Purpose of the flight and payload description
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Details of the balloon flight
Balloon launched on: 5/3/1999 at 03:35
Launch site: Centre de Lancement de Ballons CLBA, Aire Sur L'Adour, Landes, France
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model 100z Zodiac - 100.000 m3
Balloon serial number: 100Z Nº 98
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 5/3/1999 at ~ 08:00
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 4 h 23 m
Campaign: THESEO (Third European Stratospheric Experiment on Ozone) take place during 1998-99 to improve the understanding of the causes of ozone depletion over Europe and other mid-latitude regions. It involved more than 400 scientists from over 20 countries.
Payload weight: 880 kgs
Gondola weight: 534 kgs
External references
- ClO Photo-Chemistry at Mid-latitudes: In-Situ ClO Measurements and Model Simulations American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, ABSTRACT ONLY
- Midlatitude ClO during the maximum atmospheric chlorine burden: in situ balloon measurements and model simulations Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 16231638, 2005
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