Additional Profilers

The BLISS group also has access to profilers that are not asscoiated with mobile platforms.

ASSIST

NSSL acquired an LR-Tech Atmospheric Sounder Spectrometer By Infrared Spectral Technology thermodynamic profiling platform. The ASSIST is similar in many ways to the AERI platform which operates onboard the CLAMPS platforms.

Radiometrics Microwave Radiometer

NSSL acquired a Radiometerics microwave radiometer, which was formerly the one onboard CLAMPS2 while the MWR was on loan from NOAA-ATDD. Now it can be deployed separately from the CLAMPS platforms.

Ceilometer

The School of Meteorology has long had a Vaisala ceilometer, which formerly operated on the NWC roof. After being out of commission for several years, it has recently been repaired and brought back onlinr, which formerly operated on the NWC roof. After being out of commission for several years, it has recently been repaired and brought back online.