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Title: Supplementary data for "Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica"

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Alternate titles

  • Supplementary data for "Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica"

Dates

  • Issued: May 12, 2021
  • Coverage: 1990
  • Coverage: 1990 to 2020

Summary

These files contain trajectory information for long-duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. These balloons carry payloads addressing a wide range of scientific questions. We have analyzed these trajectories in order to estimate the expected range of trajectories to aid in mission planning for future balloon experiments from McMurdo.

The data.csv.zip folder consists of 40 trajectory files for long-duration balloon flights launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, each containing latitude, longitude, altitude and time since launch. The files in analysis.csv.zip contain data products derived from analysis of the raw data.

Subjects

  • Scientific ballooning
  • Antarctica
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-159.8,-162.6,-62.1,-85.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-159.8,-162.6,-62.1,-85.0)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • https://conservancy.umn.edu/pages/drum/policies/#terms-of-use

Citation

Geach, Christopher, Hanany, Shaul, Tan, Chiou Yang, Tan, Xin Zhi. Supplementary data for "Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica". Table data. https://doi.org/10.13020/hg6n-8f95

Languages

  • eng