers) Radiometers | BBR | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| BT gases | ceh-bt-gases | BT gases - Picarro G2301-f fast methane analyser, Aerolaser fast carbon monoxide analyser model AL5002, Eco physics CLD780TR NO and NO2 analysers, Thermoelectron 49i O3 analyser. | |||
| Cambell Scientific CS110 electric-field mill | None | Cambell Scientific CS110 electric-field mill | |||
| Camborne: Met Office Windprofiler 915MHz | ukmo-radar-915mhz-1 | unknown | The Camborne Radian LAP3000 Profiler is permanently located at Camborne Met Office. This was the first profiler of it's type to be installed in the UK. This system is an integral part of the UK Opera… | ||
| Cambridge-BAS: UVISTAR | uvistar | unknown | Star Pointing UV-Vis Spectrometer from the Arctic. | ||
| Cambridge: Broadband cavity ringdown spectrometer | cam-bcr-spectrometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge: microDirac - Brighouse and Rastrick | cam-diracbar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge: microDirac - Fodens Motor Works | cam-diracfmw | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge: Surface Acoustic Wave Hygrometer for umist(cambridge)-camp | cam-saw | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge/UFAM: AL5002 Carbon Monoxide instrument | cam-co | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge/UFAM/BAE Systems: RDR4B Navigation Weather Radar | cam-doppler-radar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge/UFAM: Cruciform (NERC) | cam-javad-gps | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge/UFAM: Lidar - O3, water vapour and particulates | cam-lidar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge/UFAM: Near Infra-red Tunable Diode Laser | cam-nir-tdlas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambridge/UFAM: Turbulence Probe | cam-turbulence | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cambrige: LTQ Orbitrap Velos | None | LTQ Orbitrap Velos ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometer located at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge | |||
| Campbell-Stokes recorder | None | unknown | The Campbell-Stokes recorder is a sunshine recording instrument. | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Chemiluminescence NO, NO2, NOy detector | cv-noxy | unknown | This Air Quality Design NOxy instrument is a single channel, chemiluminescence NO detector with a photolytic NO2 converter (diode based blue light converter (BLC) Droplet Measurement Technologies) a… | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Dual channel gas chromatograph with dual flame ionisation detection | cv-dc-gc-fid | unknown | This dual channel GC-FID instrument measures C2-C8 Non-methane hydrocarbons and also C2-C4 oxygenated VOC. It works by trapping the VOC out of the air onto a carbon adsorbent trap at -20 deg C with … | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Gas chromatograph with mass spectrometric detection | cv-gc-ms | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Meteorological instruments | cv-met-webdaq | unknown | Instrumentation for meteorological measurements including wind direction, wind speed, temperature and relative humidity sensors at two heights, and also measurements of atmospheric pressure and radia… | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Meteorological instruments on tower | cv-met-tower | unknown | Cape Verde meteorological instruments positioned on a tower. | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: PICARRO Carbon Monoxide Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer | cv-picarro | Katie A. Read | The Picarro instrument uses Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) to measure CO, CO2, CH4 and H2O, down to ppbV levels. The measurements of these climate gases will be fed into a global network to hel… | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Thermo model 202 UV absorption instrument | cv-2b-o3 | unknown | Ozone at 10m from a Thermo Model 202 UV Absorption manufactured by 2B Technologies. This instrument has an accuracy of +/- 1 ppbV. | ||
| Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Total Gaseous Mercury | cv-tgm | Katie A. Read | The Total Gaseous Mercury (TGM) instrument is a spectrometer detecting elemental, reactive, and particulate mercury. The instrument traps mercury onto gold cartridges and the mercury is then thermal… | ||
| Cape Verde Observatory: Long-path Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer | cv-lp-doas | unknown | This LP-DOAS measures scattered sun light to determine the amount of various trace gases along the 6km light path through the atmosphere. The basic quantity observed by the instrument is the integra… | ||
| Cape Verde Observatory: Meteorological instruments - Campbell | cv-met-campbell | unknown | Instrumentation for meteorological measuremnts including wind direction, wind speed, temperature and relative humidity sensors at two heights, and also measurements of atmospheric pressure and radiat… | ||
| Cape Verde Observatory: Model 49C photometric ozone analyser | cv-tei-o3 | unknown | Ozone at 3 metres is measured using a Model 49C Photometric Analyser, a UV absorption technique with an accuracy of +/-1 ppbV. | ||
| Cape Verde Observatory: Multi-axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer | cv-max-doas | unknown | The MAX-DOAS measures scattered sun light to determine the amount of various trace gases along different lines of sight through the atmosphere, at different elevation angles. Measureements are of IO,… | ||
| Cape Verde Observatory: Vacuum UV fluorescence CO analyser | cv-aerolaser-co | unknown | A vacuum ultraviolet fluorescence CO analyser (Aerolaser 5001) is used to measure CO. It is designed for fast response measurements and has a detection limit of less than 1 ppbv. | ||
| Cardington: Belfort model 6230A visibility sensor | cardington_visibility | unknown | Visibility at the Cardington site is measured using a Belfort model 6230A visibility sensor. | ||
| Cardington: Delta-T ThetaProbe Soil Moisture Sensor | cardington_thetaprobe | unknown | Volumetric soil moisture content measurements are made using Delta-T ThetaProbes, located at depths of 10cm, 22cm, 57cm and 1.6m below the surface, at both the west and south sites of the Cardington… | ||
| Cardington: Druck 1830 series pressure transducer | None | unknown | Water table depth below the surface is measured at the west and south Cardington sites. This is obtained using Druck 1830 series pressure transducers, located inside boreholes in the ground. | ||
| Cardington: Gill Solent HS-50 ultrasonic anemometer | cardington_gill_solent | unknown | Three Gill Solent HS-50 ultrasonic anemometers are deployed at the cardington Met Office Research Unit site and they are used for making fast response wind measurements. | ||
| Cardington: Heitronics KT15D Infrared radiation pyrometer | cardington_ir_pyrometer | unknown | Surface radiative temperature at the Cardington site is measured using a Heitronics KT15D Infrared radiation pyrometer pointed at the ground. | ||
| Cardington: Kipp and Zonen CG4 pyrgeometer | cardington_pyrgeometer | unknown | Two Kipp & Zonen CG4 pyrgeometers are used at the Cardington site, for measuring the incoming and outgoing longwave irradiances (with a spectral range of 4.5 to about 40 mm. | ||
| Cardington: Kipp and Zonen CM21/CM22 pyranometers | cardington_pyranometers | unknown | Three Kipp & Zonen CM21/CM22 pyranometers , are used to measure global incoming, diffuse, and relected solar irradiances at the Cardington site. The diffuse measurement involves shading the sensor … | ||
| Cardington: Michell series 3000 dewpoint hygrometer | cardington_michell_hygrometer | unknown | A Michell Series 3000 dewpoint hygrometer is situated at a height of 1.2m above ground level at the Cardington site. This is mounted inside the 1.2m temperature screen. | ||
| Cardington: MRI integrating nephelometer (model 1550B) | cardington_nephelometer | unknown | An MRI integrating nephelometer (model 1550B) measures the atmospheric scattering coefficient of dry aerosols at the Cardington site. | ||
| Cardington: Setra Model 270 transducer | cardington_barometer | unknown | Barometric pressure is measured to 0.1hPa using a Setra Model 270 transducer (located at a height of 1.5m above ground level at the Cardington site.) | ||
| Cardington: Vaisala Humicaps | cardington_humicaps | unknown | Three Vaisala humicaps are employed for measurement of relative humidity at the cardington site. | ||
| CEH Aerolaser fast carbon monoxide analyser model AL5002 | None | Carole Helfter | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Aerolaser fast carbon monoxide analyser model AL5002 located on BT Tower for the ClearFlow project. | ||
| CEH: Automatic Weather Station | ceh-aws | Gordon McFadyen | Temperature, winds, radiation measurements. | ||
| CEH: Camera75m | ceh-mamera75m | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Continously wetted rotating annular denuder | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: CRANOX | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Detector of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) | None | unknown | A Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS), which employs fast mass spectrometry to detect Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). Owing its low detection limits for many compounds and its high… | ||
| CEH Ecophysics CLD780TR NO and NO2 analysers | None | Carole Helfter | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Ecophysics CLD780TR NO and NO2 analysers located on BT Tower for the CLearFlow project | ||
| CEH Edinburgh: Tedlar bag gas sample | ceh-tedlarbags | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Fixed Ion Strength | None | John Neil Cape | The Fixed Ion Strength method forms a part of the cloud water chemistry analysis method by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The pH is measured with a micro-pH electrode at a fixed (high) ionic s… | ||
| CEH: Flux station | ceh-flux | unknown | The CEH flux stations measure micrometeorological variables. Direct eddy correlation measurements of sensible heat, momentum, and by inference - evapotranspiration. The stations consist of two massts… | ||
| CEH: Gas Electrode | None | John Neil Cape | The gas electrode forms a part of the online cloud water chemistry analysis operated by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The method involves mixing sample stream with dilute alkali (NaOH) which … | ||
| CEH: Graegor | ceh-graegor | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH High Resolution Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) | None | High Resolution Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) continuously samples particles through a critical orifice into an aerodynamic lens. The lens focuses the particles into a narrow … | |||
| CEH Land Cover Reconnaissance Survey | None | unknown | A reconnaissance survey for CEH Land Cover using a recording tablet device to acquire ground data for sample points in a defined area. | ||
| CEH: Met Sensor | ceh-metsensor | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Ozone eddy | ceh-o3-eddy | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Packed column Gas Chromatograph-Electron Capture Detector (GC-ECD) | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH PAN Gas Chromatograph | ceh-pan-gc | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), John Neil Cape | This instrument was built at AEA Harwell and given to ITE Edinburgh in early 1990s. Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) concentrations in air were measured using gas chromatography with electron capture detec… | ||
| CEH: Passive Diffusion Tubes | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH:Path Analyser Licor 7000 | ceh-licor | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Picarro CRDS G1301 | picarro-vaisala | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Picarro CRDS G1301 fast methane analyser located onboard the Finlandia Seaways ferry for the Greenhouse gAs UK and Global Emissions (GAUGE) project. | |||
| CEH Picarro G2301-f fast methane analyser | None | Carole Helfter | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Picarro G2301-f fast methane analyser located on the BT Tower for the ClearFlo project. | ||
| CEH Proton Transfer Reaction-Quadrupole ion guide Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometer (PTR-QiTOF-MS) | None | Joe Acton | CEH Proton Transfer Reaction-Quadrupole ion guide Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometer (PTR-QiTOF-MS) continuously quantifies VOCs over the entire mass range in real-time delivering sub pptv-level detect… | ||
| CEH RR Mechatronics Airrmonia membrane sampler | None | Christine Braban | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology RR Mechatronics Airrmonia membrane sampler on BT tower for the ClearFlo project. This instrument collects NH3 measurements. | ||
| CEH: Scintrex LMA-3 NO2 analyser | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Sonic anemometer | ceh-sonic | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Stopped Flow Injection Analysis | None | John Neil Cape | The Stopped Flow Injection Analysis is a batch cloud water chemistry analysis method used by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The method involved manually operating CEH: Fixed Ion Strength, CEH:… | ||
| CEH: Stopped Flow Injection Colorimeter | None | John Neil Cape | The Stopped Flow Injection Colorimeter forms a part of the online cloud water chemistry analysis method by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The instrument took cloud water from the UMIST passive… | ||
| CEH:Temperature gradient | ceh-temp-gradient | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH:Thermo Environmental Instruments 42C NO-NO2-NOx level analyser: NOx gradient | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH:Thermo Environmental Instruments 42C NO-NO2-NOx level Analyser: O3 gradient | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CEH: Vaisala WXT510 weather station | None | The Vaisala Weather Transmitter WXT510 is a single unit which measures a variety of surface meteorological parameters. | |||
| CEH: Wetness, PAR, solar | ceh-par | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CESSNA: ASASP-X | cessna_asapx | unknown | Aerosol spectrum - accumulation mode; instrument onboard the cessna aircraft. | ||
| CESSNA Core instruments | cessna_core | unknown | Set of core instruments onboard the CESSNA research aircraft, run by the University of Manchester. | ||
| CESSNA: CPC | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CESSNA: GFAS OSG-2 | cessna_gfas | unknown | Instrument onboard the Cessna aircraft to measure ozone flux. | ||
| CESSNA: Heimann KT19.D IR sensor | cessna_heimann | unknown | Instrument onboard the Cessna aircraft to measure surface temperature. | ||
| CESSNA: LICOR gas analyser | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CESSNA: Scintrex LMA-4 | cessna_lma4 | unknown | Instrument onboard the Cessna aircraft to make measurements of NO2/NOx. | ||
| CESSNA: TSI 3010 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CGR4 pyrgeometer | None | CGR4 pyrgeometer measures solar radiance. | |||
| Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometer | None | Tom Bannan | Chemical Ionisation Mass spectrometer | ||
| Chemiluminesence analyser | None | James D. Lee | Chemiluminesence analyser measures NO and NO2 | ||
| Chilbolton ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Chilbolton ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Chilbolton ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Chilbolton ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) 355 nm Ultra Violet Raman Lidar | cfarr-lidar-uv | Judith Agnew | The Raman water vapour lidar is a high power Raman lidar system designed to make simultaneous high resolution measurements of attenuated lidar backscatter coefficient and humidity mixing ratio as a f… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) 35 GHz Copernicus Doppler Cloud Radar | cfarr-radar-copernicus | Chris J. Walden | Copernicus is a 35 GHz (9 mm wavelength) cloud radar at the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Chilbolton Observatory. The radar is a fully coherent, Ka band, dual-polarisation, pulse c… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) 905 nm Vaisala CT75K Lidar Ceilometer | cfarr-lidar-ct75k | Judith Agnew | The Vaisala CT75K is a lidar ceilometer system that makes elastic scattering measurements of clouds and aerosols. It operates at 905 nm and comprises four transmitter/receiver units that operate simu… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) 94 GHz Galileo Cloud Radar | cfarr-radar-galileo | Chris J. Walden | Galileo, the 94 GHz (3.2 mm wavelength) cloud radar has been operated at the Chilbolton Observatory since 1994. The radar is a fully coherent, W band, single polarisation Doppler radar. The radar is … | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) ACROBAT (Advanced Clear-air Radar for Observing the Boundary layer And Troposphere) 1275 MHz L-Band Radar | cfarr-radar-acrobat | Chris J. Walden | The ACROBAT radar system can detect the backscatter from small variations in atmospheric refractive index, enabling the investigation of structures such as the boundary layer, convective plumes, and … | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) AXIS2100 Cloud Camera | cfarr-camera-axis2100 | Darcy Ladd | A second camera has been installed at Chilbolton pointing horizontally. The Axis 2100 camera is used to collect sky images. Images are stored every 5 minutes. Daily weather movies are made from the c… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Campbell Scientific PWS100 present weather sensor | cfarr-campbell-pws100_chilbolton | Judith Agnew | The Campbell Scientific PWS100 present weather sensor deployed at the Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire, detects and classifies precipitation by observing the scattering of a laser beam 20 degrees of… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa) 3 GHz S-Band Radar | cfarr-radar-camra | Chris J. Walden | With a diameter of 25 metres, the 3 GHz CAMRa is the largest steerable meteorological radar in the world. It is able to remotely determine the shape and orientation of cloud and precipitation particl… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Cloud Camera | cfarr-cloud-camera | Darcy Ladd | The JVC KYF55-BE digital camera is used to collect sky images. Twelve images are stored every hour, three taken every 15 minutes. Images from the cloud camera are a useful tool to assist researchers … | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Cloud Camera 2 | None | Darcy Ladd | This cloud camera is used to collect sky images, and replace the earlier camera on the Chilbolton site following it's failure in 2014. It is operated with a fish-eye lens to give full-sky images. Twe… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Direct Visible radiometer | cfarr-radiometer-vis-direct | Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Judith Agnew | The Kipp & Zonen CHP1 pyrheliometer uses a thermopile to measure the solar irradiance received from the direction of the sun. It is mounted on a Kipp & Zonen Solys 2 solar tracker to ensure constant … | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Disdrometer | cfarr-disdrometer | Chris J. Walden | Disdrometers measure the drop size distribution of rain. Two Distromet Joss Waldvogel Impact Disdrometer RD-69 are installed at Chilbolton and Sparsholt and work by converting the vertical momentum o… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Drop-counting raingauge | cfarr-raingauge | Judith Agnew | Rapid response drop-counting raingauges have been developed at the Chilbolton Observatory to give measurements of every drop rather than every tip of a bucket at high time resolution: 10 seconds. | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR): Gas analyser Sonic anemometer | cfarr-gas-analyser-sonic-anemometer | Judith Agnew | A sonic anemometer and a gas analyser measuring water vapour and carbon dioxide are co-located within a compound dedicated to measuring fluxes using the eddy covariance method at Chilbolton Observato… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) GRIMM Particle Counter | cfarr-grimm | Judith Agnew | The Chilbolton Facility for Atmopsheric and Radio Research's aerosol particle concentration measurements are provided by a 164DM environmental dust monitor manufactured by Grimm Aerosol Technik. A Lu… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) HALO Doppler Lidar | lidar-doppler-halo | Judith Agnew | A HALO Photonics Doppler lidar has operated at Chilbolton Observatory since 2006. It produces measurements of the elastic backscattering coefficient of aerosols within the atmosphere. These include c… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Infra-red radiometer | cfarr-radiometer-ir | Judith Agnew | The CG4 pyrgeometer is designed for high accuracy infrared (IR) meteorological measurement research, for both sky and surface emitted infrared radiation, from 4.5 to 42 µm. It provides a voltage outp… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR): Kipp & Zonen CNR4 net flux radiometer | cfarr-net-flux-radiometer | Judith Agnew | Continuous measurements are made using a Kipp & Zonen CNR4 net flux radiometer. It measures both downwelling and upwelling radiation in 2 wavelength bands which are common to many similar instruments… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR): Metek USA-1 sonic anemometer | cfarr-sonic-anemometer | Judith Agnew | The Metek USA-1 sonic anemometer measures the 3 orthogonal components of the wind velocity by measuring the changes in the time of flight of sonic pulses between 3 transmitter/receiver pairs as a res… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Meteorological Particle Sensor | cfarr-mps | Judith Agnew | The meteorological particle sensor works by imaging individual particulates, including rain, snow and hail, and measuring their size. The meteorological particle sensor was manufactured by Droplet Me… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Meteorological Sensors | cfarr-met-sensors | Judith Agnew | Standard meteorological measurements are made at Chilbolton in support of all experiments at the Observatory. The measurements provided in this dataset are temperature, dew point, pressure, wind spee… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Microwave radiometers | cfarr-radiometers-microwave | Judith Agnew | A number of microwave radiometers have been constructed by RCRU engineers and installed at Chilbolton. The radiometers measure zenith sky brightness temperature at a number of frequencies, 22.2, 28.8… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Multiple Raingauges | cfarr-multiple-raingauges | Judith Agnew | Data are provided from 2 types of raingauge, drop-counting and tipping-bucket. Until September 2004 the 2nd standard drop-counter was on the roof of a portakabin at the site. Since then it has been p… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Radiometrics Radiometer | cfarr-radiometer-radiometrics | Judith Agnew | A Radiometrics MP1516A Water Vapor Profiler operates continuously and provides measurements of the zenith sky brightness temperature at 21 frequencies in the range 22 to 30 GHz; this region of the mi… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km 38 GHz Radio Link | cfarr-south-wonston-38ghz | unknown | Monitoring is taking place of the signal levels of several links at frequencies of 38, 54 and 56 Ghz which run from the South Wonston water tower on the A34 to Sparsholt College. The links are within… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km 54 GHz Radio Link | cfarr-south-wonston-54ghz | unknown | Monitoring is taking place of the signal levels of several links at frequencies of 38, 54 and 56 Ghz which run from the South Wonston water tower on the A34 to Sparsholt College. The links are within… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) South Wonston to Sparsholt 5 km 56 GHz Radio Link | cfarr-south-wonston-56ghz | unknown | Monitoring is taking place of the signal levels of several links at frequencies of 38, 54 and 56 Ghz which run from the South Wonston water tower on the A34 to Sparsholt College. The links are within… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Vaisala PWD21 Present Weather Detector | cfarr-pwd21 | Judith Agnew | The Vaisala PWD21 present weather detector measures the current weather conditions at its location. The instrument detects the attenuation and scattering of a light beam to determine most reported pr… | ||
| Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) Visible radiometer | cfarr-radiometer-vis | Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Judith Agnew | The CM21 pyranometer is intended for high accuracy total global, or diffuse sky, solar radiation measurement research on a plane/level surface, for extreme temperature environments. CM21 Features & … | ||
| Chilbolton Observatory Leosphere EZ Polarization Lidar | cfarr-lidar-lesosphere | Judith Agnew | LEOSPHERE EZ Lidar is a ground-based optical remote sensing instrument designed to determine the vertical and horizontal properties of the atmosphere as cloud and aerosol structures. | ||
| Chilbolton: Solarimeter | cfarr-solarimeter | Judith Agnew | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Chilton ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | None | RAL Space | Chilton ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Chilton ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | None | RAL Space | Chilton ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Cimel CE318-2™ sun photometer | cimel_sun_photometer | unknown | The Cimel sunphotometer is a multi-channel, automatic sun-and-sky scanning radiometer that measures the direct solar irradiance and sky radiance at the Earth's surface. Measurements are taken at pre-… | ||
| Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) | CALIOP | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-wavelength polarisation-sensitive lidar which creates high-resolution vertical profiles of cloud and aerosol. The lidar uses 106… | ||
| Cloud Condensation Nuclei | CCN | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cloud Image probe 15 micron resolution (CIP-15) | None | Chris Reed | The Cloud Image Probe (CIP-15) is fabricated by Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT). The CIP-15 is an optical shadow array imaging probe that images cloud particles at 15 micron resolution in 62 s… | ||
| Cloud Physics Console | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Cloud Recorder | None | Met Office | Cloud recorders can be used to measure cloud amount, cloud type, and cloud base. A cloud base recorder and station observers are used by observation stations worldwide before data is used by the Met … | ||
