The Small Whiskbroom Imager for atmospheric compositioN monitorinG (SWING) and its operations from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the AROMAT campaign

Merlaud, Alexis; Tack, Frederik; Constantin, Daniel; Georgescu, Lucian; Maes, Jeroen; Fayt, Caroline; Mingireanu, Florin; Schuettemeyer, Dirk; Meier, Andreas Carlos; Schönardt, Anja; Ruhtz, Thomas; Bellegante, Livio; Nicolae, Doina; Den Hoed, Mirjam; Allaart, Marc; Van Roozendael, Michel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-551-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 551–567, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-551-2018

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Special issue: Airborne ROmanian Measurements of Aerosols and Trace gases...

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 551–567, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Research article 29 Jan 2018

Research article | 29 Jan 2018

The Small Whiskbroom Imager for atmospheric compositioN monitorinG (SWING) and its operations from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the AROMAT campaign

Alexis Merlaud et al.

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RC1: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Nov 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to referee 1 by A. Merlaud on behalf of the authors', Alexis Merlaud, 09 Dec 2017
RC2: 'DOAS, trace gases, atmospheric measurement', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to referee 2 by A. Merlaud on behalf of the authors', Alexis Merlaud, 09 Dec 2017

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ED: Publish as is (22 Dec 2017) by Jochen Stutz

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We present SWING-UAV, an atmospheric observation system based on a compact scanning spectrometer (SWING) mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). SWING-UAV was operated in the exhaust plume of a power plant in Romania in September 2014, during the AROMAT campaign. SWING quantified the NO₂ emitted by the plant and the water vapour content in the boundary layer, in agreement with ancillary data. The system appears in particular promising to study emissions in rural areas.