Evaluation of Routine Atmospheric Sounding Measurements Using Unmanned Systems (ERASMUS) Field Campaign Report

Program Document · Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2017

OSTI ID:1347616

de Boer, Gijs ^[1]; Lawrence, Dale ^[2]; Palo, Scott ^[2]; Argrow, Brian ^[2]; LoDolce, Gabriel ^[2]; Curry, Nathan ^[2]; Weibel, Douglas ^[2]; Finnamore, W ^[2]; D'Amore, P ^[2]; Borenstein, Steven ^[2]; Nichols, Tevis ^[2]; Elston, Jack ^[3]; Ivey, Mark ^[4]; Bendure, Al ^[4]; Schmid, Beat ^[5]; Long, Chuck ^[6]; Telg, Hagen ^[1]; Gao, Rushan ^[6]; Hock, T ^[7]; Bland, Geoff ^[8]

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1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
2. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
3. Blackswift Technologies, Boulder, CO (United States)
4. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
6. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
7. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Washington, DC (United States)

The Evaluation of Routine Atmospheric Sounding Measurements using Unmanned Systems (ERASMUS) campaign was proposed with two central goals; to obtain scientifically relevant measurements of quantities related to clouds, aerosols, and radiation, including profiles of temperature, humidity, and aerosol particles, the structure of the arctic atmosphere during transitions between clear and cloudy states, measurements that would allow us to evaluate the performance of retrievals from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility remote sensors in the Arctic atmosphere, and information on the spatial variability of heat and moisture fluxes from the arctic surface; and to demonstrate unmanned aerial system (UAS) capabilities in obtaining measurements relevant to the ARM and ASR programs, particularly for improving our understanding of Arctic clouds and aerosols.

• Research Organization: DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• Contributing Organization: CIRES; NOAA
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-7601830
• OSTI ID: 1347616
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-17-009
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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