A53A:
Atmospheric Sensing with UAVs and Nanosatellites: Next-Generation Platforms for Next-Generation Science II Posters


Session ID#: 8336

Session Description:
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are exploding on to the atmospheric science stage as a sampling platform through which to address important scientific questions at the boundary between the local and regional spatial scales.  UAVs from super-light model aircraft to large remote-piloted airframes (such as the NASA Global Hawk) are being used increasingly for applications from atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, to air quality and emissions.  This session invites exciting work that demonstrates the emerging potential that UAVs can provide in the context of spatio-temporal linkage between ground-based, aircraft, and satellite sampling; and the Earth system modeling that such sampling facilitates.
Primary Convener:  Grant Allen, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Hartmut Boesch, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, William J Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States and Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chairs:  Rick M. Thomas, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Boon Lim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Albin John Gasiewski, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS: American Meteorological Society -
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Optical Profiling of the Atmospheric Limb (OPAL) CubeSat Experiment (63831)
Matt Jeppesen1, Jaden Miller1, Wade Cox1, Michael J Taylor2, Charles Swenson3, Tim L. Neilsen1, Chad S Fish4, Ludger Scherliess5, Andrew B Christensen6 and Mary Cleave7, (1)Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (6)Dixie State University, St George, UT, United States, (7)NASA Headquarter Library, Washington, DC, United States
Repurposing Radiosonde Sensors for UAV Integration (64713)
Frederick A Clowney, International Met Systems, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Pre-Launch Calibration and Performance Study of the PolarCube 3U Temperature Sounding Radiometer Mission (65105)
Lavanya Periasamy1, Albin John Gasiewski2, Brian T Sanders3, Glenda Alvarenga3, Joshua A Gordon4 and David W Gallaher5, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Measurements of Atmospheric Aerosol Vertical Distributions above Svalbard, Norway using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) (67357)
Timothy S Bates, University of Washington Seattle Campus, CICOES, Seattle, WA, United States, James E Johnson, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, Scott Stalin, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Hagen Telg, NOAA Boulder, GML, Boulder, CO, United States, Daniel M Murphy, NOAA, CSL, Boulder, United States, John Faulkner Burkhart, University of Oslo, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway; University of California, Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, Patricia Quinn, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Rune Storvold, Norut North Research Institute, Tromsø, Norway
Airborne Deployment and Calibration of Microwave Atmospheric Sounder on 6U CubeSat (70478)
Sharmila Padmanabhan1, Shannon Thomas Brown1, Boon Lim2, Pekka Kangaslahti3, Damon Russell3 and Robert Alan Stachnik4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Open Path Trace Gas Laser Sensors for UAV Deployment (81921)
Soran Shadman, Laura Mchale, Charles Rose and Azer Yalin, Colorado State University - CSU, Fort Collins, CO, United States
The use of targeting techniques with the Global Hawk to improve storm forecasts over Alaska (75597)
Tanya Rae Peevey1,2, Hongli Wang3,4, Andrew Kren2,5, Jason M English1,6 and Lidia Cucurull7, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL, United States, (6)NOAA GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Systems Division, Boulder, United States
IceCube: 883-GHz Cloud Receiver and Calibration on a Spinning, Thermally-Stabilized CubeSat (69946)
Dong Liang Wu1, Paul Racette1, Negar Ehsan1, Derek l Hudson1, Kevin a Horgan2, Jeffrey R Piepmeier3, Mike k Choi1, Jaime Esper1, William r Mast1, Tom Johnson1 and IceCube Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)ISTD, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
One of 50: Challenger, the University of Colorado Boulder QB50 Constellation Satellite (76103)
Scott E Palo1, Nicholas Rainville2, Andrew Dahir2, Colden Rouleau2, John M Stark2, Nicholas Nell2, Jeff Fukushima2 and Andre Lucas Lucas Antunes de Sa3, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
GreenHouse gas Observations of the Stratosphere and Troposphere (GHOST): Deployment of a Novel Shortwave Infrared Spectrometer On Board the NASA Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (77853)
