5th Conference of the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely-piloted Aircraft

Full Programme

nd Monday, 22 May 2017

9:00am - 9:45am Registration, Coffee, Poster and Exhibit preparation: Purple Room 9:45am - 10:00am Welcome and Logistics: SAMS Director Prof. Nick Owens, Chair Phil Anderson: WSB 10:00am - 11:00am Science Applications 1: WSB 10:00am - 10:20am: 101 Heat flux estimates from SUMO profiles during the BLLAST campaign Line Båserud1, Joachim Reuder1, Marius O. Jonassen2,1, Timothy Bonin3,4, Phillip Chilson3, Maria A. Jiménez5

1 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway 2 The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway 3 School of Meteorology and Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA 4 CIRES/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, USA 5 Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Corresponding email: [email protected]

10:20am - 10:40am: 105 The 3D Mesonet Concept: Extending Networked Surface Meteorological Tower Observations Through Unmanned Aircraft Systems Phillip Chilson1,2,3, Chris Fiebrich4, Robert Huck3,5,6, James Grimsley3,5, Jorge Salazar2,3,7, Kenneth Carson8, Jamey Jacob9,10

1 School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, OK, 2 Advanced Radar Research Center, OU, 3 Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling, OU, 4 Oklahoma Mesonet, OU, 5 Office of the Vice President for Research, OU, 6 College of Engineering, OU, 7 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, OU, 8 Department of Aviation, OU, 9 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater, OK, 10 Unmanned Systems Research Institute, OSU

10:40am - 11:00am: 106 First experiments and results with a new developed airborne aerosol sampling unit carried by a multirotor UAV. Claudio Crazzolara, Andreas Platis, Jens Bange, Annett Junginger, Martin Ebner and Tatjana Miranda

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

11:00am - 11:20am Coffee break: Purple Room 11:20am - 12:20am Science Applications 2: WSB 11:20am - 11:40am: 107 Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems to Study Atmospheric Processes During Sea Ice Freeze Up Gijs de Boer1,2, Dale Lawrence1, Douglas Weibel1, Steven Borenstein1, Matthew Shupe1,2, Ian Brooks4, Darielle Dexheimer3, Jasper Hardesty3, Al Bendure3, Hagen Telg1,2, Ru-Shan Gao2 and Mark Ivey3

1 University of Colorado – Boulder; 2 NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory; 3 Sandia National Laboratories; 4 University of Leeds

11:40am - 12:00: 108 3D Atmospheric Temperature and Wind Profiles using UAV-Based Acoustic Tomography Anthony Finn, Kevin Rogers, Feng Rice & Joshua Meade

University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

12:00 - 12:20pm: 110 Diversity and Ice Nucleation Activity of Microorganisms collected with a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) in France and the United States Regina Hanlon1, Craig Powers2, Celia Jimenez-Sanchez1, Cindy E. Morris3, and David G. Schmale III1

1 Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA; 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0246, USA; 3 INRA, UR0407 Pathologie Végétale, F-84143 Montfavet;

Corresponding author: [email protected]

12:20pm - 12:40pm Poster pico-presentations: WSB 12:40pm - 1:40pm Lunch: Purple Room, or outdoor if weather agreeable. 1:40pm - 2:00pm Attendance at Posters 2:00pm - 3:20pm Instrumentation and Platform Integration 1: WSB 2:00pm - 2:20pm: 102 Development of an Integrated Gas Monitoring and Source Identification Unmanned Aircraft System David Bridges, Richard Coffin, and Ahmed Mahdy

Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

2:20pm - 2:40pm: tbc

2:40pm - 3:00pm: 104 Validation of 3D Wind Vector Measurements using a 5-hole Probe with Remotely Piloted Aircraft Radiance Calmer1, Greg Roberts1,2, Kevin Sanchez1,2, Jana Preissler3, and Marie Lothon4

1 CNRM UMR, Meteo-France/CNRS,Toulouse, France; 2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA; 3 School of Physics and Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; 4 Laboratoire d'Aerologie, University of Toulouse, CNRS, France

