ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer (aafpcasp)

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The passive cavity aerosol spectrometer (PCASP) is an airborne, optical spectrometer that uses the intensity of scattered laser light to measure an aerosol size distribution from 0.1 – 3.0 m.

Location

Southern Great Plains
  • Latitude: 36.75398
  • Longitude: -96.00901
  • Publication Date: 2016-05-06
  • Start Date: 2016-05-06
  • End Date: 2016-09-14
  • Last Updated: 2016-09-30

Instrument Mentor

https://www.arm.gov/connect-with-arm/organization/instrument-mentors/list#pcasp-air

Danny Nelson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jason Tomlinson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

DOI / Citation

http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1342129
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 2016, updated hourly. Passive cavity aerosol spectrometer aboard aircraft (AAFPCASP). 2016-05-06 to 2016-09-14, Southern Great Plains (SGP) Southern Great Plains; Gulfstream 159 Aircraft (F1). Compiled by J. Tomlinson and D. Nelson. ARM Data Center. Data set accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1342129.