Strateole



STRATEOLE Concept


VORCORE


VOREDGE


Previous Campaigns


Balloons and gondola


Related papers


STRATEOLE Committees

VORCORE Workshop Sept. 2002


STRATEOLE home page


CNES


The STRATEOLE Concept

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The STRATEOLE experiment was proposed to study the dynamics of the stratospheric Antarctic polar vortex, the transport of minor constituents and its interaction with ozone chemistry in late winter and spring.

The main element of the STRATEOLE observing system is a set of small superpressure balloons (few hundred cubic meters) drifting for long duration flights (months) at two different constant density levels (about 50 and 70 hPa). Balloons are equipped with lightweight (10-20 kg) instrumented gondolas.


The STRATEOLE experiment is divided into two phases : VORCORE and VOREDGE


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