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ERASMUS: Campaign Summary and Highlights

 
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Authors

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
William Finamore — University of Oklahoma
Doug Weibel — University of Colorado - Boulder
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
Steven Daniel Borenstein — University of Colorado
James Maslanik — University of Colorado
Jack Elston — University of Colorado, Boulder

Category

High-latitude clouds and aerosols

Description

This poster will present information on 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 and October, 2016 deployments of the CU DataHawk2 aircraft. Over these two campaigns, data was collected on lower atmospheric thermodynamic structure, near-surface atmospheric fluxes, and surface temperature. Additionally, we will provide an overview on the CU Pilatus flights completed in April, 2016. The Pilatus was configured to fly with aerosol, radiation, and thermodynamic sensors. This aircraft was 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. Finally, we will provide a summary of lessons learned from these flight campaigns, a summary of flights and weather conditions faced, ongoing evaluation of these data sets and their use in model evaluation, and a general summary of the multi-year ERASMUS effort.