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French EOLE Southern Hemisphere Balloon Observations, 1971Aug-1972

EOLE Balloon Experiment over the Southern Hemisphere, involving constant-level balloons drifting near 200 mb. The French made a motion picture of balloon tracks.



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PERIODS: 1971-08 to 1972-12
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureAtmospheric Pressure MeasurementsFlight Level Winds
TIMES: various times per week
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: FR/CNES
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France
NASA/GSFC/ESD/GISS
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Earth Sciences Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
PUBLICATIONS: Hertzog,A., C.Basdevant, and F.Vial, 2006: An Assessment of ECMWF and NCEP-NCAR Reanalyses in the Southern Hemisphere End of the Presatellite Era: Results from the EOLE Experiment (1971-1972). Monthly Weather Review, 134(11), 3367-3383.

Morel, P., and W. Bandeen, 1973: The EOLE Experiment: Early Results and Objectives. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 54, 298-306.

Morel, P., 1966: Definition scientifique du projet de Satellite FR-2 (Projet EOLE). 101, Service d'Aeronomie, 46 pp.

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds800.0."
VOLUME: 125.76 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation), Binary (see dataset documentation)
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