- High-power aerosol lidar, developed at the UPC, with polarized emission at 1064, 532 and 355 nm and detection in:
- Total backscatter:
- Elastic channels: 1064, 532 and 355 nm
- Raman: 530 and 354 nm (nitrogen and oxygen), 407 nm (water vapor)
- Backscatter in depolarization at 532 nm and 355 nm
- Total backscatter:
- Micropulse lidar (MPL) SigmaSpace (currently Droplet): polarized emission at 532 nm and reception in channels of parallel polarization and depolarization Integrated into NASA’s MPLnet network
- Last generation CIMEL C318-T photometer robot, integrated into the Aeronet network (NASA)
- Kipp&Zonnen pyranometer CM-21 integrated into SolRad-Net (NASA)
- PAR Quantum Skye SKE-510 (SolRad-Net)
- Up- and down-ward Kipp&Zonen CNR4 pyranometers and pyregeometers
The Remote Sensing Lab is a remote sensing facility for atmospheric aerosols that studies short-lived atmospheric constituents such as aerosols, clouds or trace gases, which remain in the atmosphere for between hours and weeks. The members of the consortium have instruments to observe how these components are distributed in time and space, and to study how they interact with each other, with the rest of the atmospheric components, and with solar radiation. This enables reliable atmospheric predictions, including short-term hazardous weather and health warnings and long-term climate change assessments.
The aim is to generate high quality data on these constituents that remain in the atmosphere for a short time, which can be used in meteorological models of air quality or climate.
It is part of the ACTRIS ERIC european infraestructure.