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CONVECT (CONvection and water Vapor Exchange in Complex Terrain)

  • PI Curtis James

    CO-I Ronny Schroeder

  • CONVECT is a major meteorological field research project being proposed for June-August 2027 in north-central Arizona. The project is aimed at improving our understanding and ability to predict the convective development, propagation and intensification of thunderstorms during the North American Monsoon (NAM).

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Graphics Tools for Meteorology Research and Education

  • PI Mark Sinclair

  • A software package called MADS (Meteorological Analysis and Diagnostic Software) is being developed to provide gridded data (both archived and real-time) and graphical software to produce maps, cross-sections, vertical profiles, time series graphs and statistical (climatological) displays of a large number of basic and derived quantities.

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ICARUS Drone Net

  • PI Samuel Siewert

    CO-I Iacopo Gentilini

    CO-I Mehran Andalibi

    CO-I Stephen Bruder

  • Drone Net is a conceptual architecture to integrate passive sensor nodes in a local sensor network along with traditional active sensing methods for small Unmanned Aerial Systems traffic management. The goal of the proposed research architecture is to evaluate use of multiple passive sensor nodes integrating Electro-Optical/Infrared and acoustic arrays networked around a UAS Traffic Management operating region (Class G uncontrolled airspace). The Drone Net approach will be compared to and/or used in addition to RADAR and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast tracking and identification.  We hypothesize that this approach can better manage non-compliant small UAS along with compliant UAS and general aviation in sensitive airspace, urban locations, and geo-fenced regions. 

Ice Cloud Parameterizations and Aircraft Icing

  • PI Dorothea Ivanova

  • Ice and mixed phase clouds have an important impact on aviation, but they are often poorly represented in the models.

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Mesoscale Computer Modeling of the North American Monsoon over Arizona

  • PI Dorothea Ivanova

  • The Department of Meteorology is involved in research on the North American (Mexican) Monsoon in Arizona and the U.S. Southwest.

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Wingsuit Aerodynamic Performance Measurement and Design Improvements

  • PI Timothy Sestak

  • Wingsuit flight and wingsuit design is in its pioneering stages. Development of wingsuits with regards to aerodynamics is rudimentary, and has been done primarily by a process of trial and error, and lacks solid aerodynamic foundation. A wingsuit is essentially a ram-air inflated airfoil structure with a human pilot inside.