Session: Special SMOI Poster Session (99th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

761

Upper-Air Observations in Landfalling Hurricanes

Sean Waugh, NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. A. Alford and M. Biggerstaff

762

Unmanned Aircraft Observations of Terrain Impact on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Evolution

Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and V. Natalie, B. Hemingway, A. Frazier, and P. Chilson

763

Estimating Near-Surface Vertical Heat Fluxes over Agricultural Areas Using Weather Sensors on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Derek Rosseau, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and J. Dyer and L. Wasson

764

Use of Drones in Operational Weather Service: Benefits and Roadblocks

Anne Hirsikko, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and A. Blanco, D. Brus, J. Gustafsson, J. Hirvonen, J. Jutila, K. Rikkonen, J. Siltakoski, and S. Suopajärvi

765

Estimating Vertical Heat Flux Profiles Using UAS and LIDAR Observations

Brian R. Greene, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Bell, P. B. Chilson, E. Fedorovich, P. Klein, and J. B. Basara

767

Lower Atmosphere Process Studies at Elevation: A Remotely Piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE)

Gijs de Boer, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. L. Houston, J. D. Jacob, J. O. Pinto, B. Argrow, P. B. Chilson, C. Diehl, J. Elston, J. Intrieri, D. A. Lawrence, J. K. Lundquist, and S. Smith

766

Use of a Dropsonde Sensor Module as a UAV Measurement Platform

Application of a Quality Control Algorithm to Removing False Alerts on Strike Based Hail Detectors

768

Low-Cost Sensor and Imagers, Evaluation and Calibration, Data Fusion, and Applications

Priyanka deSouza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and R. Kahn, J. A. Limbacher, E. A. Marais, F. Duarte, and C. Ratti

769

Development and Flight Test of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the Measurement of Horizontal and Slant PATH Refractive-INDEX Structure Coefficient

Alex Clark, EngeniusMicro, Owens Crossroads, AL; and L. Smolin, S. Hill, and M. Nuss

770

An Airborne Microwave Radiometer for Improved Thermodynamic Observations of the Atmosphere

Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and T. Hohman, C. Dunlap, Z. Wang, and K. Ramsdale

771

Modular Approach to Carbon Dioxide Sensor Integration across Rotary and Fixed Wing UAV

Gustavo Britto Hupsel de Azevedo, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. A. Pillar-Little, A. R. Segales, W. Doyle, S. Mazuera, and P. B. Chilson

772

Infrastructural Needs in the Low-Cost Air Sensors Domain: The Need and Benefit of Making Air Sensors Adhere to the FAIR Principles

773

Integration of Satellite Observations with Low-Cost Air Quality Monitors

Pawan Gupta, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Levy, P. Doraiswamy, O. Pikelnaya, B. Feenstra, A. Polidori, F. Kiros, and K. Mills

Handout (36.6 MB)

774

An Innovative Unmanned Aircraft System Design for Optimal Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, and Direction Measurements

Antonio R. Segales, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. R. Greene, W. Doyle, J. Martin, and P. B. Chilson

775

Observing System Simulation Experiment Studies on the Use of Small UAV for Boundary Layer Sampling

Andrew D. Moore, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. H. Carr and K. Brewster

776

A Low-Cost, Open-Source Snowflake Imager

Aaron D. Kennedy, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

777

Temperature/Humidity Sensor Housing for Multirotor UAS

Ashraful Islam, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and A. L. Houston, A. Shankar, and C. Detweiler

778

A Wireless Sensor Networks Software Framework for Research Scientists

Antonio Arredondo, New Mexico Climate Center, Las Cruces, NM; and E. Pontelli and D. DuBois

779

Development and Validation of a Low-Cost Monitor for Simultaneous Measurement of PM_2.5 and Aerosol Optical Depth

Eric A. Wendt, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. R. Pierce, B. Ford, and J. Volckens

780

A Network of Autonomous Particle Spectrometers to Measure Spatiotemporal Variability in Particle Size Distributions in Intraurban Environments

