Identification

Title

NRC Convair 580 Aerosol Data

Alternative title(s)

612.044

Abstract

A suite of aerosol instruments were integrated on the NRC Convair-580 aircraft and operated in the WINTRE-MIX flight campaign, between February and March, 2022. The list includes a Condensation Particle Counter (CPC), Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS), Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2), and a Cloud Condensation Nuclei counter (CCNc), which were installed in the aircraft cabin to sample via an isokinetic inlet installed on top of the fuselage. In addition, NRC wing tip mounted UHSAS was installed and sampled throughout the whole campaign. Due to the nature of Intensive Operational Periods (IOP)s, most of the flight time in the domain was spent in-cloud or in precipitation with the associated risk of flooding the cabin aerosol instruments, which led to the suspension of aerosol sampling. To address this issue, towards the latter portion of the campaign, starting from IOP7, a Counter-flow Virtual Impactor (CVI) inlet system was integrated on the fuselage starboard side window, for the first time. The CVI inlet allowed in-cloud sampling of the residual aerosol (remaining core after evaporation of the hydrometeors above a selected cut-off diameter). A cabin inlet-switching mechanism was designed for the campaign, allowing to switch between the sampling lines of an isokinetic inlet and a CVI inlet. The collected data includes information for in-cloud and clear-air aerosol particle size distributions, CCN activation properties, activated fraction, vertical profiles, and limited information about composition (Black Carbon vs. light scattering aerosol). The CVI was never tested on this aircraft before WINTRE-MIX. Therefore, the quality of data requires further review and validation. Please see the readme file for this dataset for more information.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/612.044

protocol: https

description: Dataset homepage

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/fgr_form/id=612.044

protocol: https

description: Dataset order request form. Data files are made available via FTP.

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

612.044

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

NRC Convair 580

Keyword set

keyword value

Aerosols

Aircraft

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD RADIATIVE TRANSFER > SCATTERING

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > BLACK CARBON

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES > AEROSOL CONCENTRATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SCATTERING

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES > AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-76.00000

East bounding longitude

-71.00000

North bounding latitude

47.00000

South bounding latitude

43.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2022-02-03T00:00:00Z

End position

2022-03-12T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2022-11-17T21:28:40Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:44:53Z

Metadata language

eng; USA