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Aircraft-based Laser ABlation Aerosol MAss
spectrometer (ALABAMA)
The ALABAMA is a single particle laser ablation instrument that was
developed especially for aircraft operation onboard
HALO. A novel Z-ToF mass spectrometer developed by
TOFWERK allows a compact 19" design,
making the instrument suitable for one HALO rack. First laboratory tests
were carried out in summer 2008 and first measurements were performed in the
VI-ACI project at the AIDA chamber in October
2008. The first aircraft mission (MEGAPOLI)
was performed in July 2009. Further laboratory measurements at the ADIA
chamber within
VI-ACI (October 2009) and
BIO-05 (March 2010) followed. Measurements of
cloud residual composition in the filed is planned for September/October
2010 in HCCT-2010.
Pictures:
 The development of ALABAMA was partly funded by the Research Center "Earth
System Cycles" (Forschungszentrum Erdsystemwissenschaften).
Click here to see
pictures of ALABAMA.
Publications/Theses:
Brands, M., M. Kamphus, T. Böttger, J. Schneider, F. Drewnick, A. Roth,
J. Curtius, C. Voigt, A. Borbon, M. Beekmann, A. Bourdon, T. Perrin, and
S. Borrmann, Characterization of a newly developed aircraft-based laser
ablation aerosol mass spectrometer (ALABAMA) and first field deployment
in urban pollution plumes over Paris during MEGAPOLI 2009, submitted to
Aerosol Sci. Technol., 2010.
Brands, Marco: Aufbau eines flugzeuggetragenen Einzelpartikel-Aerosolmassenspektrometers,
Ph.D. thesis,
University Mainz, 2009.
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Brands, M., M. Kamphus, J. Schneider, F. Drewnick, C. Voigt, J. Curtius,
R. Weigel, S. Borrmann, Development of an Aircraft-based Laser ABlation
Aerosol MAss Spectrometer (ALABAMA), 2nd On-line Particle Mass
Spectrometry Workshop, Leeds, April 9-10, 2008.
Marco Brands, Michael Kamphus, Johannes Schneider, Christiane Voigt, Frank
Drewnick, Stephan Borrmann, Development and characterization of an
aircraft-based laser ablation aerosol mass spectrometer (ALABAMA), 42.
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (DGMS),
Universität Konstanz, 8.-11. März 2009
M. Brands, M. Kamphus, J. Schneider, C. Voigt, F. Drewnick, and S.
Borrmann, Development of an aircraft-based Laser Ablation Aerosol Mass
Spectrometer (ALABAMA), European Aerosol Conference, Karlsruhe, Sept.
6-11, 2009.
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