posted May 28, 2015, 8:13 AM by Manuel Roca
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updated Jun 3, 2015, 2:05 PM
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Relative Humidity & Temperature
Notice the presence of multiple cloud layers at all RH profile. Observe the thick cirrostratus layer, it also can be observed in the photo gallery.
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Water Vapor
The mixing ratio profile shows the same cloud layers than RH profile. It is interesting to remark that cirrostratus layer is divided in two sublayers.
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Ascent rate
In this case there were not many wind bursts to increase quickly the radiosonde ascent rate (its average was 4.7m/s).
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Balloon trajectory
The trajectory was the expected (westwards as is usual in this season).
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Metadata
The principal parameters of launch preparation and flight are shown in the table below.
Photo gallery
Taken from the launching point. Some pictures show the direction towards they were taken.
Observe that the cirrostratus layer produces a halo around the Sun. Also, observe the water bottle used as the weight of the balloon to obtain a correct ascent rate. This weight weighs 1100 grams.
