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Wiley Open Access, Atmospheric Science Letters, p. n/a-n/a, 2014

DOI: 10.1002/asl2.496

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Measurement of boundary layer ozone concentrations on-board a Skywalker unmanned aerial vehicle: Boundary layer ozone concentrations from a UAV

Journal article published in 2014 by Sam Illingworth ORCID, Grant Allen ORCID, Carl Percival ORCID, Peter Hollingsworth, Martin Gallagher, Hugo Ricketts ORCID, Harry Hayes, Paweł Ładosz, David Crawley, Gareth Roberts
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This is an Open Access article published in Atmospheric Science Letters, published by Wiley, copyright The Author(s). ; This study demonstrates novel measurements of in situ ozone (O3) concentrations and thermodynamics sampled on-board an instrumented Skywalker Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Small spatial and temporal gradients were observed over a localized region, which nearby ground-based in situ measurements lack the ability to resolve. It was found that the UAV-measured O3 concentrations provided a useful additional indicator of O3 variability at the sub-urban scale. The ability to sample subtle variability over a localized area highlights the important and novel capabilities of UAVs to rapidly characterize local area micrometeorology and chemistry.