12th Launch (04.06.2015)

posted Jun 1, 2015, 1:39 PM by Manuel Roca

Relative Humidity & Temperature

As in previous launch, the sky was whole covered by a middle altitude cloud layer (stratonimbus) between 7 and 8 km. It can be seen in RH profile.
TRH_12th_launch
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Water Vapor

In this profile it can be seen that low clouds contain more water vapor than the middle clouds. Also, in log scale can be seen the presence of a cirrus layer.

Xppmv_12th_launch
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Ascent rate

In this case, the balloon quickly ascended (4.9 m/s) because it was filled at 600 bars. Notice the presence of wind bursts before tropopause (16 km).
Ascent_rate_12th_launch
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Balloon trajectory

As the last radiosounding, the balloon followed a southeastward direction below the tropopause and a westward direction above the tropopause.
Trajectory_12th_launch

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Metadata

The principal parameters of launch preparation and flight are shown in the table below.
Metadata_12th_launch

Photo gallery

Taken from the launching point. Some pictures show the direction towards they were taken. 
Observe that entire sky was covered by stratonimbus cloud.
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