Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS)

  • Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability in aerosols in the mountainous terrain of the upper Colorado River basin using SAIL-Net – Leah D. Gibson, et al., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2025) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-2745-2025
  • Two new multirotor uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for glaciogenic cloud seeding and aerosol measurements within the CLOUDLAB project –  Miller, A. J., et al., Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 601–625, (2024) https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-601-2024
  • Seeding of supercooled low stratus clouds with a UAV to study microphysical ice processes – An introduction to the CLOUDLAB project – Jan Henneberger, et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0178.1
  • Baseline Balloon Stratospheric Aerosol Profiles (B2SAP)—Systematic Measurements of Aerosol Number Density and Size – Michael A. Todt, et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jd038041
  • A novel network-based approach to determining measurement representation error for model evaluation of aerosol microphysical properties – Asher, E., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035485
  • Characterization of a modified printed optical particle spectrometer for high-frequency and high-precision laboratory and field measurements – Sabin Kasparoglu, et al., Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5007-2022
  • SAIL-NET: Investigating spatial variability of aerosol and cloud nuclei in mountainous terrain – Anna L. Hodshire, et al., AAC (2022)
  • SAIL-Net: Aerosol and Cloud Nuclei in Mountainous Terrain – Leah Gibson, et al., GMAC Poster (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14606082
  • Sea spray aerosol concentration modulated by sea surface temperature – Shang Liu, et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020583118
  • Assessing the vertical structure of Arctic aerosols using tethered balloon-borne measurements – Jessie M. Creamean, et al., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1737-2021
  • Characterizing the performance of a POPS miniaturized optical particle counter when operated on a quadcopter drone – Zixia Liu, et al., Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6101-2021
  • Religious burning as a potential major source of atmospheric fine aerosols in summertime Lhasa on the Tibetan Plateau – Yu Yan Cui, et al., Atmospheric Environment (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118625
  • Performance Assessment of Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS) – Fan Mei, et al., Sensors (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216294
  • The US is building an early warning system to detect geoengineering – Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times (2020)
  • Transport of Asian surface pollutants to the global stratosphere from the Tibetan Plateau region during the Asian summer monsoon – Jianchun Bian, et al., National Science Review (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa005
  • Airborne Particulate Monitor: A Real-time Reference Quality Aerosol Instrument Payload for ISS Air Pollution Quantification – Marit E. Meyer, et al., ICES (2020)
  • Overview of HOMEChem: House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry – D. K. Farmer, et al., Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EM00228F
  • A Network of Autonomous Particle Spectrometers to Measure Spatiotemporal Variability in Particle Size Distributions in Intraurban Environments – Shiva Chenna, et al., AMS Poster (2019)
  • POPSnet – a spatially dense aerosol instrument network – Elizabeth (Lizzy) Asher, et al., AGU Poster (2019)
  • Efficient transport of tropospheric aerosol into the stratosphere via the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone – Pengfei Yu, et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1701558114
  • Aerosol variations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over the Tibetan Plateau – Jinqiang Zhang, et al., Science China Earth Sciences (2017) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-017-9122-y
  • A practical set of miniaturized instruments for vertical profiling of aerosol physical properties – Hagen Telg, et al., Aerosol Science and Technology (2017) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2017.1296103
  • Characterization of Miniaturized Aerosol Spectrometer for Unmanned Aerial System Application – Fan Mei, et al., AAAR Powerpoint Talk (2017)
  • In situ measurements and backward-trajectory analysis of high-concentration, fine-mode aerosols in the UTLS over the Tibetan Plateau – Jinqiang Zhang, et al., Environmental Research Letters (2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114006
  • A light-weight, high-sensitivity particle spectrometer for PM2.5 aerosol measurements – R. S. Gao, et al., Aerosol Science and Technology (2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2015.1131809
  • Characterization of the Handix Scientific POPS Prototype – Markus Petters, NC State University, Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Science (April 7, 2016)
  • A Novel Approach to Atmospheric Measurements Using Gliding UASs – Ru-Shan Gao, et al., in Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science (2015) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25138-7_2
  • The need for a global in situ aerosol measurement network – Ken S. Carslaw, David W. Fahey, et al. (2014)