A44F:
Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Atmospheric Science I

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Session ID#: 33079

Session Description:
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are significantly expanding observational perspectives in atmospheric science. With rapid growth in the variety of both platform and UAS applications, the opportunity for these platforms to provide high-quality atmospheric measurements continues to expand. Evidence of this momentum are provided by the large number of recent community workshops held by various agencies supporting atmospheric science (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF/NCAR) and the continued growth of the international society supporting such research (ISARRA). The measurements provided by these platforms are essential for contributing scientifically significant datasets to address fundamental research questions in meteorology, enhancing the operational observational network, and informing weather and climate models. This session will provide a forum for presenting up-to-date results on UAS-based research along these lines. Specific topics of interest include updates on recent campaigns, instrumentation and facilities and modeling efforts that integrate UAS-based measurements or evaluate their effectiveness.
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, BNL, Upton, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Beat Schmid, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  Gijs de Boer1, Greg M McFarquhar2, Beat Schmid3 and Fan Mei, PhD3, (1)BNL, Upton, United States(2)Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States(3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0350 Pressure, density, and temperature [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Atmospheric Sampling of Microorganisms with UAS (Invited) (205968)
David G Schmale III, Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States
An Overview of UAS Used in NASA Atmospheric Science Investigations (209621)
Susan Schoenung1, Matthew M Fladeland2, Frank W Cutler3 and Sally A Cahill2, (1)Longitude 122 West Inc., Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, United States
Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Weather and Climate using the Multi-testbed approach (210939)
Bruce Baker, NOAA Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Temple Lee, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, United States, Michael Buban, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Edward J Dumas, NOAA/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Development of Rotary-Wing UAS for Use in Atmospheric Sensing of Near-Storm Environments (254009)
Brian R Greene1, Phillip Bruce Chilson2, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno3, Simon Duthoit3, William Doyle3, Brent Wolf3, Antonio Segales4, Christopher A. Fiebrich5, Sean Waugh6, Sherman Fredrickson7, Steven Oncley8, Laura Tudor9 and Steven Semmer9, (1)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Norman, OK, United States, (5)Oklahoma Mesonet, Norman, OK, United States, (6)NOAA / OAR / National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States, (7)National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, United States, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (9)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Trace Gas Quantification with Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (263939)
Travis John Schuyler, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Marcelo I Guzman, University of Kentucky, Department of Chemistry, Lexington, KY, United States, Sean Bailey, University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Lexington, United States and Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, Stillwater, United States
Top-down and Bottom-up aerosol-cloud-closure: towards understanding sources of unvertainty in deriving cloud radiative flux (239551)
Kevin Sanchez1, Greg Roberts2, Radiance Calmer3, Keri Nicoll4, Eyal Hashimshoni5, Daniel Rosenfeld6, Jurgita Ovadnevaite7, Jana Preissler7, Darius Ceburnis8, Colin D. D. O'Dowd7 and Lynn M Russell9, (1)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (2)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (3)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (4)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (5)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (6)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (7)National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, (8)National University of Ireland, School of Physics, Galway, Ireland, (9)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

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