Aerosol number and size distribution data (140 - 2500 nm) from the Balloon Baseline Stratospheric Aerosol Profiles (B2SAP) network (NCEI Accession 0317520)
Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: Aerosol abundance and sizing data from the Balloon Baseline Stratospheric Aerosol Profiles (B2SAP) network. The Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS) is a lightweight, low-powered optical particle counter spectrometer that counts and optically sizes aerosol between 140 - 2500nm in diameter. It is deployed on a high altitude balloon, where the POPS (aerosol) and radiosonde (time, geospatial) provide data from the surface to 30 km altitude. These balloons are launched regularly from 7 sites globally distributed to capture a large latitudinal range. Data from two additional sites is available from opportunistic launches. For every B2SAP launch, the data is provided as 100m altitude binned, or as 1S resolution.
DOI: 10.25921/mchy-y552
Authors: Smith, Katie, Baron, Alexandre, Thornberry, Troy, Schwarz, Joshua, Asher, Elizabeth, Hall, Emrys, Cullis, Patrick, Fritz, Alex, Telg, Hagen, Burgener, Ross, Thomas, Bryan, Martinsen, Matthew, Nardini, David, Kuniyaki, Darryl, Smale, Penny, Liley, Ben, Querel, Richard, Kopka, Krystian, Crocker, R. Ian, Jordan, Skyler, Doneghey, Michael, Longren, Luke, Evan, Stephanie, Brioude, Jerome, Metzger, Jean-Marc, Combemale, David, Becker, Cor, Samuel, Dwight, Tjon A Ten, Cheryll, Amierali, Mohammed, Wongsowidjojo, Chris, Rodrigues, Dennis, Paiman, George, Piters, Ankie, Mueller, Katrin
Institutions: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Earth Sciences New Zealand, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7202293012
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