Analytic solutions of a balloon's response to simultaneous variations of the vertical wind speed and the density are obtained using Fourier expansion methods. The balloon's response depends on wave period, density and wind amplitudes, and static stability. When density and wind amplitudes are related as in a gravity wave the amplitude of the balloon's velocity response varies from about 75 to 105% of the wind amplitude as the lapse rate condition varies from isothermal to adiabatic, for a typical wave period (13.8min) and air motion amplitude (30cm s-1). -from Author
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Nastrom, G. D. (1980). The response of superpressure balloons to gravity waves. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 19(8), 1013–1019. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1980)019<1013:TROSBT>2.0.CO;2
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