ISARRA CONFERENCE 2023

DAY 1

Tue, 1 August 2023 / 08:30 – 5:30 pm

08:30 - 09:30 Registration/ Coffee

09:30 - 10:00 Welcome/Opening

10:00 - 10:50 Session 1 - Sensors (Chair: Andreas Platis)

10:00 Martin Schön: OPC-Pod: A sensor payload for the UAS MASC-3 to measure Saharan Dust 

10:25 Anders Petersson: Atmospheric data collection with Sparv

10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 - 12:35 Session 2 - Infrastructures/regulatory (Chair: Andreas Platis)

11:20 Rune Storvold: TONe - Troll Observing Network RPAS Infrastructure

11:45 Brad Guay: Meteomatics Meteodrones: Visions for an Operational Network

12:10 Konrad Bärfuss: SORA 2.5 – a friend or foe to future scientific UAS operations?

12:35 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 17:00 Session 3 - Laboratory and field tests (Chair: Gijs de Boer)

14:00 Johannes Kistner: High resolution wind vector measurements with quadcopters: calibration and verification in a wind tunnel with active grid

14:25 Alexander Flem: Experimental Characterization of Propeller Induced Flow around a Multi-Rotor Drone

14:50 David Brus: The Finnish Meteorological Institute Airborne Mobile Platform for ACTRIS Aerosol and Cloud Interaction Studies

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 Victoria Natalie: WINDMDMAP - 3 Years In and One To Go

16:10 Brad Guay: Meteodrone operation in icing conditions during the ETH CLOUDLAB project

16:35 Martin Schön: Small diffusion dryer on an optical particle counter for aerosol monitoring with an uncrewed aerial system

17:30 - 20:00 Ice Breaker

Cantina of the Geophysical Institute; entrance between Jahnebakken 3 and 5 (5-minute walk from the conference venue)

DAY 2

Wed, 2 August 2023 / 08:30 – 05:30 pm

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee

09:00 - 10:40 Session 4 - Field campaigns (Chair: Victoria Natalie)

09:00 Gijs de Boer: An overview of University of Colorado IRISS UAS flight activities in support of atmospheric science focused field campaigns over the last three years

09:25 Kevin Adkins: Validation of the GUMP hyperlocal forecasting tool using meteorologically instrumented uncrewed aircraft

09:50 Gina Jozef: An overview of University of Colorado UAS flight activities and results from the MOSAiC expedition

10:15 Richard Hann: The challenge of atmospheric in-flight icing on RPAS

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 - 12:25 Session 4 - Field campaigns (Chair: Richard Hann)

11:10 Maria Kezoudi: Profiling Airborne Dust with UAV-based sensors during the ASKOS Experiment in Cape Verde, June 2022

11:35 Erik Sahlee: Quantifying Fiberbank Methane Emissions with RPAS-Based Measurements

12:00 Kevin Rozmiarek: Whole-air sampling by uncrewed aircraft enables investigation of isotopic composition of water vapor in polar environments

12:25 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:40 Session 4 - Field campaigns (Chair: Suzanne Smith)

14:00 Adam Houston: Contributions to supercell research and forecasting from UAS operations during TORUS

14:25 Matthew Wilson: Assessing the Value of Assimilating Mobile Mesonet, UAS, and Mobile Radiosonde Observations from TORUS on Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecasts

14:50 Max Frew: Autonomous Coordinated Sampling by Multiple Fixed-Wing Uncrewed Aircraft in Loose Formation

15:15 Elizabeth Smith: CopterSonde in PERiLS: successes, challenges, and other stories about operating UAS within a NOAA severe storm project

15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 - 17:25 Session 4 - Field campaigns (Chair: Phil Anderson)

16:10 Ben Pickering: Validation and First Deployments of the MetSprite WxUAS

16:35 Tyler Bell: Exploring Derived Fields from Multiple Simultaneous WxUAS and Remote Profilers During PERiLS

17:00 James Pinto: The WMO UAS Demonstration Campaign: the Future of UAS in Operational Meteorology

18:00 - Optional Trip to Fløyen

DAY 3 

Thu, 3 August 2023 / 08:30 – 05:45 pm

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee

09:00 - 10:40 Session 5 - Measurement methods (Chair: Joachim Reuder)

