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Cloud Water and Precipitation Collectors. Several methods have been developed for collecting cloud water samples (24-26). Probably the device most commonly used in warm clouds is the slotted rod collector developed by the Atmospheric Science Research Center at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. Commonly known as the ASRC collector (25), this collector consists of an array of rods constructed from Delrin (a form of nylon). Each rod is hollow and has a slot located at its forward stagnation line. The rod radius determines the collection efficiency as a function of particle size, the rods are sized to collect cloud droplets but not submicrometer aerosol particles, and the 50% cutoff is calculated to be at about 3 xm. 

Winters, W. Hogan, A. Mohnen, V. Barnard, S. ASRC Airborne Cloudwater Collection System Atmospheric Science Research Center Albany, NY, 1979 ASRC-SUNYA Publication No. 728. 

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Figure 2. ASRC cloud collector. (Reprinted with permission from ref. 4. Copyright 1979 Atmospheric Sciences Research Center.)...

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Mohnen, V. A. (1977). The issue of stratospheric ozone intrusion. Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Publ. No. 428. New York State University, Albany, New York. 

Arons, T., et al. (1988), Wintertime Trace Gas and Cloudwater Chemistry Studies, Whiteface Mountain, 1984-1986, Report EP 82-10, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New Yorkl at Albany, Albany, NY. 

Cindy Lee is a Professor at the Marine Sciences Research Center of Stony Brook University. Dr. Lee s research examines the distribution and behavior of biogenic organic compounds, in particular the rates and mechanisms of transformation reactions occurring as these compounds undergo alteration. Her research investigates organic compounds in the sediments and waters of open ocean and coastal areas, salt marshes, lakes, as well as the atmosphere above these areas. Her expertise centers on the analytical techniques used to measure organic matter in the ocean. Dr. Lee is cur-... 

Shah JJ, Heyerdahl EK. 1988. Project summary National ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) data base update. Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Environmental Research, Cincinnati, OH, by Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC. EPA/600/S3-88/010. 

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II Team (Langley Research Center), and NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center. Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II Sage II. Version 6.0. Hampton, Va. NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, 2000. 

NSF. 1976. Behavior of hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere and its effects on vegetation. Report to the National Science Foundation, Research Applied to National Needs, Washington, DC, by Thompson RC, California University, Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, Riverside, CA. Report no. NSF/RA-760398. NTIS publication no. PB-262733. 

Singh HB, Salas LJ, Shigeishi H, et al. 1979b. Atmospheric distributions, sources, and sinks of selected halocarbons, hydrocarbons, SF6, and N 0. Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, by SRI International, Atmospheric Sciences Center, Menlo Park, CA. 

James N. Pitts, Jr., is a Research Chemist at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor Emeritus from the University of California, Riverside. He was Professor of Chemistry (1954-1988) and cofounder (1961) and Director of the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center (1970-1988) at the University of California, Riverside. His research has focused on the spectroscopy, kinetics, mechanisms, and photochemistry of species involved in a variety of homogeneous and heterogeneous atmospheric reactions, including those associated with the formation and fate of mutagenic and carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic compounds. He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 research publications and three books Atmospheric Chemistry Fundamentals and Experimental Techniques, Graduate School in the Sciences—Entrance, Survival and Careers, and Photochemistry. He has been coeditor of two series, Advances in Environmental Science and Technology and Advances in Photochemistry. He served on a number of panels in California, the United States, and internationally. These included several National Academy of Science panels and service as Chair of the State of California s Scientific Review Panel for Toxic Air Contaminants and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Acid Deposition. 

Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 2Drinking Water Research Center,... 

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149-1098 drinking Water Research Center,... 

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Over the past 15 years, the atmospheric science community has developed a series of mobile platforms with highly accurate and specific fast response instrumentation that have revolutionized atmospheric chemistry field measurements. These include high-altitude aircraft, such as NASA s ER-2 and WB-57, and lower-altitude aircraft like the NASA DC-8, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) (Naval Postgraduate School) Twin Otters, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) C-130, and the DOE Gl. In addition, mobile surface laboratories are now being used for a wide variety of urban and regional air quality and emission source characterization studies.4 Typical configurations for the ER-2 and the mobile laboratory are shown in Figures 1 and 2. 

Dr. Keith trained as an experimental physicist at MIT (Ph.D., 1991) where he developed an interferometer for atoms. During 1991-1999 he worked in atmospheric science, first at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and then at Harvard, he also a collaborated in the research program on climate related public policy at Carnegie Mellon as adjunct faculty and as an investigator in the Center... 

It is hardly necessary to stress that the spectral bands centered on 6.3 /im, 9.6 fim, and 15 fj,m are of enormous importance to meteorological sciences, since they permit measurement of atmospheric water vapor, ozone, and carbon dioxide the latter leads to information on the thermal values of the stratosphere. However, earth science research requires that emitted or reflected radiation be let through, and we are thus left with only the following windows ... 

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SRC. 1995. Atmospheric Oxidation Program. Syracuse Research Corporation. Environmental Science Center. Syracuse NY. 

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