High-Altitude NO and NO(y) Measurements Using a New, Lightweight Chemiluminescence Instrument

摘要

Field measurements of NO and NOy were proposed, using a new light-weight dual-channel NO/NO(y) instrument to investigate processes regulating, NO(x), NO(y) and ozone in the lower and middle stratosphere. The measurements were intended to be part of the HSRP 1994 field program and to complement ER-2 measurements planned for the Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment (ASHOE). Altitudes above the operational envelope of the ER-2 were targeted, in the tropics and middle latitudes. A fully operational 35 kg instrument was planned, to be tested in the stratosphere and incorporated into a lightweight payload with ClO, BrO, ozone, T and P and a tracer instrument (probably a tunable diode laser spectrometer then under development) on the Perseus A.