| Cloud retrieval algorithm | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNR/IMAA (Tito Scalo, Italy): Ceilometer | cnr-imaa-ceilometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNR/IMAA (Tito Scalo, Italy): Lidar | cnr-imaa-lidar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNR/IMAA (Tito Scalo, Italy): Microwave radiometer | cnr-imaa-mw-radiometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNR/IMAA (Tito Scalo, Italy): Radiosonde | cnr-imaa-radiosonde | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNR/IMAA (Tito Scalo, Italy): Water vapour lidar | cnr-imaa-wvlidar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNRS: ELSA DIAL LIDAR | Elsa_dial_lidar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNRS: LEANDRE | cnrs_leandre | unknown | LEANDRE 2 is a water vapor differential absorption lidar (DIAL) developed at Service d'Aeronomie (Paris) in cooperation with the Technical Division of the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers … | ||
| CNRS: Rayleigh LIDAR | cnrs-rayleigh-lidar | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNRS: SAOZ UV-Vis Spectrometer | cnrs_saoz | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CNRS - UV LIDAR | cnrs_lidar | unknown | Lidar flown on the Mystère | ||
| CO2 LICOR Analyzer unknown specification | None | Manuel Gloor | CO2 LICOR Analyzer 7000 used to measure CO2 in the Amazonica project. CO2 is a strong absorber in the near infrared wavelength domain of electromagnetic radiation. The instrument measures the inte… | ||
| CO: Ecotech EC9830 Carbon Monoxide Analyzer | None | The EC9830 analyzer uses gas filter correlation to compare the detailed IR absorption spectrum between the measured gas and other gases present in the sample being analyzed. | |||
| Cold Electrodynamic Balance | None | Markus Kalberer | Cold Electrodynamic Balance (CEDB) system is an instrument used to study the evaporation kinetics and freezing properties of supercooled water droplets. The temperature of the CEDB chamber at the loc… | ||
| Commercial Aircraft Monitoring Package | CAMP | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Compact Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer | AMS | unknown | Compact Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer. cToF-AMS. Manchester. | ||
| Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito: Boltek field meter | None | Jean-Pierre Raulin | Potential gradient is measured using a Boltek field meter. It is mounted on a 130 cm aluminium tripod. The sensor is ~15 meters away housing, and is surrounded by scrub and low bushes. Correction … | ||
| Condensation particle counter | None | Mingxi Yang | TSI 3025A. This instrument measures the total number of aerosols in the atmosphere. | ||
| Condensation Particle Counter | CPC | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| core-dornier-data | core-dornier-data | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Core instruments on the DLR Falcon20 aircraft | dlr-falcon20-core, df-core | Core instruments onboard the DLR Falcon20 aircraft operated by DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.). May include: Non dew/frost point hygrometer (lyman Alpha), Inertial Reference/Nav… | |||
| Core instruments on the NCAR C130 aircraft | ncar-c130-core | Core instruments onboard the NCAR C130 aircraft operated by NCAR. Used in EUFAR flights. | |||
| Cosmic-ray Neutron Sensor | None | Rafael Rosolem | The cosmic ray neutron sensor is a device that monitors soil water content in a non-invasive, non-hazardous, and continuous way. This Cosmic-ray Neutron Sensor manufactured by Hydroinnova LLC (Albuqu… | ||
| Cow Lane - Height Barn Microwave Link | CowL-HeB-link | unknown | Microwave link set up between the Cow Lane site and the Height Barn site. This method of estimating rainfall, the dual-frequency microwave link, provides continuous-time measurements of path-averaged… | ||
| Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES) | CLAES-instrument | unknown | The Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES) is an instrument on board the UARS satellite launched in 1991 which measured global temperature, pressure, O3, H2O, CH4, N2O, NO, NO2, N2O5, HNO3,… | ||
| CSIRO ADS/GC-MS | csiro ads_gcms | unknown | CSIRO Absorption Desorption System / Gas Chromatography Mss Spectroscopy | ||
| CSIRO Fluorometric | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CSIRO HPLC (High Performance liquid chromatography) | csiro hplc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| CSIRO Ozone monitors | csiro o3_monitors | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Davis met station | None | James D. Lee | Davis met station | ||
| Davis Wireless Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station | None | Hripsime Mkrtchyan | Davis Wireless Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station was installed (including UV and Solar Radiation Sensors) at the Aragats Research Station. This Weather Station has the following integrated Sensors: … | ||
| D-CALM: Aircraft GPS position device | dcalm-gps-position | unknown | GPS device onboard NERC-DO228-D-CALM aircraft. | ||
| D-CALM: Canister Sampler | dcalm-canister-sampler | unknown | Canister sampler onboard the NERC Do228 D-CALM aircraft. | ||
| Delta-T Devices BF3 sunshine sensor | None | Delta-T Devices BF3 sunshine sensor | |||
| Delta-T Devices Ltd BF2 sunshine sensor | BF2_sunshine_sensor | unknown | The BF2 can measure three things:-Total incident PAR solar radiation, Diffuse PAR radiation and Sunshine status. It measures Sunshine indirectly, with reasonable accuracy, using a simple equation bas… | ||
| Delta-T SunScan canopy gap fraction measurement device | delta_t_sunscan | unknown | A Delta-T SunScan canopy gap fraction measurement device. SunScan measures incident and transmitted PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation) in canopies and provides a direct display of Leaf Area In… | ||
| Demokritus University of Thrace Campbell CS110 Electric Field Mill | None | Kostas Kourtidis | Demokritus University of Thrace Campbell CS110 Electric Field Mill. Potential gradient is measured using an Electric field mill (CS110 Campbell Scientific). It is mounted on a 3m metal pole. A site… | ||
| Denuder HNO3 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DIFA-UNIBAS, CNR-IMAA, Tito Scalo Italy: BOMEM Fourier Transform Spectrometer | unibas-ftir | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DIFA-UNIBAS, CNR-IMAA, Tito Scalo Italy: REFIR BB Spectrometer | unibas-bb-spec | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DIFA-UNIBAS, Potenza, Italy: Raman Lidar | unibas-lidar-raman | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Disdrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DJI Phantom 3/DJI Phantom 4 | None | Martin Schaefer | Phantom 3: DJI quad-copter with 1/2.3" CMOS sensor camera (12M effective pixels) Phantom 4: DJI quad-copter with 1/2.3" CMOS sensor camera (12.4M effective pixels) | ||
| DLR: Frost-point Hygrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DLR: OLEX Lidar | dlr_olex | unknown | The upward pointing aerosol-ozone-lidar (OLEX) is operated by DLR, Germany. | ||
| DLR: ozone monitor | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DMI: SAOZ-7 | dmi_saoz | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| DMSP SSMT/2 - Atmospheric Water Vapor Profiler | None | The SSM/T-2 sensor is a five channel, total power microwave radiometer with three channels situated symmetrically about the 183.31 GHz water vapor resonance line and two window channels. This instrum… | |||
| Dobson and Brewer spectrophotometers | dobson_brewer_spectro | unknown | spectrometer instruments used to monitor ozone at stations worldwide. | ||
| Dobson Photo Spectrometer | dob_photo_spectro | unknown | This ground-based instrument measures column ozone by the technique of differential absorption of ultraviolet (UV) light with the sun (or moon) as a light source. | ||
| Doppler radars | None | A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. It does this by bouncing a microwave signal off a desired target and analyzin… | |||
| Dornier 128 core instruments | dornier-128-core | unknown | Core instruments on board the Dornier 128 aircraft operated by the Institute of Flight Guidance and Control at the University of Braunschwieg. The instruments give: Static, dynamic and differential … | ||
| Dornier-D-Calm core instruments | None | unknown | Instruments on board the Dornier D-CALM 288 aircraft | ||
| Drilling Rigs | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Drop-counting raingauge | drop_count_raingauge | unknown | Drop-counting raingauge are capable of measuring high intensity rainfall at a very high temporal resolution. | ||
| Dropsonde | None | Dropsonde | |||
| Dunkeswell: Met Office Windprofiler 1290MHz 1 | ukmo-radar-1290mhz-1 | unknown | The Dunkeswell Radian LAP3000 is permanently located at an existing SAMOS site within Dunkeswell Airfield. The Dunkeswell profiler was one of two Radian 1290MHz profilers installed in the UK in Febr… | ||
| Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) | ERBE | unknown | The ERBE instrument aboard ERBS, launched from the Space Shuttle Challenger in October 1984 (STS-41G), had the main aim to provide accurate measurements of incoming solar energy and shortwave and lon… | ||
| EASOE Balloon instruments | easoe_balloon | unknown | Balloon flights were launched during the EASOE campaign with onboard various instruments. Those include: CNRS SAOZ-BAL UV-Vis spectrometer, CNRS Ozonometer, Denver CAESR (Cold Atmospheric Emission Sp… | ||
| Ecko 290 Radar Altimeter | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Eco Physics Ozone CLD | None | 10 Hz ozone chemiluminescence detector, adapted from an Eco Physics NOx detector. A cylinder supplies 2% NO in N2 which reacts with O3 to form NO2 in an excited state. On relaxation, a photon is emit… | |||
| Ecotech Spectronus FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer) | None | The Spectronus FTIR analyses the concentration of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and carbon monoxide in air samples using absorption spectroscopy. Air is pumped into a 3.5L sample cell. An i… | |||
| EFM-100 Atmospheric Electric Field Monitor | None | Anirban Guha | Potential gradient (Vertical Electric Field) is measured using an EFM-100 Atmospheric Electric Field Monitor. The sensor is mounted on a tripod stand on the roof of the building of Dept. of Physics, … | ||
| Egrett aircraft core instruments | None | unknown | Instruments onboard the ARA Egrett aircraft | ||
| Electric Field Monitor Panska Ves observatory | None | Jaroslav Chum | Potential gradient is measured using an EFM-100 Electric Field Mill from Boltek. It is mounted in inverse position about 0.9 m above ground using Boltek 3 feet tripod inverting mounting kit. The EFM… | ||
| Elementar Pyrocube analyser | None | Samples were analysed by continuous-flow-isotope-ratio mass spectrometry using an Isoprime 100 mass spectrometer linked to an Elementar Pyrocube analyser at the University of Lancaster, Lancaster Env… | |||
| EMPA: Automatic Weather Station | None | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | AWS deployed in Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. | ||
| EMPA: CRANOX | None | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | CRANOX deployed at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland during FREETEX | ||
| EMPA: GC-ECD | None | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| EMPA: Horiba Arma-360 (ND-IR technique) | None | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| EMPA: TEI 409C UV absorption | None | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Engine-intake thermometer | ship_thermometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) | None | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument is a fixed 'whisk-broom', eight-band, multispectral scanning radiometer capable of providing high-resolution imaging information of the Earth's sur… | ||
| Environment Agency CASI-3 | EA CASI-3 | unknown | The Environment Agency uses a Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) to help in its duty, under the Environment Act 1995, to form an opinion on the general state of the pollution of the enviro… | ||
| Environment Agency Digital Camera | EA Camera | unknown | Rollei AIC modular LS (H25) digital camera operated by the Environment Agency | ||
| Environment Agency LIDAR | Environment Agency LI | unknown | Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Optech ALTM 3100 instrument operated by the Environment Agency | ||
| ENVISAT AATSR | AATSR-instrument | European Space Agency (ESA) | The ENVISAT AATSR continues the ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 mission data sets of precise sea surface temperature (SST), thereby ensuring the production of a 10 year near-continuous data set from the ERS-1 and … | ||
| ENVISAT ASAR | ASAR | European Space Agency (ESA) | The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) on-board ENVISAT is an active C-band radar that provides land cover data regardless of cloud cover and time of day/night. ASAR was designed for continuity… | ||
| ENVISAT GOMOS | GOMOS | unknown | GOMOS measures atmospheric constituents by spectral analysis of the spectral bands between 250 nm to 675 nm, 756 nm to 773 nm, and 926 nm to 952 nm. Additionally, two photometers operate in two spect… | ||
| Envisat - MERIS | meris-instrument | unknown | The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched on the 28th of February 2002 from Kourou (French Guyana) and operated by the Eu… | ||
| Envisat - MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) Instrument | mipas-instrument | European Space Agency (ESA) | The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th February 2002 and op… | ||
| ENVISAT RA-2 | envisat-RA | unknown | Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2) is an instrument onboard the ENVISAT satellite for determining the two-way delay of the radar echo from the Earth's surface to a very high precision: less than a nanosecond. … | ||
| Envisat - SCIAMACHY | sciamachy-instrument | European Space Agency (ESA) | The Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th of F… | ||
| EP Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) | ep_toms | unknown | The EP/TOMS was the only instrument aboard an Earth Probe Satellite launched on July 2, 1996. It achieved its initial orbit about 12 days later, and began taking measurements on July 15th. The EP/TOM… | ||
| ERA SkyArrow IBIMET core instruments | skyarrow, skyarrow-instruments | Instruments onboard the ERA SkyArrow IBIMET aircraft operated by IBIMET (CNR-Institute of Biometeorology). May include: Incident flow vector probe, CO2 and H20 by InfraRed absorption, Visible/Near I… | |||
| erm yeah right | None | erm yeah right | |||
| ERS1 ATSR1 | ATSR1 | unknown | ATSR-1 was launched as part of the payload of ESA's ERS-1 satellite on 17th July 1991, and was the test-bed for the along track scanning concept. | ||
| ERS2 ATSR2 | ATSR2 | unknown | The second Along-track Scanning Radiometer, ATSR-2, is part of the payload of ERS-2, launched on 20/04/1995. It consists of two instruments, an Infra-Red Radiometer (IRR) and a Microwave Sounder (MWS… | ||
| EUFAR Core Instruments | None | Holding record for EUFAR aircraft instrument records - details to follow | |||
| EUFAR instrument: AWI-AERIAL-PHOTOGRAPHY | None | EUFAR instrument: AWI-AERIAL-PHOTOGRAPHY - more details needed | |||
| European Remote Sensing Satellites 1 & 2 (ERS-1, ERS-2) Active Microwave Instrument-Synthetic Aperture Radar (AMI-SAR) | SAR | European Space Agency (ESA) | A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was launched onboard European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (ERS-1) in July 1991 and ERS-2 in April 1995 as part of the Active Microwave Instrument (AMI). | ||
| FAAM: AQD NOX | faam-aqd-nox | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements/British AErospace) systems: Set of FAAM core instruments | core | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | Core instruments are provided and can be operated by FAAM. Data will be made available routinely at BADC. Some core instruments may not be operated on all flights. The standard core instrument data m… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Aerolaser AL5002 Carbon Monoxide instrument on Core Chemistry rack (CO) | faam-aerolaser-co | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring Carbon monoxide (CO). Aerolaser AL5002 Used pre May 2011 AL 5002 VUV Fast Fluorescence CO Analyser The AL5002 (s/n 127) is a commercial gas analyser produced by Aer… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Aerosol size spectrum optical probe (PCASP) | faam-pcasp | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring Aerosol partcle concentration, mean volume radius and size spectrum (0.1 - 3 micrometres). | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Broad band (pyranometers and pyrgeometers) Radiometers (BBR) | faam-bbr | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring 0.3 - 3 micrometres, 0.7 - 3 micrometres and 4 - 50 micrometres hemispheric irradiance. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Core Consoles | faam_core_console | unknown | Data recording and communication systems. Inertial Navigation Unit. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: De-iced (Rosemount 102BL) and non de-iced (Rosemount 102AL) temperature sensors | faam-rosemount | Hannah Price, Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | FAAM core instruments measuring true air temperature (in K) by using platinum resistance thermometers (currently, possibility of changing to thermistors in future) in de-iced and non-deiced housings.… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Downward facing radiometer (Heimann) | faam-heimann | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring brightness temperature (8-14 micrometres) | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Faam flight constants | faam-cst | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Fast Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FFSSP) | faam-ffssp | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring 1-second averaged values of: droplet number concentration, liquid water content, mean volume radius, effective radius and droplet size spectrum (1 - 47 micrometres). | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Filter sampling system | None | Hannah Price, Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | FAAM instrument used to collect particulate samples onto filters for post-flight laboratory analysis. The filters system is used to collect particulate samples via the two filters inlets when the … | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Hallett CloudScope | faam-cloudscope | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Honeywell H423 laser Inertial Navigation Unit (INU) | faam-inu | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring aircraft velocity components, Attitude, Attitude Rates, Ground Speed and Drift angle. Position and Acceleration. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Hygrometer (Buck CR2) | faam-cr2-hygro | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM), Hannah Price | FAAM non-core instrument measuring dew point or frost point by a chilled mirror hygrometer. The Buck CR2 is a chilled mirror hygrometer for use in cloud-free air - it optically monitors the temper… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Hygrometer (General Eastern) | faam-general-eastern | Hannah Price, Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | FAAM Core instrument measuring dew point or frost point by using a chilled mirror hygrometer. The General Eastern 1011B is a chilled mirror hygrometer for use in cloud-free air - it optically mon… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Lidar | faam_lidar | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | FAAM Core LIDAR measuring profiles of ozone, water-vapour and particulates. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Liquid and total water content probe (Nevzorov) | faam-nevzorov | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | The Nevzorov probe, manufactured by Sky Physics Technology Inc., is a multi-element hot-wire probe for the simultaneous measurement of condensed liquid water content (LWC) and total condensed water c… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Liquid Water Content Probe (Johnson-Williams) | faam-johnson-williams | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring concentration of liquid water in clouds using a heated wire resistance bridge. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Met Office WVSS-II | None | Alan Vance, Met Office | Met Office instrument measuring water vapour by using a tunable diode laser absorption technique, reported as a volume mixing ratio (ppmv). The WVSS-II measures atmospheric water vapour using a n… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Dropsonde | faam-dropsonde | unknown | The Vaisala Dropsonde RD93 is a general-purpose dropsonde for high-altitude deployment from a variety of aircraft. Slowed in its descent through the atmosphere by a special parachute, the RD93 measur… | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Flight log | flight-log | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Flight summary | flight-sum | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems or other aircraft: Flight track | flight-track | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | A KML Google Earth, or text-based NASA-Ames file showing the approximate geographic flight path for a particular flight. This is created by sampling the position coordinates taken from the core data … | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Particle Soot Absorption Photometer (PSAP aka SOOTY) | faam-psap | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring black carbon. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Patch (ex MRF) - GPS | faam-gps | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring aircraft position, velocity and time standard. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Radar Altimeter | faam-radalt | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring altitude. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum system (used on turbulence probe) | faam-rvsm | unknown | FAAM core instrument measuring static and pitot-static pressures, pressure altitude and Indicated Air Speed. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Rosemount pair inlet nephelometer | faam-nephelometer | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring total scattering and hemispheric backscattering`coefficient at three visible wavelengths (450, 550 and 700nm). | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Set of FAAM non-core instruments | non-core | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Set of several core and/or non-core instruments | merged-data | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Subset of FAAM core instruments measuring cloud physics data | core-cloud-phy | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: TECO 42 chemiluminescence instrument | faam-nox | unknown | FAAM Core instrument to measure NO, NO2 and NOx on core chemistry rack. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument | faam-o3 | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring ozone on core chemistry rack. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Total Water Content (TWC) probe | faam-twc | unknown | FAAM core instrument measuring total water content. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: TSI 3025A Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) - formerly known as CNC. | faam-cnc | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring condensation particles. | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Two dimension cloud particle imaging probe (2-DC) | faam-2d-c | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring Particle number concentration, condensed water content, mean volume radius, precipitation rate and size spectrum (25 - 800 micrometres). | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Two dimension precipitation particle imaging probe (2-DP) | faam-2d-p | unknown | FAAM Core instrument measuring Particle number concentration, condensed water content, mean volume radius, precipitation rate and size spectrum (200 - 6400 microns). | ||
| FAAM/BAE systems: Upward, Downward, Forward and Rear view cameras | faam-video | Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) | FAAM core instruments producing video recordings. | ||
| FAAM-CIP100 Cloud Imaging Probe | faam-cip100 | The CIP100 is part of a suite of Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) 2-Dimensional Optical Array Probes. It is flown on platform: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE and op… | |||
| FAAM-CIP15 Cloud Imaging Probe | faam-cip15 | The CIP15 is part of a suite of Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) 2-Dimensional Optical Array Probes. It is flown on platform: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE and ope… | |||
| FAAM: DMT Dual Column Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) | faam-ccnrack | unknown | The CCN (Cloud Condensation Nuclei) counter measures the number of cloud condensation nuclei in a sample for a given set point supersaturation. The column operates on the principle that the diffusion… | ||
| FAAM Fast Greenhouse Gas analyser | faam-fgga | unknown | FAAM Fast Greenhouse Gas analyser. FAAM non-core instrument first used in BORTAS project. | ||
| FAAM WCM-2000 Multi Element Water content System | faam-wcm2000 | The WCM-2000 Multi Element Water content System, manufactured by Science Engineering Associates, Connecticut USA, is a four-element hot wire probe for the simultaneous measurement of liquid water con… | |||
| Fast aerosol size distribution instrument | None | Mingxi Yang | This instrument provides a size distribution of aerosols between the radius range of 0.1-10 micron. | ||
| Fast CO2 and CH4 analyser | None | Mingxi Yang | Los Gatos Research Fast Greenhouse Gas Analyser (enhanced performance model). It is a cavity-based absorption spectrometer that measures CO2 and CH4 concentrations in the atmosphere. | ||
| Fast Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (PMS canister instrument) | FFSSP | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Fennec automatic weather station | leeds-aws-f131, leeds-aws-f133, leeds-aws-f134, leeds-aws-f135, leeds-aws-f136-1, leeds-aws-f136-2, leeds-aws-f138, leeds-aws-f140, leeds-aws-f141 | Alexander Roberts | Automatic weather stations (AWSs) were deployed at 8 stations in the Sahara in 2011 (until 2013 for some stations) as part of the Fennec field campaign. Designed and built at the University of Le… | ||
| Filter Pack Samplers | None | Filter packs: Filter pack samplers were used to collect simultaneous samples of gas and bulk PM. The filter packs comprised one particle filter followed by 2-4 base-treated gas filters in an all-Tefl… | |||
| Filter pack UNH | unh-fp | Alexander Pszenny | 3-stage 47 mm diameter filter pack University of New Hampshire, USA | ||
| Finish Meteorological Institute: Vaisala CT-31 ceilometer | None | Finish Meteorological Institute | The Finish Meteorogical Institute Vaisala CT-31 ceilometer. It uses a near-infrared laser to derive the atmospheric backscatter and specifically to derive information on the cloud base height and ver… | ||
| Finnish Meteorological Institute Vaisala FD12P Present Weather Sensor | fmi-vaisala-fd12p | Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) | Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) Vaisala FD12P Present Weather Sensor. | ||
