Adapted ECC ozonesonde for long-duration flights aboard boundary-layer pressurised balloons

Gheusi, François; Durand, Pierre; Verdier, Nicolas; Dulac, François; Attié, Jean-Luc; Commun, Philippe; Barret, Brice; Basdevant, Claude; Clenet, Antoine; Derrien, Solène; Doerenbecher, Alexis; El Amraoui, Laaziz; Fontaine, Alain; Hache, Emeric; Jambert, Corinne; Jaumouillé, Elodie; Meyerfeld, Yves; Roblou, Laurent; Tocquer, Flore

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5811-2016

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05 Dec 2016

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Adapted ECC ozonesonde for long-duration flights aboard boundary-layer pressurised balloons

François Gheusi, Pierre Durand, Nicolas Verdier, François Dulac, Jean-Luc Attié, Philippe Commun, Brice Barret, Claude Basdevant, Antoine Clenet, Solène Derrien, Alexis Doerenbecher, Laaziz El Amraoui, Alain Fontaine, Emeric Hache, Corinne Jambert, Elodie Jaumouillé, Yves Meyerfeld, Laurent Roblou, and Flore Tocquer

Data sets

BLPB Ozone ADRIMED (Minorca) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1450

BLPB Ozone SAFMED SOP-1 (Levant) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1451

Radiosounding ozone ADRIMED (Minorca) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1452

Radiosounding ozone SAFMED SOP-1 (Levant) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1453

Surface ozone Minorca (ADRIMED) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1454

Surface ozone Levant (SAFMED SOP-1) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1455

BLPB ozonesonde ground test May 2012 (Toulouse) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1456

Ozonesonde in pulse mode preliminary test (Toulouse, May 2011) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1458

BLPB ozonesonde flowrate test (Toulouse, October 2012) F. Gheusi https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.1459

ATR Core in-situ measurements – TRAQA B. Piguet and T. Perrin https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.998

Short summary

Boundary-layer pressurised balloons allow for horizontal multi-day flights in the lower atmosphere, carrying light scientific payloads. Ozonesondes, usually used for balloon soundings have too short a lifetime for such flights. An adaptation is proposed, whereby conventional sondes are operated with short measurement phases alternating with longer periods of dormancy. The sondes were operated over the western Mediterranean, offering an original perspective on tropospheric ozone.