It’s murky grey, windy, and freezing when we head out into the countryside of the Swiss pre-Alps. We are looking for low hanging clouds to serve as our natural laboratory. Wintertime low stratus clouds can cover Switzerland for days. This type of cloud is stable with temperatures below 0 ºC and it contains plenty of liquid cloud droplets, but no ice crystals. These are the perfect background condi ...[Read More]
CLOUDLAB: Cloud research in a natural laboratory
Landing of the tethered balloon system HoloBalloon by the CLOUDLAB team at the main field site in Switzerland. Image credits to CLOUDLAB team.