[HTML][HTML] Moving towards a network of autonomous UAS atmospheric profiling stations for observations in the Earth's lower atmosphere: The 3D mesonet concept

PB Chilson, TM Bell, KA Brewster… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The deployment of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to collect routine in situ vertical
profiles of the thermodynamic and kinematic state of the atmosphere in conjunction with …

[HTML][HTML] Improving high-impact numerical weather prediction with lidar and drone observations

D Leuenberger, A Haefele, N Omanovic… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Adam, S., A. Behrendt, T. Schwitalla, E. Hammann, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2016: First
assimilation of temperature lidar data into an NWP model: Impact on the simulation of the …

[HTML][HTML] The CopterSonde: an insight into the development of a smart unmanned aircraft system for atmospheric boundary layer research

AR Segales, BR Greene, TM Bell… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
The CopterSonde is an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed in house by a team of
engineers and meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma. The CopterSonde is an …

The status and future of small uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) in operational meteorology

JO Pinto, D O'Sullivan, S Taylor… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The boundary layer plays a critical role in regulating energy and moisture exchange
between the surface and the free atmosphere. However, the boundary layer and lower …

Considerations for temperature sensor placement on rotary-wing unmanned aircraft systems

BR Greene, AR Segales, S Waugh… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
Integrating sensors with a rotary-wing unmanned aircraft system (rwUAS) can introduce
several sources of biases and uncertainties if not properly accounted for. To maximize the …

Environmental and sensor integration influences on temperature measurements by rotary-wing unmanned aircraft systems

BR Greene, AR Segales, TM Bell, EA Pillar-Little… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obtaining thermodynamic measurements using rotary-wing unmanned aircraft systems
(rwUAS) requires several considerations for mitigating biases from the aircraft and its …

Evaluation and intercomparison of small uncrewed aircraft systems used for atmospheric research

G De Boer, BJ Butterworth, JS Elston… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) are regularly being used to conduct atmospheric
research and are starting to be used as a data source for informing weather models through …

[HTML][HTML] Confronting the boundary layer data gap: Evaluating new and existing methodologies of probing the lower atmosphere

TM Bell, BR Greene, PM Klein… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
It is widely accepted that the atmospheric boundary layer is drastically under-sampled in the
vertical dimension. In recent years, the commercial availability of ground-based remote …

[HTML][HTML] Toward sustainable meteorological profiling in polar regions: Case studies using an inexpensive UAS on measuring lower boundary layers with quality of …

J Inoue, K Sato - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study assessed the possibility of producing profiles of atmospheric parameters,
including aerosol number concentration, using observations obtained by a conventional low …

[HTML][HTML] Drone-based meteorological observations up to the tropopause–a concept study

KB Bärfuss, H Schmithüsen… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
The main in situ database for numerical weather prediction currently relies on radiosonde
and airliner observations, with large systematic data gaps: horizontally in certain countries …