Shiva T. Chenna, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. Lewane, D. Giardina, S. H. Jathar, G. R. McMeeking, and T. D. Gordon

781

The Development of Ultralight Radiosonde and Its Applications in Atmospheric Sciences

Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taipe, Taiwan; and W. C. Huang

782

Data Quality Control System: The Key of Sensor Application in Air Quality Monitoring Network

Yi Li, Sunset-CES Inc., Beaverton,, OR

783

Confronting the Boundary Layer Data Gap: Evaluating New and Existing Methodologies of Probing the Lower Atmosphere

Tyler M. Bell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. R. Greene, P. B. Chilson, P. Klein, M. Carney, D. D. Turner, J. K. Lundquist, P. D. Murphy, C. T. Plunkett, A. R. Segales, G. Britto Huspel de Azevedo, and W. Doyle

784

Design and Development of Low-Cost Differential Temperature Sensors for Estimation of Refractive INDEX Coefficient

Alex Clark, EngeniusMicro, Owens Crossroads, AL; and L. Smolin and S. Hill

785

Observing Urban CO₂, Aerosol, and Other Emissions Using a Dense Network of Low-Cost, Near-Surface Monitors

Jinsol Kim, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and A. A. Shusterman, A. J. Turner, C. Newman, P. J. Wooldridge, and R. C. Cohen

786

An Internet of Things Cyber-Infrastructure for the Study of Impacts to the Ecology of Lake George in the Jefferson Project

Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and E. Dow, G. Auger, M. R. Kelly, V. W. Moriarty, L. A. Treinish, and C. D. Watson

787

Stream Bathymetry Retrievals with the PinPoint Bathymetry Lidar

788

Development of Continuous Learning, Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Quality Control, and Autocalibration of Haptic Rain Gauge Sensors Using Near-Real-Time Precipitation Products

Tony McGee, WeatherFlow, Inc., Daytona Beach, FL; and K. Ward, T. W. Parzybok, and D. St. John

789

Performance Evaluation of Purple Air Low-Cost Sensors under Atmospheric Conditions

Karin Ardon-Dryer, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and N. Moghimi, J. Williams, and Y. Dryer

790

Estimation of 3D Wind Field and Vorticity with Higher Spatial Resolution Using Multicompact X-Band Weather Radars

Masahiro Minowa, Furuno Electric Co., LTD., Nishinomiya, Japan; and T. Takaki, K. Okawa, S. Oishi, and E. Nakakita

Handout (1.1 MB)

Air Sensors - An EPA Perspective

791

EMESH: A Low-Cost, High-Density Environmental Monitoring Network for Research and Applied Use

Chris Phillips, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and U. Nair, A. Kaulfus, R. Mahmood, E. Rappin, R. A. Pielke Sr., and J. A. Santanello Jr.

792

Performance Limitations of Optical Present Weather and Visibility Sensors under Special Consideration of the Utilized Technology and the Related Measurement Uncertainties

Klaus Heyn, Vaisala GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

793

First Daily Mapping of Surface Moisture from Cellular Network Data and Comparison with Both Observations/ECMWF Product

Pinhas Alpert, Department of Geosciences, Tel Aviv, Israel

794

Utilizing Low-Cost Temperature Sensors for Analyzing and Mitigating Urban Heat Hazards

Andrew Grundstein, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and Y. Yin, N. Hashemi, D. Mishra, L. Ramaswamy, and J. Dowd

795

Observations of the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer Gradients during the CASPER-West Field Experiment

David G. Ortiz-Suslow, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. P. Alappattu, J. Kalogiros, R. Yamaguchi, and Q. Wang

796

Correcting Air Temperature Measurements from a Radiation-Exposed Sensor

Douglas R Cobos, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and C. Campbell, G. Campbell, and R. Campbell

797

Characteristics of the Rain Drop Size Distribution in Two Squall Lines Measured By Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer at Guangdong

