Instrumentation at NIWA Lauder
There is a wide range of instruments at Lauder, which are listed on this page.
Instrument | Parameter | Comment | Co-operating institutions |
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Dobson | Direct sun obs, automated Umkehr | UV | NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, USA |
Balloon sonde (ECC type) | Ozone, temperature, pressure | Weekly through the year | NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, USA |
Ozone lidar | Ozone profiles 8 to 50km | Excimer laser plus Raman cell | RIVM, Bilthoven Netherlands |
Ozone microwave radiometer | Ozone profiles 20 to 75km | 110 GHz and 30 min integration | NASA Langley, Hampton, USA |
UV-visible spectrometer | Column NO2 and column ozone | Chappuis band 430 to 450nm | NOAA Aeronomy, Boulder, USA |
IR interferometer (FTIR) | Column HCl, HNO3, ClONO3, OCS, CFCs etc. | 3 micron window and 7 to 12 micron window | University of Denver, USA and University of Wollongong, Australia |
Aerosol and temperature lidar | Aerosol profiles 5–35km, temperature profiles 5–70km | Frequency doubled & tripled Nd-YAG at 532 and 355nm | IROE, Florence Italy, University of Lyon, France |
Aerosol lidar | Aerosol profiles 6–36 km | Nd-YAG laser frequency doubled 532nm | Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan |
Backscattersonde | Aerosol profiles 0–34km | 1 flight per month | University of Wyoming, USA |
Water vapour microwave radiometer | Profiles 20–60km | 22 GHz and 30 min integration times | NRL, Washington D.C., USA |
UV Spectrum | Global and scattered | 290 to 450nm at 1nm resolution | |
UV-B monitors | Erythemal UV | Variety of filter radiometers | |
Yankee MFRSR and UVRSR |
Multi-filter narrow band global, direct, diffuse | 3-minute means | USDA, Colorado State Univ (J Slusser) |
Pyranometers and Pyrgeometers | Broad band global, direct, and diffuse irradiance | 1-minute means with statistics | BSRN, Australian Bureau of Meteorology (B Forgan) |
CSD Middleton SP02 sun photometer | Aerosol spectral optical depth | 1-minute means with statistics | BSRN, Australian Bureau of Meteorology (B Forgan) |
Yankee TSI | Whole Sky/Cloud image and statistics | 1-minute sampling | NOAA, Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
For more information on any of these instruments, refer contact details below.