Concept information
Preferred term
CITE-1
Definition
- The (Chemical Instrument Test and evaluation-1 CITE missions focused on Ctesting and evaluating the ability of instrumentation to measure key tropospheric constituents. The methodology has been the intercomparison of airborne measurements obtained for the same species by instruments utilizing fundamentally different detection principles. These missions provide the instrumentation techniques being employed during the ABLE (Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments) missions. The CITE-1 project consisted of one ground-based experiment (Wallops Island, VA, in 1983) and two expeditions employing the NASA Convair-990 aircraft (California and the central Pacific Ocean in Fall 1983, and California and the southwestern U.S. in Spring 1984). These investigations tested instruments designed to measure CO, NO, and OH. The instruments were: for CO, a new laser differential absorption system, together with two proven gas chromatographs; for NO, an experiment laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) system and two chemiluminescence (CL) systems; and for OH, two LIF systems (one lidar-based, one in situ) and a radiochemical tracer technique. (en)
Broader concept
- A - C (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/5f536748-34fe-4c5e-aed6-6bb26cad9935
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