Using a balloon-launched unmanned glider to validate real-time WRF modeling

Travis J. Schuyler; S. M.Iman Gohari; Gary Pundsack; Donald Berchoff; Marcelo I. Guzman

doi:10.3390/s19081914

Using a balloon-launched unmanned glider to validate real-time WRF modeling

Travis J. Schuyler
, S. M.Iman Gohari
, Gary Pundsack
, Donald Berchoff
, Marcelo I. Guzman

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Abstract

The use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) for meteorological measurements has expanded significantly in recent years. SUAS are efficient platforms for collecting data with high resolution in both space and time, providing opportunities for enhanced atmospheric sampling. Furthermore, advances in mesoscale weather research and forecasting (WRF) modeling and graphical processing unit (GPU) computing have enabled high resolution weather modeling. In this manuscript, a balloon-launched unmanned glider, complete with a suite of sensors to measure atmospheric temperature, pressure, and relative humidity, is deployed for validation of real-time weather models. This work demonstrates the usefulness of sUAS for validating and improving mesoscale, real-time weather models for advancements toward reliable weather forecasts to enable safe and predictable sUAS missions beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS).

Original language	English
Article number	1914
Journal	Sensors (Switzerland)
Volume	19
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081914
State	Published - Apr 2 2019

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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Funding

Funding: M.I.G. and T.J.S. would like to thank research support from the U.S. National Science Foundation under RII Track-2 FEC award No: 1539070 and the NASA Kentucky Space Grant Graduate Fellowship Award No: NNX15AR69H; G.P. acknowledges funding support from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.

Funders	Funder number
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
NASA Kentucky Space	NNX15AR69H
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	1539070, RII Track-2 FEC

Keywords

ARW
Balloon
Drones
GFS
Glider
Meteorology
Model
Pressure
Radiosonde
Relative humidity
Temperature
UAS
UAV
Validation
WRF
Weather

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Analytical Chemistry
Information Systems
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biochemistry
Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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