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Experimental Design:

Platform:
NRC Convair-580
Location:
Inuvik, NWT
Timeframe:
(1) January 8 - 28, 2026
(2) ~11 flights over 21 days

Research Flight Objectives:

  • Weather flights
    • Polar night cloud microphysics (OTIC)
    • Modulation of radiative fluxes by OTICs
    • Mechanisms of ice initiation in polar night clouds
    • Dynamics of the polar night troposphere
  • Clear sky flights
    • Aerosol composition (natural and anthropogenic)
    • Trace gases
    • Surface emissivity
  • Suborbital flights
    • AOS-HAWC remote sensing instruments (ALI and FIRR-2)
    • Cal/val of EarthCARE
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Aircraft Instrumentation:

  • Far-Infrared Radiometer FIRR-2 & aerosol limb profiler ALI
  • Radars: X, W, Ka-band
  • Elastic cloud lidar (355 nm)
  • HiSRAMS (microwave sounder for T and RH)
  • Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
  • Aerosol size spectrometers, INP, CCN
  • Trace gases (O3, NOx/y, SO2, CO2, CO, H2O)
  • Cloud microphysical instrumentation
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