A031
Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems and Tethered Balloon Systems
Session ID#: 248181
Session Description:
Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and Tethered Balloon Systems (TBS) are revolutionizing atmospheric research by offering cost-effective, safe alternatives to crewed missions. These platforms excel in collecting data from hazardous or remote environments, enabling long-term, routine atmospheric sampling critical for understanding weather patterns and atmospheric chemistry. Recent advancements in sensors, platforms, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have significantly expanded the capabilities of both UAS and TBS. AI/ML algorithms enhance autonomous navigation and real-time data processing, improving efficiency and accuracy. This session invites abstracts on the use of UAS and TBS in advancing atmospheric sciences. Topics of interest include the development of new platforms and instrumentation, AI/ML-enhanced operations, improvements to weather prediction networks, and analysis and interpretation of data from UAS and TBS-supported field campaigns. Join us to explore groundbreaking innovations demonstrating how these systems, powered by AI/ML, are shaping the future of atmospheric research.
Index Terms:
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3315 Data assimilation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners: Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Darielle Dexheimer, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Gijs de Boer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States
UAS and TBS in CLOUDLAB: A flexible field setup to study ice processes and cloud phase heterogeneities (Invited) (1844637)
Nadja Omanovic1, Christopher Fuchs1, Jan Henneberger1, Anna J Miller2, Fabiola Ramelli1, Robert Spirig1, Huiying Zhang1 and Ulrike Lohmann1, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Air Mass-Driven Variability in CCN Activation: Insights from ARM TBS and UAS Operations (1861878)
Fan Mei, PhD1, Jian Wang2, Jing Li3, Israel Silber4, Jerome Fast4, Gourihar Kulkarni1, Mikhail S Pekour1, Qi Zhang5, Christopher Niedek6, Susanne Glienke4, Darielle Dexheimer7, Beat Schmid1, Jason M Tomlinson8 and Hardeep Mehta4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, United States, (3)Washington University in St Louis, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA, United States, (7)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Aerial Mapping of Bioaerosols Using Dual UAV Platforms in an Austrian Spruce Forest. (1871860)
Florian Wieland1, Matthaeus Rupprecht1, Peter j. Wlasits1,2, Juergen Gratzl1, Regina Hanlon3, Pascal Langer4, Jordan Horral3, Cayden Smedley3, Philipp Sterlich5, Gerhard Peller5, David G Schmale III6 and Hinrich Grothe1, (1)Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna, Austria, (2)University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, (4)Vienna International Centre, Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna, Austria, (5)BLADESCAPE Airborne Services GmbH, Schwechat, Austria, (6)Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States
Deriving Ozone and PM Pollution Vertical Profiles using Lightweight, Cost-Effective Sensors and Deep Learning (1872412)
Dori Nissenbaum1, Ron Sarafian1, Eli Windwer1, Eran Tas2, Caroline Womack3, Steven S Brown4 and Yinon Rudich5, (1)Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (2)The Institute of Environmental Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)Weizmann Institute of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
Heterogeneity of Vertically-Resolved Boundary Layer Temperature Profiles in the Bankhead National Forest (1897235)
Darielle Dexheimer1, Chongai Kuang2, Casey Longbottom3, Carlos Ruiz3, Taylor Settecerri3, Jessica Lien3 and Gabrielle Whitson3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Atmospheric Science, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Towards Photophoretic Flight of Lightweight, Nanofabricated Structures in Near-space (1903093)
Benjamin Schafer1, Jong-hyoung Kim2, Felix Sharipov3, Gyeong-Seok Hwang1, Joost Vlassak4 and David Keith5, (1)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Pukyong National University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Busan, South Korea, (3)Universidade Federal do Paraná, Parana, Brazil, (4)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
Vertical Distribution of GHGs in the Daytime and Nighttime PBL: Observations Using Ground-to-Balloon Dual Comb Spectroscopy (1916249)