| Firn-air analysers | firn_air | unknown | A Firn-air analyser is a spectrometer analysing the air trapped in a firn sample. | ||
| FISBAT-CNR: GASCOD | fisbat-gascod | unknown | Gas Absorption Spectrometer Correlating Optical Differences (GASCOD) spectrometer operated by FISBAT-CNR, Italy. | ||
| FLIR SC 6000 HS thermal camera | None | The FLIR SC6000 High-Speed thermal camera has a spectral range of 1.5-5.0µm with a thermal range of -20 to 350°C and accuracy of ±2°C. It was used to produce thermal imagery by The Geoinformation Gro… | |||
| Forschungszentrum Jülich: 2pi SR Filter Radiometer | None | Forschungszentrum Jülich | Meteorologie Consult GmbH 2pi SR Filter Radiometer operated by the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) | ||
| Forschungszentrum Jülich: Vacuum Ultraviolet Resonance Fluorescence Instrument (VURF) | None | Forschungszentrum Jülich | Vacuum ultraviolet resonance fluorescence instrument (VURF) operated by the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) | ||
| FSF ASD FieldSpec Pro | ASD_fieldspec_pro | unknown | The Field Spectroscopy Facility has three Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) FieldSpec Pro spectroradiometers available for loan. ASD's flagship model, the FieldSpec Pro is the industry standard for a… | ||
| FSF Erbium doped Spectralon panel and Mylar and McCrone Filters | FSF_erbium_mylar_McCrone | unknown | The calibration of the spectroradiometer's wavelength scale is often over looked by the users. However it is relatively easy to verify and does not always require expensive equipment. The Field Spect… | ||
| Full tide bubbler gauge | full_tide_bubbler | unknown | A type of gauge to measure sea levels. | ||
| Galway/Macehead: Magae Scientific AE-9 Aethalometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Galway/Macehead: Measurements from in-situ Mace Head instruments (O3, CO, CH4, H2) | macehead-core | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Galway/Macehead: MeteoConsult GmbH Capillary column GC-ECD | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Galway/Macehead: UV Monitor Labs 8810 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Gas chromatgraph HP model 6890 series Plus | None | Gas chromatgraph HP model 6890 series Plus | |||
| Gas chromatographs | None | Gas chromatography (GC) is a common type of chromatography used in analytical chemistry for separating and analyzing compounds that can be vaporized without decomposition. Typical uses of GC include … | |||
| gas chromatograph with a flame ionization detector | chromatog_flame_ion | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Gas chromatography HP 6890 series | None | INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Especiais) Sao Jose dos Campos | Hewlett Packard HP 6800 Gas chromatography measures dry air CH4 mixing ratio. Basic principle: sample air is added to a carrier gas stream which enters a material (called a column) for which passage … | ||
| GBS (Global Broadcast Service) satellite receivers | cfarr-gbs | Sarah A. Callaghan | A satellite receiver used to collect signals from the GBS (Global Broadcast Service) satellite and perform studies of atmospheric effects. Operated at 20.7 GHz. | ||
| GC-ECD | gc_ecd | unknown | Gas Chrmoatography (GC) - Electrolytic Conductivity Detection (ECD) | ||
| GC-MS (Ambient air) | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Geiger counter | geiger_counter | unknown | A Geiger counter, also called a Geiger-Muller counter, is a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation. | ||
| General Eastern 1011B Thermoelectric Hygrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| General Eastern 1011B Thermoelectric Hygrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Geodetic GNSS receiver | None | An off-the shelf geodetic GNSS receiver with geodetic GNSS antenna. Examples of GNSS receivers (IGS equipment identifiers): TRIMBLE 4000SSE TRIMBLE 5700 TRIMBLE NETRS TRIMBLE NETR5 ASHTECH Z-XII3 LEI… | |||
| Geophysics Institute of Peru: Boltek field meter | None | Jean-Pierre Raulin | Potential gradient is measured using a Boltek field meter. It is mounted on the roof of one building of the university. There are many buildings. PG values are not correct by height factor. | ||
| Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment 1 (GERB-1) | GERB-1 | EUMETSAT | GERB-1 onboard Meteosat Second Generation 2, was launched on 21st December 2005 and sent its first image on 1st February 2006. The GERB instrument (Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget), can make a u… | ||
| Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment 2 (GERB-2) | GERB-2 | EUMETSAT | GERB-2 onboard Meteosat Second Generation 1, was launched on 28th August 2002 and started transmitting data on 12th December 2002. The GERB instrument (Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget), can make… | ||
| GER1500 spectroradiometer | GER1500_spectroradiometer | unknown | The GER 1500 from the Geophysical and Environmental Research Corporation (GER) is a light-weight, high performance single-beam field spectroradiometer measuring over the visible to near infrared wave… | ||
| GER3700 Spectroradiometer | GER3700_spectroradiometer | unknown | The GER 3700 from the Geophysical and Environmental Research Corporation (GER) is a high performance single-beam field spectroradiometer measuring over the visible to short-wave infrared wavelength r… | ||
| GFO-RA | None | The GEOSAT Follow-On Radar Altimeter (GFO-RA) is a radar altimeter flown on the GFO satellite. | |||
| Gill Maximet 100 weather station | None | Gill Maximet 100 weather station | |||
| Gill Maximet 501 Weather station | None | Gill Maximet 501 Weather station | |||
| Gill Metpak Pro | None | Mingxi Yang | Gill Metpak Pro; This is a met sensor that measurements standard meteorological parameters. | ||
| Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS) | gomos | unknown | The Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS) instrument is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th of February 2002 an… | ||
| Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) | gome | unknown | Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment, a nadir-scanning ultraviolet and visible spectrometer for global monitoring of atmospheric Ozone, was launched on-board ERS-2 in April 1995. GOME delivers global o… | ||
| Global Positioning Systems | GPS | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| GMI (core) | None | The GPM Microwave Imager (GPI) is a multipurpose imager flown on the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Core Observatory by NASA | |||
| GOES Imager | goes_imager | unknown | The GOES Imager is a multi-channel instrument designed to sense radiant and solar-reflected energy from sampled areas of the Earth. The multi-element spectral channels simultaneously sweep east-west … | ||
| GOES sounder | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| GOME-2 | None | unknown | Data from the GOME-2 instrument on board the Eumetsat EPS MetOp satellite. GOME-2 is a spectrometer that measures both the radiance component of the light reflected by the Sun-illuminated Earth's atm… | ||
| Goodrich Rosemount Probes | None | Goodrich Rosemount Probes mounted on the nose. A non de-iced model 102E4AL and a de-iced model 102AU1AG logged at 0.7Hz to measure temperature. | |||
| GOSAT | None | Centre for Climate System Research - National Institute for Environmental Studies (CCSR-NIES) | Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT) observes infrared light reflected and emitted from the earth's surface and the atmosphere. Column abundances of CO2 and CH4 are calculated from the observat… | ||
| GRACE instrument | None | Instrumentation on the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE-FO satellite missions. | |||
| Graduated probe | None | Snow depths were measured by pushing a graduated probe | |||
| Hallett CloudScope | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) | HALOE-instrument | unknown | The Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) was launched on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) spacecraft September 12, 1991, and after a period of outgassing, it began science observation… | ||
| Hameldon Hill - Clarkes Hill Microwave Link | HamH-CH-link | unknown | Microwave link set up between the Hameldon Hill radar site and the Clarkes Hill site. This method of estimating rainfall, the dual-frequency microwave link, provides continuous-time measurements of p… | ||
| Harvard Impactor | None | The principle of the method is that air is drawn by a pump through a size selective inlet (Harvard impactor) and next a filter on which airborne particles are collected quantitatively. The impactor… | |||
| Heather Hall - Clarkes Hill Microwave Link | HeH-CH-link | unknown | Microwave link set up between the Heather Hall site and the Clarkes Hill site. This method of estimating rainfall, the dual-frequency microwave link, provides continuous-time measurements of path-ave… | ||
| Heidelberg: Low Resolution DOAS spectrometer | heidelberg_doas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Hemispherical Camera Nikon Coolpix 995 | hemispherical_camera | unknown | Hemispherical camera Nikon Coolpix 995. resolution: 2048 x 1536. | ||
| Hermon - atmospheric electric potential gradient | hermon-pg | Potential gradient is measured using a CS110 electric-field mill. Frequency of measurment is 1Hz. It is mounted on a 3m metal tripod, fixed to a solid rocky surface (mostly basaltic). It is situated… | |||
| High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) | hirdls-instrument | unknown | HIRDLS is an infrared limb-scanning radiometer designed to sound the upper troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere to determine temperature; the concentrations of O3, H2O, CH4, N2O, NO2, HNO3,N2O5,… | ||
| High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) | None | HIRS is a 20-channel infrared scanning radiometer that performs operational atmospheric sounding. HIRS has 19 infrared channels (3.8-15 µm) and one visible channel. The swath width is 2160 km, wit… | |||
| High Resolution Visible Imaging Instrument (HRV) | None | The HRV instrument is a multispectral radiometer designed for SPOT (Earth observing satellites) spacecraft. The HRV instrument provides high-resolution imaging in the visible and near-infrared portio… | |||
| HOBO U23-001 dataloggers (University of Portsmouth) | ports-hobo | Nicholas Pepin | HOBO Pro v2 Temperature/Relative Humidity data logger is a weatherproof data logger with built-in temperature and relative humidity sensors. The Relative Humidity sensor provides superior durability … | ||
| Honeywell H423 laser inertial navigation unit | H423 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Honeywell HPA sensors | None | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | Static and Dynamic pressure from the aircraft static ports and heated pitot tube, logged using Honeywell HPA sensors at 5Hz. | ||
| Honeywell YG9000D1 Radar Altimeter | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| HONO | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Humidity Sensor | None | Met Office | A humidity sensor is an instrument used to measure relative humidity and dew point. Air temperature measured by thermometers can be used to make the humidity calculations, as well as dry and wet bulb… | ||
| Hungarian Academy of Sciences Boltek EFM 100 | None | Jozsef Bor | Hungarian Academy of Sciences Boltek EFM 100. Potential gradient (PG) is measured using a BOLTEK EFM 100 Atmospheric Electric Field Monitor. It is mounted on a 3m metal pole surrounded by trees at a… | ||
| HyCRISTAL KAMPALA AWS | None | Automatic weather stations include: • Adcon BP1 barometric pressure sensor, at 1.4 metres above ground level • Hukseflux LP02 pyranometer • Adcon Raingauge RG Pro 02, at 1.0 metres above ground le… | |||
| HyCRISTAL KAMPALA Rain Gauge | None | Rain gauges are: • Adcon Raingauge RG Pro 02 o Lugoba Reservoir, at 10.5 metres above ground level o Kanyanya Reservoir, at 10.5 metres above ground level o Freka Enterprises, Tula Road, at 1.0 m… | |||
| Hydrocarbon canister measurements of Cape Grim surface air, GC-FID CSIRO | None | Hydrocarbon canister measurements of Cape Grim surface air, GC-FID CSIRO | |||
| IASI | None | unknown | Data from the IASI instruments on board the Eumetsat EPS MetOp satellite series. The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) is designed to measure the infrared spectrum emitted by the ea… | ||
| ICECAPS-ACE: Condensation particle counter | None | Heather Guy | The Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) is a GRIMM CPC 5.400. The CPC is located on the roof of the MSF building at Summit station, 72.578590N -38.452693E, approximately 3 m from the ground (dependin… | ||
| ICECAPS-ACE: heated anemometer | None | Surface wind profiles measured using the following anemometers: Lufft VentusX, heated 2D sonic anemometer. Metek uSonic-3 Scientific, heated 3D sonic anemometer. Each sensor is mounted on th… | |||
| ICECAPS-ACE: KT15 Infrared Temperature sensor | None | Heather Guy | Heitronics KT15 IR temperature sensor (number 1) is a digital, compact, programmable and universally applicable radiation pyrometer series with comprehensive and flexible functions for industrial tem… | ||
| ICECAPS-ACE: SKYOPC optical particle counter | None | Heather Guy | The GRIMM SKYOPC 1.129 Optical particle counter is located on the roof of the MSF building at Summit station, 72.578590N -38.452693E. Approximately 3 m from the ground (depending on snow drifting/ ac… | ||
| ICECAPS-ACE: Sonic distance sensor | None | Heather Guy | The SR50AH Heated Sonic Distance Sensor provides a non-contact method for determining snow depth. It determines depth by emitting an ultrasonic pulse and then measuring the elapsed time between the e… | ||
| ICECAPS-ACE: temperature and humidity sensors | None | Heather Guy | Four Vaisala HMP155 T/RH sensors with heated probe. Each sensor is mounted on the Met tower at Summit station inside an aspirated shield. Tower location: -38.470361E, 72.572962N Tower top elevat… | ||
| ice-core analysers | ice_core | unknown | An ice-core analyser is a spectrometer analysing the air trapped in an ice sample. | ||
| Iceland Greenland seas Project (IGP):METEK MRR2 Micro Rain Radar | None | Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen | The Micro Rain Radar (MRR), manufactured by Meteorologische Messtechnik GmbH (Metek) is a frequency modulated (FM), continuous wave (CW) Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging). The MRR transmits at a fr… | ||
| Ice Radar on the AWI-polar5 aircraft | awi-ice-radar | Ice Radar (AWi Radio-Echo Sounding system) onboard the AWI-polar5 aircraft operated by Alfred Wegener Institute. Used in EUFAR flights. | |||
| iDarac gas chromatograph | None | Isoprene abundances were measured using the iDirac (Bolas et al., Atm. Meas. Tech., 2020), a custom-built portable gas chromatograph with photo-ionisation detection (GC-PID). The instrument is design… | |||
| IDC Campbell CS110 Electric Field Mill | None | Yoav Yair | Interdisciplinary Centre (IDC) Herzliya Campbell CS110 Electric Field Mill. Potential gradient is measured using a CS110 electric-field mill. It is mounted on a 3m metal tripod, fixed to a solid roc… | ||
| IKONOS CAMERA | Ikonos Camera | unknown | IKONOS is reputedly the world's first commercial, high-resolution imaging satellite, which, taking its name from the Greek word for "image", stands to revolutionize the commercial remote sensing indu… | ||
| Imperial: Bendix Chemiluminescent Ozone monitor | None | Paul Lightman | Bendix Chemiluminescent Ozone monitor operated by Imperial College London. | ||
| Imperial: Formaldehyde Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer (TDLAS) | imperial_tdlas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Imperial: HONO | imp-hono | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Imperial: Jetstream GPS | None | Paul Lightman | GPS on-board Cranfield Jetstream Research Aircraft, operated by Imperial College, London. | ||
| Imperial: J(NO2) Filtered Solarimeter | None | Paul Lightman | J(NO2) Filtered Solarimeter operated by Imperial College London | ||
| Imperial: Monitor Labs 8840 NOx Monitor | None | Paul Lightman | Monitor Labs 8840 NOx Monitor operated by Imperial College London. | ||
| Imperial: NCAR NOy Monitor | None | Paul Lightman | NCAR NOy Monitor operated by Imperial College London. | ||
| Imperial: PEroxy Radical Chemical Amplification (PERCA) technique | imp-perca | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Imperial: Rosemount Outside Air Temperature Sensor | None | Paul Lightman | Air temperature sensor owned by Imperial College London. | ||
| Imperial: Scintrex LMA-3 NO2 analyser | None | Paul Lightman | Scintrex LMA-3 NO2 analyser operated by Imperial College London. | ||
| Imperial: Single channel mid infra-red tunable diode laser | imp-1c-tdlas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Imperial: Tropospheric Airborne Fourier transform Spectrometer (TAFTS) | imp-tafts | unknown | The goal of the TAFTS instrument is to improve our understanding of the role of water vapour and cirrus clouds in the regulation of the Earth's climate. It can do this by taking direct measurements o… | ||
| Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS) | ISAMS-instrument | unknown | ISAMS is an infra-red radiometer, which observes thermal emission from the Earth's limb. The technique of pressure modulator radiometry is used to derive vertical profiles of temperature, mixing rati… | ||
| Infoterra MERIS MTCI Level 3 processor | MTCI L3 Processor | unknown | Global and regional composite (Level 3) products of MERIS Level 2 geophysical data are generated by the UK Multi-Mission Product Archive Facility (UK-MM-PAF). The MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index … | ||
| Infrared gas analyzer | None | An infrared gas analyzer measures trace gases by determining the absorption of an emitted infrared light source through a certain air sample. Trace gases found in the Earth's atmosphere get excited u… | |||
| InfraRed-Nucleation by Immersed Particles Instrument (IR-NIPI) | None | Alexander D. Harrison | InfraRed-Nucleation by Immersed Particles Instrument (IR-NIPI) is a cold plate immersion freezing instrument which measures freezing events using IR thermometery. Briefly, droplets of 50 uL volume ar… | ||
| Infrared Sea surface temperature Autonomous Radiometer (ISAR) | ISAR | unknown | Infrared Sea surface temperature Autonomous Radiometer (ISAR) is an instrument developed by the University of Southampton since 1999 to provide accurate and reliable in situ skin sea surface temperat… | ||
| INRA - LAI-2000 plant canopy analyser | inra_lai2000 | unknown | Li-Cor LAI-2000 plant canopy analyser (Ref. N4431), belonging to INRA, France. LAI stands for Leaf Area Index. | ||
| Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) Custom built wet-chemical (ICCAS) | None | Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) Custom built wet-chemical instrument used to measure HONO. | |||
| Institut fuer Meteorologie und Klimaforschung: 2 um Infra-red Lidar | imk-lidar | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Institut fuer Meteorologie und Klimaforschung: Radiosonde | imk-radiosonde | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Institut fuer Meteorologie und Klimaforschung: SODAR 1 | imk-sodar1 | unknown | Scintec FAS64 acoustic sodar to provide winds and backscatter data from about 50 m to around 700 m above ground level depending on conditions, at 10 minute frequency. | ||
| Instrument.title: DETAILS NEEDED | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Insulated sea-temperature bucket | insulated_sst_bucket | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| INTA Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner | inta-ahs | Argonst Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner measures Radiance Spectra. Operated on the INTA-CASA-RS aircraft. Used in EUFAR flights. | |||
| INTA-CASA-AR core instruments | INTA-CASA-AR-core | Core meteorology and chemistry instruments on the INTA-CASA- airborne research aircraft. | |||
| INTA Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager 1500i | inta-casi | INTA Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager 1500i is an Imaging Spectrometer operated on board the INTA-CASA-RS aircraft. Used in EUFAR flights. | |||
| INTA: UV-Vis spectrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Intergraph Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC) | ornance_survey_dmc | unknown | The DMC�� is an innovative turnkey large format digital frame camera system. Intergraph's digital cameras support aerial surveys for a wide range of mapping, geographic information systems (GIS), and… | ||
| International Met Station Observer | observer_synop | unknown | Observer reporting hourly specific weather parameters which cannot be measured by an instrument e.g. cloud type, cloud amount, present and past weather and state of ground. Observations are made foll… | ||
| IROE: LIDAR | iroe_lidar | unknown | Lidar operated by the Instituto Riceca Sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche (IROE), Firenze, Italy. | ||
| Isle of Man: Met Office Wind profiler 915MHz (Previously Capel Dewi and South Uist) | ukmo-radar-915mhz-2 | Met Office | The Met Office took an interest in wind-profile data from the NERC MST Radar since the early years of the Facility. They purchased 4 of their own boundary-layer wind-profilers (2 operating at 915 MHz… | ||
| ITALSAT 20GHz beacon receiver | ITALSAT 20GHz beacon receiver | Sarah A. Callaghan | Receiver for monitoring 18.7 GHz beacon signal | ||
| ITALSAT 40GHz beacon receiver | ITALSAT 40GHz beacon receiver | Sarah A. Callaghan | Receiver for monitoring 39.6 GHz beacon signal | ||
| ITALSAT 50GHz receiver | ITALSAT 50GHz beacon receiver | Sarah A. Callaghan | Receiver for monitoring 49.5 GHz beacon signal | ||
| ITE: AIR AS-4A PTU free flight sonde | None | Gordon McFadyen | The Atmospheric Instrumentation Research (AIR) AS-4A PTU (Pressure, Temperature and Humidity) free flight sonde owned by Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (now Centre for Ecology and Hydrology). | ||
| Javad Eurocard receiver system | None | JAVAD GNSS Inc. | GPS receiver used by Landmap for the collection of Kinematic GPS (KGPS) data; which is a geodetic, dual-frequency receiver capable of recording GPS code pseudorange and carrier-phase measurements. | ||
| JCI Chilworth 131 Electric Field Mill | None | Keri A Nicoll | Potential gradient is measured using a JCI Chilworth 131 adverse conditions field meter. It is mounted on a 3m metal pole on the University of Reading atmospheric observatory, which has a number of … | ||
| Jena Spaceborne Scanner JSS 56 | None | The Jena Spaceborne Scanner JSS 56 is a pushbroom sensor carried on each RapidEye satellite. Each sensor is capable of collecting image data in five distinct bands of the electromagnetic spectrum; Bl… | |||
| Karlsruhe: BONEM-DAZ | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Karlsruhe: MIPAS-FT | mipas_ft | unknown | MIPAS-FT is an airborne Fourier-transform infrared emission sounder. | ||
| Karlsruhe: MIPAS-LM | karlsruhe_mipaslm | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| KCL: ACSM Aerodyne Quadrupole Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) | kcl-acsm | The Aerodyne Quadrupole Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) instrument operated by King's College London for the Clearflo project is similar in function to the related Aerosol Mass Spectromet… | |||
| Keck-Carbon Cycle Accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) | None | Keck-Carbon Cycle AMS facility, University of California, Irvine. A compact AMS particle accelerator from National Electrostatics Corporation (NEC 0.5MV 1.5SDH-2 AMS system) for measuring radiocarbon | |||
| Kipp & Zonen CGR3 pyrgeometer | None | Kipp & Zonen CGR3 pyrgeometer | |||
| Kipp & Zonen CMP22 pyranometer | None | Kipp & Zonen CMP22 pyranometer measures solar irradiance on a planar surface. | |||
| KIT Enduro core instruments | kit-enduro-core, ke-core | Instruments onboard the KIT Enduro aircraft operated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. May include: Incident flow vector probe, Optical Particle Counter (OPC), Nephelometer, Broad Band Radiomete… | |||
| Lancaster: Cofer Sampler | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Lancaster: Four-stage filter pack aerosol sampler | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Lancaster: GC-FPD | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Lancaster:Proton Transfer Reaction mass spectrometer | lanc-ptr-ms | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Lancaster: Pulsed Fluorescence Analyser | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| LANDSAT4 MSS | MSS-instrument | unknown | The Multi-spectral Scanner (MSS) sensors are line-scanning devices observing the earth perpendicular to the orbital track. | ||
| LANDSAT5 Thematic Mapper (TM) | landsat5_TM | unknown | Thematic Mapper instrument onboard LandSat 5. | ||
| LANDSAT7 ETMPLUS | ETM+ | unknown | The ETM+ (extended thematic mapper) sensor is an eight band nadir-viewing, multi-spectral scanning radiometer providing high-resolution images of the earth, detecting visible, near-infrared, short wa… | ||
| Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) | None | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Geological Survey (USGS) | The Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) are instruments on board the Landsat 8 platform provides multispectral images of the Earth's surface in the visible, near infrared… | ||
| LandSat Instruments | unspecified_landsat_inst | unknown | The LandSat satellite series carried the Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) camera, the Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS), the Thematic Mapper (TM) and the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+). | ||
| Landsat MSS (MultiSpectral Scanner) | None | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | The Multispectral Scanner is one of the Earth observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. A Multispectral Scanner (MSS) was placed aboard each of the first five Landsat satellites. The MSS' … | ||
| Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) | None | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | The Thematic Mapper (TM) is one of the Earth observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. TMs were placed aboard the Landsat 4 and 5 satellites. The wavelength range for the Thematic Mapper (… | ||
| Laquila:No2 LIF | laquila-lif-no2 | Laquila | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Laquila:Noy LIF | laquila-lif-noy | Laquila | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| La Sapienza Uni: LIDAR | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Lavrion ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Lavrion ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Leeds: API gas analyser (models 200A, 300, 400) | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: Automated Injection GC-FID | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: Automatic Weather Station | leeds-aws-02, leeds-aws-08, leeds-aws-09, leeds-aws-10, leeds-aws-11, leeds-aws-12, leeds-aws-14, leeds-aws-16, leeds-aws-20, leeds-aws-22, leeds-aws-23, leeds-aws-26, leeds-aws-27, leeds-aws-28, lee… | James B. McQuaid, Michael J. Pilling, Alastair C. Lewis | 16 of these were deployed for CSIP. They are coded as leeds-aws-nn in filenames within the CEDA archive (nn is a number designating the particular instrument) For ACSOE campaign, measurements from… | ||
