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Members of the Scripps team make adjustments to the AUAVs.
Members of the Scripps team make adjustments to the AUAVs. Built by Advanced Ceramics Research of Tucson, Ariz., these AUAVs carry miniaturized instrument packages developed by members of Ramanathan's team, including Greg Roberts, M V Ramana and Craig Corrigan. These instruments are capable of measuring solar radiation, cloud-drop size and concentrations, particle size and concentrations, turbulence, humidity and temperature.
Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
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