TY - JOUR
T1 - Data generated during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign
T2 - An introduction and overview
AU - De Boer, Gijs
AU - Houston, Adam
AU - Jacob, Jamey
AU - Chilson, Phillip B.
AU - Smith, Suzanne W.
AU - Argrow, Brian
AU - Lawrence, Dale
AU - Elston, Jack
AU - Brus, David
AU - Kemppinen, Osku
AU - Klein, Petra
AU - Lundquist, Julie K.
AU - Waugh, Sean
AU - Bailey, Sean C.C.
AU - Frazier, Amy
AU - Sama, Michael P.
AU - Crick, Christopher
AU - Schmale, David
AU - Pinto, James
AU - Pillar-Little, Elizabeth A.
AU - Natalie, Victoria
AU - Jensen, Anders
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12/11
Y1 - 2020/12/11
N2 - Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) offer innovative capabilities for providing new perspectives on the atmosphere, and therefore atmospheric scientists are rapidly expanding their use, particularly for studying the planetary boundary layer. In support of this expansion, from 14 to 20 July 2018 the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) hosted a community flight week, dubbed the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation - a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE; de Boer et al., 2020a). This field campaign spanned a 1-week deployment to Colorado's San Luis Valley, involving over 100 students, scientists, engineers, pilots, and outreach coordinators. These groups conducted intensive field operations using unmanned aircraft and ground-based assets to develop comprehensive datasets spanning a variety of scientific objectives, including a total of nearly 1300 research flights totaling over 250 flight hours. This article introduces this campaign and lays the groundwork for a special issue on the LAPSE-RATE project. The remainder of the special issue provides detailed overviews of the datasets collected and the platforms used to collect them. All of the datasets covered by this special issue have been uploaded to a LAPSE-RATE community set up at the Zenodo data archive (https://zenodo.org/communities/lapse-rate/, last access: 3 December 2020).
AB - Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) offer innovative capabilities for providing new perspectives on the atmosphere, and therefore atmospheric scientists are rapidly expanding their use, particularly for studying the planetary boundary layer. In support of this expansion, from 14 to 20 July 2018 the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) hosted a community flight week, dubbed the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation - a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE; de Boer et al., 2020a). This field campaign spanned a 1-week deployment to Colorado's San Luis Valley, involving over 100 students, scientists, engineers, pilots, and outreach coordinators. These groups conducted intensive field operations using unmanned aircraft and ground-based assets to develop comprehensive datasets spanning a variety of scientific objectives, including a total of nearly 1300 research flights totaling over 250 flight hours. This article introduces this campaign and lays the groundwork for a special issue on the LAPSE-RATE project. The remainder of the special issue provides detailed overviews of the datasets collected and the platforms used to collect them. All of the datasets covered by this special issue have been uploaded to a LAPSE-RATE community set up at the Zenodo data archive (https://zenodo.org/communities/lapse-rate/, last access: 3 December 2020).
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U2 - 10.5194/essd-12-3357-2020
DO - 10.5194/essd-12-3357-2020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85094848795
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 12
SP - 3357
EP - 3366
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 4
ER -