Lu Feng, Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, Guangzhou, China

798

Atmospheric Boundary Layer Measurements Using Suites of Low-Cost Actively and Passively Controlled Sondes

Jamey D. Jacob, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and A. E. Frazier, B. L. Hemingway, V. Natalie, R. Allamraju, and A. Estep

799

Calibration, Sensitivity, and Doppler Spectra of the NCAR Airborne W-Band Radar

Ulrike Romatschke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan, M. Dixon, and P. S. Tsai

644A

Low-Cost Particle Counter Sensor Assessment of the July 2018 Saharan Dust Event in Texas

Timothy Logan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Brooks

801

Measurement of the Reference Surface Air Temperature from Brightness Temperature of Atmospheric Radiation

Akira Yamamoto, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Ishimoto and S. Miyatake

Handout (4.4 MB)

802

New Initiatives in Support of the NSF/NCAR Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity (ARISTO)

Louis L. Lussier III, NCAR, Broomfield, CO; and P. Romashkin, C. A. Wolff, J. Stith, and B. Baeuerle

803

Characterization of High-Latitude Snowfall through a Combined Radar and In Situ Microphysical Observation Approach

804

Integrated Raman Lidar and Microwave Radiometer Retrieval of Atmospheric Water Vapor

Jeffrey John VanKerkhove, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada; and A. Haefele and R. J. Sica

805

The Sensitivity of Temperature Measurements to Built-Up Environments: A Case Study In Oak Ridge, TN

Ronald D. Leeper, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC

806

Analysis of Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature Calculations Using In Situ Observations

Timothy D Corrie III, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and G. J. Creager and B. G. Illston

807

The WMO Global Basic Observing Network: A New Approach to Improving International Exchange of Observations for Global NWP and Climate Reanalysis

Lars Peter Riishojgaard, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

808

Evaluation and Verification of an Experimental Low-Level VAD for Utilization as a High-Resolution Boundary Layer Profiler

Barrett Goudeau, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

809

Infrasound-Based Wind Profiling

David L. Pepyne, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. Westbrook, S. Ramkumar, and S. Nelson

810

Multisensor Synergy to Improve Ground-Based Temperature and Humidity Profiling

811

A Multi-Institution Collaborative: Student Experience in Airborne Research in the Mid-Atlantic Region (SEAR-MAR)

Richard D. Clark, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and T. D. Sikora, B. J. Billings, P. Markowski, K. J. Davis, M. A. Miller, B. B. Demoz, and Z. Zhang

812

Characterization of a New Laser Isotopologue Hygrometer for Measurements of Isotopes in Cloud Water

Bryan Rainwater, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. Bailey, L. E. Christensen, R. L. Herman, and D. W. Toohey

Handout (3.7 MB)

813

Geometry-Related ATMS Signal Pattern Analyses

Haibing Sun, GAMA-1 TECH/STAR/NESDIS/NOAA, College Park, MD; and S. Sampson, P. Keehn, L. Soulliard, T. S. King, and W. W. Wolf

814

An Integrated Wind and Thermodynamic Profiling Instrumentation and Decision Support System: Concepts for the UAV Superhighways

Bill Conway, Weather Decision Support Systems, International, Norman, OK; and K. A. Reed, R. Ware, D. H. Berchoff, P. B. Chilson, C. Baird, and J. Baumgardner

Manuscript (3.9 MB)

815

Comparing In Situ Boundary Layer Measurements to High-Resolution Model Output

Chris Vagasky, Vaisala, Inc., Louisville, CO

816

WSR-88D Dual-Polarization Observations of the 2017 Thomas Fire in Southern California

Ian M. Giammanco, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and B. Meizenzahl

817

Intercomparison between Polarimetric Radar, GOES-16 Satellite, and Lightning Indicators of Storm Severity in Supercells

Michael M. French, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. C. Snyder, K. M. Bedka, and K. M. Calhoun

818

Unique Research Opportunities with the Army Research Lab's Atmospheric Science Center Meteorological Sensor Array