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Research article
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19 Jan 2017
Research article |
| 19 Jan 2017
A comparison of Loon balloon observations and stratospheric reanalysis products
Leon S. Friedrich
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury,
Canterbury, New Zealand
Adrian J. McDonald
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury,
Canterbury, New Zealand
Gregory E. Bodeker
Bodeker Scientific, Alexandra, New Zealand
Kathy E. Cooper
X Project Loon, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043,
USA
Jared Lewis
Bodeker Scientific, Alexandra, New Zealand
Alexander J. Paterson
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury,
Canterbury, New Zealand
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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.
Information from long-duration balloons flying in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere during...
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