Exploring the potential of the RPA system SUMO for multipurpose  boundary-layer missions during the BLLAST campaign

Reuder, Joachim; Båserud, Line; Jonassen, Marius O.; Kral, Stephan T.; Müller, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2675-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2675-2016

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The Boundary-Layer Late Afternoon and Sunset Turbulence (BLLAST)...

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2675-2016

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24 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 24 Jun 2016

Exploring the potential of the RPA system SUMO for multipurpose boundary-layer missions during the BLLAST campaign

Joachim Reuder, Line Båserud, Marius O. Jonassen, Stephan T. Kral, and Martin Müller

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Jun 2016)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'reviewer comments', John Cassano, 01 Feb 2016
RC2: 'Review of: Exploring the potential of the RPA system SUMO for multi-purpose boundary layer missions during the BLLAST campaign', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Feb 2016
AC1: 'Response to reviewers', Joachim Reuder, 07 Apr 2016
- EC1: 'Responses to the reviewers', Eric Pardyjak, 07 Apr 2016
  - AC2: 'Response to editor comments', Joachim Reuder, 18 May 2016

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Extensive operations of the Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer, a small (80 cm) and lightweight (700 g) unmanned research aircraft, have been performed during the BLLAST (Boundary-Layer Late Afternoon and Sunset Turbulence) campaign in southern France in summer 2011. With a total of 300 flights, the SUMO system has provided a unique data set consisting of temperature, humidity and wind profiles, surface-temperature surveys and profiles of turbulence parameters.