Decommissioned
ABAEL is designed to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere from an aircraft. It is deployed for air quality missions to locate aerosol layers for in-situ sampling and for mapping the regional distribution of aerosols.
Basic parameters measured:
Wavelength | 355 nm, 15 mJ/pulse | |
Rep rate | 20 Hz | |
Dual Channel | 12 bit GAGE digitizer with 30 Msample/sec rate | |
Near Channel | 2" diameter 3 mRad field-of-view bi-axial configuration, designed to see from 120 m to 1 km | |
Far Channel | 10" diameter 1 mRad field of-of-view co-axial configuration, designed to see from 600 m to 8 km | |
Detectors | PMTs with 1 nm FWHM filters at 355 nm |
Project Name | Date | Location | |
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ITCT | Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation of Anthropogenic Pollution 2k2 | April - May 2002 | Monterey, California |