Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) are an emerging technology, significantly expanding observational capabilities in atmospheric and climate related sciences. This expansion is enabled by the increased availability and deployment of UAS. The rapid development of these platforms in recent years, combined with advances in miniaturised sensors, has led to a growing dataset that supports various aspects of atmospheric research in different environmental domains with linkages to hydrology, ecology, volcanology or geochemistry as well as applied sciences such as wind energy or transport of pollutants and aerosol particles.
This session invites abstracts discussing scientific contributions in atmospheric and climate sciences using various platforms, including fixed-wing UAS, multicopters, and tethered balloon/kite systems (TBS) etc. The topics could include presentations on the development of novel platforms and instrumentation, recent measurement efforts leveraging UAS systems, deployment of UAS to enhance the weather and climate prediction and monitoring networks, data analysis and synthesis from past UAS field campaigns, and other scientific interpretations of UAS-based datasets to improve process understanding, numerical model prediction, data assimilation and parameterisation development.