TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of community, capabilities, and understanding through unmanned aircraft-based atmospheric research
T2 - The LAPSE-RATE Campaign
AU - de Boer, Gijs
AU - Diehl, Constantin
AU - Jacob, Jamey
AU - Houston, Adam
AU - Smith, Suzanne W.
AU - Chilson, Phillip
AU - Schmale, David G.
AU - Intrieri, Janet
AU - Pinto, James
AU - Elston, Jack
AU - Brus, David
AU - Kemppinen, Osku
AU - Clark, Alex
AU - Lawrence, Dale
AU - Bailey, Sean C.C.
AU - Sama, Michael P.
AU - Frazier, Amy
AU - Crick, Christopher
AU - Natalie, Victoria
AU - Pillar-Little, Elizabeth
AU - Klein, Petra
AU - Waugh, Sean
AU - Lundquist, Julie K.
AU - Barbieri, Lindsay
AU - Kral, Stephan T.
AU - Jensen, Anders A.
AU - Dixon, Cory
AU - Borenstein, Steven
AU - Hesselius, Daniel
AU - Human, Kathleen
AU - Hall, Philip
AU - Argrow, Brian
AU - Thornberry, Troy
AU - Wright, Randy
AU - Kelly, Jason T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2020 American Meteorological Society
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - Because unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) offer new perspectives on the atmosphere, their use in atmospheric science is expanding rapidly. In support of this growth, the International Society for Atmospheric Research Using Remotely-Piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) has been developed and has convened annual meetings and “flight weeks.” The 2018 flight week, dubbed the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation–A Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE), involved a 1-week deployment to Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Between 14 and 20 July 2018 over 100 students, scientists, engineers, pilots, and outreach coordinators conducted an intensive field operation using unmanned aircraft and ground-based assets to develop datasets, community, and capabilities. In addition to a coordinated “Community Day” which offered a chance for groups to share their aircraft and science with the San Luis Valley community, LAPSE-RATE participants conducted nearly 1,300 research flights totaling over 250 flight hours. The measurements collected have been used to advance capabilities (instrumentation, platforms, sampling techniques, and modeling tools), conduct a detailed system intercomparison study, develop new collaborations, and foster community support for the use of UAS in atmospheric science.
AB - Because unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) offer new perspectives on the atmosphere, their use in atmospheric science is expanding rapidly. In support of this growth, the International Society for Atmospheric Research Using Remotely-Piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) has been developed and has convened annual meetings and “flight weeks.” The 2018 flight week, dubbed the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation–A Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE), involved a 1-week deployment to Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Between 14 and 20 July 2018 over 100 students, scientists, engineers, pilots, and outreach coordinators conducted an intensive field operation using unmanned aircraft and ground-based assets to develop datasets, community, and capabilities. In addition to a coordinated “Community Day” which offered a chance for groups to share their aircraft and science with the San Luis Valley community, LAPSE-RATE participants conducted nearly 1,300 research flights totaling over 250 flight hours. The measurements collected have been used to advance capabilities (instrumentation, platforms, sampling techniques, and modeling tools), conduct a detailed system intercomparison study, develop new collaborations, and foster community support for the use of UAS in atmospheric science.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85085897976
U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0050.1
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0050.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085897976
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 101
SP - E684-E699
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 5
ER -