TOFAMS

Instrument Description

Measurements Provided: chemical composition of aerosols, both ensemble and for individual particles
Manufacturer or Builder of the Instrument: Jose Jimenez, CU (a HAIS instrument)

Operational Status:
- requestable, ready for deployment
General Description:
Measurement Characteristics:
- Overall estimate of uncertainty:
- Response time:
- Precision:
- Other measurement characteristics (comments on signal/noise, bias limits, etc):

Description of Software, Data Handling, and Data Flow:
- Software Components (data acquisition, display, processing, and analysis):
- Data Processing Chain (from flight to archival): Data from this instrument are recorded within the instrument and are not provided to the airborne data system or merged into final archives. The results are treated as ancillary data sets and are normally not merged into project archives.
QA Procedures and Needs:

Descriptive Publications
Documentation of the Processing Algorithm(s): See the Technical Note on Processing Algorithms at this URL (fix when available)
Final Report
Proposal (treat as confidential)

Internal users: See http://wiki.eol.ucar.edu/rafscience/TOFAMS (last edited 2012-12-08)