King Air Facility Instruments
Airborne Instrumentation
The King Air Facility and the UW Department of Atmospheric Science maintain a suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments that are available upon request of the NSF UWKA or C-130 aircraft. A suite of base measurements is available on typical flights. Additional specialized instrumentation are available depending on the goals of the research project and configuration of the payload.
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Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR)
The Wyoming Cloud Radar is an airborne polarimetric Doppler radar operating at W-band (94.94 GHz). Up to 4 antennas are employable and can be configured to observe targets above and below the aircraft.
WCR PageWyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL)
The Wyoming CLoud Lidar is an airborne observational system that provides high-resolution cloud and aerosol structures.
Five-hole Gust Probe
The three-dimensional wind field is derived using the differential pressure method with measurements from the Rosemount model 858 system from the aircrafts noseboom.
UWKA Requestable Instrumentation
Instrument Name |
Measurement |
Wavelength/Range |
Resolution |
Sample Rate |
Atmospheric State and Navigation |
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Reverse Flow PRT (Model S1088-1) |
Air Temperature (Unheated) |
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Rosemount 102 (102AU1AF) |
Air Temperature(Heated) |
-100 - 330 °C |
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Buck Research 1011C |
Dew Point Temperature |
-40 - 50 °C |
0.01 °C |
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Mensor CPT 6140 & 9000 |
Static Pressure |
551 - 1172 hPa |
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Weston (DPM7885) |
Static Pressure |
600 - 1150 hPa |
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Honeywell PPT2 Transducer (HGPPT2) |
Static, AOC, Cabin, Pressures |
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Rosemount 0858 (w/ PPT2) |
True Wind, Angle of Attack |
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Applanix AV 410 (using AIAS) |
Vertical/Horizontal Wind Velocities |
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Applanix AV 410 (v6 w/ IMU-64) |
True Heading, Altitude, Latitude, Longitude,
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0.015 deg
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ARINC 429 & 717 |
Aircraft State |
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remote sensing |
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Wyoming Cloud LiDAR (WCL) |
Zenith & Nadir Cloud LiDAR |
Zenith: 355 nm
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Zenith: 3.75 m
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20 Hz (~4.5 m) |
Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) |
Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity, Doppler Spectra |
3.16 mm (94.94 GHz) |
37.5 m (for 250 ns pulse length)
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22 Hz (typical, 4-7 m) |
Ka-Band Profiling Radar (KPR) |
Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity, Doppler Spectra |
8.4 mm (35.64 GHz) |
30-75 m resolution
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5 Hz (typical, 20 m) |
clouds and Aerosols |
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| Gerber PVM-100A* | LWC, PSA* | 3 - 50 µm drops 0.002 - 10 g/m2 |
0.002 g/m3 | 1 - 1,000 Hz response: 0.0002 s |
| DMT LWC-301 ("King Probe") | LWC | 5 - 50 µm drops 0.003 - 3 g/m3 |
0.003 g/m3 | 1 or 10 Hz response: 0.04 s |
| SkyPhysTech Nevzorov | LWC / TWC | TWC > 10 µm drops 0.01 - 3 g/m3 |
0.003 g/m3 | 1 Hz |
| Rosemount Icing Detector | Supercooled Liquid Water | > 0.01 g/m3 | 0.003 g/m3 | 1 Hz response: 1 s |
| TSI CPC 3010 & Ultrafine 3025A | Condensation Particle Counter | 3010: 0.10 - 3 µm | 3010 response: < 5 sec | |
| DMT CDP-2 | Cloud Droplet Scattering | 2 - 50 µm | 2 µm; 30 bins | 1 - 20 Hz response: 0.05 s |
| DMT CIP-G | Cloud Particle Images (Grayscale) | 0.025 - 1.6 mm | 25 µm diode 64 elements |
1 Hz |
| DMT UHSAS | Aerosol Spectrometer | 0.055 - 1 µm | 99 standard bins Log spacing |
20 Hz |
| DMT SP2-XR | Single Particle Soot Photometer | 100 - 500 nm 50 - 800 nm |
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| DMT PCASP-S200 | Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer | 0.10 - 3 µm | 30 standard bins | 0.1 - 25 Hz |
| Handix POPS | Optical Particle Spectrometer | 0.13 - 3 µm | < 32 bins | 1 Hz distributions |
| SPEC 2D-S | Optical Array Images | 0.01 - 1.28 mm | 10 µm diodes 128 elements |
1 Hz |
| SPEC HVPS | Precipitation Spectrometer | 0.15 - 19.2 mm | 150 µm diodes 128 elements |
1 Hz |
| SPEC 3V-CPI* | Three-view Cloud Images | 0.01 - 2.35 mm | 2.3 µm pixels | 400 fps max |
| BMI IsoKinetic (Model 1200) | Isokinetic Aerosol Inlet System | 0.005 - 10 µm | 1 Hz | |
| HIAPER Modular Inlet (HIMIL) | Unheated Inlet | |||
Radiation |
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| Heitronics KT15.85 Pyrometer | Surface Temperature | -25 - 200 °C | 0.25 °C | response: 0.03 s |
| FLIR Vue Pro-Rt | Radiometric Temperature | 7,500 - 13,500 nm | 7.5 - 25 Hz | |
| TBD* | UV, Solar, Infrared | |||
Air Chemistry and Trace Gases |
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| LI-COR LI-7000 | CO2, H2O (Closed Path) | CO2: 0 - 3k µmol/mol H2O: 0-70 mmol/mol |
0.01 µmol/mol | 20 Hz |
| LI_COR LI-7500 | CO2, H2O (Open Path) | CO2: 0 - 3k µmol/mol H2O: 0-60 mmol/mol |
0.01 µmol/mol | 20 Hz |
| Aeris Ultra | CO, N2O | CO: 200 ppb N2O: 200 ppt |
1 Hz response: 1 s |
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| Aeris Ultra | CH4, C2H6 | CH4: 10 ppb - 10k ppm C2H6: 1ppb - 1k ppm |
CH4: < 1 ppb C2H6: < 500 ppt |
1 Hz response: 1s |
| MIRO Analytical MGA10-GP | CH4, CO, CO2, NH3, NO, NO2 H2O, SO2, O3, OCS |
1 - 10 Hz | ||
| Picarro G2401-Mt | CO, CO2, CH4, H2O | 5 ppbv | 20 Hz response: 1.3-2 s |
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