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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2016 year, number 11

Unmanned aerial vehicle for measuring vertical profiles of the meteorological parameters in the atmospheric boundary layer

S.A. Kurakov1, V.V. Zuev1,2
1Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634055, Tomsk, 10/3, Academichesky ave.
2National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30, Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
Keywords: беспилотный летательный аппарат, портативная метеостанция, вертикальные профили метеопараметров атмосферы, an unmanned aerial vehicle, portable weather station, vertical profiles of the meteorological parameters of the atmosphere

Abstract

A method for measuring vertical profiles of meteorological parameters using portable automatic electronic weather station mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (PEWS-UAV) is proposed. Facility description and the results of the field test are presented, and PEWS-UAV development prospects are discussed.