09:00 Jamie McQuilkin: A practical guide to measuring methane emissions from industrial sites using UAVs 

09:25 Norman Wildmann: Spatio-temporal measurements of turbulence in the ABL with a fleet of small uncrewed aircraft systems

09:50 Tammy Weckwerth: Planning for LOTOS (Lower Troposphere Observing System)

10:15 Phil Anderson: Initial report and results from the deployment of a "heterogenous swarm" for studying atmosphere-ocean interaction

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 - 12:25 Session 5 - Measurement methods (Chair: Gijs de Boer)

11:10 Mauro Ghirardelli: Investigating the Flow Structure Around a Multicopter Drone for Turbulence Sensor Placement: Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis and LIDAR Measurements 

11:35 Kjell zum Berge: Air Quality Measurements within Cities using a Multirotor System

12:00 Matteo Bramati: Analyzing horizontal and vertical wind speed using multirotor UAS aircraft: calibration, environmental factors, and accuracy assessment

12:25 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:50 Session 5 - Measurement methods (Chair: Gijs de Boer)

14:00 Ben Pickering: The Flyability of Vertically-profiling WxUAS in a 3D Mesonet Configuration

14:25 Joshua Gebauer: Using Optimal Estimation for Retrieving Winds from Multirotor UAS

15:00 - 15:45 Poster pitches (1 slide - 3 min per poster)

15:45 - 17:45 Poster Session

19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner

Restaurant Lanternen, Thormølensgate 51B, 5006 Bergen (2 min walk from the conference venue)

DAY 4

Fri, 4 August 2023 / 08:30 – 05:00 pm

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee

09:00 - 09:50 Session 6 - Airframes (Chair: Rune Storvold)

09:00 Andreas Platis: The Multipurpose Airborne Sensor Carrier MASC-V for offshore wind measurements

09:25 Tyler Bell: CopterSonde Weather UAS: Considerations for mitigating air-borne catastrophic failures in extreme wind conditions

09:50 - 10:40 Session 7 - Data analysis and software (Chair: Rune Storvold)

09:50 James Pinto: Impact of Assimilating Uncrewed Aircraft System Observations on Fog Prediction

10:15 Sinha Sujit: Data-Driven, Real-Time Precision Meteorological Prediction by Coupling a Retrospective Cost Adaptation Algorithm with a Numerical Weather Prediction Model

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 -  12:30 ISARRA Society Logistics Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Steering Committee Meeting)

14:00 - 17:00 Workshop WMO; UAS Demonstration Campaign

Posters:

P1 Abdullah Bolek: UAV-based CO2 and CH4 mapping in Arctic permafrost regions

P2 Viet Le: Overview of the Finnish Meteorological Institute Pallas Cloud Experiment, PaCE 2022

P3 Alexander Böhmländer: A novel payload to measure ice-nucleating particles and aerosols on-board an unmanned aerial system

P4 Phil Anderson: Invitation to visit and use the "Scientific Robotics Academy" based at SAMS in Oban, Scotland

P5 Landon Bilyeu: Drone-Based Particle Monitoring Above Two Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the USA

P6 Matteo Bramati: Long range multi-rotor uncrewed aerial system for wind estimation, meteorological and aerosol particle measurements

P7 Francesca Lappin: Quantifying the thermodynamic impacts on the atmospheric boundary layer due to the sea breeze in the coastal Houston region

P8 Revard Braydon: Experimentation and Validation of UAS Mounted Wind Sensors for Urban Wind Mapping Purposes

P9 Gijs de Boer: Uncrewed Aircraft Operations as part of the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER)

P10 Kerrick Ray: Experimental Observation of Boundary Layer and Movement of Topographically Varying Desert Dunes with Unmanned Systems

P11 Heather Corden: Investigating the Planetary Boundary Layer Height in the CLOUDLAB Field Campaign

P12 Robert Sasse: Characterization of Uncertainty for Multi-Hole Probe Wind Measurements

P13 Zachary Yap: Solar Balloon Development, Communications, and Control for High Altitude Observations