Vertical Profiles of Ozone Concentration Collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1. Location
2.2. Flight Platform and Instrumentation
2.3. UAV Flights
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Case | Count (N) | Percentage | Median of NBL Height (m) | Quartiles of NBL Height (m) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1: Stratified atmosphere | 23 | 40% | 300 | 230 and 350 |
2: Turbulent atmosphere | 16 | 28% | 290 | 255 and 330 |
3: Complex atmosphere | 18 | 32% | N/A | N/A |
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Guimarães, P.; Ye, J.; Batista, C.; Barbosa, R.; Ribeiro, I.; Medeiros, A.; Souza, R.; Martin, S.T. Vertical Profiles of Ozone Concentration Collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area. Atmosphere 2019, 10, 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100599
Guimarães P, Ye J, Batista C, Barbosa R, Ribeiro I, Medeiros A, Souza R, Martin ST. Vertical Profiles of Ozone Concentration Collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area. Atmosphere. 2019; 10(10):599. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100599
Chicago/Turabian StyleGuimarães, Patrícia, Jianhuai Ye, Carla Batista, Rafael Barbosa, Igor Ribeiro, Adan Medeiros, Rodrigo Souza, and Scot T. Martin. 2019. "Vertical Profiles of Ozone Concentration Collected by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and the Mixing of the Nighttime Boundary Layer over an Amazonian Urban Area" Atmosphere 10, no. 10: 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10100599