During a recent measurement project, several intensive campaigns were performed on Mount Sonnblick (3106 m above sea level) in the Austrian central range of the Alps. Cloud water and interstitial aerosol samples were obtained from supercooled clouds by using a specially designed cloud water sampler <Kruisz et al., 1993>. The samples were analyzed for black carbon (BC) by an optical technique (integrating sphere <Hetzenberger et al. 1996>) using liquid samples, for major inorganic ions by ion chromatography and for total carbon (TC) by a combustion method. During the fall campaign of 1996, cloud water BC concentrations ranged from 0.45 to 3.64 μg/mL (average concentration 0.85 μg/mL). During the spring 1997 campaign, cloud water BC concentrations ranged from 0.55 to 2.95 μg/mL (average concentration 1.07 μg/mL). The dominant ion in cloud water was SO42- with concentrations from 0.36 to 86.5 μg/mL (average 6.83 μg/mL) in fall 1996 and 0.31--15.4 μg/mL (average 3.06 μg/mL) in spring 1997. In the individual samples, the BC/SO42- ratio ranged from 0.036 to 1.2 (average 0.316) in fall 1996 and 0.036 to 2.04 (average 0.79) in spring 1997. The extreme values were usually confined to short periods within one cloud event. Scavenging efficiencies ϵ were calculated by using cloud water and interstitial aerosol concentrations from samples obtained simultaneously with the cloud water sampler for the 1997 campaign. For BC, ϵBC=0.74(¿0.19) was found, while the values for SO42- and TC were ϵSO4=0.91(¿0.08) and ϵTC=0.57(¿0.21), respectively. The findings of an earlier study <Kasper-Giebl et al., 2000>, where ϵSO4 depended on the liquid water content, were confirmed here for all the three substances. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union