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RHUBC-II Instruments - Cerro Toco, Chile


Guest Instruments

InstrumentAbbreviation Description
Image: Absolute Solar Transmittance Interferometer Absolute Solar Transmittance InterferometerASTISolar tracking spectrometer covering the range 1 to 5 microns
Image: Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the TroposphereFIRSTFar infrared spectrometer covering the range 6.25-100 microns
Image: 14-channel Humidity And Temperature PROfiler (HATPRO) Humidity and Temperature Profiler HATPRO 3-D scanning 14-channel microwave radiometer sensitive to radiation from 22 to 58 GHz
Image: Absolute Solar Transmittance Interferometer Radiation Explorer in the Far InfraredREFIR Far infrared spectrometer covering the broad spectral range 100-1100 cm-1
Image: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Fourier Transform Spectrometer (SAOFTS) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Fourier Transform Spectrometer SAO FTS A sub-millimeter narrow field-of-view spectrometer covering the spectral interval 300 GHz to 3.5 THz.

ACRF Instruments

InstrumentAbbreviation Description
Image: Atmospherically Emitted Radiance interferometer (AERI) Atmospherically Emitted Radiance InterferometerAERI Infrared spectrometer covering the range 3.3 to 18 microns
Image: MP-183 MP-183 MP-183 183-GHz microwave radiometer to retrieve precipitable water vapor
Image: Micropulse lidar Micropulse lidar MPL532-nm micropulse lidar for cloud and aerosol profiles
Image: Ceilometer Ceilometer CEILNear-infrared lidar with a maximum range of 7 km
Image: Precision spectral pyranometer Precision spectral pyranometerPSPBroadband hemispheric Eppley pyranometer
Image: PIR, NIP and 8-48 cluster Precision infrared radiometer PIR Broadband hemispheric Eppley pyrgeometer for diffuse irradiance
Image: PIR, NIP and 8-48 cluster Eppley 8-48 pyranometer 8-48Broadband hemispheric Eppley pyranometer for diffuse irradiance
Image: Normal incidence pyrheliometer Normal incidence pyrheliometer NIP Broadband Eppley pyrheliometer (narrow field of view) for direct solar radiance
Image: Absolute Solar Transmittance Interferometer Solar tracker Kipp and Zonen tracker for broadband radiometers
Image: Surface Meteorological Station Meteorological station METTemperature, humidity, wind, pressure, precipitation
Image: MFRSR Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer MFRSR7-channel, Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
Image: Balloon-Borne Sounding System (SONDE) Balloon-Borne Sounding System BBSSTemperature, relative humidity, and pressure  sensor (radiosondes) with 403 MHz telemetry and Digicora-III receiver