THE AEROCLIPPER A New Device to Explore Convective Systems and Cyclones

Aeroclipper balloons, designed for taking measurements at the air-sea interface, can withstand extreme conditions encountered when they are drawn into tropical cyclones and then follow the eye trajectory.

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atmospheric research, boundary layer, surface fluxes, arabian sea, parameterization, balloons, ocean, temperature, enhancement, evaporation

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Duvel J. P., Basdevant C., Bellenger H., Reverdin Gilles, Vargas A., Vialard Jerome (2009). THE AEROCLIPPER A New Device to Explore Convective Systems and Cyclones. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society. 90 (1). 63-71. https://doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2500.1, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00185/29635/

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