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Airborne Instrumentation

 

Facility instruments

The King Air Facility and the UW Department of Atmospheric Science maintain a suite of more specialized in situ and remote sensing instruments that are available upon request of the aircraft. A suite of base measurements is available on typical flights.

The set of base measurements available for typical projects includes:

  • 3-D position: latitude, longitude, altitude
  • Ground velocity
  • Airspeed
  • 3-D wind components: east, north, vertical, direction, speed
  • Aircraft attitude: roll, ptich, yaw
  • Flow angles: angle of attack, sideslip
  • Atmospheric pressure
  • Air temperature
  • Water vapor
  • Liquid water content

Specialized requestable instrumentation supported by the facility include:

  • In situ: total water content, hydrometeor spectra and properties, aerosol spectra and properties, trace gases
  • Lidar: WCL
  • Radar: WCR, KPR

 

User-supplied instruments

There is considerable freedom for mounting user-supplied instruments. Facility personnel will supervise the installation of such equipment and can assist all users in the design and fabrication to ensure that this equipment meets size, weight, and structural integrity requirements established by the department and flight facility.