Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer observations with the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO)
Between January 2012 and June 2017 a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), known as the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO), was used to observe the state of the atmospheric boundary layer in the Antarctic. During six Antarctic field campaigns, 116 SUMO flights were completed. These flights...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e30f0ab2aad247ec958626a4e0e5665c 2023-05-15T13:42:13+02:00 Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer observations with the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO) J. J. Cassano M. A. Nigro M. W. Seefeldt M. Katurji K. Guinn G. Williams A. DuVivier 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-969-2021 https://doaj.org/article/e30f0ab2aad247ec958626a4e0e5665c EN eng Copernicus Publications https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/969/2021/essd-13-969-2021.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1866-3508 https://doaj.org/toc/1866-3516 doi:10.5194/essd-13-969-2021 1866-3508 1866-3516 https://doaj.org/article/e30f0ab2aad247ec958626a4e0e5665c Earth System Science Data, Vol 13, Pp 969-982 (2021) Environmental sciences GE1-350 Geology QE1-996.5 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-969-2021 2022-12-31T06:28:53Z Between January 2012 and June 2017 a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), known as the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO), was used to observe the state of the atmospheric boundary layer in the Antarctic. During six Antarctic field campaigns, 116 SUMO flights were completed. These flights took place during all seasons over both permanent ice and ice-free locations on the Antarctic continent and over sea ice in the western Ross Sea. Sampling was completed during spiral ascent and descent flight paths that observed the temperature, humidity, pressure and wind up to 1000 m above ground level and sampled the entire depth of the atmospheric boundary layer, as well as portions of the free atmosphere above the boundary layer. A wide variety of boundary layer states were observed, including very shallow, strongly stable conditions during the Antarctic winter and deep, convective conditions over ice-free locations in the summer. The Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer data collected by the SUMO sUAS, described in this paper, can be retrieved from the United States Antarctic Program Data Center ( https://www.usap-dc.org , last access: 8 March 2021). The data for all flights conducted on the continent are available at https://doi.org/10.15784/601054 (Cassano, 2017), and data from the Ross Sea flights are available at https://doi.org/10.15784/601191 (Cassano, 2019). Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ross Sea Sea ice United States Antarctic Program Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic The Antarctic Ross Sea Earth System Science Data 13 3 969 982 |
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Between January 2012 and June 2017 a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), known as the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO), was used to observe the state of the atmospheric boundary layer in the Antarctic. During six Antarctic field campaigns, 116 SUMO flights were completed. These flights took place during all seasons over both permanent ice and ice-free locations on the Antarctic continent and over sea ice in the western Ross Sea. Sampling was completed during spiral ascent and descent flight paths that observed the temperature, humidity, pressure and wind up to 1000 m above ground level and sampled the entire depth of the atmospheric boundary layer, as well as portions of the free atmosphere above the boundary layer. A wide variety of boundary layer states were observed, including very shallow, strongly stable conditions during the Antarctic winter and deep, convective conditions over ice-free locations in the summer. The Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer data collected by the SUMO sUAS, described in this paper, can be retrieved from the United States Antarctic Program Data Center ( https://www.usap-dc.org , last access: 8 March 2021). The data for all flights conducted on the continent are available at https://doi.org/10.15784/601054 (Cassano, 2017), and data from the Ross Sea flights are available at https://doi.org/10.15784/601191 (Cassano, 2019). |
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Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer observations with the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO) |
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