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Infrasound recordings from an array of microbarometers onboard three stratospheric balloons launched from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna, Sweden, on August 20, 2020

SND-ID: 2021-257

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johan Kero - Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Solar Terrestrial and Atmospheric Research orcid

Daniel Bowman - Sandia National Laboratories, USA orcid

Eli Bird - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA orcid

Jonathan Lees - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA orcid

Description

Three balloons (B1-B3) were launched from ESRANGE Space Center (67.89 N, 21.08 E) on August 20, 2020. The balloons were designed to carry two payload boxes, separated by a 100 meter tether. Each payload box contained a DiGOS DATA-CUBE, recording three InfraBSU infrasound microbarometers at 400 Hz. One microbarometer recorded true polarity of acoustic signals, another recorded reversed polarity, and flow filters covered both ports on the final microphone, preventing acoustic waves from registering on the device. This data set contains a combination of data from the first and second microphones. In subtracting the polarity-reversed data from the true-polarity data, we expect acoustic signals to remain intact and non acoustic noise sources (e. g. electromagnetic interference, vibration) to be removed from the data.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Swedish Institute of Space Physics

Principal's reference number

5.1-53/17

Responsible department/unit

Solar Terrestrial and Atmospheric Research

Funding

  • Funding agency: Swedish National Space Agency rorId
  • Funding agency's reference number: 42/17
  • Project name on the application: BOOSTER - BallOOn for Science and Technology from EsRange
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

2020-08-20 – 2020-08-20

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Kiruna Municipality

Topic and keywords

Research area

Geophysics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Geoscientific Information, Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

atmosphere, solid earth, topography, infrasound, atmosphere, sound propagation, topography, atmospheric conditions, ~ atmospheres, atmospheric models, balloon-borne instruments, balloon flight, balloon sounding, earth atmosphere, wave propagation

Publications
Dataset
Infrasound recordings from an array of microbarometers onboard three stratospheric balloons launched from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna, Sweden, on August 20, 2020

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Associated documentation

Version 1

Citation

Johan Kero, Daniel Bowman, Eli Bird, Jonathan Lees. Swedish Institute of Space Physics (2022). Infrasound recordings from an array of microbarometers onboard three stratospheric balloons launched from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna, Sweden, on August 20, 2020. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/ev4j-qt45

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johan Kero - Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Solar Terrestrial and Atmospheric Research orcid

Daniel Bowman - Sandia National Laboratories, USA orcid

Eli Bird - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA orcid

Jonathan Lees - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA orcid

Keywords

infrasound

Time period(s) investigated

2020-08-20 – 2020-08-20

Contact for questions about the data

Published: 2022-03-14