Balloon Science by Dan

I've moved to BlueSky- @balloonscidan.bsky.social -x is not supportable ethically- Dan Bowen

[Balloon Science by Dan @BalloonSciDan]

Thank you all for following and supporting for so long!
Balloon Science content in the future will be on BlueSky: https://t.co/GiuvTr9cTt I'll leave you with one of my prettiest balloon launches, from 2006, in the morning mist of an island airport on the Tennessee River. #UTARC

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How to interpret a Skew-T Log-P radiosonde chart :-) from https://t.co/j96GZGuyBg

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@starsandrobots @elidourado sure thing!

[StratoCat @stratoballoon]

XL-CALIBUR is streaming live from its onboard cameras

https://t.co/rq4Glhw6iY

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@stratoballoon Sigh. The arc of all US ballooning history inevitably ends at Raven (Aerostar).

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A bad day on the ground. This unfilled, loose balloon has gotten caught in a gust of wind and opened like a spinnaker sail. Note the people running away on the left. The folded balloon was probably neatly on the red strip. Training at Timmins, ON, Canadian Space Agency 2014

[SilverLining @SilverLiningNGO]

SilverLining scientific balloon engineers Sarah Schubert & Dan Bowen (@steamfire) are in Iceland studying effects of massive aerosol emissions in the North Atlantic (a key region for global climate) from the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula 🧵

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@VolcanoDoc could you suggest accounts to follow for up to date scientific info/commentary/alerts on Iceland volcano? I'm heading up there now to prep in case balloon soundings are needed.

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Excited to be going to #AGU23 American Geophysical Union conference this week!

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A dark little lenticular cloud rides the crest of Alcatraz Island's gravity wave today. The wind coming into the bay from the west (left) is bounced up by hitting the prison island. It's highest is downwind where some vapor condenses and then evaporates as it bounces back down.

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@stratoballoon Thank you for all the amazing work you've put in here to share balloons. You will be missed 🎈

[Louvel Stéphane @LouvelStephane]

Opening flight (COMICS) of the #STRATOSCIENCE @CNES balloon campaign in Timmins. Under a Zero Pressure Balloon of 150,000 m3, the gondola will be pointing to the sun during 6 hours at 32 km of altitude. @asc_csa @TimminsSBB

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@rochte @stratoballoon @AerostarInt Just altitude control to my knowledge, they are loon balloons

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A wild roof appears!

[Moffett Hangar One @MoffettHangar1]

I have to say that I am starting believe that it is actually happening.

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@CharlesPLamb @LivingComputers Yes, I'll post it later and link

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Historic balloon design code from 1978 can now be run again! the programs I found were for a CDC mainframe supercomputer in FORTRAN-63 language, and I am stunned to find that there is one CDC-6500 mainframe left, and YOU CAN LOG INTO IT ONLINE and run code! @LivingComputers

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Aaaand now I know how punishing the NOS operating system and it's text editor are. I just want to type in a file, please. I just want to make two lines in a text file. "Using the CDC 6500 is, for many, a new and daunting experience." is not kidding.

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@stratoballoon Yay it survived the Andes! Some loon balloons got destroyed in mountain turbulence lower over the Andes

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@MoonNext We have flown balloons on venus, is that what you mean? https://t.co/c66uZ2jNCV