Observations of the thermodynamic and kinematic state of the atmospheric boundary layer over the San Luis Valley, CO, using the CopterSonde 2 remotely piloted aircraft system in support of the LAPSE-RATE field campaign

Pillar-Little, Elizabeth A.; Greene, Brian R.; Lappin, Francesca M.; Bell, Tyler M.; Segales, Antonio R.; de Azevedo, Gustavo Britto Hupsel; Doyle, William; Kanneganti, Sai Teja; Tripp, Daniel D.; Chilson, Phillip B.

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Observations of the thermodynamic and kinematic state of the atmospheric boundary layer over the San Luis Valley, CO, using the CopterSonde 2 remotely piloted aircraft system in support of the LAPSE-RATE field campaign

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2021
By Pillar-Little, Elizabeth A. ; Greene, Brian R. ; Lappin, Francesca M. ; ...

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Earth System Science Data
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Pillar-Little, Elizabeth A. ; Greene, Brian R. ; Lappin, Francesca M. ; Bell, Tyler M. ; Segales, Antonio R. ; de Azevedo, Gustavo Britto Hupsel ; Doyle, William ; Kanneganti, Sai Teja ; Tripp, Daniel D. ; Chilson, Phillip B.
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CIMMS (Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; NSSL (National Severe Storms Laboratory)
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In July 2018, the University of Oklahoma deployed three CopterSonde remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) to take measurements of the evolving thermodynamic and kinematic state of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over complex terrain in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. A total of 180 flights were completed over 5 d, with teams operating simultaneously at two different sites in the northern half of the valley. A total of 2 d of operations focused on convection initiation studies, 1 d focused on ABL diurnal transition studies, 1 d focused on internal comparison flights, and the last day of operations focused on cold air drainage flows. The data from these coordinated flights provide insight into the horizontal heterogeneity of the atmospheric state over complex terrain. This dataset, along with others collected by other universities and institutions as a part of the LAPSE-RATE campaign, have been submitted to Zenodo (Greene et al., 2020) for free and open access (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3737087).
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Boundary Layer Observations Thermodynamics Boundary Layer
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 269–280, 2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-269-2021
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Grant no. NA16OAR4320115
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San Luis Valley
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