Atmospheric aerosol, gases, and meteorological parameters measured during the LAPSE-RATE campaign by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Kansas State University

• Published in: Earth system science data Vol. 13; no. 6; pp. 2909 - 2922
• Main Authors: Brus, David, Gustafsson, Jani, Kemppinen, Osku, de Boer, Gijs, Hirsikko, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 17.06.2021; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Aerosol concentrations; Aerosol particles; Aerosols; Airborne sensing; Atmospheric aerosols; Atmospheric physics; Aviation; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide concentration; Datasets; Drone aircraft; Elevation; Gases; Humidity; Instrumentation; Instruments; Lower atmosphere; Meteorological parameters; Natural gas; Parameters; Remote observing; Remote sensing; Remotely piloted aircraft; Sensors; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Water vapor; Water vapour; Work platforms; United States > US; Colorado; Kansas
• ISSN: 1866-3516; 1866-3508; 1866-3516
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-2909-2021

Small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs) are becoming very popular as affordable and reliable observation platforms. The Lower Atmospheric Process Studies at Elevation - a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE), conducted in the San Luis Valley (SLV) of Colorado (USA) between 14 and 20 July 2018, gathered together numerous sUASs, remote-sensing equipment, and ground-based instrumentation. Flight teams from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and the Kansas State University (KSU) co-operated during LAPSE-RATE to measure and investigate the properties of aerosol particles and gases at the surface and in the lower atmosphere. During LAPSE-RATE the deployed instrumentation operated reliably, resulting in an observational dataset described below in detail. Our observations included aerosol particle number concentrations and size distributions, concentrations of CO.sub.2 and water vapor, and meteorological parameters.