Aircraft: FA20 - SAFIRE
Identification
| Aircraft acronym | FA20 - SAFIRE |
| Operated by | Service des Avions Francais Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement |
| Aircraft category | Troposphere |
| Registration number | F-GBTM |
| Manufacturer and aircraft type | Dassault Aviation, Mystere / Falcon 20 GF |
Max. scientific payload: 1200 kg
Basic instruments
| Instrument type | Instrument name Serial type |
Operator | Measured parameter | Range | Weight added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inertial Reference/Navigation System | SAFIRE AIRINS | SAFIRE | Aircraft position, velocity and attitude | 3.0 kg | |
| Dropsonde | SAFIRE AVAPS Dropsonde | SAFIRE | Profiles of P, T, dew-point, u and v winds | 0.0 kg | |
| Dew/Frost-point hygrometer | Buck CR-2 Cryogenic Aircraft Hygrometer 2 | FAAM | Dew Point | 4.7 kg | |
| Dew/Frost-point hygrometer | SAFIRE General Eastern 1011B hygrometer | SAFIRE | Dew Point | 0.0 kg | |
| Incident flow vector probe | SAFIRE Falcon20 nose boom | SAFIRE | Airspeed; Incidence angle; Turbulence | 0.0 kg |
Optional instruments
| Instrument type | Instrument name Serial type |
Operator | Measured parameter | Range | Weight added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dew/Frost-point hygrometer | SAFIRE ATR Buck 1011C hygrometer | SAFIRE | Dew Point | 0.7 kg | |
| Cloud Droplet Size Spectrometer | SAFIRE Cloud Droplet Probe | SAFIRE | Cloud droplet size spectra, number concentration and water content, | 2-50µm with particule By particule option (30 bins) | 1.37 kg |
| Cloud/Aerosol Microphysics Multi-function Instrument | Cloud Imaging Probe | SAFIRE | Aerosol and cloud droplet properties | 11.5 kg | |
| Ozone Analyzer | SAFIRE Environnement 0341M ozone analyzer | SAFIRE | O3 concentration | 0.0 kg | |
| Cloud Droplet Size Spectrometer | SAFIRE Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe 300 | SAFIRE | Cloud droplet size spectra, number concentration and water content, | 15.0 kg | |
| Broad Band Radiometer | SAFIRE Kipp & Zonen CGR4 Pyrgemeter | SAFIRE | Hemispheric broadband radiance | 0.0 kg | |
| Broad Band Radiometer | SAFIRE Kipp & Zonen CMP22 Pyranometer | SAFIRE | Hemispheric broadband radiance | 0.0 kg | |
| Cloud Liquid and Total Condensate | SAFIRE Nevzorov (unattended version) | SAFIRE | Liquid and Ice water content | 5.2 kg | |
| Aerosol Spectrometer Probe | PCASP-SPP200 | TAU | Aerosol concentration and size distribution spectra | 0.0 kg | |
| Trace Gas Analyzer | Thermo-Electron 42C NOx sensor | SAFIRE | Trace Gas concentrations | 0.0 kg | |
| Ozone Analyzer | SAFIRE THERMO-ELECTRON 49PS | SAFIRE | O3 concentration | 0.0 kg | |
| Trace Gas Analyzer | SAFIRE CO instrument | SAFIRE | Trace Gas concentrations | 25.0 kg | |
| Aerosol Spectrometer Probe | Ultra High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer | UNIMAN | Aerosol concentration and size distribution spectra | 31.0 kg |