Data collected by a drone backpack for air quality and atmospheric state measurements during Pallas Cloud Experiment 2022 (PaCE2022)

Abstract. A lightweight custom built drone backpack for air quality and atmospheric state variables measurements on top of consumer-grade drone was used during Pallas Cloud Experiment (PaCE) campaign’s intensive operation period (IOP) between September 12^th and October 10^th, 2022. The drone backpack measurements include 63 vertical profile flights from two close by locations at Pallasjarvi lake and 12 flights against the reference at Sammaltunturi station. The observations include aerosol number concentrations and size distributions, and meteorological parameters up to 500 m above the ground level. The dataset has been uploaded to the common Zenodo PaCE 2022 community archive (https://zenodo.org/communities/pace2022/, last access: 5 February, 2025). The datasets in two formats NetCDF and CSV are available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14780929, Brus et al. (2025a) and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14778422, Brus et al. (2025b), respectively.