Atmospheric sounding of the boundary layer over alpine glaciers using fixed-wing UAVs

Alexander R. Groos, Nicolas Brand, Murat Bronz, and Andreas Philipp

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Feb 2025	21	6	2	29
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Short summary

We have developed a low-cost, lightweight, and open-source fixed-wing drone to study vertical changes in air temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, wind direction and turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer over mountain glaciers. The results of four measurement campaigns on a glacier in the Swiss Alps demonstrate the potential of the new measurement technique and reveal characteristic insights into glacier-atmosphere interactions and the mountain-valley wind circulation.