A novel rocket borne ion mass spectrometer with large mass range: instrument description and first flight results

• Main Authors: Stude, Joan, Aufmhoff, Heinfried, Schlager, Hans, Rapp, Markus, Arnold, Frank, Strelnikov, Boris
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Andøya; Arctic; Arctic Island; Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-203; https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2020-203/

We present a novel rocket borne ion mass spectrometer ROMARA (ROcket borne MAss spectrometer for Research in the Atmosphere) for measurements of atmospheric positive and negative ions (atomic, molecular and cluster ions) and positively and negatively charged meteor smoke particles. Our ROMARA instru...