Table A1b. NOAA WP-3D Aircraft Instrumentation for Aerosol and Ancillary Data Measurements

Species/Parameter	Reference	Technique	Averaging Time	Detection Limit
Aerosol single particle composition	Thomson et al. [2000]	particle analysis by laser mass spectrometry (PALMS)	single particle	<1 cm-3
Aerosol bulk ionic composition	Weber et al. [2001] and Orsini et al. [2003]	particle into liquid sampling (PILS)-ion chromatography (IC)	3 m	<0.02 mug/m3
Aerosol water soluble organic composition	Sullivan et al. [2006]	particle into liquid sampling (PILS)-total organic carbon (TOC)	3 m	0.3 mug/m3
Aerosol nonrefractory, size-resolved composition	Bahreini et al. [2003]	aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS)	10 m	SO4-2, 0.1 mug/m3; NO3-, 0.1 mug/m3; NH4+, 0.4 mug/m3; organics, 0.6 mug/m3
Small aerosol size distribution	Brock et al. [2000]	nucleation mode aerosol size spectrometer (NMASS)	1 s	0.005-0.06 mum
Large aerosol size distribution	Brock et al. [2003] and Wilson et al. [2004]	light scattering (white light and laser) with low turbulence inlet	1 s	0.12-8.0 mum
Photolytic flux	Stark et al. (submitted manuscript, 2006)	280-690 nm spectrally resolved radiometer, zenith and nadir	1 s	2 x 1011 photons cm-2 s-1 at 500 nm
Broadband radiation		pyrgeometer	1 s	3.5-50 mum
Broadband radiation		pyranometer	1 s	0.28-2.8 mum