Pop Goes the Balloon! What Happens when a Weather Balloon Reaches 30,000 m asl?

Cullis, Patrick; Sterling, Chance; Hall, Emrys; Jordan, Allen; Johnson, Bryan; Schnell, Russell

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0094.1

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Pop Goes the Balloon! What Happens when a Weather Balloon Reaches 30,000 m asl?

2017
By Cullis, Patrick ; Sterling, Chance ; Hall, Emrys ; ...

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Cullis, Patrick ; Sterling, Chance ; Hall, Emrys ; Jordan, Allen ; Johnson, Bryan ; Schnell, Russell
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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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Did you ever wonder what happens when a rubber weather balloon reaches maximum altitude and bursts? A weather balloon carrying a radiosonde or ozonesonde released at the Earth’s surface is generally about 1.5 m in diameter at launch. At 30,000 m asl it has expanded to about 10 m in diameter and bursts at temperatures often colder than –40°C, sometimes as cold as –75°C. With a volume 100 times greater than when the balloon was released at ground level, the deflation is not a gentle leak but an explosion!
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(2), 216-216.
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