UV SPECTROMETER

Balloon launched on: 4/20/1983
Launch site: Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico, US  
Balloon launched by: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon Raven - SV-020 - 11.620.000 cuft
Flight identification number: H83-08
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 4/20/1983
Balloon flight duration (F: time at float only, otherwise total flight time in d:days / h:hours or m:minutes - ): 4 h
Payload weight: 1383 lb

• AFGL Balloon History since 7/7/1982 in Operational climatology for research ballooning in south central New Mexico (1988)
• Instrumental Effects on a Proposed Mg 2 Index of Solar Activity Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 6, No. 5, 531 (1988)
• Solar irradiance between 2000 and 3100 Angstroms with spectral band pass of 1.0 Angstroms Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 94, Issue D5, p. 6435
• Solar irradiance variation near 2075 � J. Geophys. Res., 89( D6), 9677
• Solar ultraviolet variation between 1977 and 1983 Journal of Geophysical Research, 89 (D5), 7322
• Stratospheric Determination of Effective Photodissociation Cross Sections for Molecular Oxygen: 191-204 nm Final rept. 1 Oct 1982-30 Sep 1983
• Stratospheric determination of O2 cross sections and photodissociation rate coefficients: 191-215 nm Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 91, Issue D12, p. 14509
• Stratospheric determination of O2 cross sections and photodissociation rate coefficients: 191-215 nm  J. Geophys. Res., 91(D13), 14509