A41N:
Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Atmospheric Science II Posters


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Session ID#: 43880

Session Description:
Unmanned aerial systems are significantly expanding observational perspectives in atmospheric science. With rapid growth in the variety of UAS applications and available instruments, opportunities for UAS platforms to provide high-quality atmospheric measurements continue to increase.  Evidence of this is 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 (, International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft).  This session invites contributions on atmospheric research using UAS platforms including the development of new missions and advanced instrumentation, the interpretation of campaign datasets that address fundamental research questions in atmospheric science, the enhancement of the operational observational network, and the use of UAS data to inform and evaluate weather and climate models.
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, BNL, Upton, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States and Beat Schmid, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Gijs de Boer, BNL, Upton, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Laser Hygrometer Payload for the ScanEagle UAS (360483)
David Sonnenfroh1, Andrew Sealey2, Robert Minelli2, Joseph Goodwin2 and Mark A Zondlo3, (1)Physical Sciences Inc, Andover, MA, United States, (2)Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, United States, (3)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
A preliminary look at the impacts of assimilating UAS data into high resolution WRF simulations of the San Luis Valley (455623)
Anders A Jensen1, James O Pinto2, Pedro Jiménez1, Phillip Bruce Chilson3, Suzanne Smith4, Jamey Jacob5, Adam L Houston6, Dale Lawrence7 and Gijs de Boer8, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States, (5)Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, Stillwater, United States, (6)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)BNL, Upton, United States
Aerosol Flux Measurements Above the Ocean Surface Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (443647)
Gregory C Roberts1,2, Frederick Burnet3, Radiance Calmer3, Sebastien Barrau3, Grégoire Cayez4, Fabrice Julien3, Michel Gavart5 and Christophe Mazel5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (3)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (4)Meteo France - ENM, École Nationale de Météorologie, Toulouse, France, (5)Boreal UAS, Toulouse, France
ARM research using Unmanned Systems: Science, Operations, and Findings (375867)
Fan Mei, PhD1, Darielle Dexheimer2, Gijs de Boer3, Dale Lawrence4, Abhiram Doddi5, Mikhail S Pekour1, Jason M Tomlinson6, John M Hubbe1, Lexie Goldberger7, Beat Schmid1 and Mark Ivey8, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)BNL, Upton, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (7)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (8)Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Characterization of a Holographic Cloud Particle Imager (HCPI) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) (364221)
Daniel McAdams1, Andrew M Harrington1, Graham J. Stoddard1, Kevin Miller2, Brandon Boiko2, Michael Snow2, Eric M Wilcox3, Dr. Lan Gao4, Marco Giordano4 and James F. Christian1, (1)Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA, United States, (2)High Precision Devices, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Coordinated Aerial and Ground-based Wind Measurements to Model the Transport of Hazardous Agents in the Atmosphere (439148)
David G Schmale III, Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, Javier Gonzalez-Rocha, Virginia Tech, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Peter Nolan, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, Shane D Ross, Virginia Tech, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Hosein Foroutan, Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Outcomes of the NCAR / EOL Workshop Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Atmospheric Research (455239)
Holger Voemel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Cory Wolff, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Steven Oncley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, United States, James A Moore, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Scott M Ellis, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Duncan Axisa, NCAR, Boulder, United States
UAS Investigations of Mixed-phase Clouds at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard (450222)
Paul Lawson, SPEC Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, Sebastian Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Matthew Norgren, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Gregory C Roberts, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
UAS-Based Remote Sensing of the Upper Ocean Turbulence Response to Atmospheric Forcing (417518)
Ivan B. Savelyev, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
Use of sUAS in Sampling Cold Pools: Instrumentation Calibration/Validation and First Results (398924)
Sean William Freeman1, Jennie Bukowski1, Leah D Grant1, Peter Marinescu1, Stacey Hitchcock2, Jungmin Minnie Park3 and Susan C van den Heever3, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Wind Estimates in the Lower Atmosphere from a Vehicle Dynamic Model Applied to a Multi-rotor Copter (433163)
Javier Gonzalez-Rocha, Virginia Tech, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Cornel Sultan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Craig A Woolsey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Stephan De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

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