Using clouds as a natural laboratory to improve precipitation forecast skills

Project Information

CLOUDLAB

Grant agreement ID: 101021272

DOI

10.3030/101021272

EC signature date 15 May 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 499 926,00

EU contribution

€ 3 499 926,00

Coordinated by

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
Switzerland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Two new multirotor uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for glaciogenic cloud seeding and aerosol measurements within the CLOUDLAB project

Author(s): Anna J. Miller, Fabiola Ramelli, Christopher Fuchs, Nadja Omanovic, Robert Spirig, Huiying Zhang, Ulrike Lohmann, Zamin A. Kanji, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 601-625, ISSN 1867-1381
Publisher: Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-601-2024

Contribution of the 2DVD to the investigation of cloud microphysics during the MOSAiC and Cloudlab/PolarCAP campaigns

Author(s): Tom Gaudek, Cristofer Jimenez, Kevin Ohneiser, Christopher Fuchs, Jan Henneberger, Johannes Bühl, Andi Klamt, Albert Ansmann, Ronny Engelmann, Patric Seifert
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Issue 19, 2026, Page(s) 2245-2263, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-19-2245-2026

Putting the spotlight on small cloud droplets with SmHOLIMO – a new holographic imager for in situ measurements of clouds

Author(s): Christopher Fuchs, Fabiola Ramelli, David Schweizer, Ulrike Lohmann, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 2969-2986, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-18-2969-2025

Ice-nucleating particle depletion in the wintertime boundary layer in the pre-Alpine region during stratus cloud conditions

Author(s): Kevin Ohneiser, Markus Hartmann, Heike Wex, Patric Seifert, Anja Hardt, Anna Miller, Katharina Baudrexl, Werner Thomas, Veronika Ettrichrätz, Maximilian Maahn, Tom Gaudek, Willi Schimmel, Fabian Senf, Hannes Griesche, Martin Radenz, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2026, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-3675

The impact of the mesh size and microphysics scheme on the representation of mid-level clouds in the ICON model in hilly and complex terrain

Author(s): Nadja Omanovic, Brigitta Goger, Ulrike Lohmann
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 14145-14175, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-14145-2024

Chasing Ice Crystals: Interlinking Cloud Microphysics and Dynamics in Cloud Seeding Plumes With Lagrangian Trajectories

Author(s): N. Omanovic, S. Ferrachat, C. Fuchs, F. Ramelli, J. Henneberger, A. J. Miller, R. Spirig, H. Zhang, U. Lohmann
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2025ms005016

Repurposing weather modification for cloud research showcased by ice crystal growth

Author(s): Fabiola Ramelli, Jan Henneberger, Christopher Fuchs, Anna J Miller, Nadja Omanovic, Robert Spirig, Huiying Zhang, Robert O David, Kevin Ohneiser, Patric Seifert, Ulrike Lohmann
Published in: PNAS Nexus, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae402

IceDetectNet: a rotated object detection algorithm for classifying components of aggregated ice crystals with a multi-label classification scheme

Author(s): Huiying Zhang, Xia Li, Fabiola Ramelli, Robert O. David, Julie Pasquier, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Issue 17, 2024, Page(s) 7109-7128, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-7109-2024

Inferring the Controlling Factors of Ice Aggregation from Targeted Cloud Seeding Experiments

Author(s): Huiying Zhang, Fabiola Ramelli, Christopher Fuchs, Nadja Omanovic, Anna J. Miller, Robert Spirig, Zhaolong Wu, Yunpei Chu, Xia Li, Ulrike Lohmann, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2026, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-4397

Evaluating the Wegener–Bergeron–Findeisen process in ICON in large-eddy mode with in situ observations from the CLOUDLAB project

Author(s): Nadja Omanovic, Sylvaine Ferrachat, Christopher Fuchs, Jan Henneberger, Anna J. Miller, Kevin Ohneiser, Fabiola Ramelli, Patric Seifert, Robert Spirig, Huiying Zhang, Ulrike Lohmann
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 6825-6844, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-6825-2024

Seeding of Supercooled Low Stratus Clouds with a UAV to Study Microphysical Ice Processes: An Introduction to the CLOUDLAB Project

Author(s): Jan Henneberger, Fabiola Ramelli, Robert Spirig, Nadja Omanovic, Anna J. Miller, Christopher Fuchs, Huiying Zhang, Johannes Bühl, Maxime Hervo, Zamin A. Kanji, Kevin Ohneiser, Martin Radenz, Michael Rösch, Patric Seifert, and Ulrike Lohmann
Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2023, Page(s) E1962–E1979, ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-22-0178.1

Multirotor UAV icing correlated to liquid water content measurements in natural supercooled clouds

Author(s): Anna J. Miller, Christopher Fuchs, Nadja Omanovic, Fabiola Ramelli, Patric Seifert, Robert Spirig, Huiying Zhang, Emilie Fons, Ulrike Lohmann, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Cold Regions Science and Technology, Issue 225, 2024, Page(s) 104262, ISSN 0165-232X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2024.104262

Exploring the effect of training set size and number of categories on ice crystal classification through a contrastive semi-supervised learning algorithm

Author(s): Yunpei Chu, Huiying Zhang, Xia Li, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 2781-2801, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-18-2781-2025

Quantified ice-nucleating ability of AgI-containing seeding particles in natural clouds

Author(s): Anna J. Miller, Christopher Fuchs, Fabiola Ramelli, Huiying Zhang, Nadja Omanovic, Robert Spirig, Claudia Marcolli, Zamin A. Kanji, Ulrike Lohmann, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 5387-5407, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-25-5387-2025

Impact of seeder-feeder cloud interaction on precipitation formation: a case study based on extensive remote-sensing, in-situ and model data

Author(s): Kevin Ohneiser, Patric Seifert, Willi Schimmel, Fabian Senf, Tom Gaudek, Martin Radenz, Audrey Teisseire, Veronika Ettrichrätz, Teresa Vogl, Nina Maherndl, Nils Pfeifer, Jan Henneberger, Anna J. Miller, Nadja Omanovic, Christopher Fuchs, Huiying Zhang, Fabiola Ramelli, Robert Spirig, Anton Kötsche, Heike Kalesse-Los, Maximilian Maahn, Heather Corden, Alexis Berne, Majid Hajipour, Hannes Griesche
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-2482

Quantifying ice crystal growth rates in natural clouds from glaciogenic cloud seeding experiments

Author(s): Christopher Fuchs, Fabiola Ramelli, Anna J. Miller, Nadja Omanovic, Robert Spirig, Huiying Zhang, Patric Seifert, Kevin Ohneiser, Ulrike Lohmann, Jan Henneberger
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 12177-12196, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-25-12177-2025