Overview
The CARI group is responsible for a number of aircraft trace gas instruments, including instruments that can be requested via the NSA/LAOF process, as well as others.
- CO: Two vacuum flourescence instruments (Aerolaser, one certified for GV).
- Picarro: A commercial cavity ring-down instrument for CH4, CO2 (certified for GV) .
- H2O: Two TDL infrared absorption open-path water vapor instruments (MayComm Instruments, one certified for GV).
- Fast-O3: Chemiluminescence instrument (home built for GV - HAIS).
- NO and either NO2 or NOy: Compact 2-channel chemiluminescence instrument / photolytic conversion / gold catalytic conversion (home built for GV).
- NO, NO2, NOy, O3: 4-channel chemiluminescence instrument / photolytic conversion / gold catalytic conversion (home built for various aircraft, not certified for GV).
- PANs: Thermal Dissociation Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (built in collaboration with Georgia Tech).
- NO, NO2: A 1-channel instrument suitable for laboratory or other ground-based measurements.
Current and Upcoming Projects:
Please refer to our list of CARI field campaigns.