Description: Exposure to ultrafine aerosol particles (UFPs) can cause adverse effects on human health, local environment and climate. Air traffic is associated with the emission of high numbers of UFPs, which results in increased UFP number concentrations close to airports. So far, the spatial distribution and variability of UFPs is poorly understood in the atmospheric boundary layer. The uncrewed aerial system (UAS) ALADINA (Application of Lightweight Aircraft for Detecting In-situ Aerosols, e.g. Altstädter et al., 2015) was operated close to the largest airport in Germany at Frankfurt airport (FRA) between 11 and 19 October 2024. The dataset provides airborne in-situ observations of the spatial distribution of aerosol particle number concentration with different sizes and meteorological parameters of temperature, humidity, wind, surface temperature and short-wave irradiance, as well as accurate position and orientation of ALADINA. Data are available from 26 measurement flights, comprising a number of 122 vertical profiles between ground and a maximum altitude of 750 m above mean sea level (ASL) and about 70 horizontal legs at different but constant altitude, e.g. in 100 m altitude intervals. Details about the ALADINA measurements will be provided in a publication (Harm-Altstädter et al., in prep.) soon.
Global identifier:
Doi(
"10.1594/PANGAEA.995373",
)
DataMeasurements(
DataMeasurements {
domain: Unspecified,
station: None,
measured_variables: [
"ALTITUDE",
"DATE/TIME",
"Heading",
"Humidity, relative",
"LATITUDE",
"LONGITUDE",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 0.004 µm to 1 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 0.019 µm to 1 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 0.3 µm to 0.5 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 0.5 µm to 0.7 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 0.7 µm to 1 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 1 µm to 2.5 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 2.5 µm to 5 µm",
"Particle number concentration, particle diameter range 5 µm to 10 µm",
"Pitch angle",
"Pressure, at given altitude",
"Roll angle",
"Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation",
"Short-wave upward (REFLEX) radiation",
"Surface temperature",
"Temperature, air",
"Wind direction",
"Wind speed",
],
methods: [
"Autopilot system, CubePilot Pty. Ltd. Australia, Pixhawk 2.1 Cube",
"Condensation particle counter (CPC), TSI Inc. USA, 3007",
"Finewire temperature sensor, TU Braunschweig Germany; and Temperature sensor, Measurement Specialists Ireland, TSYS01",
"GNSS, u-blox Holding AG Switzerland, uBlox ZED-F9P",
"Hygrometer, Innovative Sensor Technology, Rapid P14; and Thermometer/Hygrometer, Vaisala, HMP110",
"Optical particle counter (OPC), Met One lnstruments inc. USA, GT-526S",
"Pressure sensor, Analog Microelectronics Germany, AMS 5812",
"Pyranometer, EKO Instruments, ML-01",
"Temperature sensor, Melexis Belgium, MLX90614",
],
},
)
Comment: This research was carried out as part of the UFP exposure study SOURCE FFR (Study On Ultrafine Particles in the Frankfurt Airport Region) commissioned by the Umwelt- und Nachbarschaftshaus (UNH).
Tags: Ultrafeinstaub ? Aerosol ? Flughafen ? Globalstrahlung ? Windgeschwindigkeit ? Wind ? Deutschland ? Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Bodentemperatur ? Meteorologischer Parameter ? Partikelanzahl ? Flugdrohne ? Luftfahrzeug ? Luftverkehr ? Meeresspiegel ? Messdaten ? Planetarische Grenzschicht ? Frankfurt airport ? SOURCE FFR ? UAS ? UAV ? airborne measurements ? aircraft activity ? airport pollution ?
Region: Schwanheim
Bounding boxes: 8.555276° .. 8.571219° x 50.07499° .. 50.079593° 8.58333° .. 8.58333° x 50.08333° .. 50.08333°
License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 (Data access requires registration)
Language: Englisch/English
Modified: 2026-06-09
Last harvest: 10.06.2026 06:09
Time ranges: 2024-10-18 - 2024-10-18
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