James Kasic1, Mathieu Walsh2, Carlos Ruiz3, Darielle Dexheimer3, Roger Ding4, Jérôme Genest2, Aaron Van Tassle3, Kevin Cossel5, Ian Coddington5, Allie Christensen6, Junji Urayama3 and Peter Schwindt7, (1)Boulder, Colorado, UNITED STATES, (2)Laval University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (4)Sanida National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (5)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)National Institute of Standard and Technology, Boulder, United States, (7)Sandia National Laboaratories, Albuquerque, United States
sUAS Instrumentation for Remote Sensing of Wildfire Intensity – NightFOX (1923839)
Joey Taylor1, Troy D Thornberry2, Ru-Shan Gao1, Steven J Ciciora2, Samantha Lee3, Dr. Joshua Peter Schwarz, PhD4 and Matthew Forbes1, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Aeronautical Regional Geospatial Observer System (ARGOS): Advancing a low-cost flying wing for high-altitude long-endurance operations (1927536)
Justin James Bailey, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States, Benjamin R Hogan, Space Environment Technologies, Radiation Applications Division, Pacific Palisades, United States and W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, United States
Evaluating sea-breeze induced changes to atmospheric turbulence using uncrewed aircraft systems and surface-based sensors during TRACER (1947539)
Gijs de Boer1, Brian Butterworth2, Francesca M. Lappin3 and Petra Maria Klein3, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States
Vertically-Resolved Measurements of Newly Formed Particles at the DOE ARM Bankhead National Forest Site in Northwestern Alabama (1948393)
Chongai Kuang1, Scott Giangrande2, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD3, Gabrielle Whitson4, Carlos Ruiz4, Casey Longbottom4 and Darielle Dexheimer4, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Are we there yet? Intercomparison of weather-sensing UAS during the SCALES field campaign (Invited) (1948633)
Tyler Bell, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology and Aviation, Norman, United States, Gus Azevedo, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States, Sean Bailey, University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Lexington, United States, Elizabeth Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States, Adam Houston, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, United States and James O Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, United States
Shape-Based Clustering of Atmospheric Temperature Profiles for Adaptive UAS Sampling (1964673)
Alejandro Medina, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Hernan A Moreno, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, United States, Elizabeth Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States, Luis De la Fuente, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, United States and Miguel Velez-Reyes, The University of Texas at El Paso, Electrical and Computer Engineering, El Paso, United States
Vertical Mixing of Aerosol Properties: A Tethered Balloon Study (1969577)
Jayla Fontenette1, Breiann Seymore1, Paul J. Walter2, Michael P Jensen3, Aryeh J Drager4, Mark Harvey5, Bruce Prince5 and Daniel Vrinceanu5, (1)Texas Southern University, Channelview, TX, United States, (2)St. Edward's University, Austin, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (5)Texas Southern University, Houston, United States
Increasing Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Literacy (1976933)
Patrick Chandler1, Anne U Gold2, Brian M. Argrow3, Melissa Wagner4 and Laura Clayton4, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing, Boulder, United States
Using building-resolving large-eddy simulations and UAS observations from the microSCALES field campaign to investigate the cause of PBL biases in the HRRR model. (1978762)
James O Pinto1, Joshua Lave1, Jeremy Sauer1, Domingo Munoz-Esparza1, Jennifer Boehnert1, Gijs de Boer2, Sean Bailey3, Stephan De Wekker4, Kevin Adkins5, Adam Houston6, Elizabeth Smith7 and Gus Azevedo8, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Lexington, United States, (4)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (5)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States, (6)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, United States, (7)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States, (8)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States
Using UAS Measurements to Enhance PM2.5 Emission and Dispersion Modeling of Grassland Prescribed Burns with a Coupled BlueSky-WRF-HYSPLIT Framework (1985681)
Charles H Fite1,2, Fong Ngan3,4, Johanna Aurell5, Brian Gullett5, Mark Cohen3, Hyun C Kim3,4 and Tianfeng Chai3, (1)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Washington, DC, UNITED STATES, (2)Cooperative Institute of Satellite Earth System Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (3)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (5)US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Durham, United States