Neil Humpage1, Hartmut Boesch1, Paul I Palmer2, Phil Parr-Burman3, Andy Vick3, Naidu Bezawada3, Martin Black3, Andy Born3, Xiaofeng Gao3, David Pearson3, Piyal Samara-Ratna1, Jonathan Strachan3 and Martyn Wells3, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology: NOAA's Application of the Global Hawk Aircraft for High Impact Weather Forecasting (80497)
Gary A Wick1, Robbie E Hood2, Jason Dunion3, Michael L Black4, Philip Kenul2 and John J Coffey5, (1)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA UAS Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)University of Miami/CIMAS - NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, (4)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (5)NOAA, Washington, DC, United States
Radiative flux measurements during the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) Guam Deployment. (82213)
Bruce C Kindel, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter Pilewskie, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Sebastian Schmidt, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Towards Bottom-up and Top-down Closures of Aerosol-cloud Interactions: multi-dimensional Cloud-aERosol Exploratory Study using RPAS (82867)
Gregory C Roberts1,2, Radiance Calmer3, Kevin Sanchez4, Keri Nicoll5, Eyal Hashimshoni6, Daniel Rosenfeld7, Albert Ansmann8, Jean Sciare9, Jurgita Ovadnevaite10, Murat Bronz11, Gautier Hattenberger11, Jana Preissler10, Johannes Buehl8, Darius Ceburnis12, Colin D. D. O'Dowd13 and BACCHUS Science Team, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (3)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (4)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (5)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (6)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (7)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (8)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (9)The Cyprus Institute, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), Nicosia, Cyprus, (10)National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, (11)ENAC - École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France, (12)National University of Ireland, School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, (13)University of Ireland in Galway, Galway, Ireland
Aerosol-cloud closure study using RPAS measurements (83305)
Radiance Calmer1, Greg Roberts2, Kevin Sanchez1, Keri Nicoll3, Jana Preissler4, Jurgita Ovadnevaite4, Jean Sciare5, Murat Bronz6, Gautier Hattenberger6, Daniel Rosenfeld7, Samuel Lauda1, Eyal Hashimshoni8 and BACCHUS science team, (1)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, (5)The Cyprus Institute, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), Nicosia, Cyprus, (6)ENAC - École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France, (7)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (8)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
The Radiometer Atmospheric Cubesat Experiment Post-Launch Results (84283)
Boon Lim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Sidharth Misra, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
The Scanning Ionospheric Photometer for CubeSats (84469)
Chad S Fish1, Geoff Crowley1, Marcin Pilinski1, Irfan Azeem1, Adam Reynolds2, John Noto3, Michael Migliozzi4 and Richard Doe4, (1)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Scientific Solutions, Inc., North Chelmsford, MA, United States
Narrowband NanoSat Scale Photometry for VUV Planetary and Heliophysics missions (85165)
John Noto, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Rick A. Doe, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Harald U Frey, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Development of the Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud ICE (TWICE) Millimeter- and Sub-millimeter Wave Radiometer Instrument for 6U-Class Nanosatellites (85811)
Steven C Reising1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Erich Schlecht2, Xavier Bosch-Lluis1, Mehmet Ogut3, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Richard Cofield4, Nacer Eddine Chahat2, Shannon Thomas Brown2, Jonathan H. Jiang5, William Deal6, Alex Zamora7, Kevin Leong7, Sean Shih7 and Gerry Mei7, (1)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, United States, (7)Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, CA, United States
Solar Occultation Constellation for Retrieving Aerosols and Trace Element Species (SOCRATES): Proposed Mission Concept (86037)
Scott Martin Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Larry L Gordley, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States
Mean Density Estimation derived from Satellite Constellations (86079)
Alan Li, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA, United States and Sigrid Close, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Using UAV's to Measure the Urban Boundary Layer (86440)
Robert L Jacob, Rajesh Sankaran and Peter H Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States

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