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

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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

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Feb 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 01 Aug 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Manuscript Review - Reviewer 1', Darrel Baumgardner, 25 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Response to RC1 - Darrel Baumgardner', Alexander Beck, 08 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Clouds:Instruments and Platforms', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Sep 2016
- AC2: 'Response to RC2 - Anonymous Referee #2', Alexander Beck, 08 Nov 2016
AC3: 'Update on Figure 7-10', Alexander Beck, 08 Nov 2016
AC4: 'Update of the manuscript after adding Dr. Fugal as a co-author.', Alexander Beck, 20 Dec 2016

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.