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CSI
Cloud Spectrometer and Impactor

The Cloud Spectrometer and Impactor (CSI) is an in situ airborne probe that measures total condensed water (TCW) content in clouds. It consists of a combination of a counterflow virtual impactor (CVI) and a lightweight cloud droplet probe. It can measure cloud particles in the size range of 2 to 50 μm and has a typical sampling frequency of 1 second.

Image of CSI and S-HIS instruments
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent to measure changes in the massive ice sheet and sea ice. Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger (Photography courtesy NASA Images)

Overview

Instrument Details

Spectrometer/Radiometer
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Microphysics
Earth Science > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Microphysics > Cloud Liquid Water/ice
Troposphere
1 second
Point
N/A
https://doi.org/10.1080/02786828808959186External Link

  • Andrew Heymsfield

  • Andrew Heymsfield

  • Droplet Measurement Technologies

  • NSF

  • Currently unavailable

    • Unpublished

Instrument Operation

OLYMPEX

Olympic Mountains Experiment

2015—2016
Olympic Peninsula in U.S. Washington State
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1 Deployment
· 36 Data Products
IPHEx

Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment

2014
Southern Appalachians, including portions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia
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1 Deployment
· 47 Data Products
GRIP

Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes

2010
Tropical Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Eastern North Pacific, Caribbean Sea
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1 Deployment
· 24 Data Products
TC4

Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling

2007
Costa Rica, tropical Eastern Pacific
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1 Deployment
· 1 Data Product
AVE

Aura Validation Experiment

2004—2005
Houston, Texas, Southern United States, Gulf of Mexico
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2 Deployments
· 0 Data Products
MidCiX

Middle Latitude Cirrus Experiment

2004
South-central United States
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1 Deployment
· 0 Data Products
G-1

Gulfstream-159

1 Campaign · 26 Instruments

Data Products

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IPHEX/MULTIPLE/DATA201External Link