Balloon soundings of the Stuttgart-Schnarrenberg autosonde system for the Swabian MOSES 2021 campaign

Swabian MOSES is a hydro-meteorological measurement campaign, which will be carried out between May and September 2021 in the Neckar valley and on the Swabian Alb in southwest Germany. It focuses on two hydro-meteorological extremes that are of great relevance not only for the study area: Local-scale convective cells (thunderstorms) associated with heavy rain and hail, and large-scale heat waves and associated droughts. MOSES(Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems) is a novel observation system of the Helmholtz Association, developed by the Helmholtz Centres in the research field "Earth and Environment" and established as a cross-thematic activity in the program Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future 2021-2027. MOSES consists of highly flexible and mobile observation modules (such as the KITcube) that are specifically designed to study the interactions of short-term events and long-term trends in different parts of the Earth system. In addition to hydro-meteorological extremes, other highly dynamic events such as ocean currents and permafrost thawing are the focus of the event-oriented observation and research initiative in other campaigns.