Concordiasi Field Experiment Over Antarctica: First Results from Innovative Atmospheric Measurements, The

Concordiasi was a multidisciplinary effort jointly operated by France and the US to study the lower stratosphere and troposphere above Antarctica and the land surface of the Antarctic continent. Concordiasi field experiments were conducted in austral springs 2008, 2009, and 2010, including surface m...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Main Authors: Rabier, F., Cohn, S., Cocquerez, P., Hertzog, A., Avallone, L., Deshler, Terry, Haase, J., Hock, T., Doerenbecher, A., Wang, J., Guidard, V., Thépaut, J.-N., Langland, R., Tangborn, A., Balsamo, G., Brun, E., Parsons, D., Bordereau, J., Cardinali, C., Danis, F., Escarnot, J.-P., Fourrié, N., Gelaro, R., Genthon, C., Ide, K., Kalnajs, L., Meunier, L.-F., Nicot, J.-M., Perttula, T., Potts, N., Ragazzo, P., Richardson, D., Sosa-Sesma, S., Vargas, A.
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Wyoming. Libraries 2013
Subjects:
Aerosol particles
Atmospheric measurement
Field experiment
In-situ measurement
Lower stratosphere
Radio soundings
Regional observatory
Stratospheric polar vortex
Surface measurement
Troposphere
Balloons
Engineering
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Austral
Dumont d'Urville
Dumont-d'Urville
Rothera
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11919/674
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00005.1
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Summary:Concordiasi was a multidisciplinary effort jointly operated by France and the US to study the lower stratosphere and troposphere above Antarctica and the land surface of the Antarctic continent. Concordiasi field experiments were conducted in austral springs 2008, 2009, and 2010, including surface measurements and radiosoundings at the Concordia Antarctica station at Dome C and radio-soundings at the Dumont d'Urville and Rothera sites on Antarctica. An innovative constellation of balloons provided a unique set of measurements covering both volume and time in 2010. The balloon flotilla formed a regional observatory of the atmosphere, which provided in situ measurements inside the winter stratospheric polar vortex and allowed the performance of several soundings of the troposphere. The in situ measurements included position, temperature, pressure, ozone, and aerosol particles, along with profiles below the balloon-borne gondolas.

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