<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Attached you will find the session description for a planned Special Session at the upcoming AGU/Joint Assembly meeting to be held May 26-30 in Ft. Lauderdale. </div><div>Deadline for abstracts is 2359 UTC 5 March 2008.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Please feel free to pass this notice on to any of your colleagues who may be interested. Questions may be directed to me via email or phone contact information given in the signature to this message.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Jeff Tilley</div><div>University of North Dakota</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-----------------------------------------</div><div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">AGU<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">2008 Joint Assembly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 26-30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><u>Session A07</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><u>Convenors</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jeffrey S. Tilley* and Mark Askelson,
University of North Dakota<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><u>Index Terms</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>3394 (Instruments and Techniques) 3307
(Boundary Layer Processes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>3360 (Remote Sensing); 3329 (Mesoscale Meteorology);<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 3315 (Data assimilation)</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><u>Session Title:</u>
Atmospheric Applications of Unmanned Airborne Vehicles and Associated Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">In recent years, technologies
related to remotely-piloted unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) have advanced
rapidly, allowing for numerous military, homeland security and civilian
applications to emerge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Included
in these applications are homeland surveillance and border patrol functions; it
is envisioned that over the next two decades, a fleet of UAVs could be
routinely utilized within current civilian airspace for these functions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As atmospheric instrumentation
and UAV technologies become more sophisticated over time, there are clear
possibilities for jointly utilizing such platforms not only to fulfill such
security functions, but also as mobile atmospheric observing platforms,
providing a wealth of quality <i>in-situ</i></span><span style="">
data that has, in recent years, been most closely approximated by the limited
TAMDAR program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such data have
clear implications for improving our basic understanding and numerical
modeling/prediction of many atmospheric processes in the lower troposphere and
boundary layer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Before widespread UAV
deployment can be conceived, however, technologies need to be in place to
provide sense-and-avoid capabilities within the national airspace system, such
that in-flight collisions with other aircraft types, as well as unfavorable
flying conditions, are avoided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Such technologies, including the use of ganged phased-array radar
systems (GPARs), are currently under investigation at several institutions; if
utilized properly, these technologies could themselves be used to provide
additional remotely-sensed data streams depicting boundary-layer and lower
tropospheric flows and processes (especially convection) with high fidelity
over…at a minimum…the meso-gamma and micro-alpha scales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The aim of this session is to
focus on recent and current work towards the utilization of not only UAV
observations, but also associated technologies (such as a GPARs), for
atmospheric applications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Possible
areas for contributions, include, but are not limited to: recent field studies
utilizing UAV systems, phased-array radar system design, development and
applications, as well as applications of UAV-derived data to theoretical,
modeling, and data assimilation studies.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Papers examining the potential future integration of
data from a wide network of active UAV platforms into the current operational
observing network are also welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We hope to entrain a wide network of interested parties across the
atmospheric sciences to allow for a comprehensive information exchange as well
as promotion of ideas for continued rapid development of technologies that have
an exciting potential for the atmospheric sciences.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">---------------------------------</span></font></div>
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<div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Dr. Jeff Tilley email: <a href="mailto:tilley@rwic.und.edu">tilley@rwic.und.edu</a></div><div>University of North Dakota Ph: 701-777-4303</div><div>Regional Weather Information Center Fax: 701-777-3888</div><div>3980 Campus Road Stop 9007 Cell: 218-791-2696</div><div>Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007</div><div><a href="http://www.rwic.und.edu/~tilley">http://www.rwic.und.edu/~tilley</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>