BALLOON FLIGHT RECORD STATUS REPORT AS OF 31 DECEMBER 1962

Balloon flights were launched from Minneapolis, Fort Churchill, Manitoba, and Kerguelen Island in the South Indian Ocean. The flights used either standard monitoring apparatus or the scintillation counters to obtain more specific data about x-rays resulting from electron precipitation. Besides the l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winckler, John R.
Other Authors: MINNESOTA UNIV MINNEAPOLIS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1963
Subjects:
Atmospheric Physics
*AERONOMY
*METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS
MEASUREMENT
X RAYS
ELECTRONS
COSMIC RAYS
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTATION
ELECTRON PRECIPITATION
Fort Churchill
Indian
Kerguelen
Kerguelen Island
Churchill
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0403928
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0403928
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Summary:Balloon flights were launched from Minneapolis, Fort Churchill, Manitoba, and Kerguelen Island in the South Indian Ocean. The flights used either standard monitoring apparatus or the scintillation counters to obtain more specific data about x-rays resulting from electron precipitation. Besides the launchings made simultaneously at Kerguelen and Minneapolis in September 1962, coordinated launchings were made at Minneapolis and Fort Churchill. These latter experiments were to measure x-rays resulting from electron precipitation during magnetic storms at high latitudes. The tabulation gives the flight number, launch time, launch location, duration, and type of instrument used on each of the flights. The flight duration is measured from launch time. The floating pressure altitude of the current balloon system is 6 mb. In general, the flights attained this altitude about two hours after the stated launch time. The balloons do not always float at a constant altitude, however, so that the detailed time-pressure curve for each flight is necessary for final analysis.

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