We describe here the Harvard integrated cavity output spectroscopy (ICOS) isotope instrument, a mid-IR infrared spectrometer using ICOS to make in situ measurements of the primary isotopologues of water vapor (H2O, HDO, and H218O) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). The long path length provided by ICOS provides the sensitivity and accuracy necessary to measure...
Norton Allen's Publications
Sayres, D.S., E.J. Moyer, T.F. Hanisco, J.M. Clair, F.N. Keutsch, A. O’Brien, N.T. Allen, L.Lapson, J.N. Demusz, M. Rivero, T. Martin, M. Greenberg, C. Tuozzolo, G.S. Engel, J.H. Kroll, J.B. Paul, and J.G. Anderson, A New Cavity Based Absorption Instrument for Detection of Water Isotopologues in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, Review of Scientific Instruments, 80, 2009.
Sayres, D. S., and Coauthors, 2009: A new cavity based absorption instrument for detection of water isotopologues in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Rev. Sci. Instrum., 80, 044102, doi:10.1063/1.3117349.
We describe here the Harvard integrated cavity output spectroscopy (ICOS) isotope instrument, a mid-IR infrared spectrometer using ICOS to make in situ measurements of the primary isotopologues of water vapor (H2O, HDO, and H218O) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). The long path length provided by ICOS provides the sensitivity and accuracy necessary to measure...
E.J. Moyer, D.S. Sayres, G.S. Engel, J.M.St. Clair, F.N. Keutsch, N.T. Allen, J.H. Kroll, J.G. Anderson, Design considerations in high-sensitivity off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy. Phys. B 92, 467 (2008)
CT Off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy(OA-ICOS) has generated much interest because it potentially allows highly sensitive field measurements with robustoptical alignment. We discuss here design choices involvedin design of an OA-ICOS instrument and how these choicesimpact instrument sensitivity, using as our example the design of the Harvard ICOS isotope instrument, which demonstrates...
J.M. St. Clair, T.F. Hanisco, E.M. Weinstock, E.J. Moyer,D.S. Sayres, F.N. Keutsch, J.H. Kroll, J.N. Demusz,N.T. Allen, J.B. Smith, J.R. Spackman, J.G. Anderson, A new photolysis laser-induced fluorescence instrument for the detection of H2O and HDO in the lower stratosphere. Sci. Instrum. 79, 064101 (2008). doi:10.1063/1.2940221.
We present a new instrument, Hoxotope, for the in situ measurement of H2O and its heavy deuterium isotopologue (HDO) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere aboard the NASA WB-57. Sensitive measurements of δD are accomplished through the vacuum UV photolysis of water followed by laser-induced fluorescence detection of the resultant OH and OD photofragments....
Measurements of the Total Water Content of Cirrus Clouds. Part I: Instrument Details and Calibration
Weinstock, E. M., et al. (2006a), Measurements of the total water content ofcirrus clouds. Part I: Instrument details and calibration, J. Atmos. OceanicTechnol., 23, 1397 – 1409, doi:10.1175/JTECH1928.1.
This paper describes an instrument designed to measure the sum of gas phase and solid phase water, or total water, in cirrus clouds, and to be mounted in a pallet in the underbelly of the NASA WB-57 research aircraft. The ice water content of cirrus is determined by subtracting water vapor measured simultaneously by the Harvard water vapor instrument on the aircraft. The total water instrument...