A comparison of Loon balloon observations and stratospheric reanalysis products

Friedrich, Leon S.; McDonald, Adrian J.; Bodeker, Gregory E.; Cooper, Kathy E.; Lewis, Jared; Paterson, Alexander J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-855-2017

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19 Jan 2017

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| 19 Jan 2017

A comparison of Loon balloon observations and stratospheric reanalysis products

Leon S. Friedrich, Adrian J. McDonald, Gregory E. Bodeker, Kathy E. Cooper, Jared Lewis, and Alexander J. Paterson

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

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RC1: 'Referee's comments on ``A comparison of Loon balloon observations and stratospheric reanalysis products''', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', Adrian McDonald, 16 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jun 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', Adrian McDonald, 16 Sep 2016

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

AR by Adrian McDonald on behalf of the Authors (13 Oct 2016)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Oct 2016) by Peter Haynes

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Nov 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (30 Nov 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Dec 2016) by Peter Haynes

AR by Adrian McDonald on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Information from long-duration balloons flying in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere during 2014 as part of X Project Loon are used to assess the quality of a number of different reanalyses. This work assesses the potential of the X Project Loon observations to validate outputs from the reanalysis models. In particular, we examined how the model winds compared with those derived from the balloon GPS information. We also examined simulated trajectories compared with the true trajectories.