HoloGondel: in situ cloud observations on a cable car in the Swiss Alps using a holographic imager

Beck, Alexander; Henneberger, Jan; Schöpfer, Sarah; Fugal, Jacob; Lohmann, Ulrike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-459-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-459-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-459-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Research article

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06 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 06 Feb 2017

HoloGondel: in situ cloud observations on a cable car in the Swiss Alps using a holographic imager

Alexander Beck, Jan Henneberger, Sarah Schöpfer, Jacob Fugal, and Ulrike Lohmann

Data sets

Dataset of vertical profiles with HoloGondel at Eggishorn Switzerland (21.03.2015) and Hoher Sonblick, Austria (23.02.2016) Alexander Beck and Jan Henneberger https://polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/mEexQI67pesStIa

Short summary

In situ observations of cloud properties in complex alpine terrain are commonly conducted at mountain-top research stations and limited to single-point measurements. The HoloGondel platform overcomes this limitation by using a cable car to obtain vertical profiles of the microphysical and meteorological cloud parameters. In this work example measurements of the vertical profiles observed in a liquid cloud and a mixed-phase cloud at the Eggishorn in the Swiss Alps are presented.