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



Species/Parameter	Reference	Technique	Time Resolution	Notes
Aerosol number, size, and volume distributions	Brock et al. [2000, 2003] Wilson et al. [2004]	five parallel CPCs, and white and laser light scattering with a low turbulence inlet (LTI)	1 s	0.004-8.3 mum physical diameter
Black carbon	Schwarz et al. [2008]	single-particle soot photometry	1 s	mixing state, mass, and optical properties
Cloud condensation nuclei	Lance et al. [2006]	streamwise thermal gradient continuous flow CCN counter	1 s	operated at multiple supersaturations
Aerosol bulk ionic composition	Weber et al. [2001]	Particle into liquid sampling-ion chromatography (PiLS-IC)	3 min	anion and cation data in submicron range
Aerosol water-soluble organic carbon	Sullivan et al. [2006]	PiLS-total organic carbon detection (PiLS-TOC)	15 s	in submicron range
Aerosol chemical composition (size-resolved, nonrefractory)	Bahreini et al. [2008]	Aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS)	10 s	100% transmission from 0.055 to 0.360 mum physical diameter