P050
Balloons in Earth and Planetary Sciences: Research, Applications, and Emerging Concepts I eLightning

Friday, 11 December 2020: 05:30-06:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Siddharth Krishnamoorthy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel C Bowman, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Jeffery L Hall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Tetsuya Yoshida, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Siddharth Krishnamoorthy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Siddharth Krishnamoorthy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Daniel C Bowman, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Siddharth Krishnamoorthy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
05:30
Detection of small-magnitude Earthquakes using balloon-borne infrasound sensors (674838)
Quentin Brissaud1, Siddharth Krishnamoorthy2, Jennifer M Jackson1, Daniel C Bowman3, Attila Komjathy2, James A Cutts2, Jacob Izraelevitz2, Zhongwen Zhan1 and Yan Yang1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysical Detection Programs, Albuquerque, NM, United States
05:33
Canadian Atmospheric Laser Absorption Spectrometer Experiment Test-bed (CALASET): Field Measurements of CO2 and N2O with a Stratospheric Balloon-Borne Laser Spectrometer (683730)
Mark Panas1, John E Saunders2, William Knee-Walden2, Noah Cassidy2, Young-Min Cho2, Jack Farrell2, Alex Fogal2, Joanna Hon2, Emily Knuckey2, Pierre Fogal2, Wolfgang Jäger3, Jennifer G Murphy1 and Kaley A Walker2, (1)University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of Alberta, Department of Chemistry, Edmonton, AB, Canada
05:36
Scientific goals for the Venus Flagship Mission's aerobot (Invited) (683786)
Colin F Wilson1, Martha S Gilmore2, Patricia M Beauchamp3, Sushil K Atreya4, Kevin Baines5, Ed Goolish6, Mark Bullock7, Shannon Curry8, Jeffery Hall9, Jacob Izraelevitz9, Jennifer M Jackson10 and Dragan Nikolic11, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, United States, (3)JPL-CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Astrobiology Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Caltech, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Annandale, VA, United States
05:39
Observations of Stratospheric Aerosols from Heliotrope Solar Hot Air Balloons (Invited) (684893)
Lauren Wheeler1, Andrew Glen1, Erika Louise Roesler1, Daniel C Bowman2, Phillip Miller1, Andres Sanchez1, Darielle Dexheimer3, Garth Rohr4, Kent Pfeifer5, Zachary D Sharp6 and Jordan Wostbrock7, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Org 8863, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, 8863, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (6)Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (7)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
05:42
Background Characterization of the Atmosphere When Looking for Eclipse-induced Gravity Waves (696500)
Hannah Woody1,2, Carl Spangrude3, Jennifer Fowler3 and Graham Moss2, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States, (2)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
05:45
Pumped-Helium Aerobots for Venus: Technology Progress and Mission Concepts (701674)
Jacob Izraelevitz1, Michael Pauken1, Thomas Elder2, Kevin Carlson2, TIM Lachenmeier2, Kevin Baines1, James A Cutts3 and Jeffery L Hall1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Near Space Corporation, Tillamook, OR, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Californian Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
05:48
Flow Profile Analysis of High-altitude Weather Balloons Via Transient Fluid-structure Interaction Simulation in ANSYS (713208)
Carlos Munoz, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Jennifer Fowler, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, Matthew Bernards, University of Idaho, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Moscow, United States and Jackie Martinez, University of Idaho, Moscow, United States
05:51
BALLOON-BASED GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT VENUS (715051)
James A Cutts1, Bruce G Bills2, Attila Komjathy1, Siddharth Krishnamoorthy2, Robert E Grimm3, Michael Pauken1, Jennifer M Jackson4, David Mimoun5 and Joseph G O'Rourke6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Caltech, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, DEOS/SSPA, Toulouse Cedex 04, France, (6)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
05:54
Evaluating microbarom source models using infrasound recorded on a stratospheric balloon (721594)
Marine De Carlo1,2, Daniel C Bowman3, Alexis LE Pichon2, Fabrice Ardhuin4, Jonathan M Lees5 and Romain Fatout2, (1)University of Western Brittany, Brest, France, (2)CEA, DAM, DIF, Arpajon, France, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysical Detection Programs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of Bretagne Occidentale, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Plouzané, France, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
05:57
Preliminary Observations from High Altitude Solar Balloons (741681)
Alexis Vance, Leawood, KS, United States, Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK, United States and Brian R Elbing, Oklahoma State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States
06:00
Balloon-based Atmospheric Investigations of Venus (745368)
Kevin H Baines, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, James A Cutts, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Californian Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sushil K Atreya, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Mark Bullock, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, Kandis Lea Jessup, Southwest Research Inst, Boulder, CO, United States, Sebastien Lebonnois, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Dragan Nikolic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Annandale, VA, United States, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans Cedex 2, France, Olivier Mousis, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), Marseille, France, Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Physics, Aeroastro, Cambridge, MA, United States and Colin F Wilson, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
06:03
Identification of Atmospheric Gravity Waves with Emphasis on Classification and Characterization (757800)
Zach Yap1, Katelyn Powell2, Kathleen McNamara3 and Jamey Jacob3, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK, United States
06:06
Exploration and Meteorological Data Collection Of Venusian Atmosphere using CubeSat-based Solar Balloons (769707)
Tristan Schuler1, Kairav Kukkala2, Viru V. Vilvanathan2, Daniel C Bowman3, Alex Maxseiner4, Alessandra Babuscia5, Don Sofge6 and Jekan Thanga7, (1)University of Arizona, Aerospace Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysical Detection Programs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, DC, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Naval Reserch Lab, Information Technology Division, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
06:09
The first flights of the Strateole-2 technology demonstration campaign: Observing the global equatorial tropopause with long-duration balloons (773791)
Jennifer S Haase1, M Joan Alexander2, Philippe Cocquerez3, Sean M Davis4, Terry Deshler5, Georges Durry6, Albert Hertzog7, Alain Hauchecorne8, Lars Kalnajs9, Riwal Plougonven7, François Ravetta10, Jean-Baptiste Renard11 and Strateole-2 Team, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CNES, Toulouse, France, (4)Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (6)Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique / CNRS / Université de Reims, Reims, France, (7)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (8)CNRS, Guyancourt, France, (9)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (11)Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans Cedex 2, France
06:12
Discussion
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