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Journal Title:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Cullis, P. ; Sterling, C. ; Hall, E. ; Jordan, A. ; Johnson, B. ; ... More +
Cullis, P. ; Sterling, C. ; Hall, E. ; Jordan, A. ; Johnson, B. ; Schnell, R. ; Less -
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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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http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0094.1
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