The NSF UW King Air Facility Introduces The Next-Generation King Air
built on decades of experience in airborne atmospheric research
The department's facility maintains a large array of instruments that are available upon request of the aircraft, including a suite of base measurements that are available on typical flights, as well as more specialized instruments. The King Air, Wyoming Cloud Radar, and Wyoming Cloud Lidars are available by request on a competitive basis to all qualified researchers from universities, government agencies and private sector companies requiring these research platforms and associated services to carry out their research objectives. The deployment of all facilities is driven by the scientific merit and capabilities of our facility to carry out the proposed observations and scheduling for the requested time.
Expertise in a variety of research topics
The Department of Atmospheric Science's airborne expertise dates back to the 1960s. Since 1977, the King Air Facility has been part of a wide variety of atmospheric research missions. Typical research applications include:
- Boundary-layer, turbulence/ flux studies
- Mesoscale dynamics
- Oceanographic investigations
- Air-sea interaction studies
- Cloud physics studies
- Tropospheric profiling
- Radiometric measurements, satellite ground truth
- Atmospheric chemistry studies
- Aerosol studies
- Airborne remote sensing
The NSF Wyoming King Air is operated under a National Science Foundation Cooperative
Agreement supported by Grant No. 1917369
