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The NOAA P-3: A Flying Chemical Laboratory Port Side Aft Filter Radiometers (Up and Down Looking) Oxides of Nitrogen Cavity Ring Down Absorption Spectrometer Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer Formaldehyde Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectrometer Starboard Aft Sulfur Dioxide Pulsed Ultra Violet Fluorescence Carbon Dioxide and Methane Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer Multi-Acids Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer Airborne Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer (ACES) Nitric Acid Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer Ammonia Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer Starboard Forward Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone Chemiluminescence Instruments Wing Pods and Instruments on the Fuselage Improved Whole Air Sampler with Immediate Analysis System and Nucleation Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer-Under Starboard Wing Aerosol Low Turbulence Inlet-Outside Port Side Forward Carbon Monoxide-Under Port Side Wing Cloud Probes-End of Port Side Wing Port Side Forward Water Vapor Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer White-Light Optical Particle Counter Cloud Condensation Nucleus Counter Aerosol Extinction Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer Particle Soot Absorption Photometer Particle Photoacoustic Absorption Spectrometer Ultrahigh Sensitivity Aerosol Size Spectrometer Port Side Midsection Single-Particle Soot Photometer Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Peroxyacyl Nitrates Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer SENEX – Southeast Nexus Studying the Interactions Between Natural and Anthropogenic Emissions at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change Two of the world’s premier research aircraft, the renowned NOAA WP-3D Orions, participate in a wide variety of national and international meteorological, oceanographic, and envi- ronmental research programs in addition to their widely known use in hurricane research and reconnaissance. These ver- satile turboprop aircraft are equipped with an unprecedented variety of sci- entific instrumentation, radars, and recording systems for both in-situ and remote sensing measurements of the atmosphere, the earth, and its envi- ronment. Obtained as new aircraft from the Lockheed production line in the mid-70’s, these robust and well maintained aircraft have led NOAA’s continuing effort to moni- tor and study hurricanes and other severe storms, the quality of the atmosphere, the state of the ocean and its fish population, and climate trends. The P-3s are excellent air- craft for the research work they do. The structural design enables them to carry a wide variety of instrumen- tation. Besides locating instruments inside the aircraft, instrumentation can be hung in pods from the P-3’s wings and fuselage. A typical flight will carry 5-7 flight crewmembers and five scientists and a pay- load of over 20 instruments for studying atmos- pheric chemistry and meteo- rology.
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The NOAA P-3: A Flying Chemical Laboratory
Port Side AftFilter Radiometers (Up and Down Looking)Oxides of Nitrogen Cavity Ring Down Absorption SpectrometerProton Transfer Reaction Mass SpectrometerFormaldehyde Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectrometer
Starboard AftSulfur Dioxide Pulsed Ultra Violet FluorescenceCarbon Dioxide and Methane Cavity Ring Down SpectrometerMulti-Acids Chemical Ionization Mass SpectrometerAirborne Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer (ACES)Nitric Acid Chemical Ionization Mass SpectrometerAmmonia Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Starboard ForwardNitrogen Oxides and Ozone Chemiluminescence Instruments
Wing Pods and Instruments on the FuselageImproved Whole Air Sampler with Immediate Analysis System and Nucleation Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer-Under Starboard WingAerosol Low Turbulence Inlet-Outside Port Side ForwardCarbon Monoxide-Under Port Side WingCloud Probes-End of Port Side Wing
Port Side ForwardWater Vapor Tunable Diode Laser SpectrometerWhite-Light Optical Particle CounterCloud Condensation Nucleus CounterAerosol Extinction Cavity Ring Down SpectrometerParticle Soot Absorption PhotometerParticle Photoacoustic Absorption SpectrometerUltrahigh Sensitivity Aerosol Size Spectrometer
Port Side MidsectionSingle-Particle Soot PhotometerAerosol Mass SpectrometerPeroxyacyl Nitrates Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer
SENEX – Southeast NexusStudying the Interactions Between
Natural and AnthropogenicEmissions at the Nexus
of Air Quality andClimate Change
Two of the world’s premier research aircraft, the renowned NOAA WP-3D Orions, participate in
a wide variety of national and international meteorological, oceanographic, and envi-
ronmental research programs in addition to their widely known use in hurricane research and reconnaissance. These ver-satile turboprop aircraft are equipped with an unprecedented variety of sci-entific instrumentation, radars, and recording systems for both in-situ and remote sensing measurements of the atmosphere, the earth, and its envi-ronment. Obtained as new aircraft from the Lockheed production line in the mid-70’s, these robust and well maintained aircraft have led NOAA’s continuing effort to moni-tor and study hurricanes and other severe storms, the quality of the atmosphere, the state of the ocean and its fish population, and climate trends. The P-3s are excellent air-craft for the research work they do. The structural design enables them to carry a wide variety of instrumen-
tation. Besides locating instruments inside the aircraft, instrumentation
can be hung in pods from the P-3’s wings and fuselage. A typical flight
will carry 5-7 flight crewmembers and five scientists and a pay-
load of over 20 instruments for studying atmos-
pheric chemistry and meteo-
rology.
