Mobile aerosol observing units deployed at Cape Cod
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 09:01
in Earth & Climate
Bracing against -10 degree Celsius temperatures in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Brookhaven atmospheric chemist Stephen Springston and his team recently completed a one-week restaging of two portable atmospheric sampling stations used for climate studies. Part of the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, the Mobile Aerosol Observing System (MAOS) consists of two compact, state-of-the-art instrument suites installed in modified shipping containers. The mobile units have complementary research objectives—one is specialized to conduct on-site measurements of aerosol samples, the other to examine the chemical composition of samples—and the two are deployed together.