The collaborative Colorado-Nebraska unmanned aircraft system experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-54

  Houston, Adam L ^a   Argrow, Brian ^b   Elston, Jack ^a   Lahowetz, Jamie ^a   Frew, Eric W ^a   Kennedy, Patrick C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRMASS BOUNDARIES; ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA; COHERENT SIGNALS; COLD FRONT; DUAL-DOPPLER OBSERVATIONS; GUST FRONTS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LOGISTICS INFRASTRUCTURE; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM; RADAR DATA; SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84856184954     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011BAMS3073.1     Document Type: Article

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