CRYOGENIC SAMPLER (MPAE)

Balloon launched on: 1/18/1992 at 05:11:06
Launch site: European Space Range, Kiruna, Sweden  
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon  
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): ??/??/1992
Campaign: EASOE (European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment) was undertaken in the northern winter of 1991-92 to study the processes in the Arctic which lead to ozone destruction and their connection with reduced ozone at northern mid-latitudes.

• Carbonyl sulfide (COS) measurements in the Arctic Polar Vortex Geophysical Research Letters, 22(4), p. 393
• CF4 and the age of mesospheric and polar vortex air Geophysical Research Letters, 26(3), 295
• Estimation of tropospheric trends (1980 - 1995) for CF4 and C2F6 from stratospheric data Proceedings Volume 2506, Air Pollution and Visibility Measurements; (1995)
• List of balloons launched from ESRANGE SSC Space website (via Archive.Org)
• Research on Balloon-borne Whole Air Sampling System for Studying Stratospheric Minor Constituents Thesis by Hideyuki Honda -In Japanese- (2001)
• The isotopic composition of methane in the stratosphere: high-altitude balloon sample measurements Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 13287-13304, 2011
• Vertical distribution of methyl bromide in the stratosphere Geophysical Research Letters Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 505-508, 15 February 1998