Airborne Mid-Infrared Cavity enhanced Absorption spectrometer (AMICA)

Kloss, Corinna; Tan, Vicheith; Leen, J. Brian; Madsen, Garrett L.; Gardner, Aaron; Du, Xu; Kulessa, Thomas; Schillings, Johannes; Schneider, Herbert; Schrade, Stefanie; Qiu, Chenxi; von Hobe, Marc

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5271-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5271-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5271-2021

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02 Aug 2021

Research article |

| 02 Aug 2021

Airborne Mid-Infrared Cavity enhanced Absorption spectrometer (AMICA)

Corinna Kloss, Vicheith Tan, J. Brian Leen, Garrett L. Madsen, Aaron Gardner, Xu Du, Thomas Kulessa, Johannes Schillings, Herbert Schneider, Stefanie Schrade, Chenxi Qiu, and Marc von Hobe

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5271-2021-supplement

Data sets

Mission: SouthTRAC DLR (German Aerospace Center) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/116

Mission: STRATOCLIM DLR (German Aerospace Center) https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/101

Short summary

We describe the innovative analyzer AMICA for airborne trace gas measurements by infrared spectroscopy. Its design makes it robust and allows for sensitive measurements. AMICA has been used on two different aircraft for measuring gases including carbonyl sulfide, carbon monoxide and ozone. With fairly simple adaptions, AMICA can measure many stable trace gases that absorb light in the infrared.