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Cloud Absorption Radiometer (CAR)

The Cloud Absorption Radiometer (CAR), considered the most frequently used airborne instrument built in-house at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is capable of measuring scattered light by clouds in fourteen spectral bands. It is now managed by NASA's Ames Research Center.

Launch Date

1983

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The Cloud Absorption Radiometer (CAR), considered the most frequently used airborne instrument built in-house at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is capable of measuring scattered light by clouds in fourteen spectral bands. It is now managed by NASA's Ames Research Center.

Related Publications

2021. "A new measurement approach for validating satellite-based above-cloud aerosol optical depth.", Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14 (2): 1405-1423 [10.5194/amt-14-1405-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Developing an Aircraft-Based Angular Distribution Model of Solar Reflection from Wildfire Smoke to Aid Satellite-Based Radiative Flux Estimation.", Remote Sensing, 11 (13): 1509 [10.3390/rs11131509] [Journal Article/Letter]