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CHEOPS III: An Ozone Research Campaign in the Arctic winter stratosphere 1989/90
Author(s) -
Pommereau J. P.,
Schmidt U.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/91gl00853
Subject(s) - stratosphere , arctic , the arctic , atmospheric sciences , ozone depletion , environmental science , ozone , ozone layer , rocket (weapon) , north pole , meteorology , climatology , physical geography , geology , physics , geography , oceanography , archaeology
CHEOPS ( = CHemistry of Ozone in the Polar Stratosphere) is a research project that began in 1987 as an initiative to join efforts of scientists from Germany and France combining their resources and capacities to conduct field experiments in the winter Arctic stratosphere. On the 5 February, two experiments, a cryogenic whole air sampler and an active chemical ionization mass spectrometer, were launched with a large scientific balloon from the ESA/SSC Rocket Base ESRANGE near Kiruna in Northern Sweden (68°N, 20°E∥. The scientific objective was to look for a possible latitudinal difference in the vertical distributions of various minor constituents in the lower and middle stratosphere during winter [ Schmidt et al, 1991 ; Arnold and Knop , 1989].