Low-atmosphere drifting balloons: Platforms for environment monitoring and forecast improvement

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1583-1599

  Doerenbecher, A ^a   Basdevant, C ^b   Drobinski, P ^b   Durand, P ^c   Fesquet, C ^b   Bernard, F ^b   Cocquerez, P ^d   Verdier, N ^d   Vargas, A ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; GASES; HELIUM; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; METEOROLOGY; MIXTURES;

CONSTANT VOLUMES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; FRENCH SPACE AGENCY; LAGRANGIAN SAMPLING; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SCIENTIFIC PAYLOADS; WEATHER PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84992348922     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00182.1     Document Type: Article

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