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Balloon Shapes and Stresses Below the Design Altitude
Design data for natural-shape balloons, published in 1952, have been used to design thousands of balloons. These data, however, describe the balloon only at its float altitude....- publication PDF
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The Feasibility of Long Duration Ballooning in Antarctica
This report outlines a plan for balloon operations in Antarctica as requested by Mr. Gordon Newkirk of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It includes discussions of...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the Atmospheric Research Aircraft Instrumentation Workshop...
This is part one of a two part report that details the proceedings of the Atmospheric Research Aircraft Instrumentation Workshop and Symposium, held in Oklahoma City, 17 and 18...- publication PDF
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Project Clambake Surface Wind Analysis at Palestine, Texas
The Field Observing Facility of NCAR measured surface winds at the NCAR Scientific Balloon Flight Station at Palestine, Texas, during October and November 1965 in order to...- publication PDF
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Impact Toughness of Balloon Films
To increase the reliability and extend the capabilities of scientific ballooning, polyethylene balloon films were measured for impact toughness at +23 and -80��C,...- publication PDF
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Re-Evaluation of Tapes for Reinforcing and Repairing Polyethylene Balloons
This report describes a research and development program conducted for the National Center for Atmospheric Research by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul,...- publication PDF
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Balloon Strain Relief System
A balloon strain relief system for use during pre-launch activities was developed and its effect on balloon tensile strength was examined. Various clamp materials and balloons...- publication PDF
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Numerical Prediction of the Performance of High Altitude Balloons
This report presents the equations governing the vertical motion of a balloon and reviews recent advances in heat transfer experimentation and theory pertinent to the processes...- publication PDF
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Theoretical Errors on Airborne Measurements Of: Static Pressure, Impact...
Report on a complete theory development that gives an exact calculation for all angles with irrotational flow around a sphere, the easiest shape for a nose radome which includes...- publication PDF
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Material Strength Properties of Startex SL 1883 Film
This report is part of a series prepared for the Materials Research Project of the NCAR Scientific Balloon Facility in order to extend the reliability and capabilities of...- publication PDF
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Characterization of Uncertainty in Measurements of Wind from the NSF/NCAR...
This technical note presents an analysis of uncertainty for measurements of wind from the Gulfstream V research aircraft operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research...- publication PDF
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NCAR HCR radar moments data
HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) moments data collected during the CSET (Cloud Systems Evolution in the Trades) project from 18 June 2015 through 12 August 2012. These are 10Hz data in...- dataset NetCDF
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NCAR S-Pol radar moments data, DORADE
S-Pol data from theTropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (TRMM-LBA) . These data are in dorade format and are available as 4 hourly tar files.- dataset Archive
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NASA DC-8 1 Second Data Merge
This data set contains NASA DC-8 1 Second Data Merge data collected during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry Experiment (DC3) from 18 May 2012 through 22 June 2012. These...- dataset ASCII
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DC3 Chat Logs
This dataset contains the scrubbed chat logs from the DC3 project from May 15 - June 30, 2012. These chat logs contain conversations between scientists and other project...- dataset ASCII
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NOAA P-3 Mission Summaries
This dataset contains the summaries of the P-3 aircraft missions flown during SALLJEX. These HTML files contain details of each flight. SALLJEX was funded by NOAA/OGP,...- dataset HTML
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Aircraft UW Convair 580 Data Summaries and documentation (Link to UW/CARG) [UW/CARG]
A report entitled: "Summary of Flights and Types of Data Collected on the University of Washington's (UW) Convair-580 Aircraft in the FIRE-ACE/SHEBA Project in the...- dataset UNDEFINED FORMAT
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NCAR S-Pol radar moments data, DORADE
S-Pol data from the PRECIP98 project, in support of NASA's TEFLUN-B study near Melborne, Florida. These data are in dorade format and are available in 3-hourly tar files.- dataset Archive
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NCAR S-PolKa radar moments data, S- and Ka-band, CfRadial
S-PolKa data from the Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean (RICO) project . This data set contains both S-band and Ka-band data. These data are in cfRadial format and are available as...- dataset Archive
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IMPROVE-II Quality Assurance Assessments
This dataset contains the Quality Assurance Assessments for flights 1887-1906 of the Improvement of Microphysical Parameterization through Observational Verification Experiment...- dataset PDF
