Application of remotely piloted aircraft systems in observing the atmospheric boundary layer over Antarctic sea ice in winter

Polar research

Priit Tisler¹  Christof Lüpkes¹  Barbara Altstädter²  Marius O. Jonassen³  Andreas Scholtz³  Gert König-Langlo³  Astrid Lampert⁵  Timo Vihma⁶ 

[1] Department of Arctic GeophysicsThe University Centre in Svalbard, PO Box 156,NO-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway;Geophysical InstituteUniversity of Bergen, PO Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen, NorwayCorrespondence;Finnish Meteorological InstitutePO Box 503, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland;Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Alfred Wegener Institute, PO Box 12 01 61, DE-27515 Bremerhaven, Germany;Institute of Aerospace SystemsTechnische Universität Braunschweig, Hermann-Blenk-Str. 23, DE-38108 Braunschweig, Germany;Institute of Flight GuidanceTechnische Universität Braunschweig, Hermann-Blenk-Str. 27, DE-38108 Braunschweig, Germany

关键词: Remotely piloted aircraft systems;    unmanned aerial vehicles;    Weddell Sea;    polar meteorology;    Antarctic;    boundary layer meteorology.;   

DOI  :  10.3402/polar.v34.25651

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

The main aim of this paper is to explore the potential of combining measurements from fixed- and rotary-wing remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) to complement data sets from radio soundings as well as ship and sea-ice-based instrumentation for atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) profiling. This study represents a proof-of-concept of RPAS observations in the Antarctic sea-ice zone. We present first results from the RV Polarstern Antarctic winter expedition in the Weddell Sea in June–August 2013, during which three RPAS were operated to measure temperature, humidity and wind; a fixed-wing small unmanned meteorological observer (SUMO), a fixed-wing meteorological mini-aerial vehicle, and an advanced mission and operation research quadcopter. A total of 86 RPAS flights showed a strongly varying ABL structure ranging from slightly unstable temperature stratification near the surface to conditions with strong surface-based temperature inversions. The RPAS observations supplement the regular upper air sounding...

【 授权许可】

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