| Leeds: Fluorecence Assay by Gas Expansion instrument (FAGE) | leeds-fage | Lisa Whalley | This is a ground-based laser-induced fluorescence instrument for detection of OH, HO2, and RO2 radicals. OH reactivity measurements using a laser flash-photolysis technique can be provided alongside … | ||
| Leeds: Forward Scattering Spectroscopy Probe (FSSP) | leeds_fssp | unknown | A forward scattering spectrometer probe (FSSP) is an optical particle counter, suitable for counting and sizing particles in the size range of 0.5 - 47 micron diameter. | ||
| Leeds: HPLC | leeds-peroxide | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: HPLC with post column derivatisation | leeds-hplc-pcd | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: IR spectrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: J(O1D) filter radiometer | leeds-fr-jo1d | Lisa Whalley | The j(O1D) filter radiometer (Metcon GmbH) provides a measurement of solar actinic radiation integrated over selected wavelength ranges by means of a filtered photomultiplier. The instrument consists… | ||
| Leeds: Laser induced fluorescence | None | James D. Lee | OH measurements by laser induced fluoresence | ||
| Leeds: Laser Induced Fluorescence instrument for Iodine Monoxide | leeds-fage-io | unknown | A Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) instrument has been developed to detect iodine monoxide (IO) radicals in the atmosphere. | ||
| Leeds Long-Path Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (LP-DOAS) | leeds-lpdoas | unknown | Long-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy (LP-DOAS) instrument run by the University of Leeds, School of Chemistry. | ||
| Leeds: Merged data | None | unknown | Merged OP3 ground data (OP3-1), using the observations as reported on the BADC from the various (Leeds) instruments involved in the campaign. The timebases for the merged files are given in the file … | ||
| Leeds: OH lifetime instrument | leeds-oh-lifetime | Eloise Slater | OH is measured by photolysing ozone at 266 nm to produce OH, decay of OH with ambient air is measured with LIF (laser induced fluorescence) at 308 nm | ||
| Leeds: Organics by Real-time Airborne Chromatograph (ORAC-GC) | leeds-orac | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: PAN gas chromatograph | leeds-pan-gc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe | leeds-pcasp | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: SODAR 3 | leeds-sodar3 | unknown | Scintec FAS64 acoustic sodar to provide winds and backscatter data from about 50 m to around 700 m above ground level depending on conditions, at 10 minute frequency. | ||
| Leeds: TEI 42 trace level chemiluminescence NOx analyser | leeds-nox | Lisa Whalley | The Thermo 42i NOx Analyser measures the amount of nitrogen oxides in the air from sub-ppb levels up to 1000 ppb using chemiluminescence. The Model 42i is a single chamber, single photomultiplier tub… | ||
| Leeds: TEI 49 UV absorption O3 analyser | leeds-o3 | Lisa Whalley | Thermo Environmental Instruments 49C UV absorption O3 analyser under AMF and currently operated by the University of Leeds. This is a ground-based laser-induced fluorescence instrument for detection … | ||
| Leeds: Tethersonde | leeds-tsonde | unknown | Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) instrumnet "Balloon Borne Instruments", consisting of a Gill Technology Ltd turbulence sensor suspended from a tethered balloon cable. Sereia… | ||
| Leeds/UFAM: Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (DOAS) | leeds-doas | unknown | Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (DOAS) first located at UEA then moved to Leeds University (~2008). | ||
| Leeds: UV spectrometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: Volatile Aerosol Concentration and Composition sensor (airborne) - VAAC | leeds-vacc | unknown | An instrument (consisting of a DMA-CPC, direct CNC, Volatility-PCASP-X and tube sampler for particulates) originally designed at the University of Sunderland to measure aerosol (3 nm < d < 3mm) chemi… | ||
| Leeds: Volatile Aerosol Concentration and Composition sensor (ground-based) | leeds-vol | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leeds: Wind anemometer, RH and temperature sensors on top of FAGE container | leeds-metsensor | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leica C10 terrestrial laser scanner | None | Leica C10 terrestrial laser scanner | |||
| Leica choke-ring antenna | None | Leica Geosystems | Antenna capable of greatly reducing the number of erroneous GPS signals that may have been reflected off nearby structures. Used by Landmap for the collection of kinematic GPS (KGPS) data. | ||
| Leica Geosystems System 500 and MC1000 units | None | Leica Geosystems | GPS receivers used by Landmap for the collection of Kinematic GPS (KGPS) data, which are geodetic, dual-frequency receivers capable of recording GPS code pseudorange and carrier-phase measurements. | ||
| Leica GS10 GNSS receivers (ncl-leica-gnss) | None | Newcastle University, Nigel T Penna | Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receiver that logs dual frequency US GPS and Russian GLONASS data for subsequent data processing to enable millimetre level positioning and estimation of at… | ||
| Leicester: Broad Band Photolysis {J(O1D) and J(NO2)} Radiometers | leic-bbr | University of Leicester | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester-CIMS | leic-cims | Roberto Sommariva | Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. Built by THS Instruments (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). Negative ion mode using iodide (I-) ion as reagent gas. Optimized for measurement of inorganic halogen species. | ||
| Leicester: filter radiometer j(NO2) | leic-fr-jno2 | University of Leicester | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: filter radiometer j(O1D)-a | leic-fr-jo1d-a | unknown | Homemade Filter Radiometer | ||
| Leicester: filter radiometer j(O1D) -b | leic-fr-jo1d-b | unknown | Filtered radiometer from Meteorologie Consult Gmbh operated by the University of Leicester. | ||
| Leicester: PEroxy Radical Chemical Amplification (PERCA) technique | leic-perca | University of Leicester | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer CH3CHO | leic-sr-ch3cho | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer CH3COCH3 | leic-sr-ch3coch3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer - flux | leic-sr-flux | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(CH3COOH) | leic-sr-jch3cooh | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(H2O2) | leic-sr-jh2o2 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(HCHO-NR) | leic-sr-jhcho-nr | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(HCHO-R) | leic-sr-jhcho-r | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(HNO3) | leic-sr-jhno3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(HONO) | leic-sr-jhono | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(NO2) | leic-sr-jno2 | University of Leicester | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(O1D) | leic-sr-jo1d | University of Leicester | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Spectral Radiometer j(PAN) | leic-sr-jpan | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: teco-o3-analyser | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Leicester: Temperature sensor Rotronic MP103A | leic-temperature | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| LEOSPHERE EZ Aerosol Lidar | None | LEOSPHERE EZ Lidar is a ground-based optical remote sensing instrument designed to determine the vertical and horizontal properties of the atmosphere as cloud and aerosol structures. | |||
| Li-6252 CO2 analyser | None | Atmospheric CO2 mole fraction is measured using a commercially available 'Li‐6252' analyser (Li‐Cor Inc.), which uses non‐dispersive infrared (NDIR) technology. The Li‐6252 is operated in differentia… | |||
| LICOR LI-7000 | None | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | A LICOR LI-7000 closed path infra-red gas analyser is fitted. Sampling is from a Rosemount inlet and readings are triggered at 50 Hz, to measure closed path water vapour and CO2. | ||
| Liege uni: FTIR spectrometer | liege_ftir | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) | LIMS-instrument | unknown | The objective of the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) experiment onboard Nimbus 7, was to map the vertical profiles of temperature and the concentration of ozone, water vapor, nitroge… | ||
| Litton LTN-211Omega Navigation System | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Los Gatos Research (LGR) Fast Greenhouse Gas Analyser (FGGA) | lgr_FGGA | Grant Forster | Los Gatos Research (LGR) Fast Greenhouse Gas Analyser (FGGA) measures trace concentrations of methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O) simultaneously in flowing gaseous samples (usua… | ||
| Malvern temperature sensor | malvern_temp | unknown | Air temperature recording instrument at the Met Office Malvern station in Hereford and Worcester, UK. | ||
| Manchester: ACSM Aerodyne Quadrupole Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) | man-ascm | The Aerodyne Quadrupole Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) instrument operated by King's College London for the Clearflo project is similar in function to the related Aerosol Mass Spectromet… | |||
| Manchester: Aerodynamic Particle Sizer | man-aps | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Cloud condensation counter | man-ccn | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Cloud Droplet Probe - formerly umist-cdp | man-cdp | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Differential Pressure 5-hole turbulence probe | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Diode Laser System - formerly umist-qctdl | man-qctdl | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Hydrogen Peroxyde Detector | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Online Passive Cloud Collector | None | Carl Bradbury | The data from the instrument for the ACSOE campaign are stored in files with cpo, cw1 extensions. | ||
| Manchester: OPC - Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer Probe | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Particulate Volume Measurer (PVM) | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester Pollution Flags | man-poll-flag | Flags to indicate pollution episodes during the BUNIAACIC deployment at LBA-TT34, Amazonia, Brazil. A full description of the flags and how they were derived is given by Whitehead et al. (2016) B… | |||
| Manchester: Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) | man-sp2 | Paul I. Williams | The Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) is manufactured by Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT). It measures the soot (also known as black carbon) content of individual airborne particles, known … | ||
| Manchester: TEI 42 trace level chemiluminescence NOx analyser - formerly umist-nox | man-nox | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: TEI 49 UV absorption O3 analyser - formerly umist-o3 | man-o3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: TEI CO - formerly umist-co | man-co | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: The Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FSSP) | man-fssp | unknown | A forward scattering spectrometer probe (FSSP) is an optical particle counter, suitable for counting and sizing particles in the size range of 0.5 - 47 micron diameter. It essentially consists of a l… | ||
| Manchester: Tunable Diode Laser System(NO2) - formerly umist-tdls | man-tdls | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester/UFAM: Airborne Droplet Analyser - formerly umist-ada | man-ada | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester/UFAM: Differential Mobility Particle Sizer - formerly umist-dmps | man-dmps | unknown | A Differential Mobility Particle Sizer (DMPS) operated by the University of Manchesetr which measures aerosol size distribution. The DMPS classifies particles according to electrical mobility in a d… | ||
| Manchester/UFAM: Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyser - formerly umist-htdma | man-htdma | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester/UFAM: Sonic anemometer 2- formerly umist-sonic-2 | man-sonic-2 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester/UFAM: Sonic anemometer 3- formerly umist-sonic-3 | man-sonic-3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester/UFAM: Sonic anemometer 4- formerly umist-sonic-4 | man-sonic-4 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: UV monitor Labs 8810 Ozone detector | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Manchester: Webcam | man-webcam | unknown | Web camera deployed to record weather and clouds. | ||
| man-wibs3m | man-wibs3m | Manchester UV-LIF spectrometer data processed with MUTANT data processing toolkit. Measures fluorine and chlorine aerosol number concentration and particle size distribution | |||
| Max Plank Off-Axis Integrated-Cavity Output Spectroscopy (OA-ICOS) | mp-oa-icos | Justin Worsey | Real-time N2O (Nitrous Oxide) and CO (Carbon Monoxide) concentrations are simultaneously and continuously measured using an Off-Axis Integrated-Cavity Output Spectroscopy (OA-ICOS) analyser (Los Gato… | ||
| Measurements of Ozone and Water Vapor by Airbus In-Service Aircraft (MOZAIC) instruments | mozaic_instruments | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) | None | unknown | The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched on the 28th of February 2002 from Kourou (French Guyana) and operated by the Eu… | ||
| Medusa Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) | None | The Medusa Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) instrument provides analysis of a range of trace gas species (including halocarbons and light hydrocarbons) via pre-concentration of an air samp… | |||
| MERSI-1 | None | The Medium Resolution Spectral Imager -1 (MERSI-1) is an instrument on the Feng-Yun -3 series of satellites flown by the Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA). The instrument measures in 20 … | |||
| Met Éireann: Vaisala CL31 Ceilometer | met-eireann-vaisala-cl31-ceilometer | Met Éireann | The Met Éireann own a number of Vaisala CL31 ceilometers used for detecting cloud base heights and also for obtaining backscatter profiles to aid ash cloud detection. The CL31 employs a pulsed diode… | ||
| Met Éireann: Vaisala CT25K Ceilometer | met-eireann-vaisala-ct25k-ceilometer | Met Éireann | The Met Éireann own a number of Vaisala CT25K ceilometers used for detecting cloud base heights and also for obtaining backscatter profiles to aid ash cloud detection. The CT25K unique single-lens… | ||
| Meteor-3 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) | meteor3_toms | unknown | The TOMS experiment on board the Meteor-3 satellite provided daily global coverage of the Earth's total ozone by measuring the backscattered Earth radiance in the six 1-nm bands. Meteor-3 TOMS was la… | ||
| Meteoric Ablation Simulator (MASI) | None | The Meteoric Ablation Simulator (MASI) is a chamber with a resistively heated tungsten filament. A pyrometer monitors the temperature of the filament between temperatures of 1273 – 2873 K. Particles … | |||
| Meteorological instruments for the Environmental Baseline Project | ebl-met | Accurate and reliable measurement of Wind Speed and Direction plus Temperature, Humidity, Atmospheric Pressure operated by York University for the Environmental Baseline project at Kirby Misperton. … | |||
| Meteorological Instruments Group Armagh | None | unknown | The Automatic Weather station logs various parameters of weather data and displays the results in almost real time. The sensors measure Air temperature, Rainfall, Barometric Pressure, Sunshine, Wind … | ||
| Meteorologiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet (MISU): Rotronic T/RH sensor | misu-rotonic-met | Meteorologiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet (MISU) | The Meteorologiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet (MISU): Rotronic T/RH sensor measures air temperature and relative humidity at 1 Hz frequency | ||
| Meteorologiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet (MISU): surface met sensor | misu-surface-met | Joseph A Sedlar | The Meteorologiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet (MISU): weather station measures a range of surface meteorology at 1 Hz frequency, including: air temperature, relative humidity, downwelling s… | ||
| Meteosat imager | None | unknown | Visible, thermal and water vapour infra-red channels were recorded every 30 minutes from the satellites geostationary orbit above 0deg longitude, 0deg Latitude. | ||
| METEOSAT Visible and IR Imager (MVIRI) | mviri | unknown | Objectives/applications: Earth and atmospheric monitoring, operational meteorology, climatology. Basic climatological data sets and precipitation index are derived daily. Measurements: day/night clou… | ||
| Method to calculate sea ice thickness from ENVISAT RA-2 measurements | None | Katharine A. Giles | Method developped by Giles et al., 2008 | ||
| Met Office: Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System (ARIES) | metoffice-aries | Met Office | ARIES is a Fourier transform spectrometer based on the Bomem MB100 interferometer, modified by ABB Bomem (Canada) for airborne use, with Met Office designed pointing optics, external black bodies and… | ||
| Met Office Cardington: LI-COR LI-7500 Gas Analyser | cardington_li-cor | James McGregor | Fast response humidity measurements are made using a LI-COR LI-7500 open path CO2/H20 gas analyser, located at the top of the 10m tower at the Cardington site. In addition to measuring water vapour,… | ||
| Met Office C-band radar | ukmo-rain-radar | unknown | UK C Band radar run by the Met Office and the Environment Agency. | ||
| Met Office Climate Data Loggers (CDL) | ukmo_cdl | unknown | Climate Data Loggers (CDL) of a number of different designs have been installed at a number of sites during the 1990s; most record the main synoptic and climate parameters and there is a facility for… | ||
| Met Office: Cloud Condensation Nuclei | metoffice-ccn | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office Counter flow Virtual Impactor (CVI) | metoffice-cvi | unknown | The Counter flow Virtual Impactor (CVI) is an inlet designed to initially separate cloud particles from the ambient atmosphere. Once captured, cloud particles are evaporated in a clean, dry airstrea… | ||
| Met Office - Dines pressure tube anemometers | meto_dines_anemometer | unknown | The Dines pressure tube anemometer is an instrument used by the Met Office network to measure wind speed and direction. | ||
| Met Office: DMT Cloud and Precipitation Imagers | CIP25/100 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office/DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory): Imaging Infrared Radiometer | metoffice-iir | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office: Dual-frequency Extension to In-flight Microwave Observing System (DEIMOS) | metoffice-deimos | unknown | Deimos is an along-track scanning radiometer with dual polarised channels at 23.8 and 50.1 GHz. Deimos is constrained to view in five directions either upward or downward depending on how it is fitte… | ||
| Met Office - Electrical resistance thermometers (ERT or PRT) | Metoffice_ert | unknown | The instrument measures the resistance of platinum which depends on temperature according to a quadratic relationship. | ||
| Met Office ESAWS | ukmo_esaws | unknown | Met Office Enhanced Synoptic Automatic Weather Station (ESAWS). An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labour or to enable… | ||
| Met Office: Fluorescence Water Vapour Sensor | metoffice-fwvs | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office/ Hertfordshire: Small Ice Detector 1 (SID1) | herts-metoffice-sid-1 | unknown | Small Ice Detector (University of Hertfordshire) Spherical Equivalent size spectrum (1��m < d < 50��m) | ||
| Met Office/ Hertfordshire: Small Ice Detector 2 (SID2) | herts-metoffice-sid-2 | unknown | Small Ice Detector axial scattering probe. University of Hertfordshire replacement for SID1 | ||
| Met Office: High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer | metoffice-hvps | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office - Humidity Sensor | meto_humidity | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office: Ice Nucleus Counter | metoffice-inc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office: Jenoptick CHM15k Nimbus Ceilometer | metoffice-jenoptick-chm15k-nimbus-ceilometer | Met Office | The Met Office own a number of the CHM 15k ceilometer used for measuring vertical profiles of backscatter signal from aerosol particles and hydrometeors. From the backscatter profiles cloud base heig… | ||
| Met Office - Laser Cloud Base Recorder (LCBR) | None | unknown | A Laser Cloud Base Recorder is an instrument used on the Met Office network to measure cloud amount and height at different layers up to 25000ft. | ||
| Met Office: Leosphere ALS450 Lidar | metoffice-lidar-als450 | Debbie O'Sullivan | The mini lidar (light detection and ranging) system operated on board the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft is an ALS450 manufactured by Leosphere. It has an emitted wavelength of 354.7 nm and a receiver bandwit… | ||
| Met Office Lightning detection | None | Met Office Lightning detection | |||
| Met Office - Liquid-in-glass thermometers | meto_liquidinglass_thermometer | unknown | A liquid-in-glass thermometer, having a surrounding glass sheath, has been the normal means of measuring temperature since the earliest days of observing. | ||
| Met Office - Lyman-Alpha Hygrometer | metoffice_lyman_alpha | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office: Met Office Radiometrics MP3000 profling radiometer | metoffice-radiom-mp3000 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office: Microwave Airborne Radiometer Scanning System (MARSS) | metoffice-marss | unknown | MARSS (Microwave Airborne Radiometer Scanning System) is an along-track scanning, total power microwave radiometer which measures in five channels, two window channels at 89 and 157 GHz and three cha… | ||
| Met Office Microwave radiometer (MP series) | met_office_mw_radiometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office - Munro anemometer | meto_munro | unknown | The Munro anemometer is an intrument used on the Met Office network to measure wind speed and direction. | ||
| Met Office - Ordinary raingauge | metoffice_ordinary_raingauge | unknown | A so-called ordinary raingague is a funnel-type raingauge that has been in use for all manual measurements on the Met Office networks since the earliest days of observing. | ||
| Met Office Pyranometer | ukmo_pyranometer | unknown | A pyranometer is an instrument used to measure broadband solar irradiance on a planar surface. In other words: a pyranometer is a sensor that is designed to measure the solar radiation flux density … | ||
| Met Office Pyrgeometers | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office Radiosondes | None | Met Office | The Met Office have operated a range of radiosonde systems over the years as part of their operational upper air monitoring system. A radiosonde is a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument that measur… | ||
| Met Office: Raymetrics LR111-D300 Raman lidar | metoffice-raymetrics-lr111-d300-ceilometer | Met Office | The Met Office operate a network of 10 Raymetrics LR111-D300 Raman lidars as part of their aerosol remote sensing capability. The network consists of nine fixed locations evenly distributed across Br… | ||
| Met Office Semi-Automatic Met Observing System (SAMOS) | ukmo_samos | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office: Short Wave Spectrometer (SWS) | metoffice-sws | unknown | The Met Office Short Wave Spectrometer (SWS) is a visible/near infrared radiance spectrometer. In its concept it is a combination of Monolithic Miniature Spectrometer (MMS) modules from Carl Zeiss Lt… | ||
| Met Office SIESAWS | ukmo_siesaws | unknown | Met Office Severe Icing Environment Synoptic Automatic Weather Station (SIESAWS) is an ESAWS version designed to operate in severe icing environments and has been installed at a few high level locati… | ||
| Met Office: Spectral Hemispheric Irradiance Measurements (SHIM) | metoffice-shim | unknown | The SHIMS (Spectral Hemispheric Irradiance Measurements) instrument collects over a hemispherical field of view – it is an irradiance instrument. The two modules in SHIMS cover the same spectral rang… | ||
| Met Office station observer - NCM message | ukmo_observer_ncm | unknown | Observer reporting daily and hourly specific weather parameters which cannot be measured by an instrument e.g. cloud type, cloud amount, present and past weather and state of ground. | ||
| Met Office station temperature sensor | ukmo_temp | unknown | Temperature sensor installed and used to monitor air temperature at stations on the Met Office network. | ||
| Met Office: TECO 43C trace gas analyser to measure SO2 | metoffice-so2 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office - Telemetered tipping bucket raingauges | ukmo_tipping_bucket | unknown | The tipping bucket raingauge is particularly suitable for the automation of rainfall measurement | ||
| Met Office - Tilting siphon raingauge | metoffice_tilting_siphon_raing | unknown | The tilting siphon raingauge, used on the Met Office networks, produces an autographic record of rainfall accumulation from a pen attached to a float in the rainfall chamber of the instrument. | ||
| Met Office: Vaisala CL31 Ceilometer | metoffice-vaisala-cl31-ceilometer | Met Office | The Met Office own a number of Vaisala CL31 ceilometers used for detecting cloud base heights and also for obtaining backscatter profiles to aid ash cloud detection. The CL31 employs a pulsed diode … | ||
| Met Office: Vaisala CT25k Ceilometer | metoffice-vaisala-ct25k-ceilometer | Met Office | The Met Office operate a number of Vaisala CT25K ceilometers within their LIDARNET Laser Cloud Base Recorders (LCBR's) network. This instrument has a unique single-lens design which ensures excellent… | ||
| Met Office: Vaisala LD-40 Ceilometer | metoffice-ceilom-ld40 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Met Office Wet Nephelometer | metoffice-wetneph | unknown | The Met Office Wet Nephelometer is a system for measuring the dependence of aerosol scattering on relative humidity. | ||
| Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) on ENVISAT | None | unknown | The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th February 2002 and op… | ||
| Microlitre Nucleation by Immersed Particle Instrument (uL-NIPI) | None | Alexander D. Harrison | Microlitre Nucleation by Immersed Particle Instrument (uL-NIPI) is based around a Stirling cryocooler which cools a hydrophobic surface that supports microlitre volume droplets. The freezing of the d… | ||
