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.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-269-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 269–280, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-269-2021

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

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 269–280, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-269-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Data description paper 09 Feb 2021

Data description paper | 09 Feb 2021

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

Elizabeth A. Pillar-Little et al.

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Sep 2020
- RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Sep 2020
  - AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Elizabeth Ann Pillar-Little, 03 Dec 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Elizabeth Ann Pillar-Little, 03 Dec 2020
RC3: 'Remarks', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 3', Elizabeth Ann Pillar-Little, 03 Dec 2020

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AR by Elizabeth Ann Pillar-Little on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Dec 2020) by Suzanne Smith

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During July 2018, researchers from OU participated in the LAPSE-RATE field campaign in San Luis Valley, Colorado. The OU team completed 180 flights using three RPASs over the course of 6 d of operation to collect vertical profiles of the thermodynamic and kinematic state of the ABL. This article describes sampling strategies, data collection, platform intercomparibility, data quality, and the dataset's possible applications to convective initiation, drainage flows, and ABL transitions.