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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ftunivhannover:oai:www.repo.uni-hannover.de:123456789/2631 2023-07-16T03:56:15+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 http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/2631 https://doi.org/10.15488/2605 eng eng Stuttgart : Gebrueder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung DOI:https://doi.org/10.1127/metz/2017/0853 ISSN:09412948 http://dx.doi.org/10.15488/2605 http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/2631 CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ frei zugänglich Meteorologische Zeitschrift 26 (2017), Nr. 5 Andrée Arctic Balloon North Pole Twentieth century reanalysis balloon observation exploration meteorology twentieth century wind Spitsbergen Svalbard Svalbard and Jan Mayen ddc:550 ddc:551 status-type:publishedVersion doc-type:Article doc-type:Text 2017 ftunivhannover https://doi.org/10.15488/260510.1127/metz/2017/0853 2023-06-28T10:36:26Z 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 Institutional Repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover Arctic Svalbard North Pole Jan Mayen Svalbard ENVELOPE(20.000,20.000,78.000,78.000) 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 ddc:550 ddc:551 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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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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http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/2631 https://doi.org/10.15488/2605 |
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ENVELOPE(20.000,20.000,78.000,78.000) ENVELOPE(-61.500,-61.500,-64.516,-64.516) |
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Arctic Svalbard North Pole Jan Mayen Svalbard Andrée |
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Arctic Svalbard North Pole Jan Mayen Svalbard Andrée |
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Arctic Jan Mayen North Pole Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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Arctic Jan Mayen North Pole Svalbard Spitsbergen |
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Meteorologische Zeitschrift 26 (2017), Nr. 5 |
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1127/metz/2017/0853 ISSN:09412948 http://dx.doi.org/10.15488/2605 http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/2631 |
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