| Microtops II sunphotometer | microtops_2_sunphotometer | unknown | MICROTOPS II is a 5 channel hand-held sunphotometer for measuring aerosol optical thickness easily, accurately and dependably. Direct solar radiation at 5 discrete wavelengths is measured and stored.… | ||
| Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) | None | The Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) is a self-calibrating, cross-track scanning, five-channel microwave, full-power radiometer, operating in the 89 to 190 GHz region. MHS channels H1 at 89.0 GHz … | |||
| Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on UARS | uars_MLS | unknown | NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) with JPL's Microwave Limb Sounder MLS as one of its 10 instruments was launched 12 September 1991. The major objective of UARS MLS was, in response t… | ||
| Mid-tide bubbler gauge | mid_tide_bubbler | unknown | Type of tide gauge to measure sea levels. | ||
| Millipore membrane filters | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MIPAS Level 1b data processing | mipas-l1b-proc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MIPAS Level 2 data processing | mipas-l2-proc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MIRAS | None | MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) is an European Space Agency instrument flown on the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Satellite. It measures Ocean Salinity and So… | |||
| MLS (EOS-AURA) | None | The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) flies on NASA's EOS-Aura satellite. It measures the chemical species in the higher atmosphere. It as a follow-on of the MLS instrument on the UARS satellite. | |||
| Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) | modis | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides high radiometric sensitivity in 36 spectral bands ranging from 0.4 to 14.4 micrometres. Two bands are imaged at a nominal resolution… | ||
| Monochromator | monochromator | unknown | A sub-class of spectrometer, manually tuned, presenting one wavelength or bandpass at a time from its exit slit. | ||
| MPI: CIMS technique | mpi_cims | unknown | Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry by MPI (Max-Planck Institute, Germany). | ||
| MPI: DOAS UV spectrometer | mpi_doas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MPIM - Microwave radiometer | mpim_mw_radiometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MPIM - Ocean-Atmosphere Sensing Interferometer System (OASIS) | mpim_oasis | unknown | OASIS (Ocean-Atmosphere Sensing Interferometer System) is built around a commercially available double-pendulum interferometer system for ground based atmospheric and ocean surface remote sensing. In… | ||
| MPIM - Ozone Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) | mpim_ozone_dial | unknown | Ozone DIAL operated by the Max-Planck institute of Meteorology. | ||
| MPIM - Water vapour Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) | mpim_water_dial | unknown | In the Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) method for the measurement of water-vapour profiles laser pulses of two different frequencies are used. One frequency is chosen in a region of high absorpt… | ||
| MRF: Balometric radiometer | None | Met Office | Balometric radiometer used on Met Office Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) C-130 | ||
| MRF - C-130 - 1011B Thermoelectric Hygrometer (General Eastern) | mrf_hygrometer | unknown | MRF instrument oboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - 2D-C instrument | mrf_2dc | unknown | The 2D-C is part of a suite of Particle Measuring Systems (PMS) 2-Dimensional Optical Array Probes. It is flown on the C-130 Hercules aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Aethalometer - Particle Soot AbsorptionPhotometer (PSAP) | mrf_psap | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiler System (AVAPS) | mrf_avaps | unknown | MRF instrument onboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 aircraft in-situ Instrumentation | c130_instruments | unknown | The C-130 aircraft carried various of instrumentation for research purposes. The large capacity and long endurance of this platform made it ideal for atmospheric research in the areas of cloud physic… | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Carbon Monoxide monitor (CO) instrument | mrf_co | unknown | Instrument onboard the MRF C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Clear and red Dome Broadband Radiometers (BBR) | mrf_bbr | unknown | MRF instrument onboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Core consoles | mrf_core_consoles | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MRF - C-130 - De-iced (Rosemount 102BL) and non de-iced (Rosemount 102AL) temperature sensors | mrf_deiced_temperature | unknown | MRF instrument onboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF- C-130 - Fast Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FFSSP) | mrf_ffssp | unknown | Instrument onboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Honeywell H423 laser Inertial Navigation Unit (INU) | mrf_inu | unknown | MRF instrument onboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - PAN gas chromatograph | mrf_pan | unknown | PAN gas chromatographer built-in by MRF. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (PCASP) | mrf_pcasp | unknown | A Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (PMS model PCASP-100X) was used to count number concentrations (number per cm3) of particles in 15 channels spaced pseudo-logarithmically over the diameter… | ||
| MRF - C-130 - Radar altimeter | None | unknown | MRF instrument onboard the C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF - C-130 - UV Absorption instrument | mrf_uv_absorption | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| MRF: Cloud Physics | None | Met Office | Cloud Physics measurement taken onboard the Met Office Met. Research Flight C-130 | ||
| MRF: Condensation Nucleus Counter Model 3025A | mrf_nucleus_counter | Met Office | Ultrafine condensation particle counter (TSI INC Model 3025A) onboard the Met Office Meteorolgical Research Flight (MRF) C-130 aircraft. | ||
| MRF: Entech-GC-MS | None | Met Office | MRF: Entech-GC-MS | ||
| MRF: Fluorescence water vapour sensor | mrf_vuv_fluorescence | Met Office | Fluorescence water vapour sensor onboard the Met Office Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) C-130 | ||
| MRF: In Cloud Temperature probe | mrf_2dp_cloud_probe | Met Office | The instrument commonly known as the 2D-P is part of a suite of instruments measuring particles sizes and is flown on the Met Office C-130 Hercules aircraft. | ||
| MRF: INU level offsets | None | Met Office | INU level offsets used on the Meteorogical Resarch Flight (MRF) | ||
| MRF: JNO2 radiometers | None | Met Office | MRF: JNO2 radiometers | ||
| MRF: Johnson-Williams Liquid Water Content Meter | MRF_jw_lwc | Met Office | Johnson-Williams Liquid Water Content Meter onboard the Met Office Meteorological Research Flight (MRF)) C-130. Operating principle: Hot wire instrument. Liquid contacts sample wire. Liquid evap… | ||
| MRF: NowStar XR5 GPS | mrf_gps | Met Office | NowStar XR5 GPS instrument onboard the Met Office Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) C-130 | ||
| MRF: Omega Navigation System | None | Met Office | Omega Navigation System Litton LTN-211 used on the Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) | ||
| MRF: Penny and Giles E23001 | None | Met Office | Penny and Giles E23001 | ||
| MRF: PTV-GC-FID | None | Met Office | MRF: PTV-GC-FID | ||
| MRF: Radar altimeter | None | Met Office | Radar altimeter used on the Met Office Meteorological Research Flight C-130. | ||
| MRF: ROSEMOUNT 1201F | None | Met Office | MRF: ROSEMOUNT 1201F | ||
| MRF: TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument | MRF_TECO_49 | Met Office | TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument onboard the Met Office Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) C-130 | ||
| MRF: Total Water Content (TWC) probe | mrf_twc | Met Office | Total Water Content (TWC) probe onboard the Met Office Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) C-130 | ||
| MSF: 5 cm Cell | 5 cm | Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (Science and Technology Facilities Council) | The 5 cm cell is a fixed pathlength sample cell for gaseous samples. | ||
| MSF: CCD spectrometers | msf_ccd | unknown | At the CCLRC Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (MSF), three high-sensitivity fibre-optic miniature spectrometers allow measurement of low intensity signals at near-infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths,… | ||
| MSF: Diode Array Spectrometer | msf_diode_array_spectro | unknown | At the CCLRC Molecular Spetcroscopy Facility, three high-sensitivity fibre-optic miniature spectrometers allow measurement of low intensity signals at near-infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths, fully … | ||
| MSF: Fourier Transform spectrometers | msf_ft_spectrometers | Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (Science and Technology Facilities Council) | The Molecular Spectroscopic Facility operates three Fourier transform spectrometers: Bruker IFS125HR, Bruker IFS120/5HR and Bruker IFS 66V/S. | ||
| MSF: Long Path-length Absorption Cell (LPAC) | lpac | Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (Science and Technology Facilities Council) | The long path-length absorption cell (LPAC) at RAL is a 9-metre long stainless-steel vessel containing multi-pass reflective optics for broadband high-resolution spectroscopy at long optical path-len… | ||
| MSF: Short Pathlength Absorption Cell (SPAC) | SPAC | Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (Science and Technology Facilities Council) | The short path-length absorption cell (SPAC) operated by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (MSF) is a stainless-steel vessel containing multi-pass reflective op… | ||
| Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) | None | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) was launced on board the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Terra platform in December 1999. It makes simulataneous measurements of r… | ||
| Multispectral Imaging Radiometer (MIR) | mir | unknown | The Multispectral Imaging Radiometer (MIR) on METEOSAT-2, -3, -4, and -5 collects data over the Earth in three spectral regions, one in the visible and two in the infrared. The satellite scans the Ea… | ||
| Munro float gauge | munro_gauge | unknown | Type of tide gauge to measure sea levels. | ||
| Nagycenk - atmospheric electric potential gradient | None | Potential gradient (PG) is measured using a BOLTEK EFM 100 Atmospheric Electric Field Monitor. It is mounted on a 3m metal pole surrounded by trees in a distance of ~ 15-30 m. Resolution of measur… | |||
| Naphtalene sublimation in wind tunnel street canyon model | None | Naphtalene sublimation in wind tunnel street canyon model | |||
| NASA ER-2 Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer (ATLAS) | er2_ATLAS | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Aircraft Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer (ALIAS) | er2_alias | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Ames Particle Sampler Impactor Experiment (APS) | er2_aps | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Ames UV ozone photometer | er2_ames_o3 | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Carbon Monoxide (CO) experiment | er2_co | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Composition and Photodissociative Flux Measurement (CPFM) | er2_cpfm | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Condensation Nucleus Counters (CNCs) and Electrical Aerosol Sampler (EAS) | er2_cnc | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Dual-Beam UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer | er2_uv_o3_photometer | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Fast Response CFC-11 and CFC-13 Airborne Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species (ACATS) | er2_acats | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe (FSSP) Model 300 Aerosol Spectrometer | er2_fssp300 | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Four-Channel Airborne Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species (ACATS IV) | er2_acats4 | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 High Altitude OH experiment (HOH) | er2_hoh | unknown | HOH is an instrument onboard the NASA ER2 aircraft and is used to measure OH concentration. | ||
| NASA ER-2 High Resolution Interferometer Sounder (HIS) | er2_his | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 High-Sensitivity Fast-response CO2 Analyzer | er2_co2_analyser | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Infra Red Narrow Field Of View (NFOV) radiometer | er2_nfov | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Lyman-Alpha Hygrometer | er2_lyman_alpha | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) | ER2_mms | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) | er2_mtp | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Multi-Filter Sampler (MFS) | er2_mfs | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Multiple-Angle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (MASP) | er2_masp | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Multiple Axis Resonance Fluorescence Chemical Conversion Detector for ClO and BrO | ER2_MARFCCDD | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Multi-Sample Aerosol Collection System (MACS) | er2_macs | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 NO/NOy experiment | er2_nonoy | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Particle Measuring Systems (PMS) | er2_pms | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Radon experiment | er2_radon | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| NASA ER-2 Reactive Nitrogen | er2_reactive_nitrogen | unknown | Instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during various NASA campaigns. | ||
| Navstar XR5 GPS | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NCAS AMF Boundary Layer Aerosol\Ozone Lidar | man-o3lidar, aber-o3lidar | Hugo Ricketts | The aerosol backscatter coefficient is measured in m-1.sr-1 and is a measure of how much light is reflected off particles and droplets in the atmosphere. This value is related to particle size and pa… | ||
| NCAS AMF: Halo Doppler Lidar unit 1 | ncas-lidar-dop-1 | Barbara J. Brooks | NCAS AMF: Halo Doppler Lidar unit 1 | ||
| NCAS AMF HOBOs n (1-26) | None | Victoria Smith | Onset HOBO Pro v2 Temperature/Relative Humidity data logger is a weatherproof data logger with built-in temperature and relative humidity sensors. The Relative Humidity sensor provides superior durab… | ||
| NCAS AMF HOBOs n (27-52) | None | Victoria Smith | Onset HOBO Pro v2 Temperature/Relative Humidity data logger is a weatherproof data logger with built-in temperature and relative humidity sensors. The Relative Humidity sensor provides superior durab… | ||
| NCAS AMF HOBOs n (53-79) | None | Victoria Smith | Onset HOBO Pro v2 Temperature/Relative Humidity data logger is a weatherproof data logger with built-in temperature and relative humidity sensors. The Relative Humidity sensor provides superior durab… | ||
| NCAS AMF Micro Rain Radar | ncas-mrr | Victoria Smith | The METEK MRR2 Micro Rain Radar is a compact 24 GHz FM-CW-radar for the measurement of profiles of drop size distributions and – derived from this – rain rates, liquid water content and characteristi… | ||
| NCAS AMF: Vaisala Radiosonde Unit 1 | man-radiosonde, ncas-radiosonde-1 | Geraint Vaughan, Hugo Ricketts | The National Centre for Atmospheric Science's Atmospheric Measurement Facility (NCAS AMF) operate two radiosonde sounding systems: unit one (this one) is situated at the University of Manchester and … | ||
| NCAS AMF: Vaisala Radiosonde Unit 2 | leeds-radiosonde, ncas-radiosonde-2 | National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Barbara J. Brooks | The National Centre for Atmospheric Science's Atmospheric Measurement Facility (NCAS AMF) operate two radiosonde sounding systems: unit one is situated at the University of Manchester and unit two at… | ||
| NCAS Atmospheric Measurement Facility's (AMF) mobile X-band radar | ncas-mobile-xband-radar | Lindsay Bennett | The National Centre for Atmospheric Science Atmospheric Measurement Facility's (NCAS AMF) mobile X-band radar operates in the X-band (frequency = 9.375 GHz, wavelength = 3 cm). It has Doppler and dua… | ||
| NCAS Scanning Radiometer- HATPRO | ncas-scanning-radiometer | NCAS Humidity And Temperature PROfiler (HATPRO) Scanning Microwave Radiometer unit 1, by Radiometer Physics GmbH. is used to derive vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and humidity. The inf… | |||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 1 | ncas-disdrometer-1 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 10 | ncas-disdrometer-10 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 11 | ncas-disdrometer-11 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 12 | ncas-disdrometer-12 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 13 | ncas-disdrometer-13 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 14 | ncas-disdrometer-14 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 2 | ncas-disdrometer-2 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 3 | ncas-disdrometer-3 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 4 | ncas-disdrometer-4 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 5 | ncas-disdrometer-5 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 6 | ncas-disdrometer-6 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 7 | ncas-disdrometer-7 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 8 | ncas-disdrometer-8 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAS Thies Laser Precipitation Monitor (LPM) number 9 | ncas-disdrometer-9 | Ben S Pickering | The UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) operate a suite of disdrometers, each given the designation 'ncas-disdromer' followed by a number. This record links to datasets produced usin… | ||
| NCAVEO Land Cover Map 2000 | NCAVEO LCM2000 | unknown | Landcovermap 2000 data is distributed as part of the NEODC NCAVEO datasets. | ||
| NCL Paroscientific 745 Pressure Standard | ncl-paro-745 | Newcastle University, ETLG Ltd, Nigel T Penna | Paroscientific Digiquartz® Model 745 High Accuracy Pressure Standard. Meteorological sensor that logs pressure data. The measurement frequency of this instrument is 1Hz, with a data frequency of … | ||
| NDACC - Fourier Transform IR (FTIR) | ndacc_ftir | unknown | Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectrometers measuring abundances of a broad range of species including Ozonem HCL, NO, No2, CLONO2 and HNO3. | ||
| NDACC Lidar | ndacc_lidar | unknown | Lidar instruments used at the NDACC station sited are: Raman lidar measuring water vapor, Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) measuring O3, Backscatter lidars measuring aerosol, and Raman and Raylei… | ||
| NDACC Microwave radiometers | ndacc_microwave_radiometer | unknown | Microwave radiometers used at NDACC stations used to measure ozone, water vapor, and ClO profiles. | ||
| NDACC UV Spectroradiometers | ndacc_uv_spectrorad | unknown | NDACC spectroradiometers used to measure UV radiation at the ground. | ||
| NDACC UV-Visible spectrometers | ndaac_uvvis_spectro | unknown | Spectrometers used to measure the column abundance of ozone, NO2, and, at some latitudes, OCLO and BrO. | ||
| Near Infra-Red Tunable Diode Laser | NIR-TDLAS | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NERC: Airborne Thematic Mapper | nerc-atm | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NERC-ARF AsiaFENIX hyperspectral imager | arsf-fenix, arf-fenix | The AisaFENIX dual sensor delivers high-quality hyperspectral data available in visible and SWIR wavelengths (380 - 2500nm) in a single continuous image. AisaFENIX eliminates past challenges in 'full… | |||
| NERC-ARF Leica ALS50-II LiDAR | None | Gary Llewellyn | The Leica ALS50-II LiDAR is a Light Detection and Ranging instrument flown on the NERC-ARF aircraft capable of producing both discrete point clouds and full-waveform returns. With a laser of waveleng… | ||
| NERC-ARF Leica RCD105 | None | Gary Llewellyn | The Leica RCD105 medium format digital camera produces 16 bit TIFF digital images at 7216x5412 resolution (39 Mega-pixels). | ||
| NERC-ARF Specim AISA Owl | arf-owl, arsf-owl | Gary Llewellyn | The Specim AISAOwl is a hyperspectral imager on board the NERC-ARF aircraft measuring the Long Wave InfraRed (LWIR) wavelengths, specifically 7.5–12.5 um with 102 bands. It is a passive pushbroom sen… | ||
| NERC: Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager | nerc-casi | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NERC: Incident Light Sensor | nerc-ils | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NERC: Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) Radar | nerc-mstrf-radar-mst | David A. Hooper | The NERC MST (Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere) Radar is a 46.5 MHz pulsed Doppler radar located at Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth in west Wales. It is the UK's most powerful and versatile wind-prof… | ||
| NERC MST Radar Facility Noctilucent Cloud camera | None | David A. Hooper | The camera is operated between dusk and dawn (typically at 5 minute intervals) during the mid-summer months (principally June and July) with the aim of observing Noctilucent Cloiuds for scientific st… | ||
| NERC MST Radar Facility Vaisala LD40 Laser Ceilometer | lidar-ld40 | David A. Hooper | The Facility has been operating a Vaisala LD40 laser ceilometer at the MST radar site near Aberystwyth since 8th August 2005. The LD40 transmits 75 ns duration pulses at a repetition frequency o… | ||
| NERC MST site: Met Office GPS water vapour receiver | ukmo-gps-iwv | Met Office | In the "GPS Water Vapour Project" radio signals from the Global Positioning System (a satellite navigation and positioning system) are processed to derive estimates of the total column Integrated Wat… | ||
| NERC MST site : NERC Campbell Scientific Climate data logger | mst_cdl | unknown | Meteorological surface observations are recorded at the MST site near Aberystwyth with a (Met Office approved) CR10 "Climate Data Logger" from Campbell Scientific. | ||
| NERC MST site: NERC Campbell Scientific surface wind sensors | mst_wind_sensors | unknown | Wind speed and direction are recorded at the MST site near Aberystwyth using A100R anemometer and W200P wind vane (both Vector Instruments). | ||
| NERC MST site: Sky-Camera | mst_sky_cam | unknown | Images of the sky conditions in the vicinity of the MST Radar site are recorded with a sky-pointing camera. | ||
| NERC MST site: WXT510 Vaisala weather transmitter | nerc-mstrf-met-sensors | David A. Hooper | The Vaisala Weather Transmitter WXT510 is a single unit which measures a variety of surface meteorological parameters in three independent measurement cycles. Pressure, temperature and relative humid… | ||
| Ness Gardens Automatic Weather Station unit 1 | ness-aws-1 | Barbara J. Brooks | Ness Gardens Automatic Weather Station (AWS) unit 1 is a Vantage Pro 2 The instrument has the following ranges and sensitivities: - Pressure (Range: 540 - 1100hPa, Resolution: 0.1hPa, Accurac… | ||
| Nevzorov Liquid and Total Water Content Probe | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Newcastle University ASD Field spectra N4406 | NU_ASD_field_spectra | unknown | Analytical Spectral Device (ASD) Field Spectra N4406 from the University of Newcastle, UK. | ||
| New Instrument: faam-3786cpc | faam-3786cpc | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument faam-3786cpc | |||
| New Instrument: faam-co | faam-co | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument faam-co | |||
| New Instrument: faam-CO | faam-CO | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument faam-CO | |||
| New Instrument: faam-dryneph | faam-dryneph | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument faam-dryneph | |||
| New Instrument: faam-grimm | faam-grimm | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument faam-grimm | |||
| New Instrument: fgam-gcms | fgam-gcms | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument fgam-gcms | |||
| New Instrument: geos-chem | geos-chem | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument geos-chem | |||
| New Instrument: leic-fr-jo1d | leic-fr-jo1d | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument leic-fr-jo1d | |||
| New Instrument: man | man | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument man | |||
| New Instrument: man-ams-so4 | man-ams-so4 | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument man-ams-so4 | |||
| New Instrument: man-cas | man-cas | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument man-cas | |||
| New Instrument: man-cims | man-cims | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument man-cims | |||
| New Instrument: metoffice-aimms | metoffice-aimms_old | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument metoffice-aimms | |||
| New Instrument: metoffice-lsh | metoffice-lsh | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument metoffice-lsh | |||
| New Instrument: metoffice-neph1 | metoffice-neph1 | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument metoffice-neph1 | |||
| New Instrument: metoffice-pcasp | metoffice-pcasp | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument metoffice-pcasp | |||
| New Instrument: metoffice-ush | metoffice-ush | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument metoffice-ush | |||
| New Instrument: non-core-cloud-phy | non-core-cloud-phy | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument non-core-cloud-phy | |||
| New Instrument: york-gc-fid-field2 | york-gc-fid-field2 | New instrument created, more details to follow for instrument york-gc-fid-field2 | |||
| New-York State Uni: SIS millimeter-wave receiver | NY_SIS | unknown | Solar Isotope Spectrometer operated by the New York State University. | ||
| NEXTMap IFSAR | IFSAR | unknown | The British Geological Survey (BGS) has recently acquired for NERC the NEXTMap Britain dataset, produced by Intermap. This digital terrain model was derived from airborne Interferometric Synthetic Ap… | ||
| NIAR: SAOZ UV-Vis Spectrometer | niar_saoz | unknown | Solar Occulatation UV-Visible spectrometer operated by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research. | ||
| Nikon Coolpix 4300 digital camera | None | Upward-looking hemispherical photographs were taken at every radiometer position using a Nikon Coolpix 4300 digital camera with a Nikon FC-E8 fisheye lens. The camera was mounted on a small tripod … | |||
| NILU: GC-FID | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NILU: SAOZ spectrometer | nilu-saoz | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NIMBUS 5 Selective Chopper Radiometer (SCR) | SCR | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NIMBUS-6 ERB | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NIMBUS-6 Pressure Modulator Radiometer (PMR) | PMR | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NIMBUS-7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) | None | unknown | The Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) instrument flew aboard the Nimbus-7 satellite from October 1978 through June 1986. | ||
