Drone missions take flight as part of Met Office WesCon campaign

We are grateful to National Centre for Atmospheric Science this week, who featured our work on the WesCon campaign. For the full article and video of our flights up to 2km, click here.

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The campaign, combining science projects called WesCon and WOEST, focuses on observing turbulent processes in our atmosphere and enhancing weather forecaster’s ability to make high resolution predictions. 

The novel observations, collected by drone flights as well as by radar and research aircraft, will lead to improved weather forecasts of storms – when they are likely to start and how much rain will fall. 

Dr Ryan R Neely III, lead scientist of the WOEST project, adds: “This is a first for the UK. We are now able to repeatedly profile the full extent of the boundary layer with high resolution sensors. Not only is this important for our current project but it is also a big technological step forward for our entire field.”