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Schuchard, Malte; Bärfuss, Konrad; Bretschneider, Lutz; Käthner, Ralf; Lampert, Astrid; Pätzold, Falk; Pilz, Christian; Sandgaard, Jesper; Schlerf, Andreas; Voss, Anna; Harm-Altstädter, Barbara (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.995331

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Published: 2026-06-10 • DOI registered: 2026-06-10

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Abstract:
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.
Keyword(s):
aerosol; airborne measurements; aircraft activity; airport pollution; air traffic; atmospheric boundary layer; Drone; Frankfurt airport; Germany; SOURCE FFR; UAS; UAV; Ultrafine Particles
References:
Altstädter, Barbara; Platis, Andreas; Wehner, Birgit; Scholtz, Andreas; Wildmann, Norman; Hermann, Markus; Käthner, Ralf; Baars, Holger; Bange, Jens; Lampert, Astrid (2015): ALADINA – an unmanned research aircraft for observing vertical and horizontal distributions of ultrafine particles within the atmospheric boundary layer. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8(4), 1627-1639, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1627-2015
Project(s):
Study On Ultrafine Particles in the Frankfurt Airport Region (SOURCE_FFR)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 50.077232 * Median Longitude: 8.563409 * South-bound Latitude: 50.073688 * West-bound Longitude: 8.554197 * North-bound Latitude: 50.080394 * East-bound Longitude: 8.572010
Date/Time Start: 2024-10-11T10:36:47 * Date/Time End: 2024-10-18T16:32:34
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).
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
26 datasets

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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241011_01 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995357
  2. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241012_04 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995360
  3. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241013_05 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995359
  4. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241013_07 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995358
  5. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241014_08 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995362
  6. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241016_09 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995363
  7. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241016_10 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995361
  8. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241016_11 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995367
  9. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241016_12 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995366
  10. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241016_13 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995364
  11. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241017_14 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995369
  12. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241017_15 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995365
  13. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241017_16 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995368
  14. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241017_17 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995370
  15. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241017_18 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995371
  16. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241018_19 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995373
  17. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241018_20 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995372
  18. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241018_21 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995382
  19. Schuchard, M; Bärfuss, K; Bretschneider, L et al. (2026): Spatial distribution of aerosol and meteorological parameters measured during flight SourceFFR_ALADINA_20241018_25 with the UAS ALADINA near Frankfurt airport in October 2024. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995381