Introduction

The Cloud Absorption Radiometer is a fourteen channel scanning radiometer built-in house at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is currently flown in the nose cone of University of Washington's Convair CV-580 research aircraft. [more...]

During SAFARI-2000 field experiment, the CAR instrument will be used to collect reflectivity measurements (BRDF) over sabie/crocodile thorn thickets in Kruger National park, salt pan in Botswana. Cloud measurements will also be taken along the coast of Namibia, near Walvis Bay. Finally, with the recent addition of two UV channels, radiation fields under smoky atmosphere will be mapped at 0.34 and 0.38 µm region.

Nose of CV-580

Daily Summary

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Image Gallery

Hangar Scenes
Views of the CV580 on the tarmac
Skukuza, Kruger National Park: Photograph surface scene up close and personal.

Web Links

SAFARI-2000 Home Page at Pietersburg, SOuth Africa and now at The University of the Witwatersrand.

SAFARI-2000 Home Page at University of Virginia

Cloud Absorption Radiometer (CAR): Home Page

Instrument PI: Dr. Michael D. King, Code 900, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Web Page Design: Jason Y. Li, Code 913, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ©
Web maintained by Leon Herbert, Wits University.