3:00pm - 3:20pm: 109 Calibration and Validation of Weather Sensors for Rotary-Wing UAS Brian Greene1,2,3, Phillip Chilson1,2,3, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno2,3,4, Simon Duthoit2,3,4, Bill Doyle2,3,4, Brent Wolf2,3,5, Tony Segales2,3, Chris Fiebrich6, Sean Waugh7, and Sherman Fredrickson7

1 School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, OK, US, 2 Advanced Radar Research Center, OU, 3 Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling, OU, 4 OU School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, OU, 5 School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering OU, US, 6 Oklahoma Mesonet, OU, 7 National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA, Norman, Oklahoma, US

3:20pm - 3:40pm Coffee break 3:40pm – 5:00pm Aircraft and Control Systems 1: WSB 3:40pm - 4:00pm: 116 The Aerosonde meterological platform Jack Kormas

4:00pm - 4:20pm: 123 Two new RPAS for atmospheric boundary layer research based on an off-the-shelf model aircraft and the Paparazzi autopilot Martin Müller1, Christian Lindenberg1, Stephan T. Kral2, Joachim Reuder2, Marius O. Jonassen3,2 and Line Båserud2

1 Lindenberg und Müller GmbH Co. KG, Hohenhameln, Germany; 2 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway; 3 The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway

4:20pm - 4:40pm: 129 Meteodrones – pioneers in autonomous UAV based meteorological data collection Martin Fengler, Christian Schluchter, Jonas Lauer, Livio Roth, Daniel Schmitz, Christopher Hartmann

Meteomatics AG, Switzerland

4:40pm - 5:00pm: 130 Improving the performance of the Multi-Purpose Airborne Sensor Carrier using a Pixhawk flight controller Martin Schön, Alexander Rautenberg, Jens Bange

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

5:15pm Bus to Oban 6:30pm Ice Breaker and Whisky Tasting, Oban Bay Hotel

WSB: William Spear Bruce Auditorium: 1st Floor

Purple Room: 1st Floor

Additional breakout rooms / quiet rooms are “Room 1” and “Room 2” next to reception on the ground floor.

rd Tuesday, 23 May 2017

9:00am - 10:00am Registration, Coffee, Poster and Exhibit preparation: Purple Room 10:00am - 11:00am Science Applications 3: WSB 10:00am - 10:20am: 111 Aerosol measurements in Antarctica using “Kite Plane” in January 2017 Masahiko Hayashi1, Naohiko Hirasawa2, Koki Nakata3 and Shin-Ichiro Higashino4

1 Fukuoka University, Japan; 2 National Insitute of Polar Research, Japan; 3 kkt Innovate Co. Ltd.; 4 Kyushu University, Japan

10:20am - 10:40am: 112 The impact of sensor response on the representation of atmospheric boundary layer phenomena by airborne instruments Adam L. Houston and Jason M. Keeler

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:40am - 11:00am: 113 Results from the 2016 CLOUD-MAP Flight Campaign Jamey Jacob1, Phil Chilson2, Adam Houston3 and Suzanne Smith4

1 John Hendrix Chair, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Director, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Oklahoma State University 2 School of Meteorology and Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling; University of Oklahoma 3 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 4 Donald and Gertrude Lester Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, UK Unmanned Systems Research Consortium, University of Kentucky

11:00am - 11:20am Coffee break: Purple Room 11:20am - 12:40pm Science Applications 4: WSB 11:20am - 11:40am: 114 Sensitivity of Supercells to UAS Data Assimilation in an OSSE Framework Jason M. Keeler and Adam Houston

Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

11:40am - 12:00: 115 Long-Term Monitoring of Aerosols and Cloud Properties using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) C. Keleshis1, K. Neitola1, M. Pikridas1, M. Argyrides1, P. Vouterakos1, P. Antoniou1, C. Savvides1, M. Vrekoussis12, N. Mihalopoulos13, G. Biskos14, R.-S. Gao5, D. Murphy5, J. Schrod6, D. Weber6, H. Bingemer6, G. Mocnik78 and J. Sciare1

