A026
Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Systems

Session ID#: 156505

Session Description:
Uncrewed Systems (UxS) are significantly expanding observational capabilities in atmospheric and related sciences. This expansion is enabled by the increased deployment of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and tethered balloon/kite systems (TBS). Rapid adaptation of these platforms and the advancement of miniaturized instruments have resulted in ever-increasing amounts of data supporting atmospheric sciences in various environmental regimes, addressing critical science questions, and bridging the atmosphere to other research areas, including hydrology, volcanology and geochemistry. This session invites abstracts discussing scientific contributions in atmospheric sciences using various UxS platforms. The topics could include presentations on the development of new UxS platforms and instrumentation, recent measurement efforts leveraging UxS systems, use of UxS to enhance the weather and climate prediction networks, data analysis and synthesis from past field campaigns, and other scientific interpretation of UxS-based datasets to improve process understanding, numerical model prediction, data assimilation and parameterization development.
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
 
Development of volatile organic compound samplers optimized for use on uncrewed aerial systems and marine vessels (1046462)
Meghan Guagenti1, Darielle Dexheimer2, Casey Longbottom3, Alexandra Ulinski4, James Flynn5, Rebecca J Sheesley1 and Sascha Usenko1, (1)Baylor University, Environmental Science, Waco, TX, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Org 8863, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of Houston, Physics, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
 
Initial Perspectives from the TRACER-UAS campaign (Invited) (1047909)
Elizabeth A Pillar-Little1, Francesca M. Lappin1,2, Antonio Segales1,3, Kelsey C. Britt2,4, Isaac J. Medina1,2, Leia M. Otterstatter2, Bryony Puxley5, Michelle R. Spencer2,6, Elizabeth Asher7, Gijs de Boer8 and Petra Maria Klein9, (1)University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), Norman, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Norman, OK, United States, (4)National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (6)National Severe Storms Lab Norman, Norman, United States, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
 
Methods for measuring wind speed and direction for accurate estimations of methane fluxes (Invited) (1048320)
Kristen Manies, USGS, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, United States, Derek Hollenbeck, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Levi Golston, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, United States, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Colin Edgar, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, YangQuan Chen, University of California Merced, Merced, United States and Mark P Waldrop, US Geological Survey, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Deep learning tools for in-flight classification of Arctic environments using autonomous aircraft systems (1049487)
Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Matt Brown, Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, NY, United States
 
Observational data of uncrewed systems over Southern Great Plains (SGP) (1057291)
Fan Mei1, Jerome D Fast2, Qi Zhang3, Mikhail S Pekour1, Christopher Niedek3, Darielle Dexheimer4, Gijs de Boer5, RaeAnn Louise Cook, Jason M Tomlinson7, Beat Schmid1, Lexie Goldberger8 and Rob K Newsom9, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Org 8863, Albuquerque, United States, (5)NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (7)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States
 
An AI CubeSat (AISat) High Altitude Air Balloon Launching Mission for Atmospheric Research (1069954)
Yang He, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and M. Chantale Damas, CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States
 
Use of an Uncrewed Aerial System to Investigate Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing and Aerosol – Cloud Interactions in the Marine Atmosphere (1090618)
Patricia Quinn, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Timothy S Bates, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, United States, Derek J Coffman, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, James E Johnson, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, Aaron Miness Farber, L3Harris, Tucson, United States and Jon Pfafflin, L3Harris, Tuscon, United States
 
Unmanned in situ Measurements of Air Pollutants in the Planetary Boundary Layer (1105330)
Tobias Schuldt1, Ralf Tillmann1, Georgios Gkatzelis1, Christian Wesolek1, Achim Grasse1, Marcel Buchholz2, André Sobotta2, Rickmar Seldschopf2, Lutz Bretschneider3, Andreas Schlerf4, Astrid Lampert3 and Astrid Kiendler-Scharr5, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Troposphere (IEK-8), Jülich, Germany, (2)Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, (3)Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Flight Guidance, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Flight Guidance, Braunschweig, Germany, (5)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Troposphere (IEK-8), Jülich, Germany
 
