The Electrodynamics of the Middle Atmosphere research project encompasses the design of a microprocessor-controlled payload and the launch of up to eight small superpressure balloons in the 1982-1984 period. The primary payload instrument will measure the vector electric field from dc to 10 kHz, and the payloads will include instruments measuring local ionization, electrical conductivity, magnetic field, and temperature and pressure fluctuations. In addition, optical lightning will be recorded. The simultaneous measurement of these stratospheric parameters by several balloons, for periods extending over several solar rotations, will allow the study of electrical coupling between atmosphere and magnetosphere, of global current systems, and of global response to solar flares and magnetospheric storms.
Electrodynamics of the stratosphere using 5000 cu m superpressure balloons
1983-01-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Electrodynamics of the stratosphere using 5000 m3 superpressure balloons
Elsevier | 1983
|Global electrodynamics from superpressure balloons
NTRS | 1995
|Global Electrodynamics from Superpressure Balloons
Online Contents | 1995
|Global Electrodynamics from Superpressure Balloons
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
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