1 Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus 2 Institute of Environmental Physics, U. of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany 3 Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, NOA, 15236, Athens, Greece 4 Department of Geosciences and Remote Sensing, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands 5 NOOA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA 6 Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main Germany 7 Aerosol d.o.o., 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 8 Jozef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

12:00 - 12:20pm: 117 RPAS based observation on the Arctic Boundary Layer during the ISOBAR campaigns on Andøya and Hailuoto Stephan T. Kral1, Joachim Reuder1, Line Båserud1, Gabin Urbancic1, Marius O. Jonassen2,1, Anak Bhandari1, Alexander Rautenberg3, Jens Bange3, Marie Hundhausen3, Philipp Hilsheimer3, Andreas Platis3, Burkhard Wrenger4, Carsten Langohr4, Hendrik Voss4, Martin Müller5, Christian Lindenberg5, Timo Vihma6,2, Irene Suomi6, Ewan O’Connor6, Rostislav Kouznetsov6

1 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway; 2 The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway; 3 University of Tübingen, Germany; 4 University of Applied Sciences Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Höxter, Germany; 5 Lindenberg und Müller GmbH & Co. KG, Hohenhameln, Germany; 6 Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

12:20pm - 12:40pm: 119 Initial TTwistor Results from EPIC Phase 1 Roger Laurence, Tevis Nichols, Brian Argrow

Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder

12:40pm - 1:40pm Lunch: Purple Room, or outdoor if weather agreeable. 1:40pm - 2:00pm Cardington Flight Week Report: tbc 2:00pm - 3:00pm Tour of Scottish Marine Robotics or Dunstaffnage Castle (optional) 3:20pm - 3:40pm Coffee break

3:40pm – 5:00pm Instrumentation and Platform Integration 2: WSB 3:40pm - 4:00pm: 122 The Small Whiskbroom Imager for atmospheric compositioN monitorinG (SWING) Alexis Merlaud1, Frederick Tack1, Daniel Constantin2, Lucian Georgescu2, Florin Mingireanu3, Andreas Meier4, Thomas Rhutz5, Michel Van Roozendael1

1 Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy 2 “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania 3 Romanian Space Agency 4 University of Bremen, Germany 5 Free University of Berlin, Germany

4:00pm - 4:20pm: tbc

4:20pm - 4:40pm: 125 UAV sensors and miniature radiosondes Anders Petersson

Sparv Embedded, Sweden

4:40pm - 5:00pm: 128 Comparing Common Wind Measurement Algorithms of Remotely Piloted Fixed- wing Aircraft Alexander Rautenberg, Martin Graf, Jens Bange

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

5:15pm Bus to Oban 7:00pm Conference Meal at The Gathering Halls, Oban

th Wednesday, 24 May 2017

9:00am - 10:00am Registration, Coffee, Poster and Exhibit preparation: Purple Room 10:00am - 11:00am Science Applications 5: WSB 10:00am - 10:20am: 121 Current UAV-assisted Wind Energy Research Projects at the University of Tuebingen with the in-house built MASC Aircraft Moritz Mauz, Jens Bange

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

10:20am - 10:40am: 126 First results of a 2017 winter flight campaign in Berlin for the “Urban Climate Under Change” project Andreas Philipp¹, Erik Petersen¹, Pia Ferenci¹, Stefan Engerer¹, Jucundus Jacobeit¹, Achim Holtmann², Fred Meier², Ute Fehrenbach², Dieter Scherer²

1 Universität Augsburg, Germany 2 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

10:40am - 11:00am: 127 Investigating New Particle Formation in the Arctic Boundary Layer Andreas Platis, Alexander Rautenberg, Jens Bange

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

11:00am - 11:20am: 131 Measurement of atmospheric surface layer turbulence using unmanned aerial vehicles Brandon M. Witte, Suzanne Weaver Smith and Sean C.C. Bailey

University of Kentucky, United States of America

11:20am - 11:40 Coffee break: Purple Room 11:40am - 1:00pm ISARRA 2017 Discussions and vote for 2018 Venue 1:00pm Close of ISARRA 2017 and formal handover to new Chairperson 1:00pm - 3:00pm Lunch and Leavings: Purple Room, or outdoor if weather agreeable.