A team from the Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC) has become a drone at a multi -use and flexible flight station that is able to provide it … At real time, all types of detailed climatic data in a very specific area. The tool, which was deliberately like Dron and designed by the Climatoc-Lab collection with the support of the University of Valencia and the general, is the perfect tool to increase predictions and the development of extremist and translated weather phenomena, a case of Danas like those that washed part of Valencia at the end of October.
The device uses a commercial drone capable of reaching the average levels of troposphere, which means climbing between five and seven kilometers, and it is equipped with a weather plant that records variables in the atmosphere such as temperature, humidity, pressure, direction and wind speed. It includes an algorithm that leaves its flight accounts, which achieves a real measurement of wind. This data is sent in the actual time to the ground control station and is stored in a built -in memory in the drone for a more detailed later analysis.
The device is ready to face negative flight conditions, such as those that you will have to carry in the event of extremist phenomena. This has witnessed the tests conducted by the National Institute for Water Research and the atma (NIWA) and the University of Oakland, both in New Zealand, where the equipment was tested in different conditions of wind and turmoil, whether in the wind tunnel or in a real atmosphere.
“The presence of real weather data from a vertical section of seven kilometers from the air at a specific point, and provides us several times a day very valuable information to improve local extremist phenomena predictions such as coastal storms, explosions, severe storms or dance,” explains César azorín, CSIC researcher and climate director. “It is unique information that we currently do not possess,” and confirms.
An alternative to the investigation balloons
The good thing, the designers, justify, is that it does all this at much cheaper prices than potential competitors and improving the only current tool to work at that stage, probe balloons.
They say Meteo-dron has a cost of less than ten times more than other commercial devices and exceeds the boundaries of the investigation balloons. It can fly several times a day in the vertical and horizontal, and with the points of the required area that it agrees more, in addition, it re -use its scientific devices, which explode in balloons when reaching a critical height. “Our devices can replace the investigation balloons.”.
