Investigating the Tropical Tropopause Layer using Instruments Deployed on Long Duration Balloons |
Stratéole
2: White
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Flight
Configuration and Instruments
Time line:
March 2018: Delivery of instruments to Toulouse. October - December 2018: Five test flights, one with each the five scientific instrument gondolas. November 2020 - February 2021: Twenty science flights. Ten flights at the top of the tropical tropopause layer for the three in situ gondola configurations. Ten flights in the lower stratosphere for the remote sensing gondolas. |
Collaborators:
Laboratoire
de Métérologie
Dynamique (LMD), Paris, FranceCentre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, France National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Virginia, United States Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Boulder, Colorado, United States Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO), La Jolla, California, United States |
European Investigations
Fine scale measurement of winds, temperature,pressure,
LMD, PI: Albert HertzogIn situ measurements of upwelling infrared flux, CNRS-LATMOS, PI: Alain Hauchercorne In situ measurements at flight level of water vapor and ozone, LMD, GMSA, PIs: Albert Hertzog, Georges Durry In situ measurements at flight level of aerosol particles, CNRS-LPC2E, PI: Baptiste Renard Nadir cloud detection using lidar, CNRS-LATMOS/CNR, Albert Hertzog, France; Federico Fierli, Italy |
US Investigations
Investigating
thermal structure, dynamics, and dehydration in the
tropical tropopause layer with fiber optic temperature
profiling from stratéole 2 balloons, LASP CU, PI:
Lars Kalnajs, CoI: Joan Alexander.Tropical waves and their effects on circulation from 3D GPS radio occultation sampling from stratospheric balloons in Strateole-2, SIO, PI: Jennifer Haase, CoI: Joan Alexander. Radio Occultation. Investigating water vapor, clouds, and aerosol in the tropical tropopause layer with in situ and profiling measurements from long duration Strateole-2 balloons, LASP CU, PI: Terry Deshler, CoIs: Sean Davis, Lars Kalnajs |