Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3855-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3855-2020
Research article
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16 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 16 Jul 2020

Confronting the boundary layer data gap: evaluating new and existing methodologies of probing the lower atmosphere

Tyler M. Bell, Brian R. Greene, Petra M. Klein, Matthew Carney, and Phillip B. Chilson

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ED: Publish as is (23 May 2020) by Jorge Luis Chau
AR by Tyler Bell on behalf of the Authors (26 May 2020)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
It is well known that the atmospheric boundary layer is under-sampled in the vertical dimension. Recently, weather-sensing uncrewed aerial systems (WxUAS) have created new opportunities to sample this region of the atmosphere. This study compares a WxUAS developed at the University of Oklahoma to ground-based remote sensing and radiosondes. We find that overall the systems generally agreed well both thermodynamically and kinematically. However, there is still room to improve each system.