“…Indeed, in recent years UAVs have been increasingly deployed for such purposes. For example, by installing a lightweight optical particle counter or particulate matter sensor, UAVs are well-suited for measuring vertical and/or horizontal distribution of aerosol in the polluted boundary layer (e.g., Weber et al, 2017;Mamali et al, 2018;Samad et al, 2022;Li et al, 2022;Suchanek et al, 2022;Pusfitasari et al, 2023;Järvi et al, 2023). Other examples of UAVs used in atmospheric research include estimating atmospheric turbulence (e.g., Fuertes et al, 2019;Alaoui-Sosse et al, 2019;Egerer et al, 2023), measuring volcanic plumes and their dispersions (e.g., McGonigle et al, 2008;Mori et al, 2016;Albadra et al, 2020), and for meteorological profiling (e.g., Holland et al, 2001;Reuder et al, 2009;Brosy et al, 2017;Koch et al, 2018;Leuenberger et al, 2020;Brus et al, 2021;Bärfuss et al, 2022).…”