Poster Number 79
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Abstract:
The funding enabled UHD to partner with G. Morris at Valparaiso University. The partnership led to an increase in the number of budgeted launches from two to 15 during the first six months of 2008. The increased launches strengthened the students'(L. Flores, M. McCormick, K. Purdue, R. Tachri, J. Vaught Wright) skills in preparing and calibrating instruments for tethered atmospheric balloon launches and their ability to compare temperature, humidity, tropospheric and stratospheric ozone under a variety of environmental conditions. Analysis of the data collected enabled the students to understand the fluidity of the tropopause, the periodic downward mixing of the stratospheric with tropospheric ozone, effects of rain and dry cold weather on ground level ozone, the formation of pockets of ozone in the troposphere and the impact of anthropogenic pollutants on the troposphere.
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