Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
CIPS – Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment
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- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- LASP
Description
Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment, a four-camera panoramic imager on AIM that measures ultraviolet radiation scattered by polar mesospheric clouds and atmospheric gases to determine cloud occurrence, brightness and particle size, and measures gravity waves near the stratopause.
Official page
https://lasp.colorado.edu/instruments/cips-2/
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Details
- Keywords
- polar mesospheric clouds, panoramic imager, particle size, gravity waves, four identical cameras, aerosols
- Location
- In space
- Measurement band
- Ultraviolet
- Instrument platform
- AIM
- Associated entity
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- Specifications
- From 2007 through February of 2016 images were acquired every 43 seconds in the summer hemisphere between the terminator and a dayside latitude of about 40 degrees.