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Wednesday, 09 August 2006
Mao, H., R. Talbot, D. Troop, R. Johnson, S. Businger, and A. M. Thompson (2006), Smart balloon observations over the North Atlantic: O3 data analysis and modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23S56, doi:10.1029/2005JD006507. August, 2006   Download abstract
 
TWS Results Presented at Recent National & International Meetings Print
Sunday, 19 February 2006

Mao, H., and R. Talbot, Observations and modeling of O3 in North American outflow, Task force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution, Intercontinental Transport Modeling Intercomparison Organizational Workshop, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, January 2006.

Businger, S., R. Johnson, and R. Talbot, A Smart Balloon flight for the record books, American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2005.

Voss, P., R. Zaveri, C. Berkowitz, E. Riddle, R. W. Talbot, A. Stohl, D. Holcombe, T. Harley, Improved techniques for measuring physical and chemical transformations in the atmosphere : Observations of pollution transport, wind shear, and profile evaluation using controlled meteorological balloons, American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2005.

Mao, H., R. Talbot, D. Troop, B. Moore, R. Johnson, and S. Businger, Smart Balloon observations over the North Atlantic, ICARTT Data Analysis Workshop, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, August 9-12, 2005.

Businger, S., R. Johnson and R. W. Talbot, Applications for Smart Balloons in Atmospheric Research, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2005. Businger, S., R. Johnson, and R. W. Talbot, Hurricane Balloons, Interagency Hurricane Conference, Jacksonville, FL, March 2005.

Businger, S., R. Johnson, and R. W. Talbot, Design and performance of smart balloons during the 2004 ICARTT campaign, 85th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January, 2005.

Mao, H., R. Talbot, D. Troop, S. Businger, and R. Johnson, Understanding the impact of North American outflow on tropospheric O3 over the North Atlantic Ocean: A case study during ICARTT 2004, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.

Talbot, R., D. Troop, H. Mao, B. Moore, R. Johnson, S. Businger, A. Hollingshead, and S. Beard, Smart balloon observations of the distribution of tropospheric O3 over the North Atlantic, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.

Voss, P. B., E. E. Riddle, D. Maczka, D., Holcomb, D., Washburn, K., R. W. Talbot, and A. Stohl, Long-range urban plume transport during the ICARTT campaign: an analysis of Lagrangian balloon observations, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.

 
Ongoing Sensor Related Work at UNH Print
Saturday, 18 February 2006
• Determined the influence of changing atmospheric pressure on the mini-O3 sensor.
• Investigating UV LED’s as a possible light source for future mini-sensors.
• Development of a low powered/light weight Nephelometer is underway.
• Development of a new generation of solid state carbon monoxide sensor is underway.
 
Applications of the UNH Mini-O3 Sensor Print
Thursday, 08 September 2005

• Over 30 Mini-O3 instruments built and calibrated.
• Two Mini-O3 instruments are being built for the University of Houston for the NOAA Houston field campaign in summer 2006.
• Six mini-O3 instruments are being built for the TWS/NOAA Smart Balloon participation in August – September 2006 NOAA field campaign in Houston, TX.
• Four mini-O3 instruments will be used in the March 2006 MILAGRO field campaign in Mexico City (http://www.joss.ucar.edu/milagro/)
• Twelve mini-O3 instruments delivered for NH-DOT Roadside Weather Information System (December 2005). Data to be used by the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS).

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Mini-O3 sensor packaged for deployment in the NH-DOT Roadside Weather Information System.
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Key Milestones Print
Friday, 04 February 2005

Targeted Wind Sensing team to give a briefing at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, on the summer 2004 highly successful Smart Balloon flights over the North Atlantic.

Dr. Steven Businger (University of Hawaii) gave a presentation on "The Application of the Smart Balloon in Tropospheric Research" at the American Meteorological Society meeting in San Diego, CA.

February 3, 2005 - Targeted Wind Sensing team to give a briefing on the Smart Balloon and its summer 2005 highly successful flights at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.

January, 2005 - Dr. Steven Businger (University of Hawaii) gave a presentation on the application of the Smart Balloon at the American Meteorological Society meeting in San Diego, Ca.

December 11, 2004 - Results of Balloon flights 2, 3, and 4 were presented at the fall American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA. Dr.'s Mao and Talbot discussed the data from these flights and showed numerical model simulations along the balloon flight tracks.

August 15, 2004 - Balloon #3 makes transatlantic flight over the past 12 days as it travels nearly 7,000 km.

August 5, 2004 - Balloons 3 and 4 have rendezvous with Hurricane Alex over the North Atlantic.

August 3, 2004 - Two Smart Balloons (#3 & #4) are released together.

July 20, 2004 -Smart Balloon #2 is released and it travels over the Gulf of Maine toward Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

July 15, 2004 - Smart Balloon #1 is released and it travels northward over New England toward Maine.
 
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