A reel-down instrument system for profile measurements of water vapor, temperature, clouds, and aerosol beneath constant-altitude scientific balloons

Kalnajs, Lars E.; Davis, Sean M.; Goetz, J. Douglas; Deshler, Terry; Khaykin, Sergey; St. Clair, Alex; Hertzog, Albert; Bordereau, Jerome; Lykov, Alexey

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2635-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2635–2648, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2635-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2635–2648, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2635-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 4

Research article 06 Apr 2021

Research article | 06 Apr 2021

A reel-down instrument system for profile measurements of water vapor, temperature, clouds, and aerosol beneath constant-altitude scientific balloons

Lars E. Kalnajs et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Apr 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 Oct 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Kalnajs et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1 and RC2', Lars Kalnajs, 26 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Author's changes in manuscript', Lars Kalnajs, 26 Jan 2021
RC2: 'A review report', Masatomo Fujiwara, 29 Nov 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1 and RC2', Lars Kalnajs, 26 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Author's changes in manuscript', Lars Kalnajs, 26 Jan 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Lars Kalnajs on behalf of the Authors (09 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 Feb 2021) by Alyn Lambert

Short summary

This work introduces a novel instrument system for high-resolution atmospheric profiling, which lowers and retracts a suspended instrument package beneath drifting long-duration balloons. During a 100 d circumtropical flight, the instrument collected over a hundred 2 km profiles of temperature, water vapor, clouds, and aerosol at 1 m resolution, yielding unprecedented geographic sampling and vertical resolution measurements of the tropical tropopause layer.