Laser imaging nephelometer for aircraft deployment

Ahern, Adam T.; Erdesz, Frank; Wagner, Nicholas L.; Brock, Charles A.; Lyu, Ming; Slovacek, Kyra; Moore, Richard H.; Wiggins, Elizabeth B.; Murphy, Daniel M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1093-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1093-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1093-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

Research article

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04 Mar 2022

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2022

Laser imaging nephelometer for aircraft deployment

Adam T. Ahern, Frank Erdesz, Nicholas L. Wagner, Charles A. Brock, Ming Lyu, Kyra Slovacek, Richard H. Moore, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, and Daniel M. Murphy

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1093-2022-supplement

Data sets

Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality FIREX-AQ Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/SUBORBITAL/FIREXAQ2019/DATA001

Short summary

Particles in the atmosphere play a significant role in climate change by scattering light back into space, reducing the amount of energy available to be absorbed by greenhouse gases. We built a new instrument to measure what direction light is scattered by particles, e.g., wildfire smoke. This is important because, depending on the angle of the sun, some particles scatter light into space (cooling the planet), but some light is also scattered towards the Earth (not cooling the planet).