Aircraft: ATR42 - SAFIRE
Identification
| Aircraft acronym | ATR42 - SAFIRE |
| Operated by | Service des Avions Francais Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement |
| Aircraft category | Troposphere |
| Registration number | F-HMTO |
| Manufacturer and aircraft type | ATR, ATR42-320 |
Max. scientific payload: 3300 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 | |
| Non dew/frost point hygrometer | SAFIRE relative humidity sensor | SAFIRE | Water Vapour, Relative Humidity | 0.0 kg | |
| Incident flow vector probe | SAFIRE Five hole radome | SAFIRE | Airspeed; Incidence angle; Turbulence | 0.0 kg | |
| Dew/Frost-point hygrometer | SAFIRE General Eastern 1011B hygrometer | SAFIRE | Dew Point | 0.0 kg | |
| Global Positioning System | L1 / L2 GPS-Antennae (5x), NovAtel OEM3 | TUBs | Aircraft position, velocity and attitude | 0.98 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 | |
| Temperature sensor (in situ) | SAFIRE Rosemount PT102E2AL | SAFIRE | Temperature | 0.0 kg | |
| Inertial Reference/Navigation System | High Accuracy Inertial Navigation system | NLR | Aircraft position, velocity and attitude | 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 | |
| Dew/Frost-point hygrometer | SAFIRE F20 Buck CR-2 Cryogenic Aircraft Hygrometer | SAFIRE | Dew Point | 6.0 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 | Meteo-France Fast Forward Scattering Spectrometer | Meteo-France/CNRM | Cloud droplet size spectra, number concentration and water content, | 16.5 kg | |
| Cloud Droplet Size Spectrometer | SAFIRE Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe 300 | SAFIRE | Cloud droplet size spectra, number concentration and water content, | 15.0 kg | |
| King/CSIRO Liquid Water Content | LWC200 | SAFIRE | Liquid water content g/m-3 | 0 - 3g/m3 | 0.6 kg |
| Cloud Liquid and Total Condensate | SAFIRE Nevzorov (unattended version) | SAFIRE | Liquid and Ice water content | 5.2 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 | |
| Ozone Analyzer | SAFIRE THERMO-ELECTRON 49S | SAFIRE | O3 concentration | 22.0 kg | |
| Trace Gas Analyzer | SAFIRE CO instrument | SAFIRE | Trace Gas concentrations | 25.0 kg | |
| Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) | SAFIRE TSI-3022 CPC | SAFIRE | Number concentration of submicrometer aerosol particles | 0.0 kg | |
| Aerosol Spectrometer Probe | Ultra High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer | UNIMAN | Aerosol concentration and size distribution spectra | 31.0 kg |