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