Research Aircraft Articles & Analysis
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Atmospheric NO and NOy monitoring during in-flight research missions has become an essential tool for understanding the complex chemistry of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. The ECO PHYSICS CLD780TR analyzer plays a crucial role in these measurements, offering high precision and reliability for airborne applications. ...
Advanced systems can even identify whether pollution comes from an aircraft or a delivery truck, helping airport managers take targeted action. ...
Whether it is for measuring the mass concentration and size distribution of particles in the atmosphere over an active volcano, or for studying the spatial particle profile over a power plant, scientists have for many years used our NASA-developed PC-2H family of QCM impactors to get the data for their research. The PC-2H is a 2 lpm flow 10-stage QCM real-time cascade impactor ...
Constantly vetting the underlying fabricated parts and subsystems is a continuous process for commercial aircraft manufacturers with significant research and development (R&D) budgets at their disposal. The same cannot be said of many light aircraft manufacturers, where the need for lightweight fabricated parts such as firewalls, gaskets, and ...
However, flow distortions occurring at the location where these instruments are mounted on the outside of an aircraft may directly produce artifacts in detected particle number concentration and also cause droplet deformation and/or breakup during the measurement process. ...
(Droplet), with help from an SBIR contract from the Office of Naval Research. More than 20 years and several iterations later, the tool has become an industry standard, used in everything from climate change research to private sector studies on weather applications around the globe. ...
It is assumed that ISSRs and cirrus clouds can change the tropopause structure by diabatic processes, driven by latent heating due to phase transition and interaction with radiation. For many research questions a threedimensional picture including a sufficient temporal resolution of the water vapour fields in the tropopause region is required. ...
Abstract: In situ observations from research aircraft and instrumented ground sites are important contributions to developing our collective understanding of clouds and are used to inform and validate numerical weather and climate models. ...
Custom-built by IONICON engineers for the University of Montana One of the special skills we are known for is to custom-build PTR-TOFMS and ioniTOF systems for research and industrial applications. Our engineering team is eager to work out special solutions and by now we have a solid track record for more than two dozen tailor-made analytical instruments that are fully ...
At the Frontier of Airborne Research aboard NASA’s Flying Laboratory Using the opportunity provided by NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) we gave wings to our newly developed CHARON aerosol inlet. ...
Abstract: The aging of refractory black carbon (rBC) aerosol by sulfate-driven chemistry has been constrained in coal-fired power-plant plumes using the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft during the Southern Nexus (SENEX) study, which took place in the Southeastern US in June and July of 2013. ...
Environmentally Friendly Solution Researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, however, have found an inexpensive way to increase the tensile strength of pervious concrete and solve an industrial waste problem in the process. Nearby Boeing donated a quantity of carbon fiber waste from aircraft ...
Geological Survey and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Researchers used NASA’s annual mapping to analyze shoreline loss across most of upper Barataria Bay, located on the western side of the Mississippi River Delta. ...
Team of the University of Innsbruck and an IONICON PTR-TOFMS aboard NASA research aircraft An international team coordinated by NASA has recently investigated air pollution over the Korean peninsula. ...
One aircraft builder believes the number of planes in service in 2011 will have doubled by 2031. Whatever the industry’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions, they will be outweighed by the growth in air traffic, even if the most contentious mitigation measures come into force, according to researchers in the UK. Cut substantially More ...
In order to investigate ice covered Arctic Ocean and charting the number of seals were performed annual inspections onboard research aircraft PINRO Arktika. Multi-spectral airborne and satellite observations were fulfilled regularly from Barents and White Sea to the Bering and Okhotsk Sea. ...