Calibration and quality assessment of DESCARTES : grabsampler for stratospheric tracers

• Main Author: Arvelius, Johan
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Rymdvetenskap 2005
• Subjects: Adsorption; Balloon; Carboxen; CFC; Chloro-Fluoro Carbon; Grab sampling; Halocarbon; Molecular sieve; Stratospheric tracer; Tracer; Ballong; Halogeniserade kolväten; Klor-Flourkarbon; Spårgas; Stratosfärisk spårgas; Fusion; Plasma and Space Physics; plasma och rymdfysik; Descartes; Kiruna
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-600

DESCARTES is a light-weight, balloon-borne grab sampler for stratospheric long-lived tracers developed at the University of Cambridge. 33 flights have been performed with two versions of the instrument at northern latitudes by the DESCARTES team at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kir...