Small uncrewed aircraft based microphysical measurements of polar stratus cloud during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022

Girdwood, Jessica; Brus, David; Doulgeris, Konstantinos-Matthaios; Böhmländer, Alexander

doi:10.5194/essd-18-2819-2026

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Small uncrewed aircraft based microphysical measurements of polar stratus cloud during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022

Jessica Girdwood, David Brus, Konstantinos-Matthaios Doulgeris, and Alexander Böhmländer

Data sets

Data From the Universal Cloud and Aerosol Sounding System Abord an Uncrewed Aircraft During the Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022 Jessica Girdwood et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14756233

Model code and software

wolkchen-cirrus/UCASSDataProcessor J. Girdwood https://github.com/wolkchen-cirrus/ UCASSDataProcessor

wolkchen-cirrus/UCASSDataProcessor: OPROC software for Pallas (v1.0.0-alpha) Wolkchen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19455847

Short summary

In-situ data of cloud microphysics is essential for targeted studies of cloud processes, validating remote sensing, and both assessing and improving the accuracy of weather and climate models. In this work we adopt a novel technique using a small uncrewed aircraft (SUA) and a bespoke sensor to produce vertical profiles of cloud microphysical parameters. The data are publicly available from https://zenodo.org/records/14756233.