BB-Flux Project

August 12, 2018

One of the groups OCC works with at the University of Colorado, run by Rainer Volkamer, is currently leading the BB-Flux project, an airborne scientific mission to further our understanding of the chemistry of wildfires. David Thomson of OCC wrote the software that the Volkamer group spectrometers use to acquire their data. Simultaneously, another project known as WE-CAN, is flying an instrumented aircraft directly through smoke plumes to make additional in-situ measurements of smoke chemistry. Numerous instruments on the WE-CAN C-130 aircraft are also running software created by Original Code Consulting, including the Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber (CFDC), Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2), and the Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS). News releases for these projects can be found here and here.