/iriss/ en /iriss/2018/06/18/daily-camera-highlights-project-storm-deployment <span>The Daily Camera highlights Project Storm Deployment</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2018-06-18T11:36:40-06:00" title="Monday, June 18, 2018 - 11:36">Mon, 06/18/2018 - 11:36</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/iriss/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/img_1051_2.jpg?h=946b2c64&amp;itok=6tbRErCZ" width="1200" height="600" alt="Danny Liebert - Lightning 2018"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/iriss/taxonomy/term/105" hreflang="en">Daily Camera</a> <a href="/iriss/taxonomy/term/40" hreflang="en">IRISS</a> <a href="/iriss/taxonomy/term/103" hreflang="en">UAS</a> </div> <span>Xavier Cochrane</span> <span>,&nbsp;</span> <span>Cassa Niedringhaus</span> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>This summer,&nbsp;IRISS traveled through the mid-west area (Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and back to babyÖ±²¥app) to continue <a href="/iriss/research/project-storm" rel="nofollow">Project Storm</a> research. This particular deployment was a cooperative&nbsp;effort between&nbsp;CU-Boulder, the UN-Lincoln, and Texas Tech in June 2018 to test the collection of in situ data in and around supercell thunderstorms using autonomous UAS. The team&nbsp;focused on sampling the forward flank downdraft region and testing new Lagrangian drifters (<em>picture&nbsp;captured by <a href="/iriss/team/danny-liebert" rel="nofollow">Danny Liebert</a></em>)</p><p>The Daily Camera staff writer,&nbsp;<em><strong>Cassa Niedringhaus</strong></em>&nbsp;connected with CU's babyÖ±²¥app member <a href="/iriss/team/eric-frew" rel="nofollow">Dr. Frew</a> and graduate student <a rel="nofollow">Christopher Brown</a> to help highlight the second team summer&nbsp;deployments...&nbsp;</p><p>"As a supercell thunderstorm loomed, Eric Frew drove one of the vehicles in a three-vehicle convoy straight toward it.</p><p>When Frew, a University of babyÖ±²¥app associate professor, references "good" weather, he's talking about the roiling clouds that spit hail and spawn tornadoes, not sunny skies.</p><p>An unmanned aircraft, or drone, flew above the convoy and through dark skies to collect data from the storm..."</p><p><strong>Finishing reading more on... <a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_31948585/we-just-drove-straight-storm-cu-boulder-flies" rel="nofollow">Daily Camera News</a></strong></p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/iriss/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/article-image/img_1051_2.jpg?itok=sx-zjDZf" width="1500" height="1000" alt="Danny Liebert - Lightning 2018"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:36:40 +0000 Anonymous 248 at /iriss