An airborne in-situ dataset of cloud microphysical properties in supercooled large droplet icing conditions

Menekay, Deniz; Lucke, Johannes; Jurkat-Witschas, Tina; Voigt, Christiane; Kirschler, Simon; Bourdon, Aurélien

doi:10.5194/essd-18-5837-2026

Articles | Volume 18, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5837-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-5837-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 8

Data description article

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13 Aug 2026

Data description article |

| 13 Aug 2026

An airborne in-situ dataset of cloud microphysical properties in supercooled large droplet icing conditions

Deniz Menekay, Johannes Lucke, Tina Jurkat-Witschas, Christiane Voigt, Simon Kirschler, and Aurélien Bourdon

Data sets

Mission: SENS4ICE-EU Deniz Menekay et al. https://doi.org/10.17616/R39Q0T

SENS4ICE-2023 Aurélien Bourdon https://safireplus.aeris-data.fr/data-access/?tab=1&id=SENS4ICE-2023

SENS4ICE-EU, HALO Database, dataset No. 146 German Aerospace Center https://doi.org/10.17616/R39Q0T

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_CDP CDP data C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/477

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_UHSAS Aerosol UHSAS C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/476

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_CIP CIP data C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/481

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_LWC Liquid Water Content at 1Hz C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/474

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_RADIATION Radiation data C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/475

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_CORE_TDYN Thermodynamic and dynamic Core Data including, pressure, temperature, humidity, TAS, wind, noseboom sideslip and AOA post-processed at 1HZ C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/478

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_CORE_NAV Navigation and platform characteristics C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/479

SENS4ICE-2023_SAFIRE-ATR42_SAFIRE_CORE_NAV Navigation and platform characteristics C. Schwarz https://doi.org/10.25326/480

Short summary

Clouds containing supercooled water droplets are important for improving weather prediction, climate models, and safe aviation operations because they can lead to aircraft icing. To better understand these clouds, research flights were conducted over Europe using instruments that measure cloud particles and their water content. This study presents the resulting dataset of cloud properties together with the methods used to process and evaluate the measurements collected during the flights.