Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica
The Columbia Scientific Ballooning Facility operates stratospheric balloon flights out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. We use balloon trajectory data from 40 flights between 1991 and 2016 to give the first quantification of trajectory statistics. We provide the probabilities as a function of time...
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ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:141536 2024-01-14T10:02:24+01:00 Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica Geach, Christopher Peter Hanany, Shaul Tan, Chiou Yang Tan, Xin Zhi 2021-05-21 application/pdf https://elib.dlr.de/141536/ https://elib.dlr.de/141536/1/2105.04173.pdf en eng SPIE - Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers https://elib.dlr.de/141536/1/2105.04173.pdf Geach, Christopher Peter und Hanany, Shaul und Tan, Chiou Yang und Tan, Xin Zhi (2021) Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7 (2). SPIE - Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers. doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.027002 <https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.027002>. ISSN 2329-4124. Solar-Terrestrische Kopplungsprozesse Zeitschriftenbeitrag PeerReviewed 2021 ftdlr https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.027002 2023-12-18T00:23:56Z The Columbia Scientific Ballooning Facility operates stratospheric balloon flights out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. We use balloon trajectory data from 40 flights between 1991 and 2016 to give the first quantification of trajectory statistics. We provide the probabilities as a function of time for the payload to be between given latitudes, and we quantify the southernmost and northernmost latitudes a payload is likely to attain. We find that for the median flight duration of 19 days, there is 90% probability the balloon would drift as far south as 88S or as far north as 71S; shorter flights are likely to experience smaller ranges in latitude. These statistics, which are available digitally in the public domain, will enable scientists planning future balloon flights make informed decisions during both mission design and execution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Antarctica Journal German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library McMurdo Station ENVELOPE(166.667,166.667,-77.850,-77.850) Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 7 02 |
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The Columbia Scientific Ballooning Facility operates stratospheric balloon flights out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. We use balloon trajectory data from 40 flights between 1991 and 2016 to give the first quantification of trajectory statistics. We provide the probabilities as a function of time for the payload to be between given latitudes, and we quantify the southernmost and northernmost latitudes a payload is likely to attain. We find that for the median flight duration of 19 days, there is 90% probability the balloon would drift as far south as 88S or as far north as 71S; shorter flights are likely to experience smaller ranges in latitude. These statistics, which are available digitally in the public domain, will enable scientists planning future balloon flights make informed decisions during both mission design and execution. |
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Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica |
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Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica |
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Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica |
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https://elib.dlr.de/141536/1/2105.04173.pdf Geach, Christopher Peter und Hanany, Shaul und Tan, Chiou Yang und Tan, Xin Zhi (2021) Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7 (2). SPIE - Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers. doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.027002 <https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.027002>. ISSN 2329-4124. |
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