Our field projects have been designed to address components of the major research topics of air quality and climate by making measurements of chemical species, aerosol size and composition, as well as solar radiation using an extensive suite of instruments.
| Abbreviation | Name | Measurement | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACES | Airborne Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer | CH3COCHO, CHOCHO, HONO, NO2 | Carrie Womack Steve Brown |
| ARNOLD | Atmospheric Ring-down Nitrogen Oxide Laser Detector | NO3, N2O5, NO, NO2, O3 | Steve Brown |
| BBCES | BroadBand Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer | Aerosol extinction and refractive index | Carrie Womack |
| BrC-PILS | Brown Carbon-Particle-Into-Liquid Sampler | Water-soluble organic aerosol absorption and concentration | Steve Brown |
| C-ToF AMS | Compact Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer | Aerosol composition | Ann Middlebrook |
| C2H6 | Ethane TDL (tunable diode laser) | C2H6 | Jeff Peischl |
| CARDINO | CARIBIC Autonomous Ring-Down Instrument for Nitrogen Oxides | NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5 | Steve Brown |
| CO2/CH4 | Carbon Dioxide / Methane Picarro | CO2, CH4 | Jeff Peischl |
| GC-MS | Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry | Non-methane hydrocarbons and other volatiles containing oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and halogens | Jessica Gilman |
| HR-ToF AMS | High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer | Aerosol composition | Ann Middlebrook |
| I-ToF CIMS | Iodide Ion Time-of-Flight Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | Reactive nitrogens, halogen oxides, others | Steve Brown |
| iWAS | Integrated Whole Air Sampler | Gas-phase atmospheric sample collection for offline analysis by GC-MS | Jessica Gilman |
| LTOF-CIMS | Long Time-of-Flight Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer with optional VOCUS Inlet for Aerosols (VIA) or Extractive Electrospray Ionization (EESI) | Chemically detailed aerosol and trace gas composition | Carsten Warneke Matt Coggon Chelsea Stockwell |
| mACES | miniature Airborne Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer | NO2 | Carrie Womack |
| Mobile Lab | Modified 15 passenger van | Location, winds, temperature (T), pressure (P), and up to 5 configurable instrumentation racks | Ken Aikin Jeff Peischl |
| N2O/CO/H2O | Nitrous Oxide / Carbon Monoxide / Water Modified LGR (Los Gatos Research) | N2O, CO, H2O | Jeff Peischl |
| NOxCaRD | Nitrogen Oxides by Cavity Ring Down | NO3, N2O5, NO, NO2, NOy, O3 | Carrie Womack Steve Brown |
| NOyO3 | Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone chemiluminescence | NO, NO2, NOy, O3 | Jeff Peischl, Kristen Zuraski |
| PAN CIMS | PAN Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer | Peroxyacyl nitrates (PANs) | Steve Brown Jim Roberts |
| PTR-ToF-MS | Proton-Transfer Reaction high-resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry | Saturated, unsaturated, and oxygenated hydrocarbons; other volatiles | Matt Coggon Carsten Warneke |
| RONALD | Reactive Oxides of Nitrogen | NO3, N2O5 | Steve Brown |