Technical development during the last two decades has brought new potential and new applications for<br/>
mobile<br/>
measurements. In this paper, we present six case studies where mobile measurement devices were<br/>
used to acquire data for meteorological and climatological research. Three case studies deal with groundbased<br/>
mobile measurements – on buses for urban climate measurements and on a vessel on a lake – and three<br/>
with airborne platforms – on a cable car and on an unmanned aerial vehicle for vertical soundings and on a<br/>
tethered balloon sonde for cloud physics. For each study, we describe the measurement set-up and address<br/>
the potential and drawbacks of these applications. At the end, we discuss general aspects related to mobile<br/>
observations especially concerning the time and space dimension of measurements.
