SAFARI 2000 Trace gases and Aerosols Group

Airborne instruments

Aerocommander 690A, #1:

• CO, NO, SO2, O3, Aerosols size distribution from 0.1 to 6000 microns
• The Climatology Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand.

Aerocommander 690A, # 2:

• O3, CO, SO2, H2O, CO2, Aerosol size distribution from 0.3 to 2.5 microns

• Bruce Doddridge, University of Maryland (Tropospheric Chemistry).

• Paul Novelli, NOAA (Airborne in-situ sampling of CO)

Convair 580:

• In situ chemical composition and aerosols, column closure tests, surface spectral albedo, clouds studies

• Cloud and Aerosol Research Group (CARG), Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington ,Seattle, Washington, USA.

• Peter Hobbs.

ER-2:

• MOPITT-A

• The MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS): scanning spectrometer for high spatial resolution imagery of cloud and surface features.

• AirMISR (Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer)

  • surface, cloud imagery
  • aerosol profiles

• S-HIS (Scanning High Resolution Interferometer Sounder).  

  • 0.5 cm-1 spectral resolution.

  • Field-of-view: 2km2.

  • Products: Band radiance, temperature and moisture profiles, Surface and cloud temperature and emmissivity, cloud altitude, cloud microphysical properties.

• SSFR (Solar Spectral Flux Measurements)

  • Upward and downward flux from 300 to 2200 nm

• CLS (Lidar)

  • 3 channels: 355, 532, 1064 nm
  • cloud and aerosol profiling
  • cloud and clear sky optical depth
  • Boundary layer aerosols, smoke plumes
  • cloud phase (depolarisation)

Other people involved:

• Marc Jury, University of Zululand (Tropospheric Modelling).
• Bob Swap, University of Virginia (Aerosol.
• Vicky Connors, NASA Langley Research Center, Atmospheric Sciences Division (Remote Sounding of CO).
• Anne Thompson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Tropospheric Ozone).
  • TOMS Total ozone maps, aerosols, UV etc...
  • Tropical tropopspheric ozone maps
  • SHADOZ project (additionnal ozone sondes in the tropics)
  • SAFARI/TRACE-A 1992 results

Last updated August 4th 1999 by Loic Jounot.