Mobile measurement techniques for local and micro-scale studies in urban and topo-climatology

2025/09/23 by Seidel, Jochen, Ketzler, Gunnar, Bechtel, Benjamin +11
#Mobile measurements #atmospheric sounding #planetary boundary layer #urban climatology #­micro-scale climatology

paper · doi:10.12854/erde-147-2

Abstract

Technical development during the last two decades has brought new potential and new applications for ­mobile measurements. In this paper, we present six case studies where mobile measurement devices were used to acquire data for meteorological and climatological research. Three case studies deal with ground-based mobile measurements – on buses for urban climate measurements and on a vessel on a lake – and three with airborne platforms – on a cable car and on an unmanned aerial vehicle for vertical soundings and on a tethered balloon sonde for cloud physics. For each study, we describe the measurement set-up and address the potential and drawbacks of these applications. At the end, we discuss general aspects related to mobile observations especially concerning the time and space dimension of measurements.

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