Acharya, Y. B. ; Jayaraman, A. ; Subbaraya, B. H. (1985) A balloon-borne sun-tracking multichannel photometer for atmospheric aerosol measurements Advances in Space Research, 5 (1). pp. 65-68. ISSN 0273-1177
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Abstract
A balloon borne multichannel photometer for measurement of atmospheric scattering in the near ultraviolet and the visible wavelength regions has been developed at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad for study of the size distribution and number density of aerosols at tropospheric and lower stratospheric altitudes. The instrumentation involves tracking the sun in elevation and scanning in azimuth. The payload was recently flown on a 100 kg. balloon from the Hyderabad Balloon Facility on 18 April 1984. The balloon reached a float altitude of 35 km and good quality data has been obtained from an altitude of 6 km upto float altitude. Data analysis is still in progress. The present paper details the instrument design and presents a few illustrations of the instrument performance from this flight.
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