Experience in the quadcopter-based meteorological observations in the atmospheric boundary layer

Turbulence, Atmosphere and Climate Dynamics

生态环境科学

Varentsov, M.I.^1^2 ; Artamonov, Arseniy^1 ; Pashkin, A.D.^1^2 ; Repina, I.A.^1^2

A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physic, Russian Academy of Science, Pyzhevsky pereulok, 3, Moscow

119017, Russia^1

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Research Computing Center, Department of Geography, Department of Physics, GSP-1, Leninskiye gory, Moscow

19991, Russia^2

关键词: Automatic weather stations;    Experimental campaign;    ITS applications;    Meteorological measurements;    Meteorological observation;    Microwave temperature;    Surface temperatures;    Vertical temperature profile;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/231/1/012053/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/231/1/012053

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Recent developments of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) opens wide opportunities for their application for in-situ meteorological measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). In this study we consider the experience of ABL measurements with a mass-market quadcopter DJI Phantom 4 Pro, equipped with temperature, humidity, pressure and infra-red surface temperature sensors. The quadcopter was used during a field experimental campaign in the northern Russia in winter for several types of measurements: hovering near the automatic weather station for a verification (1); vertical transects within the lowest 500 m in order to obtain the vertical temperature profiles and compare them with observations of the microwave temperature profiler MTP-5HE (2); horizontal transects over an unfreezing polynya (3). Additional verification was performed near the high meteorological mast in Obninsk. Listed experiments have shown that quadcopter-based system is a promising and usable tool for ABL measurements. However, its application requires a multi-step data processing framework, which is presented in this study.