ATMOSLAB
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ATMOSLAB: • Airborne Laboratory based on Hawker Beechcraft
King Air C90-GTx aircraft
• Twin engine, turboprop
• Max cruise speed: 504 Km/h
• Max. cruise altitude: 9144m
• Maximum range: 2207 Km
• Maxim Takoff Weight: 4756 Kg
• Pressurised cabin
Equipment: • CAPS—Cloud, aerosol and precipitation spectrometer
• Aerosol particle and cloud hydrometeor size
distributions from 0.51 to 50 μm
• Precipitation size distributions from 25 μm to 1550 μm,
or 15-930 um with optional 15-micron resolution
• Particle optical properties (refractive index)
• Particle shape assessments (discrimination between
water and ice for probes with depolarization feature)
• Liquid water content from 0.01 to 3 g/m3
• Aircraft velocity
• Atmospheric temperature and pressure
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• SPEC Hawkeye Cloud Particle and Precipitation Probe
• Cloud Particle Imager (CPI)
• 2D-S (Stereo) Probe: supports 10 μm resolution
• 3V-CPI: Uses 2D-S for its particle detection system,
• Measures particles from 1 to 6400 μm. |
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• Full waveform analysis for unlimited number of target
echoes
• Multiple-time-around (MTA) processing
• High laser pulse repetition rates up to 400 kHz
• up to 266 000 measurements/ sec on the ground
• High ranging accuracy up to 20 mm
• High scan speed up to 200 lines/s
• Wide scan field of view up to 60°
• Parallel scan lines
• Interface for smooth integration of GPS
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| Ground Mobile Laboratory | |
