 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instrument Type | Instrument name Serial type |
Instrument Manufacturer | Measured parameter |
Range |
| Accelerometers | 3 AxesAccel | (former) Kistler AG, Switzerland | Acceleration x, y, z and angles | -2..3 g |
| Incident flow vector 5/9-hole probe | 3-d-wind/turb | Airspeed; Incidence angle | ||
| Incident flow vector 5/9-hole probe | 5-hole boom | MetAir, pressure sensors from Keller AG, Switzerland | Airspeed; Incidence angle | |
| Temperature - immersion sensor (thermocouple) | AirTemp | Meteolabor | Temperature | |
| Dew/Frost-point hygrometer | DewPoint | Meteolabor, Switzerland | Dew Point | Operating principle: thermo-electric |
| CO concentration by VUV fluorescence | fast CO | CO concentration | ||
| WAS | flasks | VOC, Alkyl nitrates, halocarbons, CFCs, HCFCs | ||
| Formaldehyde | Formaldehyde | Formaldehyde concentration | ||
| OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | GRIMM-OPC 0.3-20 | GRIMM | Aerosol size distribution | |
| VIS/NIR spectrometer | HySpecScan | Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc. | Radiance | 350 to 1050 nm |
| Multi-band imager (VIS/NIR/Thermal IR) | IRimager | FLIR Systems GmbH | Radiance | |
| Infrared BBR (Broad Band Radiometer) | IRTemp | Heitronics | hemispherical broadband infrared irradiance | -25 to +200°C |
| Laser Altimeter | LasAlt | REIGL, Austria | distance aircraft-surface | 0.1 to 500 mGND |
| Laser scanner | LaserPod | RIEGL | distance aircraft - surface | see specs and examples in www.riegl.com/airborne_scannerss/lms_q560_/q560_all_.htm www.metair.ch/FNQ_rivers.pdf |
| LGR (Fast Methane Analyzer) | LGR | Los Gatos Research, USA | CH4 concentration | 0.3 to 25 ppmv CH4 |
| CO2 and H2O by closed-cell IR absorption | LI-6262 (mod) | LI-COR, modified by MetAir | CO2, H2O | 350 to 420 ppm in high precision differential mode, 0 to at least 2000 ppm for general purpose |
| CO2 and H20 by open-path IR absorption | LI-7500(mod) | LI-COR | CO2, H2O | 0 to 2000 ppm |
| GPS | MovMap/AC | Aircraft position, velocity, heading, pitch, roll | ||
| NOxTOy | NOxTOy | MetAir, in co-operation with PSI | NO2,NOx,NOy,HNO3,PAN,Ox | 0.5 to 500 ppb (or above) |
| Ozone by UV absorption photometry | O3-UV-photometer | Ozone mixing ratio | ||
| OPC (Optical Particle Counter) | OPC >0.3/05 | MetOne | Aerosol size distribution | direct laser counting of aerosols larger than 0.3, and 0.5 micrometers (two channels) |
| Peroxide | Peroxides | Hydrogen Peroxide | ||
| INS/IRS (Inertial Reference/Navigation System) | Pos&Attitudes | Aircraft position / velocity. Pitch, roll and yaw | ||
| INS/IRS (Inertial Reference/Navigation System) | RT3102 | Oxford Technical Solutions, UK | Aircraft position / velocity. Pitch, roll and yaw | global positioning, speed, accelerations and attitudes |
| CPC | TSI-CPC Condensation Particle Counter | Number concentration of submicrometer aerosol particles | ||
| VOC-GC (VolatileOrganicCompounds by GasChromato) | VOCs by GC | Airmotec | VOC (C4 to C10) | 50 ppt to several ppb, for more than 40 speciated VOC's in the range (chain length) C4 to C10, e.g. benzene, toluene, xylene, plus acetone. |