Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-969-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-969-2021
Data description paper
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10 Mar 2021
Data description paper |  | 10 Mar 2021

Antarctic atmospheric boundary layer observations with the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO)

John J. Cassano, Melissa A. Nigro, Mark W. Seefeldt, Marwan Katurji, Kelly Guinn, Guy Williams, and Alice DuVivier

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Between January 2012 and June 2017, a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), or drone, known as the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO), was used to observe the lowest 1000 m of the Antarctic atmosphere. During six Antarctic field campaigns, 116 SUMO flights were completed. These flights took place during all seasons over both permanent ice and ice-free locations on the Antarctic continent and over sea ice in the western Ross Sea providing unique observations of the Antarctic atmosphere.
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