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ERASMUS: Update on recent UAS deployments

 
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Gijs de Boer — University of Colorado
Dale Lawrence — University of Colorado
Scott E. Palo — University of Colorado
Brian Argrow — University of Colorado
Gabriel Charles LoDolce — University of Colorado - Boulder
Nathan Curry — University of Colorado, Boulder
William Finamore — University of Oklahoma
Rushan Gao — NOAA - Earth System Research Laboratory
Hagen Telg — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Beat Schmid — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chuck N. Long (deceased) — NOAA- Earth System Research Laboratory
Mark D. Ivey — Sandia National Laboratories
Al Bendure — Sandia National Laboratories
Geoffrey L Bland — NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center - Wallops Flight Facility
James Maslanik — University of Colorado
Jack Elston — University of Colorado, Boulder
Doug Weibel — University of Colorado - Boulder

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This poster will present information on recent unmanned-aircraft deployments to Oliktok Point, Alaska as part of the Evaluation of Routine Atmospheric Sounding Measurements using Unmanned Systems (ERASMUS) campaign. This will include an overview of the August 2015 deployment of CU DataHawk2 aircraft, which over the course of two weeks completed a large number of flights aimed at profiling thermodynamic quantities in the lower Arctic troposphere. This overview will include information on the flights completed, obstacles faced, and a preliminary look at results from these flights. Additionally, we will provide an update and overview on the CU Pilatus UAS deployment currently planned for April 2016. The Pilatus is configured to fly with aerosol, radiation, and thermodynamic sensors. This aircraft can be flown in three configurations: 1) Aerosol+thermodynamics, which includes the Printed Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS) and NCAR-developed dropsonde sensors; 2) Aerosol+thermodynamics+broadband longwave, which includes everything in 1) in addition to up- and downward looking Kipp and Zonen CGR4s, and 3) Aerosol+thermodynamics+broadband shortwave, which includes everything in 1) along with three Delta-T SPN-1 pyranometers and a high-accuracy IMU for attitude correction. Assuming that the April deployment occurs as currently planned, we will provide information on flights completed, along with an initial look at the measurements obtained. Another part of the April campaign will involve the testing of updated DataHawk2 software to harden the system against electro-magnetic interference observed during the August deployment. We will provide an overview of this testing.