An array of ground-based and airborne instruments is available for use in approved field projects on a broad range of scientific questions. Many of these community instruments focus on measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3), and water vapor.
EOL develops and operates a full roster of airborne and land-based observing facilities, systems, and instruments. Services include
FAESR is a community database with eight different instrument categories ranging from ground-based to satellite deployments. Based at NCAR, FAESR includes descriptions of facilities, locations, capabilities, deployment options and availability, researcher contacts, new instruments on the horizon, and more.
The Research Applications Laboratory maintains this field site for instrument development and testing.
Specialized telescopes at MLSO filter and analyze solar energy emissions at several different wavelengths, providing multiple images of the Sun daily, weather conditions permitting. Data from each MLSO instrument is processed and analyzed by NCAR scientists in Boulder and made available to the solar research community. MLSO is operated by NCAR's High Altitude Observatory.
The NVTF consists of a class-10,000 clean room and a coronagraph calibration chamber. The calibration chamber (vacuum tunnel) is used for testing and calibrating both internally and externally occulted coronagraphs. Scattered light, polarization and photometric tests are made. The NVTF is maintained by NCAR's High Altitude Observatory.
