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Publicado 2016
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The SOUSY (SOUnding SYstem) radar was relocated to the Jicamarca Radio Observatory (JRO), near Lima, Peru in 2000, where the radar controller and acquisition system were upgraded to state-of-the-art parts to take full advantage of its potential for high-resolution atmospheric sounding. Due to its broad bandwidth (4 MHz), it is able to characterize clear-air backscattering with high spatial resolution (37.5 m). A campaign conducted at JRO during July 2014 aimed to characterize the lower troposphere with a high temporal resolution (8.1 Hz) using the DataHawk (DH) small unmanned aircraft system, which provides in-situ atmospheric measurements at scales as small as 1 m in the lower troposphere, and can be GPS-guided to sample within the beam of the radar. This was a unique opportunity to make coincident observations by both systems, and to directly compare their in-situ and remotely sensed p...