WE-CAN Test Payload

WE-CAN Test Phase payload is a subset of the full payload with respective locations on the C-130 preserved. The drawing is also available as a PDF file.

Measurement

Instrument

PI/Contact

Notes

NMVOCs, HONO, HCN, CH3CN

U of Montana compact PTR-TOF-MS

Lu Hu

Instrument is current being built in Austria. Shipping rack will help meet test flight timing.

NH3

Aerodyne TILDAS

Ilana Pollack

Tentative plans for Ilana to come to RAF to view the inlet/winglet used on Twin Otter on Feb 15. Instrument training at Aerodyne Feb 22-24.

Fine-mode aerosol composition

HR-ToF-AMS

Delphine Farmer

Sonia Kreidenweis

New postdoc starting July 1. Moving dates to September would resolve this, and ensure AMS can fly in test flights.

Aerosol Absorption

U of Wyoming Custom Photoacoustic Absorption Spectrometer with Thermal Denuder

Shane Murphy

PAS instrument is committed both to this project and to another project chasing forest fires in mobile lab this summer – Thus September is better.

Aerosol extinction, scattering and absorption

U of Wyoming Aerodyne CAPSSSA

Shane Murphy

 

Cloud condensation nuclei number concentration

CSU DMT Cloud Condensation Nucleus (CCN) counter

Paul DeMott

Needs modification for operating at a constant inlet pressure.

 

Black carbon mass in individual particles

Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2)

 

Delphine Farmer

Sonia Kreidenweis

 

 

Aerosol Inlet System

Solid Diffuser Aerosol Inlet (SDI)

RAF

 

 

Ultrafine particles number concentration and size distributions

NCAR Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometer (SMPS)

John Ortega

We are going to have Ezra Levin (Research Scientist with Kreidenweis and DeMott) reach out directly to John Ortega to figure out how much effort is needed. Test flights could be used for John to train operator.

CO-CO2-CH4

 

NCAR ACOM Picarro or Los Gatos analyzer

 

Teresa Campos  

 

Cloud and aerosol

 

UW Cloud Lidar nadir Shane Murphy Aft downward looking port only

 

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