A Pitot/Static Probe and Autopilot Are Sufficient to Estimate a Lower Bound to Momentum Flux in a Hurricane's Eyewall without a Multi-Port Probe (1110073)
Ronald Dobosy, NOAA Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, United States, Joseph Cione, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Gijs deBoer, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Patrick Sosa, Area I, Marietta, United States, Joshua Wadler, University of Miami, Cooperative Institute Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States and Jun Zhang, University of Miami, Miami, United States
 
Vertical profiling of atmospheric hydrocarbons using uncrewed aerial systems to quantify emissions from natural oil seeps. (1116510)
Robert Swarthout1, Chase F Plyler1, Kaley Simcox1, Samuel Taubman1, Jackson Smith2, Allison Keys1, Alexander Schwab1, Frank Kinnaman3, Patrick Richardson4, Christopher M Reddy5 and David L Valentine6, (1)Appalachian State University, A.R. Smith Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences, Boone, United States, (2)Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)Appalachian State University, Boone, United States, (5)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Univ California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Surface Imagery Collected via Mid-Sized Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UxS) (1126845)
Lexie Goldberger1, Jerry Tagestad2, Beat Schmid1, Jason M Tomlinson3, Fan Mei1, Ilan Gonzalez-Hirshfeld4 and Kristian Nelson5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth Systems Science Division, Richland, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Hydrology Group, Richland, United States
 
Revealing mixing states of aerosol particles using 3-dimensional molecular imaging (1132295)
Zihua Zhu1, Yadong Zhou1 and Fan Mei2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
Impact of Improved Characterization of Uncrewed Aircraft System Observation Error Covariance on Meso-Gammascale Weather Predictions (1160203)
James O Pinto, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Junkyung Kay, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Sean Bailey, University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Lexington, United States, Kathryn Fossell, NCAR/MMM, Boulder, CO, United States and Gijs deBoer, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Observations of snow cover and quantities related to the surface energy budget over a high altitude river basin from uncrewed aircraft systems (1178660)
Gijs de Boer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Janet M Intrieri, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jonathan Hamilton, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Jack Steward Elston, Black Swift Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States, Maciej Stachura, Black Swift Technologies, Boulder, United States and Jake Longenecker, NOAA PSL, Boulder, United States
 
Understanding low altitude features in onshore flow of lake breeze during high ozone episodes at a Lake Michigan shoreline (1179907)
Patricia A Cleary1, Kelly Koerber2, Darby Schabacker2, Autumn Sivilay2, Akagaonye Torti3, Kevin Wangen2, Joe Hupy4, Nathan Rose5, Brian Butterworth6, Gijs de Boer7,8, R. Bradley Pierce9 and Timothy J. Wagner10, (1)University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Eau Claire, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Eau Claire, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Eau Claire, United States, (4)Purdue University, School of Aviation and Transportation Technology, West Lafayette, United States, (5)School of Aviation and Transportation Technology, West Lafayette, United States, (6)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (8)NOAA, Boulder, United States, (9)Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States
 
In Situ Cloud Probe for Uncrewed Systems (1179908)
Andrei Vakhtin, Mesa Photonics, LLC, Santa Fe, NM, United States
 
Urban Impacts on UAS Observations (1184639)
Jamey Jacob1, Gus Azevedo2, Brian R Elbing3, Braydon Revard2, Trevor Wilson2 and WINDMAP, (1)Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, MAE, Stillwater, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Experimental Observation of Boundary Layer and Movement of Topographically Varying Desert Dunes with Unmanned Systems (1187568)
Kerrick Ray, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, Victoria A Natalie, Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, United States and Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Validation of a Wind Estimation Scheme Based on an Unsteady Aerodynamic Fixed-wing Motion Model (1194110)
Mekonen Halefom1, Jeremy Hopwood1 and Craig Woolsey2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace & Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Measurements of methane emissions from fibrous sediments (1202445)
Erik Sahlee1, Alizée Lehoux2, Sarah Josefsson3, Julie Falise4 and Daniel Sopher3, (1)Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Uppsala Univeristy, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Geological Survey of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)INSA de Lyon, Energetic and Environmental department, Villeurbanne, France
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