In July 2018, the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely-piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) hosted a flight week to demonstrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ capabilities in sampling the atmospheric boundary layer. Three Doppler lidars were deployed during this week-long experiment. We use data from these lidars to estimate turbulence dissipation rate. We observe large temporal variability and significant differences in dissipation for lidars with different sampling techniques.

This paper describes the data set containing thermodynamic measurements (pressure, temperature, humidity) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln unmanned aerial system multirotors during the LAPSE-RATE campaign from 14–19 July 2018. The paper describes the placements, shielding, and aspiration of the sensors. The paper also describes the research objective for data collected each day. The dataset contains 171 files from two multirotors recording vertical atmospheric boundary layer profile.

This paper describes data collected by uncrewed aircraft operated by the University of Colorado Boulder and Black Swift Technologies during the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation - A Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE) field campaign. This effort was conducted in the San Luis Valley of Colorado in July 2018, and included intensive observing of the atmospheric boundary layer. This manuscript describes data collected by four aircraft operated by these entities.

In July 2018, numerous weather sensing remotely-piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) were flown in a flight week called Lower Atmospheric Process Studies at Elevation – A Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE). As part of LAPSE-RATE, ground-based remote and in-situ systems were also deployed to supplement and enhance the observations from the RPAS. These instruments include multiple Doppler lidars, thermodynamic profilers, and radiosondes. This paper describes data from these systems.

The dataset produced here was generated as part of a realtime demonstration of a new capability to provide weather guidance to support small UAS operations. The nested model configuration enabled resolving turbulent eddies that developed in response to daytime heating and demonstrated the current state-of-the-science in coupling mesoscale forcing with a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model. Output from these realtime simulations were used for planning IOPs during LAPSE-RATE.

This publication summarizes measurements collected and data sets generated by the FMI and KSU teams during LAPSE-RATE campaign that took place in the San Luis Valley of Colorado during the summer of 2018. We provided an overview of the rotorcraft deployed and offer insight into the types of payloads that were used. We described the teams’ scientific goals and flight strategies and a glimpse at the data sets, including a description of the measurement validation techniques applied.

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 RPAS over the course of six days 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.

This paper provides an overview of measurements collected in south-central Colorado (USA) during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign. The measurements described in this article were collected by mobile surface vehicles, including cars, trucks and vans, and include measurements of thermodynamic quantities (e.g. temperature, humidity, pressure) and winds. These measurements can be used to study the evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer at a high elevation site over a variety of conditions.