I'm very proud of Leia's growth as a scientist over the course of this study and it has been a joy to work together over the years. I'm looking forward to seeing where this research leads within the community!

This work began as an undergraduate research project of Leia's many years ago as a follow-up to some of my PhD dissertation work in the stable boundary layer, and it is extremely satisfying to see this come to a culmination in a peer-reviewed article.

We found that uncertainties in wind speed, wind direction, and potential temperature can be significant over typical averaging periods (a few seconds in rotary-wing UAS vertical profiles). Increasing sampling time by flying more slowly or with successive profiles are ways to mitigate these errors.

Much work has been done in the #UAS community to minimize errors due to sensor integration and calibration techniques, but this study digs a bit further to understand how errors arise due to not collecting enough measurements to capture the underlying variability of the atmosphere.