University of Kentucky measurements of wind, temperature, pressure and humidity in support of LAPSE-RATE using multisite fixed-wing and  rotorcraft unmanned aerial systems

Bailey, Sean C. C.; Sama, Michael P.; Canter, Caleb A.; Pampolini, L. Felipe; Lippay, Zachary S.; Schuyler, Travis J.; Hamilton, Jonathan D.; MacPhee, Sean B.; Rowe, Isaac S.; Sanders, Christopher D.; Smith, Virginia G.; Vezzi, Christina N.; Wight, Harrison M.; Hoagg, Jesse B.; Guzman, Marcelo I.; Smith, Suzanne Weaver

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1759-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1759–1773, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1759-2020

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Special issue: Observational and model data from the 2018 Lower Atmospheric...

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1759–1773, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1759-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Data description paper 06 Aug 2020

Data description paper | 06 Aug 2020

University of Kentucky measurements of wind, temperature, pressure and humidity in support of LAPSE-RATE using multisite fixed-wing and rotorcraft unmanned aerial systems

Sean C. C. Bailey et al.

Data sets

University of Kentucky files from LAPSE-RATE Sean C. C. Bailey, Suzanne W. Smith, and Michael P. Sama https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3701845

Short summary

This article describes the systems, processes and procedures used by researchers from the University of Kentucky (UK) for the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation – a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE) in the San Luis Valley in Colorado, USA. Using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) as the primary data-gathering tool, UK supported multipoint, multisystem measurements of drainage flow, boundary layer transition, convection initiation and aerosol concentration.