| NIMBUS-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) | erb_nimbus7 | unknown | The Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) instrument began recording data on November 16, 1978 and continued through June 20, 1980. The principal products are nine years of global albedo, outgoing lo… | ||
| NIMBUS-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) | nimbus7_TOMS | unknown | TOMS was one of eight instruments designed to provide continuous, long-term monitoring of atmospheric, oceanic and surface parameters on a global basis throughout most of the 1980s. The Nimbus-7 TOMS… | ||
| NIMROD system | None | Met Office | NIMROD is a very short range forecasting system which integrates nowcasting techniques with Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model products to provide forecasts over the UK and surrounding waters u… | ||
| NOAA: Portable Cloud Observatory (NPCO) | None | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Clouds have profound effects on climate and climate change through their ability to alter radiant energy and convert water between vapor, liquid, and ice phases. As such, an improved knowledge of clo… | ||
| Non-dispersive IR gas analyser with a water vapor freeze trap | ir_gas_analyser_freeze_trap | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NOx: TEI 42 trace level chemiluminescence NOx Analyzer | None | Measure the amount of nitrogen oxides in the air from sub-ppb levels up to 1000 ppb using chemiluminescence. | |||
| NPL: Balloon-borne Near IR laser spectrometer | npl-spectrometer | unknown | National Physics Laboratory (NPL) Balloon-borne Near IR laser spectrometer | ||
| NPL: BRUKER IFS 120M FTIR spectrometer | npl_ftir | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| NRG Type 40 cupanemometers | None | NRG Type 40 cupanemometers measures wind speed. | |||
| O3: Ecotech EC9810 Ozone Analyzer | None | The EC9810A Ozone Analyser combines microprocessor control with ultraviolet (UV) photometry to provide accurate measurements in the range of 0-50 ppb and 0-20 ppm with a detection limit of 0.5 ppb. | |||
| Ocean Optics spectrometer on the AWI-polar5 aircraft | awi-ocean-optics-spectrometer | Ocean Optics spectrometer onboard the AWI-polar5 aircraft operated by Alfred Wegener Institute. Used in EUFAR flights. | |||
| OCO-2 | None | The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) instrument is a nadir-scanning high resolution short wave spectrometer flown on the OCO-2 satellite. It has been designed to produce global measurements of ca… | |||
| ODIN/SMR | None | The Odin satellite was launched in February 2001 and was designed to combine two scientific disciplines on a single spacecraft for studying of star formation and the early solar system (astronomy) an… | |||
| OMPS | None | The Ozone Mapping and Polar Suite (OMPS) is a NASA instrument flown on the Suomi-NPP satellite | |||
| OP3: Mergred-data-faam | None | unknown | Merged OP3 aircraft data, using the observations as reported on the BADC from the various instruments involved in the campaign. The timebases for the merged files are given in the file names. | ||
| Optech Orion M200 LiDAR | None | Southern Mapping GeoSpatial, David Milan | Optech Orion M200 LiDAR; Rollei AIC with 60 megapixel P65+ Phase One Digital CCD. | ||
| OSIRIS | None | ODIN, Canadian Space Agency | Canada's Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System (OSIRIS) is the optical payload on Sweden's Odin satellite. It works in synergy with Sweden's advanced radiometer and measures atmospheric co… | ||
| Oxzilla II O2 analyser | None | Atmospheric O2 mole fraction is measured using a commercially available 'Oxzilla II' analyser (Sable Systems International Inc.), which employs two 'MAX‐250' lead fuel cell O2 sensors (Maxtec Inc.). … | |||
| Ozone-Aerosol-LIDAR | None | Ozone-Aerosol-LIDAR | |||
| Ozone analyser | None | Mingxi Yang | 2B Technologies, Inc. Model 205 Ozone Monitor based on the technique of UV absorption. | ||
| Ozone Monitoring instrument (OMI) | omi | unknown | The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) flies on NASA's Aura satellite, (launched on 15 July 2004). The Aura satellite is focussed on observing atmospheric chemistry, in order to contribute largely in … | ||
| Ozonesondes | None | unknown | The ozonesonde is a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument that measures profiles of ozone, pressure, temperature and humidity from the ground to approximately 40km. | ||
| PALSAR-2 | None | The Phased Array type-L band Synthetic Aperture Radar -2 (PALSAR-2) is an active microwave sensor using L-band frequency and which produces various products of different resolutions and performance. … | |||
| Paroscientific Met 4 | None | Newcastle University, Nigel T Penna | Meteorological sensor that records pressure and temperature. The measurement frequency of this sensor is 1Hz, and the data held at CEDA has a frequency of 5 minutes. For the purposes of the Snowd… | ||
| Particle Number Size Distribution measured using a SMPS and an APS | None | Particle Number Size Distribution measured using a SMPS and an APS | |||
| Particle Soot Absorption Photometer (Rosemount pair inlet instrument) | PSAP | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (PCASP) | None | Graeme Nott | The Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (PCASP) is fabricated by Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) and has the SPP200 electronics. The PCASP measures both aerosol number and size in the no… | ||
| Passive samplers for atmospheric measurements of NH3 | None | Passive sampler method (Adapted Low-cost Passive High Absoprtion, ALPHA) using coated citric acid filters. Chemical analysis carried out offline by an AMmonia Flow Injection Analysis (AMFIA) system. … | |||
| Passive samplers for atmospheric measurements of NO2 | None | GRADKO diffusion tubes coated is 20% TEA in water. Chemical analysis carried out by UV05 Camspec M550. Methods described in ED48673043 Issue-1A Feb 2008 - AEA Energy and Environment. Reported values … | |||
| Paul Scherrer Institut -Rotating Drum Impactor | psi-rdi | unknown | Three Rotating Drum Impactors (RDI) are operated for the CLEARFLO monitoring project at Marylebone Road, North Kensington and Detling project sites in London. These particle samplers measure the elem… | ||
| PCASP | PCASP | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Peak Laboratories model P1 | None | Peak Laboratories model P1 | |||
| Penny and Giles E23001 Potentiometric Wind Vane | E23001 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| PERCA (Peroxyl Radical Chemical Amplifier) | perca | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Phased Array type-L band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) | None | European Space Agency (ESA) | The Phased Array type-L band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) is an active microwave sensor using L-band frequency and produces various products of different resolutions and performance. PALSAR is o… | ||
| Phillips LTC 0600 Video Cameras | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Photochemical box model | photochem-box-model | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Photoelectric detectors | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Photometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Picarro greenhouse gas analyser | None | Rebecca Fisher | Methane and carbon dioxide mole fractions are measured using a Picarro G1301 cavity ringdown spectroscopy analyser. The instrument is located in the greenhouse gas laboratory at Royal Holloway Univer… | ||
| Picarro Model G1301 | None | Picarro Model G1301 | |||
| Plant Harvesting Equipment from the University of Sheffield for the ABACUS Campaign | sheffield-plant-harvesting-equipment | Ben Fletcher | Plants were harvested by staff from the University of Sheffield | ||
| PM2.5: Met One BAM 1020 | None | The BAM-1020 automatically measures and records airborne particulate concentration levels (in milligrams or micrograms per cubic meter) using the industry-proven principle of beta ray attenuation. | |||
| Poseidon-2 | None | The Poseidon-2 satellite instrument was flown on the JASON-1 satellite. It is a radar altimeter designed to study ocean topography, significant wave height and wind speed. | |||
| Poseidon-3 | None | The Poseidon-3 instrument was flown on the JASON-2 satellite. It is a radar altimeter, designed to study ocean topography, significant wave height and wind speed. | |||
| Poseidon-3B | None | The Poseidon-3B satellite instrument is flying on the JASON-3 satellite. It is a radar altimeter, designed to study ocean topography, significant wave height and wind speed. | |||
| Present (and Past) Weather Sensor | None | Met Office | There are two instruments used widely in the synoptic surface network for the measurement of present weather; one is essentially a forward scattering visibility sensor and the other a sensor for dete… | ||
| Pressure transducer | pressure_transducer | unknown | Type of tide gauge to measure sea levels. | ||
| PROBA Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) | CHRIS | unknown | Proba's main payload is a hyperspectral instrument weighing just 14 kg called CHRIS standing for Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer. Despite this small size and a power requirement of just … | ||
| Programmable Ion Mobility Spectrometer (PIMS) | pims | unknown | PIMS measures bipolar ion concentrations. | ||
| Public Weather Station (PWS) | None | unknown | Public Weather Stations (PWS) are meteorological stations that members of the public set up and provide data to various crowd sourced Public Weather Stations (PWS) networks. Details of the individ… | ||
| Pyranometer | None | Met Office | A pyranometer is an instrument used to measure broadband solar irradiance on a planar surface. In other words: a pyranometer is a sensor that is designed to measure the solar radiation flux density (… | ||
| Pyrheliometer | pyrheliometer | unknown | An instrument that measures the amount of solar radiation by converting the heat of the sunlight into a voltage using a device called a thermopile, and a recording voltmeter. | ||
| Qinetic: Doppler Lidar | qinetic-lidar-dop-1 | unknown | 10.6 um Doppler Lidar system for atmospheric measurments from a minimum range of 500-700 m upto a maximum of 9 km. | ||
| RA | None | The RA (Radar Altimeter) instrument was flown on the ERS-1 and ERS02 satellites. It's a single frequency (13.8 GHz) radar altimeter. | |||
| Radar Altimeter | RadAlt | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2) | None | Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2) is an instrument for determining the two-way delay of the radar echo from the Earth's surface to a very high precision: less than a nanosecond. It also measures the power and… | |||
| Radio Acoustic Sounding Systems | None | Met Office | Radio Acoustic Sounding Systems (RASS) are remote-sensing systems for the measurement of the temperature profile in the (lower) atmosphere. | ||
| Radiosonde | None | unknown | The radiosonde is a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument that measures profiles of pressure, temperature and humidity from the ground to approximately 40km.The radiosonde is equipped with a radio tr… | ||
| Radiosonde1 | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Radio Telescope | radio_telescope | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Raingauge | None | Met Office | A raingauge is an instrument used to measure rainfall. Tilting siphon raingauges, Telemetered tipping bucket raingauges, Ordinary raingauges and Climate Data Loggers (CDL) are used by observation sta… | ||
| RAL 78GHz cloud radar | ral-cloud-radar | STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | 1998-2004 the cloud radar was located at Chilbolton Facility for the CLOUDMAP project. A frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) 78 GHz cloud radar, designed by the Millimetre-Wave Technology (… | ||
| Ramon - atmospheric electric potential gradient | ramon-pg | Potential gradient is measured using a CS110 electric-field mill. It is mounted on a 3m metal tripod, fixed to the ground. The surface is mostly sedimentary rocks and some loose dust. It is situated… | |||
| RDR-4B Navigation Weather X-band Radar | RDR-4B | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Reading -atmospheric electric potential gradient | reading-pg | Roger Brugge, Keri A Nicoll | Potential gradient is measured using a JCI Chilworth 131 adverse conditions field meter. It is mounted on a 3m metal pole on the atmospheric observatory, which has a number of metal structures (incl… | ||
| Reading University Observatory: 3-cup anemometer and wind vane | reading_anemometer | unknown | Wind measurements are made on the southern of the field site at 3m above the surface using a wind vane and a three-cup anemometer.Both devices were manufactured by Vector Instruments. | ||
| Reading University Observatory: Ground heat flux plate | reading_ground_heat_plate | unknown | Ground heat flux is determined using a ground heat flux plate. | ||
| Reading University Observatory: Kipp solarimeters | reading_solarimeter | unknown | The solar radiation is measured using two Kipp solarimeters, one of which measures the global solar radiation (Sg) and the other measures the diffuse solar component (Sd) by using a shade ring. | ||
| Reading University Observatory: Middleton net radiometer | reading_middleton_radiometer | unknown | The Net radiation is found using a Middleton net radiometer. | ||
| Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum system | RVSM | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Reduction Gas Analyser at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory | wao-rga3 | Grant Forster | The Reduction Gas Analyser (RGA3, Trace Analytical)) at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory is used to make quasi-continuous measurements of molecular hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) in atmosphe… | ||
| Relative ionospheric opacity meter (riometer) | None | The riometer is situated inside a controlled environment at the station of interest. The high-frequency antenna is situated outside the building, and it is exposed to the environment. As a result, … | |||
| RHUL-continuous-flow gas chromatography/isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (CF-GC/IRMS) system | rhul-cf-gc-irms | Rebecca Fisher | The instrument is a mass spectrometer, modified for use to determine isotopic ratios of carbon12/carbon13 in either carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4). For methane, the CO2 and carbon monoxide… | ||
| Ringway temperature sensor | ringway_temp | unknown | Air temperature recording instrument at the Met Office Ringway station in Greater Manchester, UK. | ||
| River Gauging Station | river_gauge | unknown | A station which allows for measurements of river flows. | ||
| Rothamsted temperature sensor | Rothamsted_temp | unknown | Air temperature recording instrument at the Met Office Rothamsted station in Hertfordshire, UK. | ||
| SAFIRE ATR42 Core Instrument suite | as-core, safire-atr42-core | SAFIRE (Service des Avions Francais Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement) operated core instruments on board the SAFIRE-ATR42 aircraft. Includes Inertial Reference/Navigation System, Non d… | |||
| SAFIRE Falcon20 Core Instrument suite | fs-core, safire-fa20-core | SAFIRE (Service des Avions Francais Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement) operated core instruments on board the SAFIRE-Falcon20 aircraft. Includes Inertial Reference/Navigation System, I… | |||
| SAFIRE Piper-Aztec Core Instrument suite | pas-core-1Hz, safire-piper-aztec-core | SAFIRE (Service des Avions Francais Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement) operated core instruments on board the SAFIRE-Piper-Aztec aircraft. Includes Incident flow vector probe, Non Dew/F… | |||
| Salford: Automatic Weather Station | salford-aws-1 | University of Salford | Automatic Weather Station (AWS) consisting of a Campbell Scientific 2 m tripod with a CR10X datalogger. Weather station sensors included a MP100A temperature and relative humidity probe, a A100L2 lo… | ||
| Salford: Digital camera weather pictures | salford-photograph | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Salford: Radiometer | salford-radiometer-1 | Victoria Smith | The HATPRO Radiometer is a system which is passive with two frequency reception bands: 22-31 GHz (7 channel filter bank humidity profiler and LWP radiometer) and 51-58 GHz (7 channel filter bank temp… | ||
| Salford: Sonic anemometer 1 | salford-sonic-1 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Salford: Sonic anemometer 2 | salford-sonic-2 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Salford/UFAM: Doppler Lidar | salford-lidar-dop-1 | Victoria Smith | This is a 10.6 um Doppler Lidar system for atmospheric measurements from a minimum range of 500 m-700 m up to a maximum of 9 km. This is a UFAM instrument operated by the University of Salford, UK. T… | ||
| SAR | None | Synthetic Aperture RADAR | |||
| SAR backscatter intensity image-maps production process | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| SAR-X | None | SAR-X is flown on the German TerraSAR-X satellite. It is an X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | |||
| SATCOM_C | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| SATCOM_H | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| SATEMS producing satellite instruments | satems_instruments | unknown | Satellite Temperature Soundings (SATEMS) as measured by various satellite instruments. | ||
| S-band Doppler dual polarisation radar | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| SBE38 sea water temperature sensor | None | The Sea-Bird Scientific digital ocean thermometer features an ultra-stable platinum thermistor and state-of-the-art calibration. As on the NATO Research Vessel Alliance, the SBE 38 can be integrated … | |||
| Scanning Infrared Sea surface Temperature Radiometer (SISTeR) | SISTeR | Tim Nightingale | The Scanning Infrared Sea surface Temperature Radiometer (SISTeR), developed at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, is a self-calibrating filter radiometer for the in situ measurement of skin SST to vali… | ||
| Scanning monochromator | scan_monochromator | unknown | A motorised monochromator to sequentially scan a range of wavelengths. | ||
| Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) | smmr | unknown | The Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer operated on NASA's Nimbus-7 satellite for more than eight years, from 26 October 1978 to 20 August 1987, transmitting data every other day. Intended to … | ||
| SEAWATCH Wavescan buoy | None | Measures standard meteorological variables, sea surface temperature, surface ocean currents and wave height, direction and period. | |||
| SeaWiFS | None | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor. | |||
| Semi-automatic filling of boro-silicate flasks | None | Air was sampled by semi-automatic filling of boro-silicate flasks stored inside purpose-built suitcases (called ‘programmable flask packages’), which contain an array of 17 0.7-litre flasks at SAN si… | |||
| Sentinel 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) | None | European Space Agency (ESA) | The C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) flown on the Sentinel 1 series of satellites is an instrument providing high resolution all-weather day and night radar coverage of the Earth's surface. Se… | ||
| Sentinel 2 Multispectral Instrument (MSI) | None | European Space Agency (ESA) | Data from the Multispectral Instrument (MSI) on the Sentinel 2 series. Sentinel 2A was launched on 23rd June 2015 and Sentinel 2B was launch in March 2017. The instrument provides high-resolution opt… | ||
| Sentinel 3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) | None | Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) on board the Sentinel 3 satellite. | |||
| Sentinel 3 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) | None | Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) on board the Sentinel 3 satellite. | |||
| Sentinel 3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (SRAL) | None | Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (SRAL) instrument on board the Sentinel 3 satellite. | |||
| sferics | sferics | unknown | SFERICS instruments are used to detect radio wave signals from lightening events known as 'atmospherics'. | ||
| SHAC2000 E-Synthetic Aperture Radar | ESAR | unknown | The SHAC2000 E-SAR is a multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument. The special features of the E-SAR instrument are its very high resolution, flexible operating bands and polarisation… | ||
| SHAC2000 Hyperspectral Mapper | HYMAP | unknown | The Hyper-spectral Mapper operated by HyVista and built by Integrated Spectronics of Australia, differed from other sensors used in the UK by having 126 narrow, contiguous channels of data across the… | ||
| Sioutas Impactor | None | Cascade impactors: Cascade impactors size and collect particles through inertial impaction onto a series of stages. A filter is placed onto each stage to collect the PM. We used a 5-stage SKC Inc. S… | |||
| sky irradiance scanner | sky_irradiance_scanner | unknown | This instrument has been designed by Andrew McGonigle (University of Sheffield). It is based on a temperature-stabilised miniature spectroradiometer interfaced to a telescope that can be programmed t… | ||
| SMAP | None | The Soil Moisture Active Passive instrument is a microwave radiometer flown on the NASA SMAP satellite. | |||
| SME Ozone spectrometer | SME_spectro | unknown | Ozone spectrometer onboard the Stratospheric Mesosphere Explorer satellite. | ||
| Snow Depth Sensor | None | unknown | A snow depth sensor is an electrically-powered active device with on-board data-processing that measures the distance between the sensor and the ground surface beneath it. | ||
| SO2: Ecotech EC9850 Sulfur Dioxide Analyzer | None | The EC9850 Sulfur Dioxide Analyser combines microprocessor control with pulsed UV fluorescence detection to measure SO2 in the ranges of 0-50 ppb and 0-20 ppm with a detection limit of 0.5 ppb. | |||
| Solar Backscatter UltraViolet (SBUV) Instrument | SBUV | unknown | The SBUV onboard NIMBUS-7 is an remote sensor designed to map total ozone concentrations and the vertical distribution of ozone in the earth's atmosphere on a global scale. The purpose of the SBUV in… | ||
| Sondrestrom Brewer | None | Sondrestrom Brewer | |||
| South Uist: Met Office Windprofiler 64MHz | ukmo-radar-64mhz-1 | unknown | The profiler was installed at South Uist, Hebrides in May 2003. This system is an integral part of the UK operational upper air network. The LAP's operating frequency is centered at 64 MHz and it is … | ||
| South Uist: Met Office Windprofiler 915MHz | southuist_915_radar | unknown | The South Uist Radian LAP3000 Profiler was installed in 2002 and subsequently relocated to the Isle of Man. The instrument operates at a frequency of 915 Mhz and provides high-resolution wind informa… | ||
| Soviet Union M-83 Ozonometer | ozonometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter | chlorophyll_meter | unknown | The Chlorophyll Meter SPAD-502 is a compact, easy-to-use meter for measuring the chlorophyll content of plant leaves without damaging the plant. Chlorophyll content is an indication of the plant cond… | ||
| Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMI/S) | None | unknown | Beginning with the launch of the DMSP F-16 satellite on 18 October 2003, the SSMIS marks the commencement of a new series of passive microwave conically scanning imagers and sounders planned for laun… | ||
| Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM/I) | ssm_I | unknown | The SSM/I is a seven-channel, four frequency, linearly-polarized, passive microwave radiometric system which measures atmospheric, ocean and terrain microwave brightness temperatures at 19.35, 22.235… | ||
| Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager - SEVIRI-1 | seviri-1 | unknown | The Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) instrument measures in 12 spectral channels (compared to only 3 on the previous Meteosat) and records data in a 15 minute cycle (30 minutes … | ||
| Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager - SEVIRI- 2 | seviri-2 | unknown | The Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) instrument measures in 12 spectral channels (compared to only 3 on the previous Meteosat) and records data in a 15 minute cycle (30 minutes … | ||
| SPRS: Icebreaker Oden Ship Navigation eqiupment | sprs-oden-shipnav | Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) | The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat's (SPRS) operate the Icebreaker Oden which has a comprehensive suite of navigational equipment including : - Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMD… | ||
| Squires Gate Temperature sensor | Squires_Gate_temp | unknown | Air temperature recording instrument at the Met Office Squires Gate station in Lancashire, UK. | ||
| SSALT | None | The Single-frequency Solid-state Altimeter (SSALT) was flown on the TOPEX-Poseidon satellite to study ocean topography, significant wave height and wind speed on the sea surface | |||
| Station Observer | None | Met Office | A station observer is an observer reporting daily and hourly specific weather parameters which cannot be measured by an instrument e.g. cloud type, cloud amount, present and past weather and state of… | ||
| Stockholm University: Rotronic T/RH sensor | None | Stockholm University | The Stockholm University Rotronic T/RH sensor measures air temperature and humidity, measuring at 1Hz frequency. | ||
| Stockholm University: weather station | None | Stockholm University | The Stockholm University weather station was mounted on the 7th deck of the Icebreaker Oden during the ASCE expedition, 2014. It consisted of a series of instruments with a common data logger samplin… | ||
| Stonyhurst temperature sensor | stonyhurst_temp | unknown | Air temperature recording instrument at the Met Office Stonyhurst station in Lancashire, UK. | ||
| Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) | sage3-instrument | unknown | The SAGE III mission on the Russian Meteor 3M-1 spacecraft seeks to enhance our understanding of natural and human-derived atmospheric processes by providing high latitude long-term measurements of t… | ||
| Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE II) | sage2 | unknown | SAGE II is an instrument on board the ERBS satellite which used the solar occultation technique to measure global profiles of aerosol extinction, temperature, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and water vapour… | ||
| Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment I (SAGE-I) | sage1 | unknown | The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment I (SAGE) was carried aboard the Applications Explorer Mission-2 (AEM-2) spacecraft. SAGE I data collection began February 21, 1979. Four months afte… | ||
| Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement II (SAM II) | SAM II | unknown | Instrument on board the NIMBUS 7 satellite which measured profiles of aerosol extinction (km^-1) and extinction ratio. | ||
| Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (SAMS) | sams | unknown | SAM instrument | ||
| STratospheric OZone LIdar Trailer Experiment (STROZ-LITE) | stroz_lite | unknown | STROZ-LITE is a mobile lidar instrument housed in a forty-five foot trailer. | ||
| Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) Cloud Particle Imager | CPI | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| streamflow gauge | streamflow_gauge | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Studenec - atmospheric electric potential gradient | studenec-pg | Potential gradient is measured using an EFM-100 Electric Field Mill from Boltek. It is mounted in inverse position about 0.9 m above ground using Boltek 3 feet tripod inverting mounting kit. Cal… | |||
| Sulfur dioxide analyser | None | Mingxi Yang | Thermo Scientific model 43i Trace Level-Enhanced Pulsed Fluorescence SO2 analyzer; it measures SO2 concentration in the atmosphere | ||
| Sunderland: SMPS, ASASP, FSSP | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Sunshine Recorder | None | Met Office | A sunshine recorder is an instrument used to measure sunshine duration. The Campbell-Stokes recorder is used by observation stations worldwide before data is used by the Met Office and later accumula… | ||
| Surrey Linear Imager Multispectral 6 channels - 22-metre (SLIM-6-22) sensor | None | The SLIM-6 imager is a dual bank linear Charge Coupled Device (CCD) push broom imager utilising the orbital motion of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) platform to capture radiation reflect… | |||
| Surrey Linear Imager Multispectral 6 channels (SLIM-6) sensor | None | The SLIM-6 imager is a dual bank linear Charge Coupled Device (CCD) push broom imager utilising the orbital motion of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) platform to capture radiation reflect… | |||
| Swider - atmospheric electric potential gradient | swider-pg | Potential gradient is measured using a by rotating-dipole field mill . Frequency bandwidth: 0-10 Hz. Sensitivity: 2 V/m. Range: +-1500 V/m. Output voltage: 3.5 V . Requires 12 V buffer power s… | |||
| Tandem mist chambers UVA | uva-mc | Bill Keene | University of Virginia Tandem mist chambers located at Cape Verde measuring HCl, Cl* (HOCl+Cl2), HNO3, HCOOH, CH3COOH and HONO. | ||
| TANSO | None | The Thermal and Near Infrared Sensor for carbon Observation (TANSO), is the observation instrument onboard the GOSAT satellite. TANSO is composed for two subunits: the Fourier Transform Spectromet… | |||
| TANSO-CAI | None | Cloud and Aerosol Imager (TANSO-CAI) | |||
| TANSO-FTS/2 | None | The Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observations - Fourier Transform Spectrometer / 2 (TANSO-FTS/2) is an instrument flying on the second GOSAT satellite (GOSAT-2). | |||
| TEI NO | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| TEI ozone | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Telemetered Tipping bucket raingauge | tele_tip_bucket_raingauge | unknown | The tipping bucket raingauge is particularly suitable for the automation of rainfall measurement. | ||
| TH16A meteorological station | None | TH16A meteorological station measuring wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity and barometric pressure. | |||
| Thematic Mapper (LS4) | NEODC_LANDSAT4_TM | unknown | The Thematic Mapper is a nadir-viewing, seven-band multi-spectral scanning radiometer instrument, capable of providing low to medium-resolution imaging information of the Earth's surface. The first o… | ||
| Thematic Mapper (LS5) | NEODC_LANDSAT5_TM | unknown | The Landsat5 Thematic Mapper is a a nadir-viewing, seven-band multi-spectral scanning radiometer instrument, almost identical to the LS4 TM. It was launched in 1984 and was in operation until at leas… | ||
| Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) | TES | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | This instrument studied the atmosphere and mapped the mineral composition of the surface by analysing infra-red radiation, which scanned for heat emitted from the surface of Mars. The TES instrument … | ||
| Thermo Environmental Instruments 42C NO-NO2-NOx level Analyser | None | Thermo Environmental Instruments 42C NO-NO2-NOx level Analyser | |||
| Thermometer | None | Met Office | A thermometer is an instrument used to measure temperature and can be applied to calculate humidity. Electrical Resistance Thermometers (ERT or PRT), liquid-in-glass thermometers, wet bulb thermomete… | ||
| Thermo Scientific 49i Ozone Analyser | None | The Thermo Scientific Model 49i Ozone Analyzer utilizes UV photometric technology to measure the amount of ozone in the air. | |||
| The SAR Interferometer Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) | None | European Space Agency (ESA) | The SAR Interferometer Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) is flown on the CryoSat-2, measuring at a single frequency (13.56 GHz) with capability to make SAR measuments along-track, or across-track for SAR int… | ||
| TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) | TOVS | unknown | The TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) system consists of three separate sub-instruments: the High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS), the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and the Strat… | ||
| TMI | None | TMI (TRMM Microwave Imager) is a multi-purpose microwave imager flying on the TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission). | |||
| tovs | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| TOVS - High-Resolution Infrared Sounder (HRIS) | tovs_hris | unknown | The High-Resolution Infrared Sounder (HRIS) is one of 3 sub-instruments of the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) system flown on successive spacecraft in the TIROS-N/NOAA series of Polar Orbi… | ||
| TOVS - Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) | tovs_msu | unknown | The Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) is one of 3 sub-instruments of the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) system flown on successive spacecraft in the TIROS-N/NOAA series of Polar Orbiting Envir… | ||
| TOVS - Stratospheric Sounder Unit (SSU) | tovs_ssu | unknown | The Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) is one of 3 sub-instruments of the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) system flown on successive spacecraft in the TIROS-N/NOAA series of Polar Orbiting E… | ||
| Trace Gas/Isoprime GC-IRMS | None | Rebecca Fisher | The Trace Gas/Isoprime instrument analyses the 13C/12C stable isotope ratio in methane using continuous flow gas chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry. The instrument is located in the green… | ||
| Transportable vertically pointing X- band radar | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Transportable Weather Station (TWS) | tws | unknown | A weather station which can be transported. | ||
| TRIMBLE 4000SSE Geodtic GNSS receiver | None | The TRIBMLE 4000SSE GNSS receiver is an off-the-shelf GNSS receiver unit produced by TRIMBLE. | |||
| TRIMBLE 4000SSI Geodtic GNSS receiver | None | The TRIMBLE 4000SSI GNSS receiver is an off-the-shelf GNSS receiver produced by TRIMBLE. | |||
| TRIMBLE 5700 Geodtic GNSS receiver | None | The TRIBMLE 5700 GNSS receiver is an off-the-shelf GNSS receiver unit produced by TRIMBLE. | |||
| TRIMBLE TRM14532.00 antenna | None | The TRM14532.00 antenna, produced by TRIMBLE, is an off-the-shelf GNSS aerial designed for use with TRIMBLE GNSS receiver units. | |||
| TRIMBLE TRM22020.00+GP antenna | None | The TRM22020.00+GP antenna, produced by TRIMBLE, is an off-the-shelf GNSS aerial designed for use with TRIMBLE GNSS receiver units. | |||
| TRIMBLE TRM29659.00 antenna | None | The TRM29659.00 antenna, produced by TRIMBLE, is an off-the-shelf GNSS aerial designed for use with TRIMBLE GNSS receiver units. | |||
| TRIMBLE TRM41249.00 antenna | None | The TRM41249.00 antenna, produced by TRIMBLE, is an off-the-shelf GNSS aerial designed for use with TRIMBLE GNSS receiver units. | |||
| Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) | tes | TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer) is a Fourier Transfer Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) that measures the infrared-light energy (radiance) emitted by Earth’s surface and by gases and particles in… | |||
| TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) | None | The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) uses 4 different grating spectrometers covering 8 spectral bands in the range 270-2385 nm. The main aim for this instrument is observing atmospheric c… | |||
| TSI 3786 CPC | None | Jamie Trembath | The 3786 CPC, with an output of 10Hz, measures particles as small as 2.5 nm and operates on the principle of enlarging small particles using a condensation technique until they are large enough to be… | ||
| TSI Incorporated Aerodynamic Particle Sizer Spectrometer (APS), Model 3321 | None | Dominique Young | TSI Incorporated Aerodynamic Particle Sizer Spectrometer (APS), Model 3321 | ||
| T-type thermocouples | None | The Type T is a very stable thermocouple and is often used in extremely low temperature applications such as cryogenics or ultra low freezers. | |||
| Turbulence probe | None | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Two Dimension Cloud particle imaging probe (PMS canister instrument) | 2D-C | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Two Dimension Precipitation particle imaging probe (PMS canister instrument) 0.2 Hz averages | 2D-P | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UC high-volume particulate sampler | uc-hivol-sampler | Peter Zotter | The high-volume sampler is an instrument that monitors particulates in ambient air. It is owned by the University of Colorado, Boulder and operated by Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland as p… | ||
| UCL RIEGL VZ-400 Terrestrial Laser Scaner | None | Instrument Serial: S9999808 The RIEGL VZ-400 V-Line® 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanner provides high speed, non-contact data acquisition using a narrow infrared laser beam and a fast sc… | |||
| uDIRAC GC | None | uDIRAC GC | |||
| UEA: Aerolaser CO | uea-aerolaser-co | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Autospec GC Analysis of Bottle Samples | None | UEA: Autospec GC Analysis of Bottle Samples from MRF C-130 | |||
| UEA: condensation nuclei counter | uea-cn | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: CRANOX NOx, O3, NOy | uea-cranox | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Cryo-PAN | uea-cryo-pan | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (DOAS) | uea-doas | unknown | In atmospheric chemistry, differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) is used to measure concentrations of trace gases. When combined with basic optical spectrometers such as prisms or diffra… | ||
| UEA: Formaldehyde (HCHO) instrument or Fluorometric | uea-hcho | unknown | An instrument from the Penkett group at UEA which is flown on research aircrafts to provide 1Hz flourescence measurements of formaldehyde concentration. | ||
| UEA: Gas Chromatograph with mass spectrometer FIRN | uea-gcms-firn | unknown | University of East Anglia Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC MS) -firn | ||
| UEA: Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometer (GC MS) | uea-gc-ms | unknown | University of East Anglia Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC MS) | ||
| UEA: Gas Chromotography Negative Ion Chemical Ioisation Mass Spectrometry | uea-gc-nici-ms | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: GC | uea_Gc | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: GC-ECD | uea-pan | Graham Mills | Gas Chromatography – Electron Capture Detector or GC-ECD is a technique used to analyse halogenated compounds and is primarily used in the environmental, forensic and pharmaceutical markets. | ||
| UEA: ICP-AES | None | Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) detects metals through emission spectroscopy . ICP is used to produce excited atoms and ions, and the intensity of their emission o… | |||
| UEA: Ion Chromatography | None | The files containing the data from this instrument may end with .cw3 suffix. | |||
| UEA: J(NO2) Photoelectric Radiometer | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Major Ions Rain Concentration | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Met Sensor | None | University of East Anglia (UEA), Brian Bandy | met Sensors collects wind speed, wind direction, humidity, atmospheric pressure, solar irradiance and net irradiance, SoDAR wind profiler data and sonic anemometer data. | ||
| UEA: NAME dispersion model footprints | None | University of East Anglia (UEA), Zoe L. Fleming | These footprints are created by model runs in which thousands of particles are released from the location and are tracked backwards in time. | ||
| UEA: NI - GCMS | uea-nigcms | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: NOxy 4 channel NO, NO2, NOy, NOy* chemiluminescence analyser | uea-noxy | unknown | An instrument from the Penkett group at UEA. The instrument measures nitrogen compounds using chemiluminescence. | ||
| UEA: Packed column GC-ECD | uea_packed_gcecd | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Peroxides instrument | uea-peroxides | unknown | An instrument from the Penkett group at UEA flown on research aircrafts to provide continuous measurements of gas phase speciated organic peroxides using fluorescence. | ||
| UEA: PEroxy Radical Chemical Amplification (PERCA) technique | uea_perca | unknown | PEROXY RADICAL CHEMICAL AMPLIFIER (PERCA) measures atmospheric peroxy radicals using chemical amplification. | ||
| UEA: Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) | uea-ptrms | David Oram | The PTR-MS (Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer) is an aircraft-certified instrument for the real time measurement of a selected range of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere at… | ||
| UEA: RGA3 GC | None | Graham Mills | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Sonic anemometer | None | University of East Anglia (UEA) | This instrument collects data on Wind Velocity, Wind Direction, Temperature, Heat Flux and Momentum Flux. | ||
| UEA: Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry | None | Nicola McArdle, Adrian Thompson | The files containing the data from this instrument may end with .cw3 suffix. | ||
| UEA: TEI 42 trace level chemiluminescence NOx analyser | uea-nox | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: TEI 49 UV absorption O3 analyser | uea-o3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Tethered Balloonsonde | None | Claire E. Reeves | Radiosonde measuring PTU and wind vector mounted on a balloon operated by the University of East Anglia | ||
| UEA: Thermo Scientific Model 43i Sulphur Dioxide Analyzer | None | University of East Anglia Thermo Scientific Model 43i Sulphur Dioxide Analyzer | |||
| UEA: Trace Metals Rain Concentration | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UEA: Volatile Organic Compounds Gas Chromatograph (VOC GC) | None | University of East Anglia Volatile Organic Compounds Gas Chromatograph (VOC GC) | |||
| UGAMP ECMWF profiles | ugamp-ecprof | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UGAMP trajectories | ugamp-traj | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology j(NO2) 4-pi filter radiometer | None | Measured broadband j(NO2) photolysis rate constants from down- and upwelling directions at Auchencorth Moss. | |||
| UK-DMC optical imaging payload | uk-dmc_payload | unknown | UK-DMC is a satellite of the standard Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) design, with added research and development payloads. Like all of the standard DMC satellites, it carries an optical imag… | ||
| Ultraportable Greenhouse Gas Analyser (UGGA) | None | Joseph Pitt | The Ultraportable Greenhouse Gas Analyser (UGGA) is manufactured by Los Gatos Research Inc. (USA). It measures the dry mole fraction of methane and carbon dioxide in ambient air, using laser absorpti… | ||
| Umkehr instrument | umkehr | unknown | The Umkehr method is ground based optical remote sensing. | ||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: BAS Masin Twin-Otter aircraft | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: BAS Masin Twin-Otter aircraft | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: FAAM BAe-146-301 Large Atmospheric Research Aircraft G-LUXE | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Halley Clean Air Sector Laboratory (CASLab) | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Halley Clean Air Sector Laboratory (CASLab) | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Kuujjuarapik, Hudson Bay, Canada | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Kuujjuarapik, Hudson Bay, Canada | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Landsat1 | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Landsat1 | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Landsat2 | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Landsat2 | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Landsat3 | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Landsat3 | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Mace Head Research Facility, Ireland | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Mace Head Research Facility, Ireland | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Met Office C-130 Hercules Aircraft | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Met Office Meteorologial Research Unit, Cardington | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: MLS | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: MLS | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: SAM II | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: SAM II | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: Tactical Operational Satellite (TOPSAT) | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: Tactical Operational Satellite (TOPSAT) | |||
| UNDEFINED instrument associated with platform: The Geoinformation Group (TGG) Survey Aircraft | None | This instrument is associated with the platform: The Geoinformation Group (TGG) Survey Aircraft | |||
| University of Aberdeen Thermo TRACE GC Ultra | None | Yit Arn Teh | The instrument is a gas chromatograph which is equipped with two FIDs (flame ionization detector) for carbon dioxide and methane. It also inclues an ECD (electron capture detector) for nitrous oxide.… | ||
| University of Bath: Ascension Island Skiymet Meteor Radar | None | Nicholas J. Mitchell | The University of Bath's Ascension Island meteor radar (7.9 S, 14.4 W) is an all-sky VHF meteor radar commercially produced Skiymet system. The system was operational from October 2001 to June 2011, … | ||
| University of Bath: Bear Lake Observatory Skiymet Meteor Radar | None | Nicholas J. Mitchell | The University of Bath's Bear Lake Observatory (BLO) meteor radar (42 N, 114 W), Utah, is an all-sky VHF meteor radar commercially produced Skiymet system. The system has been operational from March… | ||
| University of Bath: Esrange Skiymet Meteor Radar | None | Nicholas J. Mitchell | The University of Bath's meteor radar located at the Esrange Space Centre in Northern Sweden (67.88 N, 21.07E) , is an all-sky VHF meteor radar commercially produced Skiymet system. It was operated b… | ||
| University of Bath: King Edward Point Skiymet Meteor Radar | None | Nicholas J. Mitchell | The University of Bath's meteor radar located at the King Edward Point Magnetic Observatory (KEP, 54.2820 S, 36.4930 W) on South Georgia island in the South Atlantic , is an all-sky VHF meteor radar … | ||
| University of Bath: Rothera Skiymet Meteor Radar | None | Nicholas J. Mitchell | The University of Bath's meteor radar located at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera base on Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antartica (67.57 S, 68.13 W), is an all-sky VHF meteor radar commercial… | ||
| University of Bergen: Micro Rain Radar (MRR2) | None | Harald Sodemann | This is a Micro Rain Radar (MRR2), manufactured by Meteorologische Messtechnik GmbH (Metek) installed onboard the NATO Research Vessel Alliance during the Iceland Greenland Seas Project. The MRR2 … | ||
| University of Bergen: Windcube lidar wind profiler | None | J Reuder | This is a lidar wind profiler built by leosphere and it belongs to and was operated by University of Bergen | ||
| University of Bern Uni: Operational Ground-based Ozone Sensor (OGOS) | berne_ogos | University of Bern | Operational Ground-based Ozone Sensor (OGOS) - millimeter-wave ozone radiometer operated by the University of Berne. | ||
| University of Bristol: Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer (CRDS) | bristol-crds | Aoife Grant | Cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) is a highly sensitive optical spectroscopic technique that enables measurement of absolute optical extinction by samples that scatter and absorb light. It has bee… | ||
| University of Bristol: Dekati ELPI Classic | None | SDekati Electrical Low Pressure Impactor, serial number 24413 | |||
| University of Bristol: Gas Chromatography-micro Electron Capture Detector (GC-ECD) | bristol-gc-ecd | Aoife Grant | Gas Chromatography-micro Electron Capture Detector (GC-ECD) is a technique used to analyse halogenated compounds and is primarily used in the environmental, forensic and pharmaceutical markets. T… | ||
| University of Bristol: Sven Leckel LVS3 | None | Sven Leckel LVS3 is a particle sampler. | |||
| University of Cambridge (CAMB) Broadband Cavity enhanced Spectrophotmeters | None | University of Cambridge | University of Cambridge Broadband Cavity enhanced Spectrophotmeters sensitive technique for direct measurement of atmospheric trace gases. | ||
| University of Cambridge DIRAC gas chromatograph | None | Andrew Robinson | University of Cambridge DIRAC gas chromatograph onboard the Egrett aircraft | ||
| University of East Anglia: Cryotap GC-FID | uea_cryotap_gcfid | Rachel A. Burgess | Cryotap Gas Chromatograph-Flame Ionisation Detector operated by the University of East Anglia | ||
| University of East Anglia: Gas Chromatograph measuring CH4 | wao-ghg-gc-fid | Grant Forster | The Flame Ionisation Detector (FID) on the Greenhouse Gas GC (Perkin Elmer, Clarus 500 Greenhouse GC) at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory (WAO) is used to make quasi-continuous measurements of metha… | ||
| University of East Anglia Gas Chromatograph measuring CO and H2 | None | University of East Anglia (UEA), Grant Forster | The Reduction Gas Analyser (RGA3, Trace Analytical)) at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory is used to make quasi-continuous measurements of molecular hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) in atmosphe… | ||
| University of East Anglia: GC/FID | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| University of East Anglia: High Volume aerosol sampler | None | Alex Baker | Size segregated aerosol chemical composition. Aerosol particles are separated into up to 7 size fractions within the range <0.3 - >8.0 um during sample collection (number of size fractions depends on… | ||
| University of East Anglia (UEA): Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory chemistry instruments (O3, CO, NO, NO2) | uea-wao-chem | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| University of East Anglia (UEA): Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory Condensation Particle Counter | None | Brian Bandy | The Model 3022A is a general-purpose Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) that detects airborne particles greater than or equal to 7 nanometres in diameter. CPCs take advantage of the principle that … | ||
| University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Bristol's Gas Chromotography Flame Ionisation detector (GC-FID) and Adsorption-desorption system | galway-gc-fid-ads | Clare Noone | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| University of Lancashire/GIG: Proton Transfer Reaction-Time of Flight- Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) | None | Joe Acton | University of Lancashire Proton Transfer Reaction-Time of Flight- Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) provides online measurements of volatile organic compounds in air with a high time resolution and low … | ||
| University of Leeds: ADC 7000 Water Vapour Instrument | None | Michael J. Pilling, David J. Creasey, Dwayne E. Heard, James D. Lee | Analytical Development Company (ADC) Ltd., model ADC 7000. The nondispersive IR absorption spectrometer produces a voltage proportional to the absolute amount of water vapour which is converted to % … | ||
| University of Leeds: Datawell DWR-G4 Waverider Buoy | None | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds Datawell DWR-G4 Waverider uses doppler shift of GPS carrier signal to measure velocity in 3D, from which 3D displacement is calculated. Directional wave spectra are then deriv… | ||
| University of Leeds: Dew Point Hygrometer | leeds-dph | Lisa Whalley | The Optica Hygrometer offers precision dew point measurement. Precisely controlled by GE's chilled mirror sensing technology - providing NIST traceable humidity,temperature and pressure measurement a… | ||
| University of Leeds: Formaldehyde | leeds-hcho | Lisa Whalley | Laser induced fluorescence instrument for off-resonance HCHO detection at 353 nm. Uses a tunable fibre laser (Novawave, TFL3000). HCHO instrument is calibrated using a commercial permatube containing… | ||
| University of Leeds Gas Chromotograph Formaldehyde (HCHO) instrument or fluorometric | leeds-gc-hcho | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| University of Leeds: GC-FID | leeds-gc-fid | Ally Lewis, Katie A. Read | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| University of Leeds: Heitronics KT15 IR temperature sensor 1 | leeds-kt15-ir-1 | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds Heitronics KT15 IR temperature sensor (number 1) is a digital, compact, programmable and universally applicable radiation pyrometer series with comprehensive and flexible func… | ||
| University of Leeds: Heitronics KT15 IR temperature sensor 2 | leeds-kt15-ir-2 | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds Heitronics KT15 IR temperature sensor (number 2) is a digital, compact, programmable and universally applicable radiation pyrometer series with comprehensive and flexible func… | ||
| University of Leeds: LI-COR LI-7500 Gas Analyser | None | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds operates a LI-COR LI-7500 open path gas analyser. The instrument operates at infra-red wavelengths measuring the absorption due to carbon dioxide and water vapour at specific … | ||
| University of Leeds: Licor Li-7500 gas analyzer | leeds-licor-7500 | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds' LI-COR LI-7500 open path gas analyser operates at infra-red wavelengths measuring the absorption due to carbon dioxide and water vapour concentrations at specific wavelengths… | ||
| University of Leeds: Metek USA-100 sonic anemometer | leeds-metek-sonic-anemometer | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds Metek USA-100 sonic anemometer measures turbulent winds and sonic temperature at 20Hz. 20Hz raw data are available from which average fluxes (e.g. 20 minute average fluxes) ca… | ||
