Free Radicals in the Stratosphere: A New Observational Technique
- 14 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 228 (4705) , 1309-1311
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.228.4705.1309
Abstract
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.Keywords
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