Overview of VEGA Venus Balloon in Situ Meteorological Measurements
| Autor: | L. S. Elson, Robert A. Preston, R. V. Bakitko, D. Crisp, Alvin Seiff, C. E. Hildebrand, A. S. Selivanov, N. A. Armand, A. A. Shurupov, Richard E. Young, J. E. Blamont, V. M. Linkin, V. V. Kerzhanovich, Andrew P. Ingersoll, Boris Ragent, L. Boloh, R. Z. Sagdeev, Gérard Petit, Yu. N. Alexandrov, A. N. Lipatov |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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Multidisciplinary
Atmospheric pressure Meteorology biology Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Venus Atmospheric temperature Atmospheric sciences biology.organism_classification Lightning Wind speed Atmosphere Atmosphere of Venus Altitude Physics::Plasma Physics Physics::Space Physics Environmental science Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics |
| Zdroj: | Science. 231:1411-1414 |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
| Popis: | The VEGA balloons made in situ measurements of pressure, temperature, vertical wind velocity, ambient light, frequency of lightning, and cloud particle backscatter. Both balloons encountered highly variable atmospheric conditions, with periods of intense vertical winds occurring sporadically throughout their flights. Downward winds as large as 3.5 meters per second occasionally forced the balloons to descend as much as 2.5 kilometers below their equilibrium float altitudes. Large variations, in pressure, temperature, ambient light level, and cloud particle backscatter (VEGA-1 only) correlated well during these excursions, indicating that these properties were strong functions of altitude in those parts of the middle cloud layer sampled by the balloons. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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