Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-601-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-601-2024
Research article
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26 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 26 Jan 2024

Two new multirotor uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for glaciogenic cloud seeding and aerosol measurements within the CLOUDLAB project

Anna J. Miller, Fabiola Ramelli, Christopher Fuchs, Nadja Omanovic, Robert Spirig, Huiying Zhang, Ulrike Lohmann, Zamin A. Kanji, and Jan Henneberger

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Data for publication: "Two new multirotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for glaciogenic cloud seeding and aerosol measurements within the CLOUDLAB project" Anna J. Miller et al. 20.500.11850/640942

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We present a method for aerosol and cloud research using two uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs have a propeller heating mechanism that allows flights in icing conditions, which has so far been a limitation for cloud research with UAVs. One UAV burns seeding flares, producing a plume of particles that causes ice formation in supercooled clouds. The second UAV measures aerosol size distributions and is used for measuring the seeding plume or for characterizing the boundary layer.