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

Authors

  • Jochen Seidel
  • Gunnar Ketzler
  • Benjamin Bechtel
  • Boris Thies
  • Andreas Philipp
  • Jürgen Böhner
  • Sebastian Egli
  • Micha Eisele
  • Felix Herma
  • Thomas Langkamp
  • Erik Petersen
  • Timo Sachsen
  • Dirk Schlabing
  • Christoph Schneider

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-147-2

Keywords:

Mobile measurements, planetary boundary layer, urban climatology, atmospheric sounding, ­micro-scale climatology

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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Published

2016-03-22

How to Cite

Seidel, J., Ketzler, G., Bechtel, B., Thies, B., Philipp, A., Böhner, J., … Schneider, C. (2016). Mobile measurement techniques for local and micro-scale studies in urban and topo-climatology. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 147(1), 15–39. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-147-2

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Research articles