| University of Leeds: Mobotix MX-M24M IP camera - number 1 | leeds-mobotix-camera-1 | Ian Brooks | This is one of three Mobotix MX-M24M IP cameras operated by the University of Leeds, supplying digital imagery as jpeg images. The M24M can be configured for high-resolution, distortion-free pano… | ||
| University of Leeds: Mobotix MX-M24M IP camera number 2 | leeds-mobotix-camera-2 | Ian Brooks | This is one of three Mobotix MX-M24M IP cameras operated by the University of Leeds, supplying digital imagery as jpeg images. The M24M can be configured for high-resolution, distortion-free pa… | ||
| University of Leeds: Mobotix MX-M24M IP camera number 3 | leeds-mobotix-camera-3 | Ian Brooks | This is one of three Mobotix MX-M24M IP cameras operated by the University of Leeds, supplying digital imagery as jpeg images. The M24M can be configured for high-resolution, distortion-free pa… | ||
| University of Leeds: PTV-GC-FID | None | James R. Hopkins | Hydrocarbon measurements by PTV-GC-FID | ||
| University of Leeds: SODAR no. 1 | leeds-sodar1 | Barbara J. Brooks, Lindsay Bennett | Scintec FAS64 acoustic sodar to provide winds and backscatter data from about 50 m to around 700 m above ground level depending on conditions, at 10 minute frequency. | ||
| University of Leeds: SODAR no. 2 | leeds-sodar2 | Lindsay Bennett | Scintec FAS64 acoustic sodar to provide winds and backscatter data from about 50 m to around 700 m above ground level depending on conditions, at 10 minute frequency. | ||
| University of Leeds: Spectral Radiometer | leeds-specrad | Lisa Whalley | The spectral radiometer provides a direct measurement of solar actinic UV flux and determination of photolysis frequencies. The actinic flux is measured between 280 - 650 nm (<1 nm resolution) using … | ||
| University of Leeds: TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument | None | James B. McQuaid, Alastair C. Lewis, Michael J. Pilling | TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument owned by the University of Leeds | ||
| University of Leeds: XSens Attitude and Heading Reference System | leeds-xsens-mti-g-700 | Ian Brooks | The University of Leeds' XSens MTi-G-700 measures 3-axis accelerations, rotation rates, and magnetic field components alongside GPS position. The internal algorithm calculates 3-axis velocity, tilt a… | ||
| University of Leicester: Metcon 2-pi Spectral Radiometer | leic-sr1 | University of Leicester | University of Leicester Metcon 2-pi Spectral Radiometer provides a direct measurement of solar actinic UV flux and determination of photolysis frequencies. | ||
| University of Leicester: Relative Humidity Probe | leic-relativehumidity | Andrew R. Rickard | ROTRONIC RH probe | ||
| University of Leicester: TEI 49 UV absorption O3 analyser | leic-o3 | Ruth Mary Purvis, Alastair C. Lewis, James B. McQuaid | Thermo Environmental Instruments 49C UV absorption O3 analyser operated by the University of Leicester. This is a ground-based laser-induced fluorescence instrument for detection of OH, HO2, and RO2 … | ||
| University of Manchester: 2-Dimensional Stereo (2DS) particle imaging probe (SPEC Inc.) on board the British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft | None | Microphysics of Antarctic Clouds (MAC): cloud particle concentration measurements from the University of Manchester 2-Dimensional Stereo (2DS) particle imaging probe (SPEC Inc.) on board the British … | |||
| University of Manchester: Aerodyne Tunable IR Laser Direct Absorption Spectrometer (TILDAS) | man-qcl | Aerodyne Tunable IR Laser Direct Absorption Spectrometer (TILDAS) model QC-TILDAS-CS is a laser spectrometer producing measurements of Ethane dry mole fraction at 1 Hz. The QC-TILDAS-CS is manufac… | |||
| University of Manchester Aerosol Chamber | None | unknown | The Manchester aerosol chamber is run as a batch reactor where the composition of the gaseous precursors, pre-existing seed, oxidising environment, relative humidity and temperature is controlled. Re… | ||
| University of Manchester: Automatic Weather Station | None | Carl Bradbury | The automatic weather station measures humidity, temperature, wind direction and speed every minute. | ||
| University of Manchester Degreane 1290mhz Mobile Wind Profiler Radar - formerly aber-radar-1290mhz | man-radar-1290mhz, aber-radar-1290mhz, ncas-radar-wind-profiler-1 | Emily G. Norton | The University of Manchester Mobile Wind Profiler was designed and manufactured by Degreane Horizon. It is a clear-air UHF Doppler radar system operating at 1290 MHz to measure signal intensity and w… | ||
| University of Manchester: Droplet Measurement Technologies, Inc, Two dimenionsal stereo probe, (2DS) | man-2ds | Hazel Jones, Sebastion O'Shea | University of Manchester: SPEC Inc., Two dimensional stereo probe (2DS). The 2DS captures 2D binary images of particles passing through its sample volume. Particles are detected using two orthogonal … | ||
| University of Manchester: Electrochemical Cell (ECC) ozonesonde | man-o3sonde | Grant Allen | The University of Manchester Electrochemical Cell (ECC) ozonesonde allows ozone profiles to be measured when attached to a radiosonde such as the University of Manchester Vaisala RS92KE radiosonde. | ||
| University of Manchester: High volume precipitation spectrometer (HVPS) | man-hvps, ncas-hvps3-1 | Sebastion O'Shea | University of Manchester: SPEC Inc., High volume precipitation spectrometer (HVPS). The HVPS captures 2D binary images of particles passing through its sample volume. Particles are detected using a 1… | ||
| University of Manchester Knudsend Effusion Mass Spectrometer (KEMS) | man-kems | Murray Booth | Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometry (KEMS) is an established vapour pressure measurement technique capable of measuring vapour pressures from 101-10-8 Pa (e.g. for ceramic solutions and metal alloys a… | ||
| University of Manchester Multi-Angle Absorption Photometer (MAAP) | man-maap-bc | unknown | The University of Manchester MAAP (Multi-Angle Absorption Photometer) instrument was specifically developed to reduce the uncertainties in black carbon measurements caused by aerosol scattering. | ||
| University of Manchester: Ozone DIAL LIDAR | aber-lidar | Geraint Vaughan | The University of Manchester operate a Ozone DIAL lidar at the MST Radar Facility site at Capel Dewi, near Aberystwyth, Mid-Wales. The instrument produces profiles of ozone number density with a heig… | ||
| University of Manchester: Retrievals from Met Office: Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System (ARIES) | man-aries | Retrieved temperature, water vapour, ozone, methane, and carbon monoxide from data collected by the Met Office: Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System (ARIES) on board the FAAM BAe-146 ai… | |||
| University of Manchester's 3-View Cloud Particle Imager (3V-CPI) | man-3v-cpi | James Dorsey | The CPI can image and count particles in the size range of 15-2500um, with the images having a nominal 2.3um resolution. Image analysis and data processing software provided with the probe takes part… | ||
| University of Manchester's Cloud-Aerosol & Precipitation Spectrometer with Depolarisation (CAPS) | man-caps | James Dorsey | The Cloud, Aerosol, and Precipitation Spectrometer (CAPS) is designed to measure size distributions of airborne particles. It contains the Cloud Imaging Probe (CIP) that measures the sizes of larger … | ||
| University of Manchester: SPEC FFSSP on the FAAM 146 aircraft | man-ffssp | James Dorsey | Cloud droplet size distribution measurements from the University of Manchester SPEC FFSSP Mie scattering probe mounted on board the FAAM 146 aircraft | ||
| University of Manchester: TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument | None | TECO 49 UV photometric ozone instrument owned by the University of Manchester | |||
| University of Manchester: ToF-CIMS | None | Michael Priestley | The University of Manchester Chemical Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ToF-CIMS) measures trace gases including isocyanate, amide, nitrate, nitro compounds at 1Hz using the iodide chemica… | ||
| University of Manchester: TSI 3025 Condensation Particle Counter | None | Jim Whiteway | The instrument is one of the twelve CPCs manufactured by TSI Inc. that University of Manchester owns. The instrument is a continuous-flow particle counter that can detect and count particles by laser… | ||
| University of Manchester/UFAM: Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) - formerly umist-ams | man-ams, umist-ams | Paul I. Williams | The Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) is the only currently available instrument capable of providing quantitative size and chemical mass loading information in real-time for non-refractory su… | ||
| University of Manchester/UFAM: Sonic anemometer 1 | man-sonic-1, umist-sonic-1 | University of Manchester | Sonic anemometers provide fast and accurate measurements of three dimensional wind speed and are widely used by the Centre for Atmospheric Science (CAS) at the University of Manchester to make both r… | ||
| University of Manchester/UFAM (Universities' Facilities for Atmospheric Measurements): Cloud Particle Imager (CPI) - formerly umist-cpi | man-cpi | James Dorsey | The CPI can image and count particles in the size range of 15-2500um, with the images having a nominal 2.3um resolution. Image analysis and data processing software provided with the probe takes part… | ||
| University of Manchester/UFAM (Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement) : Condensation Particle Counter - formerly umist-cpc | man-cpc, umist-cpc | James Whitehead | To count smaller particles, Condensation Particle Counters (CPC) are used, and can count all particles down to 2nm (depending on specific model). In these counters, particles are detected and counted… | ||
| University of Manchester/UFAM (Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement): Grimm Optical Particle Counter - formerly umist-grimm | man-grimm | Paul I. Williams | GRIMM 1.108 dust monitor run by the University of Manchester measures the size resolved number concentration per cubic centimetre of particles in the size range of 0.3 to 20 microns (optical). By sum… | ||
| University of Manchester/UFAM (Universities' Facility for Atmospheric Measurement): Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer - (formerly umist-smps) | man-smps | Paul I. Williams | The Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer is based on the principal of the mobility of a charged particle in an electric field. Particles entering the system are neutralized (using a radioactive source) s… | ||
| University of Manchester: Ultrafine Condensation Particle Counter (UCPC) | man-ucpc | University of Manchester: Ultrafine Condensation Particle Counter (UCPC) | |||
| University of Manchester: Vaisala Probe | None | Carl Bradbury | The Vaisala Probe measures temperature, humidity and pressure. | ||
| University of Reading: Vaisala radiosonde | reading-radiosonde | unknown | Vaisala radiosonde system that is not mobile. The radiosonde is a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument that measures profiles of pressure, temperature and humidity from the ground to approximately 4… | ||
| University of St Andrews: Thermo TRACE Gas Chromatograph Ultra | st-andrews-gc-fid | Angus Calder | The instrument is a gas chromatograph which is equipped with two FIDs (flame ionization detector) for carbon dioxide and methane. It also inclues an ECD (electron capture detector) for nitrous oxide.… | ||
| University of Sunderland: CMAS Met Station | None | Michael H. Smith, Ian E. Consterdine | University of Sunderland: Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CMAS) Met Station | ||
| University of Wales, Aberystwyth mobile backscatter 532 nm lidar | None | Jim Whiteway, Geraint Vaughan | This instrument measured backscatter and depolarisation at 532 nm, with vertical resolution 30 m and raw time resolution 10 s. This small backscatter lidar was operated during the EMERALD campaigns i… | ||
| University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Rayleigh LIDAR | None | Geraint Vaughan | Nd:YAG Laser, emitting wavelength 532 nm, single wavelength detection. Parallel and perpendicular components monitored simultaneously | ||
| University of York: Aerodyne Tunable IR Laser Direct Absorption Spectrometer (TILDAS) model QC-TILDAS-CS | None | Joseph Pitt | Aerodyne Tunable IR Laser Direct Absorption Spectrometer (TILDAS) model QC-TILDAS-CS is a laser spectrometer producing measurements of Ethane dry mole fraction at 1 Hz. The QC-TILDAS-CS is manufa… | ||
| University of York Dionex ICS-1100 Ion Chromatography System | None | The Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-1100 Ion Chromatography System (Dionex ICS-1100) performs ion analyses using suppressed or non-suppressed conductivity detection. An ion chromatography system typical… | |||
| University of York High Volume Sampler (Ecotech 3000, Australia) | None | The HiVol 3000 particulate sampler performs remote unattended sampling of PM2.5, PM10 or TSP along with basic meteorological parameters. | |||
| University of York: home built array of Alphasense sensors | None | James D. Lee | CO data taken home built array of Alphasense sensors. CO instrument calibrated using a 1ppm CO in air cylinder (BOC - certified to NOAA GAW standard) | ||
| University of York: NOxy | york-noxy | James D. Lee | measured species : NO, No2, NOz | ||
| University of York's 2B Technologies Dual Channel Ozone Monitor | york-ozone7 | Katie A. Read | University of York's 2B Technologies Dual Channel Ozone Monitor is a UV photometric gas analyser (254nm) which has the capability to measure the amount of ozone in the air from 2 ppb concentrations u… | ||
| University of York's 2B Technologies Single Channel Ozone Monitor | york-ozone6 | Katie A. Read | University of York's 2B Technologies Single Channel Ozone Monitor is a UV photometric gas analyser (254nm) which has the capability to measure the amount of ozone in the air from 3 ppb concentrations… | ||
| University of York: Spectral Radiometer | york-specrad | Lisa Whalley | The spectral radiometer provides a direct measurement of solar actinic UV flux and determination of photolysis frequencies. The actinic flux is measured between 280 - 650 nm (<1 nm resolution) using … | ||
| University of York's TEI 49 UV absorption O3 analyser | york-ozone3 | Katie A. Read | The Thermo 49 is a powerful, easy-to-use, UV photometric based ozone analyzer which offers increased specificity via its balanced optical system. User programmable software capabilities allows select… | ||
| University of York: TEI 42i TL NO analyser | None | James D. Lee | NO data taken using a TEI 42i TL NO analyser. NO instrument calibrated using 100ppb NO in nitrogen cylinder (BOC - certified to NPL standard) | ||
| University of York: TEI 43i TL SO2 | None | James D. Lee | SO2 data taken using TEI 43i TL SO2 analyser. SO2 data taken using 1000ppb SO2 in nitrogen cylinder (BOC) | ||
| University of York: Teledyne T500~U CAPS analyser | None | James D. Lee | NO2 data taken using Teledyne T500~U CAPS analyser. NO2 instrument calibrated using 100ppb NO2 in nitrogen cylinder (BOC) | ||
| Unknown aircraft mounted in-situ instruments. | None | unknown | Unknown aircraft mounted in-situ instruments. | ||
| Unknown Instruments Suite | unknown_instruments | unknown | Suite of instruments used onboard ships of opportunity for the CAVASSOO project. | ||
| UNOR-2 semi-automatic non-dispersive IR gas analyser | unor-2 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| unspecified camera onboard CULM aircraft | None | CULM, University of Cambridge | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| USP-ACSM Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor | usp-acsm | Aerodyne Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor operated by Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil | |||
| UV Absorption | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UV Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (DOAS) | uv_doas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| UV Raman LiDAR | uvlidar | unknown | The ground-based Raman lidar system transmits a high power Nd:YAG pulse laser beam vertically into the atmosphere at 355 nm wavelength. The LiDAR measures both elastic backscattering and water vapour… | ||
| UV Spectrometer | uv_spectrometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Vaisala HMP110 temperature and humidity probe | None | Vaisala HMP110 temperature and humidity probe | |||
| Vaisala RS41-SG radiosondes | None | Andrew G. Turner | University of Reading Vaisala RS41-SG radiosondes measuring in-situ temperature, humidity, pressure and GPS location at 1Hz with the following parameters temperature, humidity, pressure, longitude, l… | ||
| Vaisala RS92SGP Radiosonde | None | Vaisala RS92SGP Radiosonde | |||
| Vaisala WXT520 weather transmitters | None | Air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction and atmospheric pressure were measured with Vaisala WXT520 weather transmitters | |||
| Valeport current meter | Valeport_current_meter | unknown | Valeport uni-directional electro-magnetic current meter (Valeport Ltd.). | ||
| Velocity maps production process | velocity-map-process | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| vertically facing thermophile radiometer | thermophile_radiometer | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Very High Resolution Radiometer (VHRR) on INSAT-1 series | vhrr_insat1 | unknown | INSAT 1-class satellites carry a Very High Resolution Radiometer (VHRR) working in the visible (0.55-0.75, microns) and IR (10.5-12.5 microns) bands with resolutions of 2.75 km and 11 km, respectivel… | ||
| Vexel UltraCam | None | The Vexcel ultracam is frame based, taking images of the Earth Surface in the usual manner of a digital camera - each frame as a separate image; to capture Color InfraRed (CIR) imagery. | |||
| Vigo ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Vigo ALPHASAT 20 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Vigo ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | None | Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) | Vigo ALPHASAT 40 Ghz beacon receiver | ||
| Vigo Young Mod. 52203 Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge | None | Vigo Young Mod. 52203 Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Manufacturer and Model: Young Mod. 52203 Type: Tipping bucket Specifications: resolutions, dynamic range: 0.1 mm/tip Integration time and sampli… | |||
| VIRR (FY-3) | None | The Visible and Infra-Red Radiometer (VIRR) is one of the instruments on the Chinese Feng-Yun -3 (FY-3) series of satellites. | |||
| Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) | vissr | unknown | Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) flown on the SMS-1 and -2 and the GOES-1, -2 and -3. The VISSR provides data to produce photographic displays for the National Weather Service (NWS).… | ||
| visible Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer (DOAS) | vis_doas | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| visiometer | visiometer | unknown | A visiometer is an instrument to aid the estimation of visibility at a meteorological station. | ||
| Visiometer | None | Met Office | A visiometer is an instrument to aid the estimation of visibility at a meteorological station. Visiometers are used by observation stations worldwide before data is used by the Met Office and later a… | ||
| VISSR Atmospheric Sounder (VAS) | vas | unknown | GOES-4, -5, -6, and -7 carry an advanced Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) Atmospheric Sounder (VAS), which can obtain atmospheric soundings as well as VISSR images. | ||
| WAS canisters | None | Calibrations have been performed using a certified NPL 30 component mixture purchased in 2009. | |||
| Water vapour Lidar | None | Water vapour Lidar | |||
| Wattisham: Met Office Windprofiler 1290MHz 2 | ukmo-radar-1290mhz-2 | unknown | The Wattisham Radian LAP3000 is permanently located at an existing Met Office at RAF Wattisham. This system is an integral part of the UK operational upper air network. Wattisham, like the other UK s… | ||
| WeatherPak | None | The WeatherPak monitoring system supplied by Coastal Environmental Systems is a shipboard weather station designed for harsh environments. Using built in GPS and a compass it is able to calculate tru… | |||
| Weather Station | None | Weather Station | |||
| Wellhead float gauge | wellhead_float_gauge | unknown | Type of tide gauge to measure sea levels. | ||
| Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory: Electron Capture Detector on the Clarus 500 Greenhouse Gas Chromatograph | None | University of East Anglia (UEA), Grant Forster | The Electron Capture Detector (ECD) on the Clarus 500 Greenhouse Gas Chromatograph (GC) at Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory is used to make quasi-continuous measurements of nitrous oxide (N2O) and s… | ||
| Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory: NCAS Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) | ncas-ftir-1 | Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory: Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) measures CH4, N2O, CO and CO2. it is operated at WAO on behalf of National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). The ECOTECH … | |||
| Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory: Siemens Ultramet 6E & Sable Systems Oxzilla II | None | Brian Bandy | A single gas handling system is used to measure CO2 and O2 concurrently in a single contiguous system including both analysers. Air is sampled from an aspirated inlet on the 10 m tower at Weybourne u… | ||
| Wind Profiler radar | None | Met Office | Wind-profiler radars are instruments which provide wind measurements and turbulence information as a function of altitude in most weather conditions. Doppler radars probe the atmosphere and derive th… | ||
| WindSat | None | WindSat is a passive microwave radiometer flown on the Coriolis Satellite by the US Department of Defence since 2003. | |||
| Windsonic 2d sonic anemometer | None | James D. Lee | Windsonic 2d sonic anemometer | ||
| Wind vane | None | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| Wuppertal HONO gas phase instrument. | wuppertal-hono | Sebastian Laufs | This is a LOPAP instrument that measures gas phase atmospheric HONO operated by University of Wuppertal (Germany) in London for ClearFLo | ||
| WUR RIEGL VZ-400 Terrestrial Laser Scaner | None | Instrument Serial: TBC The RIEGL VZ-400 V-Line® 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanner provides high speed, non-contact data acquisition using a narrow infrared laser beam and a fast scannin… | |||
| Xanthi - atmospheric electric potential gradient | xanthi-pg | Potential gradient is measured using an Electric field mill (CS110 Campbell Scientific). It is mounted on a 3m metal pole. Csite determined utilizing a set of typical fair weather days and consider… | |||
| York: 2 Dimensional GC-fid | york-gcxgc-fid | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| York: Aerolaser CO analyser | york-aerolaser-co | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| York: Automated adsorption tube sampler to collect VOC samples and analyse by GC/MS | york-ats-gc-tof | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| York Chemiluminescence with a Thermo scientific 42i-TL | None | Measure the amount of nitrogen oxides in the air from sub-ppb levels up to 1000 ppb using chemiluminescence with the Thermo Scientific™ Model 42i-TL TRACE Level NOx Analyzer. The Model 42i-TL is a si… | |||
| York: Dual Column Gas Chromatograph-Flame Ionization Detector (DC-GC-FID) | york-dc-gc-fid1 | James R. Hopkins | The Dual Channel Gas Chromatograph with Flame Ionisation Detectors is capable of reporting mixing ratios of a wide range of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere. The output includes mixin… | ||
| York: FAAM-based Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer | york-in-situ-gcms | James R. Hopkins | The York portable Thermal Desorption-Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) fitted on board the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft is an Agilent 6850 GC- 5975 MS with a Markes International TT24-7 thermal des… | ||
| York-Gas-AQI | None | James D. Lee | Commercial gas analysers measures O3, NO, NO2, total NOy, SO2 and CO every 10 seconds. | ||
| York: Gas Chromatography MS (GCMS) | york-gcms | James R. Hopkins | The York Thermal Desorption-Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) is an Agilent 7890GC-5977MS with a Markes International TT24-7 thermal desorption unit. The output includes mixing ratios of a … | ||
| York: Gas Chromotography Flame Ionisation detector 2 | york-gc-fid2 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| York: Gas Chromotography Flame Ionisation detector 3 | york-gc-fid3 | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| york-gc-fid-field1 | york-gc-fid-field1 | A gas chromatograph with pre-concentration unit and auto-sampler allowing for online ambient air sampling. | |||
| York gc-tof-ms | None | Isoprene and monoterpenes samples collected on adsorption tubes and analysed by GC-TOF-MS for the AMMA project | |||
| York Hivol Particle Sampler | york-hivol-sampler | unknown, Jacqueline F. Hamilton, Emanuela Finessi | OC-EC measurements made on PM2.5 filters collected by the York hivol sampler at the North Kensington site (London) during the ClearfLo winter IOP 2012 | ||
| York: Met sensor | york-metsensor | unknown | Instrument.abstract: DETAILS NEEDED | ||
| YORK-O3-CO | None | James D. Lee | YORK-O3-CO | ||
| york-o3-nox | york-o3-nox | James D. Lee | TEI 49i ozone analyser measuring ozone (O3) and Ecophysics 780TR NO analyser with BLC NO2 converter measuring NOx - operated by University of York, Department of Chemistry. Data produced are annual f… | ||
| York:Ozone | york-o3 | unknown | Measured species : O3 Ozone measurements made from 5m (top of Leicester container) using a 2B Technologies single cell UV Analyser | ||
| York:Ozone (O3) | york-o3-instrument | unknown | Ozone measurements made from 5m (top of FAGE container) using a Thermo Electron Instrument (TEI) Model 49i UV Analyser. | ||
| York: PAN GC (PeroxyAcetyl Nitrate Gas Chromatograph) | york-pan-gc | James R. Hopkins | The PAN GC is a custom-built gas chromatograph with electron capture detection (Ai Qualitek, Cambridge, UK). The This instrument is regularly used on the FAAM BAe 146 research aircraft. The outpu… | ||
| York: Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTr-MS) | york-ptrms | unknown | An instrument which provides in-situ analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). | ||
| York/UEA/UFAM: Whole Air Sample bottles (WAS) | WAS | unknown | Seven cases holding a total of 64 stainless steel sample bottles can be stored in the aft cargo hold. The bottles are filled with air taken in flight from the air sample pipe and stored for post-flig… | ||
| Zenith Sky Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) | None | Hugh Coe | In atmospheric chemistry, differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) is used to measure concentrations of trace gases. When combined with basic optical spectrometers such as prisms or diffra… |
