Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data
On 11 July 1897, a Swedish expedition under Salomon August Andrée attempted to reach the North Pole from Spitsbergen by balloon. The flight was terminated after only three days, as the weight of the balloon increased above a critical limit, due to an ice load caused by freezing fog and drizzle. Here...
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ftdatacite:10.15488/2605 2023-05-15T14:49:39+02:00 Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data Etling, Dieter 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.15488/2605 http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/2631 en eng Stuttgart : Gebrueder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-3.0 CC-BY-NC Andrée Arctic Balloon North Pole Twentieth century reanalysis balloon observation exploration meteorology twentieth century wind Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard and Jan Mayen Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften550 | Geowissenschaften Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie Other CreativeWork article 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15488/2605 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z On 11 July 1897, a Swedish expedition under Salomon August Andrée attempted to reach the North Pole from Spitsbergen by balloon. The flight was terminated after only three days, as the weight of the balloon increased above a critical limit, due to an ice load caused by freezing fog and drizzle. Here the meteorological context of this expedition is discussed, in particular concerning the planning of the flight and in-flight weather conditions. Based on recently released pressure fields for the Arctic region for July 1897, obtained from the twentieth century reanalysis project (20CR), it can be shown that the Andrée expedition would not have reached the North Pole even with a perfect balloon, due to unfavourable wind conditions in the central Arctic after their departure from Spitsbergen. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Jan Mayen North Pole Svalbard Spitsbergen DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Svalbard North Pole Jan Mayen Svalbard ENVELOPE(20.000,20.000,78.000,78.000) Dewey ENVELOPE(-64.320,-64.320,-65.907,-65.907) Andrée ENVELOPE(-61.500,-61.500,-64.516,-64.516) |
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Andrée Arctic Balloon North Pole Twentieth century reanalysis balloon observation exploration meteorology twentieth century wind Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard and Jan Mayen Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften550 | Geowissenschaften Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie |
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Andrée Arctic Balloon North Pole Twentieth century reanalysis balloon observation exploration meteorology twentieth century wind Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard and Jan Mayen Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften550 | Geowissenschaften Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie Etling, Dieter Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data |
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Andrée Arctic Balloon North Pole Twentieth century reanalysis balloon observation exploration meteorology twentieth century wind Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard and Jan Mayen Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften550 | Geowissenschaften Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie |
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On 11 July 1897, a Swedish expedition under Salomon August Andrée attempted to reach the North Pole from Spitsbergen by balloon. The flight was terminated after only three days, as the weight of the balloon increased above a critical limit, due to an ice load caused by freezing fog and drizzle. Here the meteorological context of this expedition is discussed, in particular concerning the planning of the flight and in-flight weather conditions. Based on recently released pressure fields for the Arctic region for July 1897, obtained from the twentieth century reanalysis project (20CR), it can be shown that the Andrée expedition would not have reached the North Pole even with a perfect balloon, due to unfavourable wind conditions in the central Arctic after their departure from Spitsbergen. |
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Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data |
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Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data |
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Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data |
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Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data |
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Meteorological aspects of Salomon August Andrée's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20CR data |
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meteorological aspects of salomon august andrée's attempt to reach the north pole by balloon in 1897 based on 20cr data |
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Stuttgart : Gebrueder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung |
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Arctic Jan Mayen North Pole Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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