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
 | 
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

Viewed

Total article views: 2,720 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
2,057 600 63 2,720 63 58
  • HTML: 2,057
  • PDF: 600
  • XML: 63
  • Total: 2,720
  • BibTeX: 63
  • EndNote: 58
Views and downloads (calculated since 23 Aug 2023)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 23 Aug 2023)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 2,720 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 2,563 with geography defined and 157 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 

Cited

Latest update: 13 Dec 2024
Download
Short summary
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.