Measuring Relative Wind Speeds in Stratospheric Balloons with Cup Anemometers: The TASEC-Lab Mission [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 This paper shows wind speed measurements from the TASEC-Lab experiment in a stratospheric balloon mission. The mission was launched in July 2021 from León (Spain) aerodrome.
Daniel Alfonso-Corcuera +4 more
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NASA GEOS Composition Forecast Modeling System GEOS‐CF v1.0: Stratospheric Composition [PDF]
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2022 The NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Composition Forecast (GEOS‐CF) provides recent estimates and 5‐day forecasts of atmospheric composition to the public in near‐real time.
K. E. Knowland +15 more
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Future Plans of Stratospheric Balloon Observation
Antarctic Record, 1979 Basing on the observation results obtained by means of 33 stratospheric balloons launched from Syowa Station during the past ten years since 1968, expected future prjects for balloon observation are discussed together with some technical problems ...
Masahiro KODAMA
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Infrasound direction of arrival determination using a balloon-borne aeroseismometer [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Free-floating balloons are an emerging platform for infrasound recording, but they cannot host arrays sufficiently wide for multi-sensor acoustic direction finding techniques.
Daniel C. Bowman +3 more
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In situ observations of stratospheric HCl using three-mirror integrated cavity output spectroscopy [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2021 Stratospheric HCl observations are an important diagnostic for the evaluation of catalytic processes that impact the ozone layer. We report here in situ balloon-borne observations of HCl employing an off-axis integrated cavity output spectrometer (OA ...
J. Wilkerson +9 more
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Measurements of aerosols and charged particles on the BEXUS18 stratospheric balloon [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2019 This paper describes the aerosol measurement setup and results obtained during the BEXUS18 (Balloon-borne Experiments for University Students) stratospheric balloon within the A5-Unibo (Advanced Atmospheric Aerosol Acquisition and Analysis) experiment ...
E. Brattich +8 more
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Evidence of horizontal and vertical transport of water in the Southern Hemisphere tropical tropopause layer (TTL) from high-resolution balloon observations [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2016 High-resolution in situ balloon measurements of water vapour, aerosol, methane and temperature in the upper tropical tropopause layer (TTL) and lower stratosphere are used to evaluate the processes affecting the stratospheric water budget: horizontal
S. M. Khaykin +12 more
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Balloon-borne Cosmic Microwave Background experiments [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 Stratospheric balloon experiments play a unique role in current Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) studies. CMB research has entered a precision phase, harvesting the detailed properties of its anisotropy, polarization and spectrum, at incredible ...
Masi Silvia +9 more
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Intercomparison of in situ water vapor balloon-borne measurements from Pico-SDLA H2O and FLASH-B in the tropical UTLS [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2016 In this paper we compare water vapor mixing ratio measurements from two quasi-parallel flights of the Pico-SDLA H2O and FLASH-B hygrometers. The measurements were made on 10 February 2013 and 13 March 2012, respectively, in the tropics near Bauru, São ...
M. Ghysels +7 more
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Arctic stratospheric dehydration – Part 1: Unprecedented observation of vertical redistribution of water [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 We present high-resolution measurements of water vapour, aerosols and clouds in the Arctic stratosphere in January and February 2010 carried out by in situ instrumentation on balloon sondes and high-altitude aircraft combined with satellite observations.
S. M. Khaykin +15 more
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