Publication Date:
1985-06-14
Description:
A new approach to in situ observations of trace reactive species in the stratosphere is described. A balloon-borne system, floating 40 kilometers above the earth's surface, successfully lowered and then retracted a cluster of instruments a distance of 12 kilometers on a filament of Kevlar. This instrument cluster is capable of detecting gas-phase free radicals at the part-per-trillion level. The suspended instrument array has excellent stability and has been used to measure atomic oxygen concentrations in the stratosphere.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Anderson, J G -- Hazen, N L -- McLaren, B E -- Rowe, S P -- Schiller, C M -- Schwab, M J -- Solomon, L -- Thompson, E E -- Weinstock, E M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1985 Jun 14;228(4705):1309-11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17799118" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics