CRISTA/MAHRSI Campaign 2 Handbook


Contents

I. CRISTA/MAHRSI Campaign 2

1. Introductory Remarks
2. Temperature Validation at Zero Miss Time and Zero Miss Distance
3. Ozone validations at Zero Miss Time and Zero Miss Distance
4. Aircraft Observations of OH and H2O with the DLR Falcon Aircraft
5. GOME measurements in support of the CRISTA experiment
6. Search for Lightning Induced Effects in the Middle Atmosphere (Sprites, Elves etc.) During CRISTA 2
7. GLO cooperation
8. UARS Observations
9. Clusters

9.1 North-American Cluster
9.2 Scandinavian Cluster
9.3 Russian/CIS Clusters

10. Campaign Headquarters
11. Data Policy
12. Summary of campaign experiments

II. CRISTA Experiment

1. The Instrument
2. CRISTA 2: Instrumental Improvements and Mission Plan

2.1 CRISTA-2 detectors and trace gases
2.2 CRISTA-2 Mission Plan and Measuring Modes

III. MAHRSI Experiment

IV. Suborbital and ground based experiments in detail

1. Rocket experiments

1.1 METEORS sounding rocket from White Sands, New Mexico (M. Mlynczak, P.J.Espy)
1.2 The ROCKI Experiment (A. J. Ratkowski, J. C. Ulwick)
1.3 Falling spheres and Datasondes at NASA Wallops Flight Facility (F. Schmidlin)
1.4 Falling sphere measurements in Andoya, Norway (F.-J. Lübken)
1.5 The Russian M-100B Flight System (S. P. Perov, F. J. Schmidlin)
1.6 M100-B rocket technique for measurement of ozone (S. P. Perov et al.)
1.7 "Mera" small rocket for middle atmosphere sounding (V. M. Kusnetzov et al.)

2. Balloon experiments

2.1 Radiosondes and Ozonesondes at NASA Wallops Flight Facility (F. Schmidlin)
2.2 Brewer Mast Sondes at Hohenpeissenberg (H. Claude)
2.3 The Russian chemoluminescent ozonesonde (S. P. Perov)
2.4 First ozone profiles measured with electrochemical and chemoluminescent sondes developed in Russia (A. M. Zuyaguintsev et al.)
2.5 The double/single chamber ion probe of Gerdien type to measure positive or negative particles in the troposphere and stratosphere (S. P. Perov)
2.6 The device for measuring the strength of the vertical and horizontal component of the electric field in the Earth's atmosphere (S. P. Perov)

3. Aircraft experiments

3.1 FISH: Fast In-situ Stratospheric Hygrometer (C. Schiller)
3.2 Remote sensing of stratospheric and mesospheric hydroxyl radicals (OH) (M. Birk et al.)

4. Ground based experiments

Temperature and ozone

4.1 Measurements with the ALOMAR ozone lidar at 69.3° N, 16° E (U.-P. Hoppe, G. Hansen)
4.2 Ground-based observation of Meinel OH emissions at ALOMAR (69.5° N, 16° E) (F. Mulligan)
4.3 Lidar measurements at Observatoire Haute-Provence and Juliusruh (P. Keckhut)
4.4 Investigation of the Altitude Ozone Distribution by Millimeter Wave Spectrometer (V. Solomonov et al.)
4.5 Microwave measurements of stratospheric ozone (Y. Kulikov)

Other trace gases

4.6 Ground-based measurements of the OH column density (S. Sander)
4.7 Measurements of daytime vertical column abundance of atmospheric OH (C. R. Burnett)
4.8 Ground-based FTIR measurements at the Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, Sweden (68° N, 20° E) (T. Blumenstock, A.Meier)
4.9 Ground-based measurements of hydroxyl Meinel bands in the nightglow (P. J. Espy)
4.10 Ground-based tilting filter spectrometer for measuring OH and O2 (J. Scheer, E. R. Reisin)
4.11 Nighttime OH temperatures at Wuppertal and Kühlungsborn (H.-H. Graef)

Other parameters (winds, ionosphere)

4.12 MF radar measurements over Saskatoon and Tromsø (A. Manson)
4.13 Measurements of neutral winds in the 70 - 120 km altitude region by meteor radar (H. G. Muller)
4.14 Daily nighttime upper atmosphere wind measurements in the height range from 80-110 km (R. Schminder)
4.15 Multifrequency absorption and meteor radar measurements (D. Pancheva)
4.16 Measurements of the EM Field Vector over Irkutsk, Russia (E. A. Afraimovich, E. Kazimirowski)
4.17 Observations with the MU radar, Jakarta meteor radar, and Pontianak MF radar (T. Nakamura)
4.18 MF radar observations at Yamagawa (31.2° N, 130.6° E) and Wakkanai (45.3° N, 141.8° E) (K. Igarashi)
4.19 Radar studies of mesosphere dynamics (C. Hall, U.-P. Hoppe)
4.20 Multifrequency radio wave absorption measurements in Central Europe (J. Lastovicka)
4.21 D region electron densities over Nishny Novgorod, Russia (A. Benediktov, V. D. Vyakherev)

Multi-parameter stations

4.22 Atmospheric survey over Réunion Island (20.8° S, 55.5° E) (H. Bencherif, J. Leveau)
4.23 Ozone soundings with balloons and ground-based visible spectrometer (M. Gil)
4.24 Ground-based systems at Atmospheric Sounding Station El Arenosillo, Spain (37.1° N, 6.7° W) (B. A. de la Morena)
4.25 Airglow imaging of gravity waves and OH temperatures (M. Taylor)

V. Addresses