Abstract
Abstract. Between 14 and 20 July 2018, small remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) were deployed to the San Luis Valley of Colorado (USA) together with a variety of surface-based remote and in situ sensors as well as radiosonde systems as part of the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation – a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE). The observations from LAPSE-RATE were aimed at improving our understanding of boundary layer structure, cloud and aerosol properties, and surface–atmosphere exchange and provide detailed information to support model evaluation and improvement work. The current paper describes the observations obtained using four different types of RPASs deployed by the University of Colorado Boulder and Black Swift Technologies. These included the DataHawk2, the Talon and the TTwistor (University of Colorado), and the S1 (Black Swift Technologies). Together, these aircraft collected over 30 h of data throughout the northern half of the San Luis Valley, sampling altitudes between the surface and 914 m a.g.l. Data from these platforms are publicly available through the Zenodo archive and are co-located with other LAPSE-RATE data as part of the Zenodo LAPSE-RATE community (https://zenodo.org/communities/lapse-rate/, last access: 27 May 2021). The primary DOIs for these datasets are https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3891620 (DataHawk2, de Boer et al., 2020a, e), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4096451 (Talon, de Boer et al., 2020d), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4110626 (TTwistor, de Boer et al., 2020b), and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3861831 (S1, Elston and Stachura, 2020).
Highlights
During the summer of 2018, the University of Colorado along with the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) hosted the annual meeting for the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA; de Boer et al, 2019a)
The current paper describes the observations obtained using four different types of remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) deployed by the University of Colorado Boulder and Black Swift Technologies
This paper provides an overview of data collected by four different RPASs operated during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
Summary
During the summer of 2018, the University of Colorado along with the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) hosted the annual meeting for the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA; de Boer et al, 2019a). As a part of the LAPSE-RATE effort, a team of participants from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and Black Swift Technologies (BST) contributed a week of time and RPAS and ground-based equipment These teams, originating in CU’s Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing (IRISS) grand challenge project, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES), and the Department of Aerospace Engineering’s Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV), consisted of a combination of scientists, engineers, and students and leveraged the technology and expertise developed over a variety of previous successful RPAS-based atmospheric science deployments conducted by the University of Colorado. We summarize the paper and dataset and provide information on contributions of authors, funding sources, and collaborators
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