Electrodynamics of the middle atmosphere : Superpressure balloon program
- Author
- Holzworth, Robert H.
- Published
- Apr 1, 1987.
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- 1 electronic document
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- In this experiment a comprehensive set of electrical parameters were measured during eight long duration flights in the southern hemisphere stratosphere. These flight resulted in the largest data set ever collected from the stratosphere. The stratosphere has never been electrodynamically sampled in the systematic manner before. New discoveries include short term variability in the planetary scale electric current system, the unexpected observation of stratospheric conductivity variations over thunderstorms and the observation of direct stratospheric conductivity variations following a relatively small solar flare. Major statistical studies were conducted of the large scale current systems, the stratospheric conductivity and the neutral gravity waves (from pressure and temperature data) using the entire data set.
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- Note
- Document ID: 19870012899.
Accession ID: 87N22332.
NAS 1.26:180600.
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