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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Published in:Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Main Authors: Geach, Christopher Peter, Hanany, Shaul, Tan, Chiou Yang, Tan, Xin Zhi
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SPIE - Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 2021
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Online Access:https://elib.dlr.de/141536/
https://elib.dlr.de/141536/1/2105.04173.pdf