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by varenc
1216 days ago
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NOAA† also has their own Balloon Flight simulator. The interface isn’t as slick but it really dives into the details: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/trajsrc.pl?trjtype=4 It has a feature where you specify a target point and the origin point and it plots the changes in altitude your ballon will need to make to reach the target (if possible). Was surprising to me that if launched far enough away, a balloon can end up nearly anywhere in the US it wants just by controlling altitude. update: They also make it easy to share results! Here's one of my simulations: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/trajresults.pl?jobidno=... They also have a Windows desktop package that does the same thing: https://gml.noaa.gov/ozwv/wvap/sw.html --- †NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a US government federal agency |
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